Seriously?
Oh fuck... this to me smacks of the new boy. "I say chaps, who can we get in to give the chaps a bit of a pep talk, bit of a rev pre-match? How about one of your fine rugger boys? No? Who else? Someone with deep knowledge of the Kiwi round-ball game... Anybody you might know of with a bit of history, able to prep a proper presentation... "
motivational speech from a football nerd. Might as well get Patrick to do it
See that round thing? The idea is that we just keep that thing in our control as long as possible, because statistically, the less time the opposition have the ball, the less likely they are to be able to score a goal.
Also, Mossy, if you are saving a penalty, dive to the kickers stronger side (to their left if they are right footed and vice versa) 75% of the time and to the other side 25% of the time, I read in Soccernomics that doing that maximises your chance of saving the penalty.
And Boyd - those fools on the Yellow Fever website voted you as their player of the season in the man of the match polls in your debut professional season, so go out there and live up to that accolade. Don't ask questions, just fucking do it.
With Mossy saving all the penalties and Boyd doing what the Fever/White Noise/whatever the fuck the non-existent banner at the front of their supporters zone says expect of him, we'll win this. Too easy.