17/18 HAL Round 25 | Newcastle Jets v Melbourne City | Sun 1st Apr 2018 5:00pm

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Originally Posted by Mark325

Cowburn has been put in the starting 11, presumably in the midfield. Big game for him, if he impresses he could earn a spot going into the finals

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If Kanta does well at CB agreed

Hope Ivan is feeling fit. That Arzani kid is a shed load faster

Far side linesman:
I didn't think they let Hobbits do ref's tickets....

Jeez we are living dangerously. That diving bastard Arzani is a real handful

Sitting behind Joyce. Everytime Arzani gets it he's yelling "get at him". No prizes for guessing where they think we are weak

Cheryl Salisbury is so bogan. So Newy.

For those at home, did Ivan get him or was it, like most at the ground believe, a dive?

Also, is Vargas playing?

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Originally Posted by Jeterpool

The general negativity has me surprised. We've played some poor football for a few weeks after we've played a game against Sydney so this run comes, to me, as no surprise.
We've played 4 if the last 5 in the road as well so getting the player back home with a 9 day break could because is ordered.
I'm also not prepared to write Jackson off after one poor game. It's unfair to blame it all on him when the midfield was so poor in the last match.

In terms of shots conceded, last week wasn't the worst in the last few weeks. Adelaide were certain more accurate than other teams but we've been allowing plenty of chances and that's down to our attacking style of play.

It surprised me people are seemingly ready to.write off our season.

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Delusional pandering gets you nowhere. We're playing sh1t.

Plus wtf is the shitcvnt ref? 5000 word intro is a waste without the real info

The team hasnt worked since Roy, Pato and Ronnie returned. Blokes that were doing a great job were dropped to fit these guys in - but it does not seem to be working. The confidence looks shot and the potent attack looks to be a fading memory.

Our only hope of playing in the ACL now is SFC winning the grand final.

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Originally Posted by Mark325

Cowburn has been put in the starting 11, presumably in the midfield. Big game for him, if he impresses he could earn a spot going into the finals

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If Cowburn is good enough for a starting role they should fold the club.

He's a squad player at best in any top 4 a-league team.

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Originally Posted by Roundball Enthusiast

We've looked shit across the park the last two weeks. Nothing makes me think anything different will happen this week. Maybe slightly better upfront with Roy.

Thinking a loss by 3-4 goals. Our defense is just too shit without Boogs.

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I'll just leave this here, with my revised score prediction.

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Originally Posted by The Dunster

The team hasnt worked since Roy, Pato and Ronnie returned. Blokes that were doing a great job were dropped to fit these guys in - but it does not seem to be working. The confidence looks shot and the potent attack looks to be a fading memory.

Our only hope of playing in the ACL now is SFC winning the grand final.

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We haven't been the same since Nabbout left. His loss is huge.

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Originally Posted by Hunter403

We haven't been the same since Nabbout left. His loss is huge.

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Agreed.

Is it seeming more and more like we've just swapped Hoole for someone just like him in McGree?

Constant through balls for himself rather than the safer options around him and every time he has the ball and moves forward he turns it over almost instantly.

Musk-kh**t warming up.
Nothing to play for.
Get the winners back Ernie...

People's chump has been pretty bad tonight.


We'll be one and done in finals playing like this

City aren't anything special we are simply not showing up for the contest.

Anyone still doubting Boogs value to the team?

No Boogs and we're a basket case at the back. Vargas just not in the game and with him invisible, so is Rot

Refs not helping us much as far as pushing in the back and shirt pulling shit city are doing.

lol This game is so rubbish all they can talk about is a players nervous sh!t!

Pato seems to have lifted us a bit.

Is that Gillet?

3 number 10s who all want to play in the middle so they cut infield and we have no width. Vujica and Georgogrvski off form. No partner for NTS who hasnt stepped up in boogs absence and two of those number 10s are luxury players and you need high workers around them which means we need Roy and I think Champess starting

Vargas experiment is over. He's not the same player post injury. I'd be reluctant to play him again and would not consider retaining him for next season.

Record over/set.
That's all we'll get from this season.
Hope we beat the sCCuM in two weeks but on that performance, nope.
Personally, I think we peaked v Sh!tney.

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Originally Posted by The Dunster

Vargas experiment is over. He's not the same player post injury. I'd be reluctant to play him again and would not consider retaining him for next season.

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Someone needs to kick Vargas at training. Do 50-50s, air challenges, landing drills and doggies. He needs confidence in that ankle/leg. At this rate he is earning nothing but a bench spot for next game.

Boogard is a massive loss for us.

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Originally Posted by Frodo

I am thinking it's gonna be a goal fest. Throw defence out the window and just run at them all game until we knock the door down and put 4 past them.. After we have already conceded 3 ourselves.

We've locked in 2nd place, all Ernie needs to do in the next couple of weeks is the following;

- Get Roy scoring again. Easy enough, if he scores 1 he will be banging them in for fun again.
- Get Vargas and Pato into the squad and fully fit. Work out the best way to play them, whether that means both playing or one off the bench so be it.
- Sort out the communication between Jackson and Topor. Make them sleep in the same bed for the next few weeks if he needs to. They need to cover each others weaknesses better. That has been Topor and Boogs strong points this year.

Nothing too hard to work out. Let's start booking our GF tickets.

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You and Jeterpool need help, fairdinkum. The excuses for our rubbish football is terrible

We need to set the team up based on form not reputation.

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Originally Posted by The Dunster

Vargas experiment is over. He's not the same player post injury. I'd be reluctant to play him again and would not consider retaining him for next season.

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Sadly I agree Pato can go as well

Boogard, Nabbout......enough said

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Originally Posted by redwah

Boogard, Nabbout......enough said

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Hoffman as well

We just ensured that we'll have to play those pricks in a knockout final in a month.
That's gunna be a fun game

The whole team just looks flat and lost

Mcgree looks considerably worse then his first couple of games, Pato and Vargas are drastically underperforming and the same can be said for Roy and we can’t pick a pass to save our lives. Ernie needs to really get some sense into this team, we don’t even look like we’re gonna beat the mariners at this rate and if we lose then that then the finals are already over

Where's the Member

Well that was fun. The thing that shits me is that Fux will write us off and start planning and tipping for a Smurf/City GF.
Aint over yet and we still have time but this is the team I dont want in the final. Their run suggests we will though.

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Originally Posted by Couscous

Where's the Member

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Plague found him and killed him.

Thought Pato was pretty decent hey. Looked keen too

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Originally Posted by la bazzle

Thought Pato was pretty decent hey. Looked keen too

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This. He looked more keen than some others out there this evening. IMO with the exception of the first 10 mins the only other time we looked likely was when he was introduced.

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Originally Posted by 380

This. He looked more keen than some others out there this evening. IMO with the exception of the first 10 mins the only other time we looked likely was when he was introduced.

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Didnt look like that against the nix and Adelaide