Melbourne City FC Thread

[mancity dan]

Re: Melbourne City FC

New badge looks good as well.

 

[1556]

Re: Melbourne Heart FC Thread

First i'd like to see some respect from some of those wankers towards the men who are saving their Club from a hopeless failure and perennial jokes. Had a gander at that forum the other day and some were openly calling the owners cunts. Need to learn some gratitude and perspective.

they are a feral bunch, on the new colours and crest i really like it, thank you City for making the A-league much more exciting, i mean i love the A-league and always will but it gets much more exciting when such a massive club gets involved, heart matches were very depressing to watch beforehand, too many empty seats

 

[manchester blue]

Re: Melbourne City FC

Says here they won't be wearing blue as Sydney already wear it? How many colours can there be for everyone to be unique? Is that the rule is A League?

And why have NYCFC and Melbourne City got really nice round badges and we are stuck with the shitty ameteur one?

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[billymumphrey]

Re: Melbourne City FC

New badge looks good as well.

Too bad the new thread doesn't...

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[petrusha]

Re: Melbourne Heart FC Thread

From The Guardian - <a class="postlink" href="http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2014/jun/05/david-villa-melbourne-city-guest-signing" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.theguardian.com/football/blo ... st-signing</a>

David Villa could be the start of A-League's one-sided arms race

Melbourne City’s acquisition of the Spain striker is an exciting yet ominous sign for the domestic game in Australia

Posted by Kieran Pender, Thursday 5 June 2014, 06.44 BST

When David Villa was four, so the story goes, he broke his right femur. Yet rather than let an injury prevent him from kicking the football with his father, he learned to use his left foot. His inner-strength was further tested years later when he was turned away by Real Oviedo for being too small, a rejection that almost forced him away from the sport for good.

Yet Villa is much more than just a two-footed striker with impressive perseverance. When in his pomp, Villa’s attacking ability is superlative-defying, defence-destroying, and a real joy to watch. He was equal top goalscorer at the last World Cup, which he won with Spain, and will likely lead the line for the world and European champions against Australia in Brazil on 23 June. He is arguably one of the best strikers of the past decade.

And now, he’s joining the A-League.

Villa will join newly-rebranded Melbourne City FC (formerly Melbourne Heart) as a guest player before the start of the MLS season, having recently signed for sister club New York City FC. He can play a maximum of 10 games for City, and will, according to manager John van ’t Schip, “be an incredible asset to the playing group”.

The Spaniard is the latest in a long line of marquees and guest players to grace the A-League, from Juninho and Dwight Yorke to Romario and of course Alessandro Del Piero. While it may be unfair to directly contrast Villa’s forthcoming stint in Melbourne with Sydney FC’s signing of Del Piero – who stayed for two years, not two and a half months – in purely footballing terms Villa may even overshadow the Italian.

Notwithstanding Del Piero’s obvious legacy value, Villa is five years younger and still in the prime of his career, having just won the Spanish title with Atlético Madrid and played 120 minutes in the Champions League final. Although 13 goals in just over 30 league starts this season is not incredible by his lofty standards, there is no doubting that the 32-year-old is still very much the real deal.

But Villa’s signing has importance, potentially both positive and negative, far beyond whatever his impact is on the pitch. City have announced themselves in a big way, and the Spanish forward’s arrival will seriously worry other clubs. Although it is easy to dismiss such concern – Heart did after all finish bottom in the recent A-League season, the impact of mega-rich City Football Group coming to town could have a detrimental effect on the competition.

It would have sounded laughable not long ago, but if the intent amply demonstrated by Villa’s arrival is followed through with further transfer activity, City may well become favourites for the forthcoming season (indeed they’re already one of the favourites with many of the betting sites). That is good no doubt for the league in the short term – increased competition, further incentive for other clubs to invest, higher attendances and more global media coverage.

Yet City’s attempt to supercharge the club, and its likely impact on the rest of the competition, could jeopardise the slow and sustainable approach the A-League has, with a few notable exceptions, taken with reasonable success.

Clive Palmer’s investment several years ago was heralded as the arrival of a benevolent big-spender, with grand marquee designs. The experiment did not last long however, and Palmer is now too busy entertaining the press gallery and worrying about dinosaurs to care about football on the Gold Coast. While City Football Group have demonstrated in the English Premier League that they can stay the distance, and are unlikely to start claiming that ‘rugby league’s a much better game’ any time soon, the negative impact on the competition could be even more significant.

The A-League’s design may well prevent the worst of petro-dollar excess, indeed clubs are only permitted one guest player per season, and two marquees (one domestic, one international) outside the salary cap. Yet it is not far-fetched to imagine that annual guest players, a couple of big names and other astute international signings could catapult City above and beyond the reach of other, more financially-limited clubs.

This could not only make the league less competitive in the long term, but also force sides to spend unsustainably in a bid to keep up. Add to that the ability of the City Football Group to loan players between their three clubs, and suddenly the arrival of Sheikh Mansour and company in the A-League does not look quite so rosy.

While this is all just speculation for now, the arrival of Villa in the A-League bodes ominously for other clubs unable or unwilling to participate in an expensive footballing arms race. City has signalled their grand ambitions, and it is now up to the competition to keep up. Yet long term effects aside, it will certainly be entertaining.

Welcome to the new supercharged A-League, starring David Villa.

 

[1556]

Re: Melbourne Heart FC Thread

It is exactly like Ardwick/West Gorton becoming Manchester City! Melbourne have the chance to become a strong, successful team with great resources. The fans will be treated (by the standards of Aussie football) superstar players. I'm sure there were fans of Ardwick and West Gorton who were vehemently against the change to Man City for the same reason Melbourne fans.
I could totally understand opposition to changing the colours of a team like Cardiff who have around a 100yrs of history – but not a 4yr old team. It also seems that most of the opposition seems to be off plastic rags, who are just bitter twats anyway!

Actually, the Melbourne Heart fans are fans of all sorts of clubs in all sorts of countries. Very few of their teams play in sky blue of course, whilst many play in red and white - Arsenal, (Liverpool), Southampton, Sunderland, Stoke, Sheffield Utd, etc down the divisions, plus foreign teams, in addition to United.

What's so wrong with this? It's not as if both will be at home in the same game!

I guess MHFC could do an Argentina-type sky blue and white stripes. There wouldn't be any material difference between that and the current situation with MHFC and Adelaide Utd.

Anyway, my team would be Western Sydney Wanderers. They're real menaces!

just wondering how are the Western Sydney Wanderers all real menaces? everyone should support that team though

 

[mancity1]

Re: Melbourne City FC

Says here they won't be wearing blue as Sydney already wear it? How many colours can there be for everyone to be unique? Is that the rule is A League?

And why have NYCFC and Melbourne City got really nice round badges and we are stuck with the shitty ameteur one?

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Although predominately white there is enough sky blue in the strip to associate it with us.

With so few teams in the A League it would have been difficult to make Sydney FC change their strip to suit us.

 

[Marvin]

Re: Melbourne Heart FC Thread

The club crest...............Melbourne football fans want to support a team affiliated to the English crown?

Shocked

 

[1556]

Re: Melbourne Heart FC Thread

The club crest...............Melbourne football fans want to support a team affiliated to the English crown?

Shocked

this is Melbourne's crest

 

[HelloCity]

Re: Melbourne City FC

The badge is obviously similar in design to the New York City version.

Perhaps we can now expect a return to the round badge similar to the one introduced in the 70's.