Jets v Gypos Sat 1st Feb 7.35pm AEDT at Gosford caravan park

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Originally Posted by Frodo

For every Natta mistake, he saves at least one mistake from someone else and plays 5 or 6 wonderful passes forward that completely bypass midfield. There's a reason he's so heavily marked by opposition forwards, both positively and negatively.

He's also been dropped before, as well as moved to LB, and every time he does the other CBs struggle just as much.

You either take a mistake with the good stuff he brings or you accept a mistake from one of the others without all the good stuff. Pretty simple decision IMO.

We simply don't have anyone better in the squad to drop him for, same goes for Scott. Welcome to the A League boys and girls, where a bunch of semi-pro footballers get paid too much to attempt to entertain us for 90 mins each week.

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Problem is his mistakes and his refusal to track runs from opposition players especially in the box keeps leading to goals

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Originally Posted by StannyCFCJET

Problem is his mistakes and his refusal to track runs from opposition players especially in the box keeps leading to goals

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I mean yeah, he's a CB, every mistake gifts the opposition a chance to score.

And every time Scott makes a mistake it's basically a goal conceded.

And every time a striker makes a mistake nobody notices because you've still got 10 men to help cover it.

That's football baby.


This isn't FM, you can't just replace players whenever you get bored of them. We don't have any better options on the bench right now and his positive affect on the game is too hard to replace with any of the alternatives anyways. If our forwards could score a few more goals we wouldn't even notice the mistakes our backline makes.

We have the equal 7th best defence in the league so far this season. We have the 10th best attack, and have scored half as many goals as the most potent. However we have the 8th most expected goals and 8th most touches in the opposition box.

We are creating chances, we are controlling games, we are even defending well enough to be close to the top 6. We just can't score goals. Natta getting dropped doesn't help that and if anything probably hurts it.

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Originally Posted by Eastwest

Lose 3-0 but if players ignore Stanton then 2-2.

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picked it

To add a little further to Frodo's good post, I thought that was one of Natta's best games this season.

We've got an xG of almost 20 (19.98) season to date and have scored 18 goals so we're a little behind. Likewise our opposition are outscoring their xG (21.63) too, having conceded 25 season-to-date.

Scott needs to play this week, you can?t throw james in against victory

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Originally Posted by Frodo

I mean yeah, he's a CB, every mistake gifts the opposition a chance to score.

And every time Scott makes a mistake it's basically a goal conceded.

And every time a striker makes a mistake nobody notices because you've still got 10 men to help cover it.

That's football baby.


This isn't FM, you can't just replace players whenever you get bored of them. We don't have any better options on the bench right now and his positive affect on the game is too hard to replace with any of the alternatives anyways. If our forwards could score a few more goals we wouldn't even notice the mistakes our backline makes.

We have the equal 7th best defence in the league so far this season. We have the 10th best attack, and have scored half as many goals as the most potent. However we have the 8th most expected goals and 8th most touches in the opposition box.

We are creating chances, we are controlling games, we are even defending well enough to be close to the top 6. We just can't score goals. Natta getting dropped doesn't help that and if anything probably hurts it.

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Great post, Mr Baggins..
Couldn't agree more..

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Originally Posted by ForeverRed

Scott needs to play this week, you can?t throw james in against victory

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I mean all things considering Victory aren't the most potent team in the comp. 24 goals, only 6 more then our 18 with an extra game on top. If they don't replace him for this game, then definitely don't for Adelaide and give him a run against Brissy