As I predicted the crowd was under 30,000 and there were dozens of empty seats.
As I predicted the crowd was under 30,000 and there were dozens of empty seats.
All season we had composure when behind in a game but last night the occasion might have got to us and we panicked.
In hindsight Katroumbis on bench. Crazy Geoge at left back, Hoff right back and Pato to start.
Big fan of Katroumbis but i think Ernie was asking too much of someone so young and inexperieced - with limited game time as well.
This is spot onQuote:
Originally Posted by The Dunster
Another point on the crowd...being in different seats surrounded by plastics gave it a different vibe. It just didn't have the feel of the previous week. Having those same faces around you and being able to carry on without tut tutting nearby.
Give the members their seats and fill the gaps....ain't that hard. I could see a few seats in our usual spot were vacant, about a dozen.
Yep, it definitely had a better vibe with 10k less last week.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jetmaster
Until you get rid of the ffa "running" the finals, you will always have this problem. I don't see any reason why the clubs do not keep control of final games, why do the ffa have to get involved at all.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jetmaster
FFA have said the VAR broke for a few minutes and had no footage to review the offside. ****ing lol.
Of course it did. How convenient
****ing horseshits. FFA **** off you ****Quote:
Originally Posted by Grimario
Here, have some more salt for those wounds.
30,000 people could see it on the big screen and in their corporate boxes.
VAR couldnt?
Surely they have a backup. What prompted them to check it in the first place?
What was wrong with looking at the Fox coverage as backup?
https://www.theherald.com.au/story/5...-wrong/?cs=305
FFS...remember the Brady Bunch episode when Greg got a football final replayed?
Slow down people
Why the salt about this??
Yes VAR ****ed up
Yes the goal should have been not allowed
But
We know that this is football
We had 84 mins to turn it around
We were not good enough to do so
Where we need to look is within for the cause of our defeat last night because that where we lost.
We were not beaten by the ref VAR or Victory
We beat ourselves
So stop making excuses
Why can’t the ref go to the sideline to check this if the VAR is “broken”. He is in communication with the VAR official so he could have been told.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bremsstrahlung
What is pissing me off the most is that this is being reported as a “controversial “ decision....no a controversial decision would be if a linesman missed a lineball decision and he didn’t have a system in place to get the decisions correct...No my friends this wa simply a case of 1 of 2 things...a) a complete and utter case of incompetence or b) a complete and utter case of conspiracy.
If the FFA have come out and said the VAR was “broken” then I’m running with b).
We were not good enough.
Always difficult to accept but true.
Wake up....disallowed goal changes the dynamics of the game. We could have lost 4-0, or maybe we went down the other end and scored.Quote:
Originally Posted by MFKS
This is bad.....very bad for the game, not just the Jets.
Agree...we were more than good enough....second half the victory turned it into a afl spectacle...ball hardly hit the groundQuote:
Originally Posted by Jetmaster
Melbourne Victory did everything the referee allowed them to do. It might have been ugly but they got the job done. The FFA for their part have been letting Sydney kick the shit out of teams all season and in the grand final the torch was passed to Melbourne who fouled us 17 times or so, including a vicious elbow before even a yellow was produced.
Again, Melbourne Victory did the job - but if grinding out a result like that is the future of this game in Australia then we might as well follow Rugby League instead where they do thuggery over technical skill better than anyone.
VAR has been shit sinced it was brought inQuote:
Originally Posted by Jetmaster
Changes dynamic well duh of course that is correct
But it also failed last week when we werent penalised for fouling Arzani. Different game at 2-0 Heart ??
Reality is we did not do enough to win that game last night
Grand Finals are won and lost by seizing chances capitalising on mistakes and most importantly belief in victory
Our guys blinked first
All the sour grapes this morning about the VAR is a poor touch from our supporters
We lost last night because our efforts were not good enough and we need to develop more as a club to achieve the triumph we aspire to
Blame the VAR
Blame the ref
But all we are doing is veing ungracious losers and failing to acknowledge our failure
Hey Victory were not great last night
But
They won the game fair and square
They took their chance and busted their arses to claim the prize
Hats off to them they done what they had to do
You dont get it mate. This isn't about them shutting us down or us choking.
It also isn't just salty Jets fans up in arms at the moment. This is about VARs failings coming to a head. Had there been no VAR we'd be pissed off but life would go on.
Replay is pie in the sky....I reckon they should give us one of the many toilet seat copies and call it a draw.
Playoff for the direct ACL spot.