Bay 1 no one wants to chant bloody plastics
Bay 1 no one wants to chant bloody plastics
Ernie needs to hook Katroumbis. He's honking tonight
Jets playing for silver in 2nd half. Need to lift otherwise we will need 3 goals to win.
Gillet and Katroumbis easily Melb Victory's best tonight. Hook him Ernie please.
We are fuked. The pl astics have ruined it. Sounds like a Knights crowd. Fold the club.
Joey!!!!!!!!
Troisi you diving khunt
Berisha elbow on Roy. Where the **** is Gillet looking. Berisha should be off. VAR is tits on a bull type technology
Flare in Victory bay.
Kung Fu Roy. Holy shit that was bad.
Well done Melb V. They looked like a team suited to finals football last week and nothing has changed.
2 major factors tonight.
VAR and Lawrence Thomas.
VAR for obvious reason and Thomas was absolutely phenominal.
**** this feeling and **** the plastics
Yep, lack of noise from so many Newy “fans” was embarrassing, as was NTUA. Roy probably figured it was the only way to stop Thomas, but the ref was just as poor as we were. MV sure as **** didn’t deserve to win either.
To be fair Victory did **** all attacking wise in that game. Did Berisha play??
Thomas and VAR... well done MV.
Oh and i almost forgot the 278 long balls straight to Donachie's head. What's the point in having creative players on the park and playing like that...
Can blame the ref all we like but facts are facts we ****ing bottled it
First half despite being 1-0 down we were the better side
Second half we lost the plot
What we do and what we had been doing we stopped doing
We panicked and played the scoreboard instead of the opposition
Hey yeah the ref was honking and Victree offered little but what hurts the mosdt is that we dogged it
The opposition and the ref didnt cost us a star on our shirt tonight
It was the players fault we lost
Been a while since i had that sickly feeling of supporting the Jets
Thanks boys for delivering it in spades tonight
PS
**** off Hoffman
Couldnt score in Iso Park with a fistful of fifties and single handedly cost us the game by his inept perforfmance in the Tard 6 yard box
Yep first goal entirely on the box head doing the VAR tonight. Linesman done what most punters have been asking for and that is in close calls leave the flag down and let the VAR come up with the proper decision with the benefit of replays.
1. What’s the point of VAR if they can’t make a correct decision? What’s their justification of that? That it was only a yard offside? That it wasn’t a clear error? Cause where I was that looked offside.
2. We were all over them first half. Should’ve been up at half time. I felt like we needed something to show for our dominance.
3. Second half was rubbish. Long balls were getting cut out all second half. We played so much better when we passed it around.
4. Roy Donovan was like a snake with his head cut off after that collision. Haven’t seen the replays yet. But it looked pretty bad. Bit of a bad taste. Love the guy and he brings a lot of passion. Just not sure if it was warranted. I’ll reserve that until I see replays.
5. Berisha and Troisi and Muscat are ****s. Roy should’ve gone through one of them.
6. Thought Boogaard did well, Moss barely had much to do all game, Petratos was getting double teamed every time he got the ball, thought Champness would’ve given us a better outlet on the wing.
7. Their tactics and gamble that the ref wouldn’t have the balls to enforce the rules and dish out some cards paid off. Every chance of a counter attack they fouled early and broke it up. Never let us get going, especially in the second half.
8. Well done on a great season. Grand final is a great achievement. One better next year
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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 in
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.