Tbh I'm glad we don't have to go to farken Qatar with it's thousands dead building air con stadiums for one tournament that'll completely go to shark after it's done using indentured workers and having corruptly bought the vote anyway.
From a football perspective game time matters. Reid is fit but the defence switched off in the first two minutes, with obvious results.
Kosta played 5 games last season and never looked at the races for his brief cameo, he miscontrolled it, couldn't read a through ball and then got sent off. Did he come on based on reputation? Maybe, because Just wouldn't have done that and we'd have had a better chance at an equaliser.
We missed Singh and Thomas badly and Bell had his first bad game for us under pressure, lots of attempts at stuff that lost possession and once when he had time to start a counter he dithered on the ball and let Costa Rica recover.
On Garbetts foul, he's hooked his arm on the blokes thigh and pulled. I don't like that the referee and VAR was inconsistent with fouls from Costa Rica but he's not just falling there, he's done that on purpose because he knew the CR player wasn't going down otherwise. It's a foul.
Essentially it's the same old stuff, Hay has got us looking competent but we still lack a cutting edge because Wood is our only dynamite up front, and Grieve and others are lacking the experience they need.
Disappointing but not surprising once we'd conceded. Costa Rica sharkhoused it, of course they were going to do that. 11 v 11 into the final 10 and we bag an equaliser imo. But Kosta cost us, and his sub on just baffled me.
Basically we don't play enough games against teams like CR, and our players don't have the mongrel or the experience of mongrel to be able to stand up to it. We didn't try and manage the ref, and CR did. They benefited from that.
From a football perspective game time matters. Reid is fit but the defence switched off in the first two minutes, with obvious results.
Kosta played 5 games last season and never looked at the races for his brief cameo, he miscontrolled it, couldn't read a through ball and then got sent off. Did he come on based on reputation? Maybe, because Just wouldn't have done that and we'd have had a better chance at an equaliser.
We missed Singh and Thomas badly and Bell had his first bad game for us under pressure, lots of attempts at stuff that lost possession and once when he had time to start a counter he dithered on the ball and let Costa Rica recover.
On Garbetts foul, he's hooked his arm on the blokes thigh and pulled. I don't like that the referee and VAR was inconsistent with fouls from Costa Rica but he's not just falling there, he's done that on purpose because he knew the CR player wasn't going down otherwise. It's a foul.
Essentially it's the same old stuff, Hay has got us looking competent but we still lack a cutting edge because Wood is our only dynamite up front, and Grieve and others are lacking the experience they need.
Disappointing but not surprising once we'd conceded. Costa Rica sharkhoused it, of course they were going to do that. 11 v 11 into the final 10 and we bag an equaliser imo. But Kosta cost us, and his sub on just baffled me.
Basically we don't play enough games against teams like CR, and our players don't have the mongrel or the experience of mongrel to be able to stand up to it. We didn't try and manage the ref, and CR did. They benefited from that.