Pity Adelaide let the Bulls win but we have a few games up our sleeve on them
Hopefully despite the shit facebook brown strip, we can still win
Minns has granted full strength beer to the Sydney stadiums, Maccas too or I'm voting One Nation
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Pity Adelaide let the Bulls win but we have a few games up our sleeve on them
Hopefully despite the shit facebook brown strip, we can still win
Minns has granted full strength beer to the Sydney stadiums, Maccas too or I'm voting One Nation
Gunna be a few knackered players by the end of play today, not soccer weather
Kota not in the side again, lineup announcement mentions he's out with an injury. Can only hope he's good to go in two weeks time.
Only change to the squad is Bayliss back in the starting XI
Yeah we look sluggish, this will not only end our streak but this is going to be a rough game for us
gee, get natta off before he can do more damage!
In the A-League we've talked by 4 at half time just 3 times (and 3 times in the NSL)
One notable was the 0-7 Adelaide match under Stabbins. Another was a 3-5 loss to VARctory last year
Not that it's his fault only... but what is Bayliss even doing on the field? I mean, apart from jogging aimlessly back and forth and looking uninterested
Disappointed to hear booing. They're 7 games unbeaten, and have had a stupid schedule. Yeah, this ain't great, but not worth booing - half of them look out on their feet already.
If they have ambitions to be professionals overseas, they need to get used to playing 3 matches in a week. No excuse. They're paid professionals and the coach can rotate. He had chosen not to
As for the booing.... What should we be doing? Give them a standing ovation? I didn't boo but hopefully it fires them up. But where I'm sitting, which is near our tunnel, there wasn't a sound or a boo heard.
Might have been the retaken throw in Elder made us take
not asking for a standing ovation, just don't see the benefit of getting stuck into them.
I'm laying the blame on the coaching bench - fresher legs should have been on from the start.
Fair enough.
I'm sitting here and it's dead. Crowd are flat
Biggest dissapointment is this happening at a home game with a crowd who had just started to get some belief in this club
That was an embarrassment to the club, to Newcastle and the poor bastards that pay to watch that shit
Looking at how we're playing with fresh legs, you've gotta wonder how we'd be going right now if some of these players started the game today.
The good old Jetties are back <3
Being professionals in Australia should be enough of a reason to be ready and fit to play 3 games in a week, once every 6 months.
Some players out there are so lucky to actually get paid to do this, when they can barely control the ball or do a decent pass under pressure.
Europe is a looooong way away.
Three games in 7 days is standard overseas for all professionals. These are young blokes who had the previous week off...absolutely no excuse.
And I'm sorry, but Noah James needs to learn to catch a ball.
Booooo....!
Euro teams don't play 3 games in seven days in this type of heat. They also have a bigger player list and far better facilities for recovery.
The schedule is a joke.
Players should forget about this one and move on.
We all should.
Next game is the focus.
I'm just glad we are all back to normal.
Some of you lot on here were getting way out over your skis.
Thankfully the stink is back.
I feel safe again.
Were they so tired that they could not run and went down 0-2 in the first 8 minutes?
Come on.
On reflection and rewatching the start of the game, I think just chalking it up to being tired is incorrect, though it clearly didn’t help.
At the end of the day, I think Aloisi and the United team just had us figured out. They press real high, they have the pace and skill to get in behind us effortlessly, and can punish us when they do. When we played United in January, it was one of our worst of the season and he addressed none of those issues tactically to ensure it wouldn’t happen again.
The playing out from the back style can work sometimes, but some of our best moments, like the goal against City, which happened in 4 passes, are from moving the ball quickly and efficiently.
Correct, he cost us 2 goals yesterday parrying stuff any 12 year old would have caught, plus he cost us 3 points against Auckland coming for a high ball and didn?t get to it, there?s a hell of lot more to keeping then being a shot stopper, he needs to do a lot of work to become a good keeper, very shaky
Coincidental is it that particular aspects of what makes a sound keeper have gone south since the departure of Bowling to WSW ?
Just putting it out there .
Heat and squad depth are big factors. How much rotation can Stanton really do, we saw last game when he started M'Mombwa in place of Bayliss it didn't work out too well.
(To be fair to M'Mombwa he looked better this game once he was pushed a bit further forward and able to utilise his running)
Susjnar and Ingham back in the squad helped a bit this game, but they are only just back - and there's many players in the first team who don't really have equivalent replacements.
Something else I haven't seen mentioned is the 3 games this week were against the top 3 teams in the comp.
More bad luck for us than anything else, but it still doesn't help.
I am not just blaming him - this is an A-League wide thing with all these young keepers coming through. They are all excellent shot stoppers and showmen who love impressing the girls with feats of agility. But, I can't think of one who can dominate the area out to the penalty spot, and balls not being claimed inside the 6 yard box is out of hand. They just don't seem to be able to catch, even with their Mickey Mouse gloves.
With Vuka, Redmayne and Jamie Young all moving aside this season the last of that crop of dominant keepers is gone.
Milligan
A Griffiths
Rads
thoughts if these are the only candidates.
Milligan - in the Adelaide coaching setup I believe. No real experience as a head coach (may need to fact check this) so would be the biggest risk.
A Griffiths - Currently in Wellington setup. Has experience as a head coach at Manly United in NSW NPL. Would probably be my pick IF it was only these 3 mentioned
Zads - Roar coach currently and former Perth coach. Please stop giving this guy a job I beg. Has been awful at both Brisbane and Perth.
All 3 are a big risk but given our standing as a club we're not in the market for a decent name.
None - just lazy reporting.
"Who are ex-Jets at other clubs that might want a lead gig"?
Pfft.