2012/13 A-League Rd 5: Perth vs. Newcastle - 930pm Sat 25-10-12

I thought we played well overall. Deserved a draw like others have said. Ultimately we were let down by some pretty poor lapses in defence, a couple of missed chances in attack (Heskey, Virgili), and the atmosphere at Perth (partisan crowd, ref giving a few calls their way etc.).

Mitchell MOM for me, played his best game by far for us, if it weren't for him we might have conceded a couple more.
Wheelhouse was probably our next best, I never get tired of seeing him sending those commanding balls out to the wing.
I'm still not sure where Brown fits into the GVE system, he's not a great passer but he always seems to be in positions of restricted space where he's played now.
And I agree with the comments about Goodwin/Ritter, the combination of Ritter at LB and Goodwin at LW seemed far more successful than tonight. Need Ritter back asap.

Still not impressed with Birighitti either. Don't want to start the debate again, but if BK were fit I would be calling for him to be brought in pronto. Birighitti just has zero aerial confidence and this was telling for the last goal.

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Originally Posted by MFKS

Heffernan surely top dog??? Grub of the highest order

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Yeah, won't argue with you there.

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Originally Posted by militiamon

I thought we played well overall. Deserved a draw like others have said. Ultimately we were let down by some pretty poor lapses in defence, a couple of missed chances in attack (Heskey, Virgili), and the atmosphere at Perth (partisan crowd, ref giving a few calls their way etc.).

Mitchell MOM for me, played his best game by far for us, if it weren't for him we might have conceded a couple more.
Wheelhouse was probably our next best, I never get tired of seeing him sending those commanding balls out to the wing.
I'm still not sure where Brown fits into the GVE system, he's not a great passer but he always seems to be in positions of restricted space where he's played now.
And I agree with the comments about Goodwin/Ritter, the combination of Ritter at LB and Goodwin at LW seemed far more successful than tonight. Need Ritter back asap.

Still not impressed with Birighitti either. Don't want to start the debate again, but if BK were fit I would be calling for him to be brought in pronto. Birighitti just has zero aerial confidence and this was telling for the last goal.

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Agree with you on all points bar the last one. Not sure if BK could have done better on the third goal, especially after being impeded with. Also don't think BK (in current form) could have pulled off the stunning save toward the end of the first half which kept us in the game.

birraz cost us da pointz

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Originally Posted by belchardo

must have got permission off his mum.

side note: what the hell is a professional sportsman doing getting sleeve tattoos midseason?

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He had his tatts during the NBN State League during the winter so he has had them for a while now

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Originally Posted by plague

Now watch us sit back and get scored on.

Go for their effing throats FFS!!!!!!

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Well done Nostradamus

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Originally Posted by militiamon

Still not impressed with Birighitti either. Don't want to start the debate again, but if BK were fit I would be calling for him to be brought in pronto. Birighitti just has zero aerial confidence and this was telling for the last goal.

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What? When has aerial balls been BK's strong point? Bighitti has pulled off three saves of the week in a row now and you're calling for him to be replaced? Two of the major differences between BK and Biraz is that a) Biraz attempts to make saves for shots more than 1m away from him, and b), Biraz doesn't scream and swear at his players, instead he congratulates them when they make a vital stop or tackle. Also, it's a bit hard to jump either through or over 5+ players, specially when that coasties Heffernan is running interference.

Finally what I reckoned we missed was Goodwin on the left of attack. We were basically one sided in the first half. Brown was almost anomyous apart from a few good tackles. He should get better as the season goes on.

Finally, Tiago :blush:

^ Maybe there are reasonable comments to be made in his defence, but it's just the vibe I've gotten from him so far. Either way can't really take it seriously when you rate Birighitti as our best player tonight ey.

Also what's this save of the week nonsense? If you're talking about Bozza's thing, pretty sure he's only won it once. And Necevski has won it twice, which tells you something about how useful that is.

anyone not get on that result. We had a go but not good enough, a 7-2 loss gets the same amount of pts. next

I'd rather Rubes play wide right and let pepper play in that midfield role ... and by the way i've stuck up for Mitchell but that dive was one of the most embarrassing things i've seen on a football field( excluding the Gypos of course )

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Originally Posted by militiamon

Also what's this save of the week nonsense? If you're talking about Bozza's thing, pretty sure he's only won it once. And Necevski has won it twice, which tells you something about how useful that is.

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Won it against scum and smurfs. Will probably get it again this week. BK would stand there like one of those training dummies you try not and hit then kick the ball back into the net after it rolls out next to him, scream at the defenders and look like an idiot with his stupid haircut.

??? BK played against the Smurfs, lol.

http://www.foxsports.com.au/football...ve-of-the-week

Rd 1 - Necevski
Rd 2 - BK
Rd 3 - Necevski
Rd 4 - Birighitti


PS http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzqJf6lnloM&t=6m46s


Edit: Anyway like I said before it is not the reason why we lost, the whole defence needs looking at, especially the wings. I just find it amusing considering the discussion that was had in the pre-season and all the BK hate.

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Originally Posted by militiamon

??? BK played against the Smurfs, lol.

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Meant first game. They were talking about it in the coverage... nicely done that jockey commentator then. Probably confused BK and Birra and just thought "jets keeper"

Jockey - out. Mate of mine hates him, reckons he was a totally dick coach in the youth systems.

Also how good was it seeing GVE getting fired up in the second half :yap: Seemed to fire up the players a bit too.

Might even have been Bozza or Peacock in the studio before hand... talking about how he has won 2 save of the week and they also made the comment about Necevski and "look how that just turned out for him, lolz".

Who is the jockey? Apart from some guy that has something to do with QLD youth, he made a comment a few weeks back about "another quality product from the QAS" or something.

Heskey had two great chances near the end. Should have scored.

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Originally Posted by Portillo

Heskey had two great chances near the end. Should have scored.

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This.

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Originally Posted by Grimario

Might even have been Bozza or Peacock in the studio before hand... talking about how he has won 2 save of the week and they also made the comment about Necevski and "look how that just turned out for him, lolz".

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This is where I got it from, should have done my research :P

Although to be fair, Birghitti has had a few times when he's come out and stopped half way or missed the ball completely.

And despite losing, I thought we didn't play too badly and had Heskey connected with a couple of crosses we would have won.

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Originally Posted by belchardo

must have got permission off his mum.

side note: what the hell is a professional sportsman doing getting sleeve tattoos midseason?

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we haven't seen him on the field since March or something. he probably did it over the break.

I thought we played pretty well and could have won if not for some sloppy defending and some great chances that were spurned (the Heskey tap-in in particular). It's refreshing to see us go over to Perth, who are a strong team, and play so well. I think we are going to be a legitimate force this season.

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Originally Posted by parksey

we haven't seen him on the field since March or something. he probably did it over the break.

I thought we played pretty well and could have won if not for some sloppy defending and some great chances that were spurned (the Heskey tap-in in particular). It's refreshing to see us go over to Perth, who are a strong team, and play so well. I think we are going to be a legitimate force this season.

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Yeah I think we could have won if we scored more goals than Perth, that's just my 2 cents though