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Originally Posted by MFKS
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Originally Posted by MFKS
Took this as the positive for us. Those goals will do his confidence the world of good. Hopefully he kicks on now and backs himselfQuote:
Originally Posted by joel31
Taggart must be hating playing in that team. How many great runs did he make and never receive the ball?
Not just not get the ball, but i reckon our midfield still doesn't even know he has run!
Gallaway gotta go, regan and kew were disgraceful. Anyone putting any blame on Birras surely has to be kidding! Opposition midfield has the ball on edge of our box and our centre backs are sitting on the f*cking penalty spot.....
f*ck me!
Also hard to play with a midfield not capable of playing a straight forward pass.... Zads and Carravella not good enough for A-league level!
Goodwin the obvious positive but i agree with someone earlier in the thread, we did start to over play him in the second half!
Yeah it was pretty wierd hey? Goodwin looked stoked (obviously) but the others didn't seem all that pumped up about it.Quote:
Originally Posted by MFKS
Definitely is a reason fans aren't connecting with this group of pretenders. Gallagay ffs Zane said he'd been playing well lately....Zane out
After a drunken analysis last night I can reflect more maturely.
Overall, it is the midfield that is costing us and that is flowing on to the rest of the team. They are either letting the opposition slalom through them or not having the skill or vision to put through the correct pass when attacking.
Galloway is a problem but Taylor and Kew can only paper over so many holes. I too, noticed that Taggart made some great runs yesterday but nobody saw them. Is it at all possible for Griff to play the number 10 with Taggs and Heskey up front?
Ruben has lost it since GVE was sacked which is bizarre - the hunger either isn't there, or he has been told to cool it.
The young guns were poor yesterday apart from Goody.., guys turn over the ball, or kick it out with NO pressure on them - pathetic.
I was hard on Birraz yesterday but maintain that he has some issues with dominating his area - have a look at those first couple of minutes. I am thinking he is in the same position as Covic in his last season - I truly believe his mind is somewhere in Europe.
Heskey and Carney in next week and Griff the week after - we don't have any time left. I can't see another miracle against the Roar next week.
Just realised Hoole is suspended next week - 5 yellow cards
100% agreed..Quote:
Originally Posted by Pico
i think part of this is from what i think the previous recruitment policy has been. promise young kids if they come here theyll get a start and they can showcase their talents and use the club as a stepping stone to somewhere else.
We are not a ****ing shop window
We are not a stop on your footballing "journey".
We are not a ****ing stepping stone.
if you wear our colours, play with some ****ing pride, or **** off.
locals only, or guys like griff, ljubes, vigs etc etc
PS new chant....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCM7qcRyfKo
How true , i recorded the game and just took a look at this and i gotta say how bad does that look ?.Quote:
Originally Posted by MFKS
From scanning this thread this is what I have to say ...
- Bridges should not be getting game time, made a particular effort to watch his "impact" when he came on. At a time when it was extremely important for us to maintain pressure and not give the ball away cheaply he did simply that. How many opportunities has he had to make an impact of the bench to no avail. Give it up.
- Brillante should be in midfield.
- Gallaway was continually caught out.
- We were over-run and out played in the midfield in the second half
- People saying Phoenix are a "shower of shit" might want to check their form over the last few games, if you expected us to beat them then you're delirious. IMO they clearly were favourites coming in to this game.
- Taggart makes good runs but his hold up play could use work.
- Whoever was calling for Birraz out and BK in is deluded.
- We're shit.
Edit: Also was funny and not surprising to hear we have the worst pass completion percentage in the league. Top work GvE with your passing possession style....
