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FA Cup - Semi Finals ⚽ Europa - QFs ⚽ Champions League - QFs ⚽ Conference League QFs
COL v CAR · GEE v MEL · GCS v ADE · RIC v BL · NM v SYD · GWS v WCE · PA v StK · FRE v WB ·
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It was only an intraclub match, but I liked a lot of what I saw, we will obviously learn a lot more when we come up against the Dees (IIRC) in a couple of week's time.The biggest positive for me was despite still being a very young team, it looks like there will be a lot of competition for places this season. A lot of our youngsters look fitter, stronger and the experience we brought in has helped their development and they look more comfortable with ball in hand and not making as many glaring and costly errors.Goad is still slightly built, but he looks very good and has surprising speed. Could he play a game this season?Whitlock also looks a little light, but his reading of the play and his skills below the knees already look elite. Another youngster who could play as early as this season.Finnbar Maley looks almost unstoppable up forward, but he needs a lot of work with his kicking.The battle for the remaining small and medium forward spots (after Zurhaar and Curtis) is going to be very interesting this season, RHJ, Harvey, Duursma, Ford and Konstany all looked very good and all offer something a little different. I think RHJ is probably slightly ahead at the moment with his speed ability to hit the scoreboard.I'm not quite as confident about our stocks down back, I actually thought our best small and medium defenders (besides Daniel and Archer) were from our VFL team which was a little concerning.Overall, it was a nice start to season, I got to see a lot of players I haven't seen previously and was impressed by a number of them, I got to see how our senior recruits fitted into the lineup, and I got an idea of how we are going to use some of elite talents like Sheezel, McKercher and FOS and how we want to play in 2025. Exciting time ahead, I hope.
It was only an intraclub match, but I liked a lot of what I saw, we will obviously learn a lot more when we come up against the Dees (IIRC) in a couple of week's time.
The biggest positive for me was despite still being a very young team, it looks like there will be a lot of competition for places this season. A lot of our youngsters look fitter, stronger and the experience we brought in has helped their development and they look more comfortable with ball in hand and not making as many glaring and costly errors.
Overall, it was a nice start to season, I got to see a lot of players I haven't seen previously and was impressed by a number of them, I got to see how our senior recruits fitted into the lineup, and I got an idea of how we are going to use some of elite talents like Sheezel, McKercher and FOS and how we want to play in 2025. Exciting time ahead, I hope.
