Comments on: Etihad Stadium surface a disgrace, says Merrick

By: Michael C

Michael C — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 06:39:36 +0000

Chop – the AFL were finished with the venue after week 1 of the finals. The AFL has nothing to do with it now.

Now it’s all down to MVFC and the Storm and various concert acts or graduation ceremonies!!

(although the VFL has a booking for Friday Sep 25 for the VFL GF – and now Storm will be playing that Sat night and MVFC are thankfully up on the Gold Coast).

By: The Bear

The Bear — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 05:38:26 +0000

Heart will be no different. BUT if they can, then they shall profit handsomely. Victory are out of touch.

By: Brian Munich

Brian Munich — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 05:24:37 +0000

… but apart from that, no concerns?

By: melbvictory87

melbvictory87 — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 06:02:38 +0000

how about the team which doesnt p!ss all over their supporters and wont tell them where they can sit and what flags they can bring. or maybe even a team which makes the tiniest effort to embrace their fans an pre-season, acknowledges seeing a team 14 times a year (or less) is nothing and has a pre-season with the locals. or maybe a team which at least does something for youth in australia and doesnt play fossils. im still p!ssed off at the fact that the retards that run this club made the decision that its better to have less people attend the match than more, moving general admin to the sh!ttest seats in the house. well done, now we cant even bring our friends along because they’ll die of boredom on level 3. the ppl that run this club should be unemployed and they deserve losing 13k fans in 2 years for their idiocy

By: melbvictory87

melbvictory87 — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 05:56:53 +0000

im already considering defecting. forget how poor we are on the field, i think its the idiots that administer the club that put me off

By: Simone`

Simone` — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 05:32:44 +0000

Both teams are playing on the same pitch. So it is not an exscuse. If anything MV play on the ‘bad pitch’ every fortnight, so should be more comfortable and and used to it than the opposition.

By: Art Sapphire

Art Sapphire — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 05:21:05 +0000

Everyone knows we are getting the hell out of Etihad. Thats not news.
The loud and clear message should have been directed to Ernie Merrick and the football department.
Get your act together and put out a team that can play football.

I can tell you this much the team that plays the better football will get the bigger crowds next season.

By: Art Sapphire

Art Sapphire — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 05:10:07 +0000

The only pitch that suit Brebner and Broxham is a cricket pitch. They should take up cricket and roll their arm over instead.

By: Art Sapphire

Art Sapphire — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 05:07:21 +0000

No Chop. We are stuck at Etihad this A-League season.

By: mahony

mahony — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 05:04:23 +0000

I went to a pre-match fuinstion and got to see the pitch up close and observe the guy painting it. It was absolute crap. Ernie said himself that it was no excuse for the football – byut I think is is a very goos excuse personaly. Geoff Lord got ‘loud and clear’ a message from Silver Members at this same pre-match fundtion about getting the hell out of Etihad ASAP.

By: AndyRoo

AndyRoo — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 04:54:46 +0000

I really want too see the pitch that suits Brebner and Broxham.

Would have thought a bumpy one helps them more than some one like the Jets

By: Chop

Chop — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 04:51:30 +0000

Unfortunately that’s the disadvantage of playing on a ground designed and maintained for AFL, until the AFL season is over the Victory are just going to have to deal with it, then the Victory will be the priority.

When you compare the income each code brings to the stadium, it’s no real surprise.

Do the MV play in the new stadium before the end of the season?

By: Simone`

Simone` — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 04:43:14 +0000

“It’s baked hard, it’s bumpy as and it certainly doesn’t suit our style of play.”

Wonder if there’s a surface in the world that would suit the rabble they dish up week in week out. Can’t wait for the Heart.

By: Art Sapphire

Art Sapphire — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:48:16 +0000

KB – I am going to Adelaide on Friday to watch MV take on the Reds.

Another performance like yesterdays and I might even defect to the Reds

By: Koala Bear

Koala Bear — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:30:41 +0000

Art, you sound like a Melbourne Heart FC fan in waiting…

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KB

By: AndyRoo

AndyRoo — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 23:34:46 +0000

Hmm interesting if this is a plus or minus for the Heart.

A plus in that anyone without a MV tatoo will be open to a new club playing nice football….but a negative in that such awful faire turns of people all together.

They have an International spot open and cap room, lets hope they get on track soon.

By: Art Sapphire

Art Sapphire — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 23:04:45 +0000

This is a match report with no analysis. Here is the analysis.

Melbourne Victory – 1 attempt on target. (Hernandez goal in the 3rd minute).
For the next 90 minutes – Mark Paston the Phoenix goalkeeper was a spectator.
Possession – a pitiful 36% to Victory. This must be an all time low for a Victory home game.
How do we explain this sorry state of numbers. Easy.
Merrick played Brebner and Broxham on the middle of the park yesterday.
He also played Carlos out of position on the left, where he spent most of the game as a spectator rather than being an attacking playmaker.
Blaming the pitch is no excuse. The Victory football department is to blame for this shambles. They had all preseason to improve the squad and get rid of the deadwood. They have failed dismally on that count.