Carney in, Neville magically recovered and that sorts that out. He hasn't even played yet but I almost hope we keep Carney for long term. He's better than bog standard A-League quality, even if he isn't up to scratch to the dizzying heights he found himself at.Quote:
Originally Posted by russjaybee
Kanta + Beard + (I guess) Rubez in midfield sorts out the last one. Rubez needs to be let off his leash and just run around like a mad cvnt. He isn't specifically good enough at anything else and without his constant presence EVERYWHERE (with Kanta doing the defensive filling), he isn't worth a spot on the field, let alone the captaincy. Probably an unpopular opinion really but meh. I am in Adelaide now, Zads Lads can't touch me :lulz:Quote:
- We were over-run and out played in the midfield in the second half
Yeah, if only we had a big strong target man to hold the ball up better. Shame he has gone to complete turd this season (and half of last).Quote:
- Taggart makes good runs but his hold up play could use work.
I'm with you on zads grim. I fully expect the next coach to drop him to the bench. Midfield of Kanta & Beard with a creative mid working in front of them.
Hopefully for the next game we see Carney at left back and move gallaway across onto the right which should suit him a bit better. This would let beard return to the centre and rid the team of the roundabout.
I really hope Bridges gets the starting att mid spot, he needs to start as many of the upcoming games as possible, last thing we need is him limping into another contract next year but the only way I can see that being avoided is if people see him get consecutive major minutes from the start in his preferred position, and why not against Brisbane, we'll need his "impact" to try and claw our way back from the demolition Brisha and his mates are going to unload on us.
Take some meds son.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pico
You have just called for the inclusion of Bridges into the starting side and the retention of Galloway after an AIDS like performance yesterday all in the one post
FFS
Your off your rocker
Why? Season is a write off - best thing to do is to give Bridges game time to show just how garbage he is instead of fanbois going "oh but he only gets a few minutes at the end of games, that's not enough to show how awesome he is". And we don't have a right back of any sort. Ours got a season ending injury so we SIGNED NICK WARD as a replacement. Are we better off playing Pepper (not good enough), Gallaway (not good enough), Brillante (good enough but better in midfield) or Hoole (is he good enough?) as our right back?Quote:
Originally Posted by MFKS
Watch us play Carney there next weekend.
Last thing in the world we need to do is give Bridges a start. We jag a win (law of probability says we are overdue also) and the bloke will be hailed as the messiah and given a new ****ing contract.Quote:
Originally Posted by Grimario
Disagree the season is a right off. I know we are shit and are a miracle that ain't coming (Griffo and his magic touch not withstanding) to be there finals time but we shouldn't be ****ing conceding now otherwise we are as soft as our ****ing players.
We do so have a ****ing right back we just play him out of position in centre midfield coz some ****s think h=he has good engines and likes running around like a headless chook yet contributes **** all there. The bloke is a moral to make a good right back if he got put there
yeah because the alternative has been so productive. The even remote possibility Bridges could be re-signed for another year frustrates me immensely, another squad spot taken up, more salary cap wasted and a wasted bench spot every week, then the inevitable wasted possession.Quote:
Originally Posted by MFKS
As for Gallaway he's no Neville, but who else will we play there Beard is wasted there. Personally I'd love to see us actually promote a youth league back but the fact we went and signed ward says to me the coaching staff have no trust what so ever in the youth players and they think gallaway is better, now that's saying something.
Some still think this season has hope, I disagree, I believe it has already reached the write off stage. Time to start taking our medicine so we can start healing for next year. Lets sort out the players we think can be kept, the players that need to go & find out which of the youth team has the ability to step up. Then clear the slate for the new manager. Have the club management cut the deadwood free, from coaching staff & assistants to first team squad and youth.
Enough of these half arsed re builds, if your going to do it doing ****ing properly.
My hit list would be Bridges, Roundabout, Gallaway, Chilli, Heskey, Zads, Brown, Deans, Dodd. Middleby
I love Pico.
It has nothing to do with one of my posts being his sig.
hope the puddle is available next week
Haven't seen him since the service from midfield dried upQuote:
Originally Posted by seldom
almost seems like he's evaporated in to thin air.
:gent:
On Zad, beard and Kanta, we have 3 great centre mids, why the **** don't we play a formation that will suit them? We bagged GvE for not playing a system that fits in with the players, but here we are, proposing to drop one of the Onky players who actually gave a shit for the jersey! We can easily fit all three in the starting 11.