Dimi has to play 10. Bench Vargas or don't play it. Can't afford to carry him anymorr
Dimi has to play 10. Bench Vargas or don't play it. Can't afford to carry him anymorr
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Originally Posted by boz-monaut
Think I might have started that. :blush: I was between Bay 1 n 2 trying to spot my bro up Nth side of top Western stand. Found him when he put his light on...then I did mine so he could see me.Quote:
Originally Posted by halo se7en
Lights went out 10min later n he texted as a joke "put your light back on lol" Soz Boz. I didn't even know it was a 'thing'.
Actually had a glimmer of hope the game would be abandoned when they went out and we could put the New Jets out another time n piss these Old Jets orf...
Lacklustre performance.
Perhaps some thought Beath might do a better job in the dark.
On the upside anybody who was stupid enough to think Chris Beath was some sort of competent official got a reality check.
Take out Vargas
Move Kanta into midfield
Bring in Crazy George
Move Hoff up field
Roll the dice with Jackson
Play Joey instead of McGree.
Use Pato off the bench.
We will win. Not much to fix.
Team has become defensive and Ernie moving Kanta to CB has signalled vulnerability to oppositions. We got where we are being fearless in attack and not giving a **** about leaking a few goals.
We need to think and play that way again.
Experiments failed Ernie. Lets go back to what was working.
You watched the Jetstream post match video? I said exactly the same.
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Originally Posted by The Dunster
Right now we have NTS throwing long balls at their defenders and Kanta passing to their midfielders. We've seen this before. All of our clearances - fkn all of them!!! - go straight to the opposition, this creates a lot of pressure and frustrates the team.
Vargas is a burden atm: Pato had a positive impact on the game, at least he runs. Sorry for Vargas, but he's not fit and he's still scared: trial games are over, I wouldn't even put him on the bench in the next 2 games. Ernie had to give him a chance and I agree with the experiment, but that's enough thanks.
I don't think we can afford to bring Hoff forward: Vujica is underperforming, we need Geo and Hoff in defence.
The whole tram looked very slow, we were outran in all the areas: we looked like a preseason game - the only explanation could be a heavy load at training in preparation for the finals.
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Originally Posted by mic22
I, as much as anyone, wanted to see Vargas back at his pre-injury best but the guy is flat out scared. We played much better when pato came on.
I thought the brown sub was a positive one until he went off again with the same injury. Amateur hour there.
I wanted kanta in the cb position and I still think he has a role there until boogs comes back.
If we can’t fire up in front of what is expected to be a large away crowd next week then we don’t deserve to be playing this finals football.
McGree has talent but lacks a lot of ticker. Already has his head in Europe and think he doesn’t have to work still. Works better centrally and is definitely not giving us much out wide like he should be.
Team for next week..
Duncan/moss
Hoff jackson topor George
Kanta sugar
Joey Dimi pato
Roy
This is exactly the team I suggested before the City game.Quote:
Originally Posted by rhysd
Last game Kanta played mids we lost but he scored twice. The Kanta/Ugar/Dimi trio has been the basis of our success. Moving Kanta to defence has completely unbalanced the side. If he stays there we will lose next week too.
Just give Jackson the less testing warm up v Scum. He was almost MOM against Sydney new year ffs so he is capable.
Only variation I would consider would be to push Hoff up forward right and keep Ivan in.
As much praise as the CB pairing of Boogs and NTS get, I think a lot of credit goes to Ugar and Kanta for their holding duties. Their consistency and quality of their game this season has helped our defence a lot.
Imo, playing with NTS, Ugar and Kanta in their usual positions means there is only 1 vulnerability (new element). Dropping Kanta back opens up a DM issue and a CB issue.
I agree with the above lineup. Don’t care who plays CB with NTS, just get some in form players on the pitch.
Probably a better call, and bring Joey on for the final 20-30Quote:
Originally Posted by Jetmaster
Its simple, team that beat sydney
Roy in for Nabs
Jackson in for Boogs
Jackson may not be great but he isnt that bad and if the rest of the team plays with the intent they have in the past he would be fine.
I thought Pato was good off the bench last night.
We all agree....bring back Jacko!
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In this case, you also get an additional player :DQuote:
Originally Posted by leftrightout
We played far too narrow last night. I was a massive fan of Ivan earlier in the year, but he was terrible. Never hit the touch line and Chianese was burning him, both inside and out. McGree looked lost/scared until he moved centrally. Pato and Joey gave us some width and thrust, but all too late. I agree with benching Ronald and playing Dimi at 10, bloke needs to be on the ball as much as possible