Azzurri shitting the bed. From finals to relegation battle. The coach has relegation experience from last year. I?m assuming he?s hoping for rain to call games draws again.
Printable View
Azzurri shitting the bed. From finals to relegation battle. The coach has relegation experience from last year. I?m assuming he?s hoping for rain to call games draws again.
I would not shoot your mouth off too early bud. You are only 1 point in front of Azzurri with plenty of football to be played.Quote:
Originally Posted by NUFC
Credit to Cardiff yesterday, it was a valiant effort.
You?re right. But we never considered ourselves for finals nor talked ourselves up.
Looks like I was pretty close Mr Hacker. Big day for the DudsQuote:
Originally Posted by The Hacker
Apologies for giving a team a push bud. Unfortunately they have failed to win a game since, my mistake.Quote:
Originally Posted by NUFC
Can you post the scores please Lofty?
5-0 thirds
5-0 Reggie?s
5-1 firsts
Kotara v Warners Bay
3rds 1-1
Res 2-2
1st. 3-1
Bay had a penalty saved early in second half which would have squared it up at 2-2 and Bay with all the running. That was the key moment in an entertaining match. Ref did well to stay out of it even though it was very physical at times, and ultimately it was Kotara who took their chance when it came and they deserved the win. The game was closer than 3-1 indicates
Went down to Dudley to see the scheduled ?drubbing?. 1st half was all one way traffic with Minmi losing two to injuries. 2nd half Minmi were arguably the better side. Maybe it was dudley taking the foot off the accelerator or maybe Minmi actually turned up for the second half. Either way Dudley showing why theyre the cream of the crop.
Very close. This is the first time in ZPL it looks like a 2 horse race. Usually the top 4 all look a chanceQuote:
Originally Posted by Lofty
To be honest nobody that has been within the club for a long time has talked us up on here nor considered ourselves to be finals contenders.Quote:
Originally Posted by NUFC
Most of us old boys at the start of the were eyeing a 5-8 finish as acceptable, which yep, we are still currently failing in that department.
Still two teams below us on the table but everyone writing us off as relegated already.
Do need to get a result though.
Very embarrassing to be behind a team that only managed 6th place in Zone League 1 last year.Quote:
Originally Posted by NUFC
So equally as embarrassing for Minmi and Cardiff then, not just an Azzurri embarrassment?Quote:
Originally Posted by Eggs
100%. Hang your heads in shame.Quote:
Originally Posted by salmon
Excellent point. This doesn't get talked about enough IMO. Absolute turkey behaviour last year from that coach. From what I've heard, during preseason, he told the azzurri squad that he almost went undefeated a couple years ago conveniently missing the year in between that year and this one where he led Merewether to almost relegation.Quote:
Originally Posted by NUFC
And carried on like dick for about 20 minutes after the loss to CardiffQuote:
Originally Posted by gtg
He apparently got sacked last week but rocked up to the game anyway?
Azzuri 10th vs. Kotara 3rd
- Reverse fixture (3-1 Kotara)
- Azzuri have now lost 4 games in a row and are winless in 13 games.
- Only 11 of Kotara's 30 points (37%) have come away from home.
- Both of Azzuri's wins this season have come at home.
- These two teams have not drawn a match in their only 5 ZPL meetings.
Kotara 2-0
Mayfield 5th vs. Cardiff 11th
- Reverse fixture (4-1 Mayfield)
- Cardiff games remain the league's highest scoring matches. Averaging 5 goals per game.
- Cardiff have lost 7 of their 8 away games this season, drawing the other.
- These two have played each other the most in ZPL (23 matches played). Resulting in 15 Mayfield wins, 3 draws and 5 Cardiff wins.
Mayfield 2-1
Uni 9th vs. Dudley 1st
- Reverse fixture (4-1 Dudley)
- Dudley's winning run extends to 14 games in a row.
- Uni have now lost 4 games in a row and are winless in 7 games.
- 11/12 (92%) of Uni's points this season have come at home.
- Uni have not kept a clean sheet all season. While Dudley have kept to most clean sheets this season with 9.
Dudley 3-0
Minmi 12th vs. Swansea 7th
- Reverse fixture (4-3 Swansea)
- 10/10 (100%) of Minmi's points this season have come at home.
2-2 Draw
Suns 2nd vs. Olympic 6th
- Reverse fixture (0-0 Draw)
- Suns winning run extends to 6 games in a row.
- Suns have not conceded more than 1 goal in a game for 8 games now.
- Olympic have drawn a league high 7 matches this season.
Suns 3-1
W. bay 4th vs. West Lakes 8th
- Reverse fixture (4-3 W. Bay)
- West Lakes are 3rd on the form table, winning 3 of their last 4 games.
- W. bay have now lost 4 of their last 5 games.
- W. Bay have only conceded 7 of their 24 goals at home this season (29%).
- West Lakes have an identical home and away record (3 wins, 1 draw and 4 losses home and away).
Draw 2-2
Hey Jeterpool, nice multi.
But seriously, gg with the data.
