That was terrible to watch. Just terrible.
Deadset big lolz at Connor Pain.
Watch the replay of his 79th min cock up.
Ball come to him off the woodwork, brings it down with his right thigh but does an Irish dance in the middle of it to bring it onto his left peg...just enuf milliseconds for Jacko to intervene.
Btw, Moss is flapping flagless semaphore whilst all this is going on...from behind the line
Seriously, that last minute diving tackle by Jackson to block a Pain open goal was magnificent..
A few of our last ditch defensive efforts last night were superb, however I'm trying to forget how they originated or even got in to that position in the first place.. The sooner Kanta is back, the better..
The rest of the game, not so great, but I'll take the ugly win..
Excluding the one froth up when Clisby went through Georgie and Hoole came running in wanting to hug, it didn't feel like a derby at all..
Can you imagine what would have happened if that was Boogaard ??
Being we only now 8 points from 6th spot I am pretty confident we can run down not only Pissants and Wellington and be close to fighting it out with Melbourne Heart for 4th spot
From there the title will be ours thanks to VAR and refereeing incompetence
But most importantly 2 from 2 Champions of Europe AGAIN and lengthening our lead at the Top of the table
The next few games against Nix, WSW and Adelaide will have a big influence over whether we are in the conversation or not.
A point in Perth will be a bonus.
The Championship Chronicles - The Jetstream's review of the 2007/08 season. www.newcastlefootball.net/chronicles
The competition is so rubbish this year we could probably go on and win the whole thing. This has to be some of the worst football in A league history this year. So if we learn how to play even half not rubbish we could go on a 5 game run and we are in the 6. 36 points still available.
Making the 6 this year won't be down to us playing well, it will be down to others playing worse than us.
But also, we could easily go win the spoon. Meh, either way I'll probably be disappointed.
exactly.
Victory with Honda are the only 'good' team.
If he is out, or they dont click back into gear when he comes back, then they are just another bunch of dudes.
Sydney are garbage, but have had all the calls.
Wellington are exciting, but playing semis away from home wont help.
Perth will choke, Perth always choke.
City will cock it up, City always cock it up.
Adelaide can be red hot, but are inconsistent.
We can beat anyone, and can lose to anyone.
That gives us just as good a chance as anyone.
Wanderers, Gypos and Brisbane are trash.
Wanderers, Gypos and Mariners are the only ones who’s fate feels pretty set in stone at this point, all of them will finish below 7th place.
If we make the 6 I think it’ll be at the expense of Adelaide over Wellington, Wello are playing with better form atm and seem more likely to threaten in the final series
The Championship Chronicles - The Jetstream's review of the 2007/08 season. www.newcastlefootball.net/chronicles
A simple observation here:
- we only won games against the bottom 3
- Adelaide and Nix haven't lost any games against the bottom 3.
If we don't start winning games against top teams now, we're done. That means beating Perth away, and so on.
At the same time, we need to hope that either Adelaide or Nix will start losing points in easy games.
I'm not very optimistic...
Wednesdays match was proof enough for me that we will not be playing finals football this season.
We don't counter / transition like we did in the past and that was pretty much what brought us success.
This season we haven't really set ourselves up to play the same way and the players essentially look lost.
Neither Jair or Shepherd have the attributes of a Nabbout or a McGree - they would not have made the starting team last season.
Mitch Austin I thought would bring us a lot more than he has in replacing Nabbout - but still looks a long way from showing what he's capable of.
Last edited by The Dunster; 25-01-2019 at 01:19 PM.
Stale football. Trying hard without the belief looks obvious. They kicked us in the first 20 and we took it. Bk was the better keeper wtf.
The speed that Mitch Austin can provide is exactly what we are missing IMO. That two minute cameo in the first round should have been enough to convince Ernie to provide him more game time but like so much of Ernie's decisions this season they leave you scratching your head sometimes.
Many Gypos come here and and are rehabilitated. None go the other way and succeed.