It is what it is. Now let’s work the team to fit. Good to have a 2nd tactical option even if our youth could have provided it. Uninspiring, yet sense making as things stand currently.
Hope Barbarouses plays as a right winger when bobo is used.
Overall, it’s going to be a fun and exciting season.
Bring on tomorrow’s game farken
I had a look at the videos of his goals over his two previous seasons with us. He may not have been particularly quick, but to say he had zero mobility is complete bullshit. If he had zero mobility, he wouldn’t have been able to get a yard of space from defenders for many of his goals. If you actually watched the videos as well, or had anything other than a selective memory, you’d know this as well. He also had 9 assists over his two seasons to ALF’s 2 assists over the last two seasons. Bobo scored a lot of goals but that wasn’t the only thing he did. He also offered some degree of hold-up play and worked hard for the team. Arnold wouldn’t have settled for anything less. I’d trust his decision to play a so-called “poacher” over yours any day of the week.
Would he work as a starter in Corica’s tactics? No, I don’t think so. But if Plan A isn’t working, at least a Plan B is possible. Maybe Bobo will have lost a little speed, but it doesn’t mean he can’t continue to peel off defenders in this league and score some goals for us when we need someone other than just a speedster up front.
It might not be the inspiring signing you wanted, but it gives us better balance up front. Given our cap limitations for this season, it is far from the end of the world to have a proven goalscorer in this league to turn to if Kosta or Buhagiar need to come off for whatever reason.
Anyone that doesn’t like Bobo is a poopy head.
Why, if the club was intent on re-signing a former player, did we not re-sign Janko?
He scored the ffa cup winning goal.
In terms of what we saw in his first stint with us, he was miles ahead of ALF in every aspect of the game bar pace.
Thanks for putting my post in to more words 
Also scored the match-winner against MV at home in 2016-17 which put the premiership beyond doubt. Also scored a critical last-minute equaliser against Newcastle to avoid a loss which would have cut our lead to a few points in 2017-18. And numerous goals in derbies, in big blues.
Quite a few important goals which were critical in securing multiple trophies.
Australian football fans are fucking idiots.
A team re-signs the best finisher the league has ever seen to offer a plan b, for a team that every other sets up on the penalty spot against, to nullify their only option to score goals - speed.
No wonder why the league is so fucked.
Look if you don’t like him thats fine, but as Bobo says, shut up white asses. (May have paraphrased)
LOL whatever. I forgot the huge FFA cup.
Bobô comes out of quarantine on the 9th according to the Corica interview on YouTube. That’s his birthday!!!
The great thing about Bobo is that he’s fucking awesome.
If you’re a defender who’s just spent the last 70 mins chasing B1 and B2 around the pitch (Buhagiar and Barbarouses) only to look up and see the greatest goal scorer the league has ever seen about to come on, how happy do you think you’d be?
We’re just hours away from our season starting…give ‘em hell lads!!!
As good a buy as Alf was, Bobo was better. In his last year he scored 27 goals, even if at 36 he does not score as many, I think he is still good for 20 and he is under the cap. Although there is no Adrian feeding him, I think the rest of the team is better (or at least better balanced) than when he scored the 27.
How I see it: as an attacker Bobo is stronger in the air in front of goal than Alf - and just about anybody else in HAL history (and hence scored lots of headers); they are both great at getting into good scoring positions near the post but maybe Bobo has better scoring reflexes at short range; Alf is generally better around the pitch, harder working, quicker, defends more, dribbles better and has better touch than Bobo. Bobo had super-assist Ninko and Adrian feeding him and that helped him get momentum. Alf scores penalties for fun.
I think we will do well with Bobo heading on long balls from Redders into the path of Trent and/or Kosta.
I took a very close look at the Sydney squad 6 weeks before the season began.
At the time, I was of the opinion that Sydney’s success or failure would likely hinge about 80% on whether or not they properly replaced Le Fondre.
If Sydney could get a replacement of the same quality, then I thought we would again be premiership favourites. If the replacement forward was to be a significant decrease in quality to around a slight step up on Ivanovic - which at the time seemed to be an option on the table - then I had us pegged for mid table. If we really rolled the dice on Patrick Wood, who had clocked 11 goals in 11 matches in the most recent NPL NSW Men’s competition, then I thought we could be battling for finals.
Much has been said about Le Fondre’s goalscoring prowess over the past two seasons. It’s indisputable from the past six A-League seasons where Sydney FC have had a striker that is a standard above the competition’s defences we’ve been a more successful club than in the nine seasons prior.
What is often left unsaid is how during Alfie’s time at the club, Sydney have had quite a significant amount of difficulty scoring from midfield. Last season in particular, where Sydney’s defence was one of the A-League’s best ever (conceding less than a goal per match), we still really needed Le Fondre to do the business down the other end of the park.
2018/19 A-League Season
47 total goals by Sydney
18 goals by Le Fondre, 38.3% of total goals.
13 goals by the midfield, 27.66% of total goals. Scored by 6 midfielders, top midfield scorer de Jong with 4.
2019/20 A-League Season
49 total goals by Sydney
21 goals by Le Fondre, 42.86% of total goals.
11 goals by the midfield, 22.45% of total goals. Scored by 5 midfielders, top midfield scorer Ninkovic with 5.
6 weeks ago, the midfield of the squad was basically settled for 20/21, and very similar in personnel to last season, and similar to 18/19. At that time, 12 goals was a reasonable expectation from Sydney’s midfield this season, with 15 being a notable improvement. Even then, the likelihood of Sydney’s midfield even maintaining their 11 goals from 19/20 seemed low, as:
Up front, 6 weeks ago there was a very big question mark over Barbarouses being able to offer anything of value this season based on his performances in 2020, a mostly unproven in the A-League Buhagiar, and a still developing Ivanovic. It was honestly conceivable then that Sydney could score around 30-35 goals this season, for example:
That’s just a feasible example where the number of goals could have been expected from; each of those five sources could easily vary up or down.
Following the first match of the 20/21 A-League season, my outlook on Sydney’s chances have improved from very worried to tentatively positive if still a bit apprehensive.
Regarding goals, come the end of the 20/21 A-League season, where I see Sydney landing now is more like:
Which would put Sydney FC at around 40-50 goals this A-League season. 50 goals is honestly a fairly realistic expectation, with 50-55 possible but not hugely likely.
In summary, Sydney’s A-League success in 20/21 likely won’t come from a single striker as it often has in the past six seasons. The squad is at a level that if players deliver to general expectations based on their past performances then Sydney should be able to win the league again this season.
Apologies for the super long post lmao
Great post but it ignores one key fact.
After yesterday’s performance we’re going to setup in such a way that we bypass our front 2 completely and win the league solely by scoring long range bombs.
The signing of Bobo, scorer of only tap ins and penalties, is a clear ploy by the coaching staff to disguise our tactics.