Seems to carry on a lot from all reports. I?d conveniently not tell others about last year either. Basically refusing to play games and being given a point to get yourself out of last place. I?m sure he told azzurri exactly what they wanted to hear.Quote:
Originally Posted by gtg
Loving the breakdowns of the round Cognitio! Keep it up mate, it?s definitely some of the best content across all the threads
Azzurri 1 - 2 Kotara
Mayfield 2 - 1 Cardiff
Uni 0 - 3 Dudley
Minmi 3 - 2 Swansea
Suns 2 - 1 Olympic
Warners Bay 0 - 1 Westlakes
Azzurri 1-2 Kotara
Mayfield 3-1 Cardiff
Uni 0-5 Dudley
Minmi 1-1 Swansea
Suns 3-0 Olympic
Warners bay 1-1 Westlakes
Azzurri 0-3 Kotara
Mayfield 3-1 Cardiff
Uni 0-3 Dudley
Minmi 1-2 Swansea
Suns 8-0 Olympic
Warners bay 2-0 Westlakes
Azzurri 1-4 Kotara
Mayfield 2-0 Cardiff
Uni 0-3 Dudley
Mini 1-1 Swansea
Suns 1-3 Olympic
Warners Bay 3-1 Westlakes
Minmi VS Swansea
Thirds 1-3
Ressies 1-3
Firsts 2-3
Congrats to Azzurri on the win today, but can anyone from the club confirm what is going on?
Plenty of talk of the coach getting sacked but still showing up (and posting the scores this week).
Anyone from Azzurri care to set the record straight?
I'm not from Azzurri, but he told me he got sent off last week v Cardiff?Quote:
Originally Posted by Eggs
Suns v Olympic
Firsts 2-1
Ressies 4-1
Thirds 1-0
Went out to see Westlakes vs Warners Bay as a neutral fan today.
4-1 full time. Westlakes denied a stone cold penalty then conceded 2 soft goals (one should have been disallowed for handball)
Somehow ended up 4-0 down at half time after creating multiple chances in the first 10 minutes.
Game ended in controversy with a westlakes lower grade player and Warners Bay?s #10 having a go at each other with Warners Bay?s #10 calling him a fat autistic **** after a couple of heckles from the Westlakes player.
Warners Bay then tried to blame the westlakes player for the heckles and saying he started it. Very short memories from those lads with their ressies players going to the WPL game last year after their grand final win heckling Women at their game. When someone from Westlakes mentioned that game their coaching staff got very defensive.
Westlakes somewhat unlucky on the day to not pick up a point. Also the field was barely playable down one flank and absolute mud pit.
Warners Bay vs Westlakes
3rds 2-2
Res 3-1
First 4-1
Quote:
Originally Posted by Undertaker
Hello to you as well.Quote:
a neutral fan
Can we get a definition check on Neutral ??????
Perhaps the neutral WB fans can give us their side of the story.
I don't know the identity of Undertaker but I don't believe they are a part of Westlakes.
A Warner's Bay official told us they don't condone the actions of that player and will be dealing with it. I don't see any positives in dredging into the particulars of what happened, I don't think it necessarily needs to be aired out in this forum.
Football wise we felt a little hard done by with some of the decisions, but end of the day WB took chances and we didn't - the scoreline is hard to argue against. On to next week.
Wrong. This forum is the place for controversial goings on. Mainly why peeps being checking on here.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
A response from a neutral W/bay supporter here.
Another forum post that the educated have picked up on being misinformed and uneducated.
Yes a player retorted to a heckle,yes it was dealt with,yes the crowd were dealt with and yes both parties(clubs)have parts to play in it.obviously more here than just ?one quote? however wbay did not ?blame? one particular player nor action.
As for the shade being thrown for last year I believe your apples and oranges analogy here fits as not only untrue but not even close to comparable to the weekend.
Apologies for our ?unplayable? surface on the weekend we simply could not stop the rain from coming after 2:30
We will endeavour to do a better rain dance before next Sunday.
Macca- great response and best of luck for the rest of the year.
Unplayable is a bit much. It was decent deck to play on for Thirds and Ressies and a bit of ice skating in Firsts just made it that bit more interesting.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kingofthemiddle
Perhaps our Thirds and Ressies rain dance was that bit better so they could play in the dry!
Macca is right it was a game of chances and Warners Bay took theirs. Credit to the W Bay goalkeeper as well, made a couple of outstanding saves to keep us from getting into the game.
The battle for 3rd to 5th continues to be a nail biter.
according to undertaker, neutral means former player who is still mates with everyoneQuote:
Originally Posted by AwayDay Views
In fairness, 4-1 probably flattered WB. No doubt the win was deserved, but yeah closer than 4-1 might suggest. No way was it a ?stone cold penalty? in my opinion, but ain?t that the beauty of opinionsQuote:
Originally Posted by Taffy
Swansea 3-0 Uni. Big game. The Swans will be looking to close the gap to those above with Kotara and Mayfield playing each other this week.
Cardiff 1-2 Olympic
Westlakes 1-2 Dudley
Suns 2-0 Minmi
Warners Bay 3-1 Azzurri
Kotara 3-2 Mayfield. Should be a belter. Plenty on the line here.