Three games in 7 days is standard overseas for all professionals. These are young blokes who had the previous week off...absolutely no excuse.
And I'm sorry, but Noah James needs to learn to catch a ball.
Booooo....!
Three games in 7 days is standard overseas for all professionals. These are young blokes who had the previous week off...absolutely no excuse.
And I'm sorry, but Noah James needs to learn to catch a ball.
Booooo....!
Playing twice a week is a reasonable expectation. No leagues require teams to play three times a week, except on the rarest occasions.Originally Posted by Jeterpool
Euro teams don't play 3 games in seven days in this type of heat. They also have a bigger player list and far better facilities for recovery.
The schedule is a joke.
Players should forget about this one and move on.
We all should.
Next game is the focus.
I'm just glad we are all back to normal.
Some of you lot on here were getting way out over your skis.
Thankfully the stink is back.
I feel safe again.
I agree with all this. I would have rotated a little more Susjnar and Scarcella in for starters. Not sure why we got Scarcella in if we weren't going to use him.
Finally we got caught out with 3 at the back, man on man defending is way too risky.
Were they so tired that they could not run and went down 0-2 in the first 8 minutes?
Come on.
On reflection and rewatching the start of the game, I think just chalking it up to being tired is incorrect, though it clearly didn’t help.
At the end of the day, I think Aloisi and the United team just had us figured out. They press real high, they have the pace and skill to get in behind us effortlessly, and can punish us when they do. When we played United in January, it was one of our worst of the season and he addressed none of those issues tactically to ensure it wouldn’t happen again.
The playing out from the back style can work sometimes, but some of our best moments, like the goal against City, which happened in 4 passes, are from moving the ball quickly and efficiently.
Correct, he cost us 2 goals yesterday parrying stuff any 12 year old would have caught, plus he cost us 3 points against Auckland coming for a high ball and didn?t get to it, there?s a hell of lot more to keeping then being a shot stopper, he needs to do a lot of work to become a good keeper, very shaky
Coincidental is it that particular aspects of what makes a sound keeper have gone south since the departure of Bowling to WSW ?
Just putting it out there .
Fair point on the heat, and many played 270 minutes across that time too. The player lists is also fair point too.
Agree season is still up for grabs and a big few matches ahead
The Championship Chronicles - The Jetstream's review of the 2007/08 season. www.newcastlefootball.net/chronicles
Heat and squad depth are big factors. How much rotation can Stanton really do, we saw last game when he started M'Mombwa in place of Bayliss it didn't work out too well.
(To be fair to M'Mombwa he looked better this game once he was pushed a bit further forward and able to utilise his running)
Susjnar and Ingham back in the squad helped a bit this game, but they are only just back - and there's many players in the first team who don't really have equivalent replacements.
Something else I haven't seen mentioned is the 3 games this week were against the top 3 teams in the comp.
More bad luck for us than anything else, but it still doesn't help.
Last edited by Macca; 17-03-2025 at 12:51 PM.
I am not just blaming him - this is an A-League wide thing with all these young keepers coming through. They are all excellent shot stoppers and showmen who love impressing the girls with feats of agility. But, I can't think of one who can dominate the area out to the penalty spot, and balls not being claimed inside the 6 yard box is out of hand. They just don't seem to be able to catch, even with their Mickey Mouse gloves.
With Vuka, Redmayne and Jamie Young all moving aside this season the last of that crop of dominant keepers is gone.
Only one bloke on this foz constantly makes me laugh Plague and it ain't you - MFKS
I'm sorry, did you just label Redmayne as a dominant keeper? The bloke was far from it. Flapped constantly at crosses and was prone to errors consistently
Jaliens gives me the horn
Covic has probably been out best
Fair enough, didn't say he was good at it, just like the great Flapman, Birraz.
Milligan
A Griffiths
Rads
thoughts if these are the only candidates.
Milligan - in the Adelaide coaching setup I believe. No real experience as a head coach (may need to fact check this) so would be the biggest risk.
A Griffiths - Currently in Wellington setup. Has experience as a head coach at Manly United in NSW NPL. Would probably be my pick IF it was only these 3 mentioned
Zads - Roar coach currently and former Perth coach. Please stop giving this guy a job I beg. Has been awful at both Brisbane and Perth.
All 3 are a big risk but given our standing as a club we're not in the market for a decent name.
Jaliens gives me the horn
1. Griffiths
2. Milligan
3. Literally anyone else, like absolutely anyone else then Zads
4. Zads
Milligan has gone to Malaysia to be assistant to national team coach
None - just lazy reporting.
"Who are ex-Jets at other clubs that might want a lead gig"?
Pfft.
Only one bloke on this foz constantly makes me laugh Plague and it ain't you - MFKS
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