actually may have cracked the formula.
turned EPL onto the jumbotron, had Jerks on the computer (on silent). saw Johnny k's finish but to be honest i only saw the ball go in the net for the winner but they flashed to someones face on the Jets and he looked cranky so i immediately assumed (naturally) that we had conceded. During all this my VPN wouldnt let me access beIn NZ to watch the other game so i was just blowing up all over the place. Think it was a full few minutes before i realised we had won.
in that few minutes i had thought up so many Boogaard hot takes but it just means ill have to save them for next week when he cocks it up all again.
So Johnny K, Ugabooga, Petratos and Roy will all be going to the World Cup with the Socceroos next year.
Our only hope of keeping them here for our Asian Champions League group games will be if Gypo Arnold gets the national team gig cause you know he aint picking any of our blokes.
Two years in a row I have gone to bed early for a Perth game with the shits and woken up to a nice surprise.
Luck balances out, we picked up last weeks three points.
The cause of Perths goal was Hoffmann shithouse pass that went straight to the opposition causing them to counter attack.
i thought we were pretty poor last night. the press wasn't particularly good, we seemed to be playing far too narrow, kanta and uga were anonymous and honestly, what does ernie see in brown? is it just a lack of depth forcing him to play him?
BUT...
it is fantastic to see them keep going for the full 90+ minutes. ernie has really got them believing that they are always in the game, and that they are good enough to win from any point. full credit to them for playing like they'd never seen a football and still bobbing up to win the bloody thing.
italiano looks like a cocky little shit (the repeated accidental kicking the ball away from our players trying to pick the ball up to take a throw in was particularly annoying), and it was fantastic to see him give up the chase to let johnny have his shot. he's got skills though, so hope he improves and blows the world apart as a socceroo.
and the hurt in harnwell's voice when we scored was fantastic to hear. i know it's a bloody long way to perth, but surely fox can get somebody that is even remotely neutral to call the matches.
Brown and boogs need to go desperately
Thoughts from the eastern stand last night:
1. Brown is honestly a terrible, terrible footballer
2. Hoffman could've easily had 2 assists in the first half if O'Donovan was out there. Kept getting space and decent balls in
3. How good is O'Donovan. Just makes things happen
4. Thank god for the late kickoff. Was a humid stinker
Last edited by sh10; 10-12-2017 at 06:20 PM.
I know we have but at the end of the day Brown as a visa spot who must and should be adding value too this squad and he is not, not by any measure. He needs to be told that if he wishes to play football then he needs to move on because the closest he is going to get a game is from the stands in future here at the Jets. This club and the squad more importantly has begun to move on from the cluster it has been over the last couple of seasons and that must continue including Brown and pref in Jan.
If the club and light man are fair dink about ACL then this situation we find ourselves in at present is as good as any they and we could have hoped for. Second on the ladder, free up some squad space and utilize all our foreign spots on quality in January the return of Vargas and we are in with a real shake of ACL not withstanding the extra load on the smurfs come there ACL period. January will really provide us with an insight in to just how much the Jets want to play ACL football.