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A choice between Oar and Leckie, but the rising star system needs tinkering
February 8 2010 (2 days ago)
When the A-League’s Young Footballer of the Year is announced at the annual awards night a week from today, it should be a decision between the two outstanding youngsters of season five, Tommy Oar and Mathew Leckie.
cruyff, is it a trend? Look at Leckie, stand out for bottom placed (maybe!!) Adelaide…
Certainly, for a poor performing side, a youngster has a good chance to shine.
A choice between Oar and Leckie, but the rising star system needs tinkering (42)
February 9th, 2010
Cryuff turn, love the name, but not as much as I love the move (truth is, it’s the only one I’ve got)….thanks for the comment.
On the subject of Kantarovski and why I didn’t have him in my six best under 21s players for this season, I just feel that he hasn’t had a particularly great season. He’s been good, but nothing special this season. A fair bit of it he has been down to injury, but I thought last season he was just brilliant.
I’m with you though, I think he has a big future if he continues to buckle down and work hard on his game. To play at the elite level, as a defensive player, the key is to be consistently mistake free (ie reliable), and last night wasn’t a great one for him.
A couple of months ago, after Kantarovski was one of the few to impress at the u20s WC, I was of the view that Verbeek might consider taking him to the WC as one of his “L Platers”, if he is inclined to go down that path (as Guus was)…
I was thinking Vukovic, Oar and Kantarovski…
But I’m not so sure now. I think Verbeek, if he does take any kids, it’s more likely to be Federici (it would be thoroughly deserved I believe) and Vidosic (again, deserved), with Leckie as a possible smoky if he lights up the ACL…
A choice between Oar and Leckie, but the rising star system needs tinkering (42)
February 9th, 2010
Cheers Gaz, thanks for the comment. As for Culina, after a great start to the season, there was a period there when Melbourne were flying, with Hernandez running the show, and I was thinking he might actually be more valuable than Culina, but in the past month or so JC has really stepped it up, taken his game to another level.
If I was managing/coaching any aspiring youngster, I would get some copies of his work this season and make them watch it, over an over again.
Better still, take them down to a GCU game and make their eyes track Culina for the full 90.
Phenomenal stuff.
AF, make no mistake, I was under no illusion about how important Brosque is to the structure of the Sydney side, and mentioned to a few journos that I thought Sydney were in trouble without Brosque in the side.
He has been the man all season, even pre-season.
But even I didn’t expect them to miss him as much as they did in this evening. Aloisi and Bridge were very very ineffective.
Regarding the tactics, Miron and Culina made no secret afterwards that they went out there to put immediate pressure on Sydney, not to let them get any rhythm, and that worked a treat.
A missing star for one side, an absolute star for the other (5)
January 19th, 2010