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A-Leagues 25/26 - The Other Matches Thread

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01 Jan 07:17 · edited 01 Jan 07:18 · History
Feverish
Must have been thirty crosses and zero half decent headers. Shocking. Cosgrove a waste of space up there. 
Yes my initial theory might nave been more accurate than my second one  ( re Cosgove the worlds less mobile traffic light  ), fortunately I've lots more ......
01 Jan 07:43 · edited 01 Jan 07:44 · History
Fenix
RR
VAR over rules the offside, 1-3!!

I saw this down the pub. What have I missed,  I thought it was well offside, only one defender in front. Was he behind the ball when passed???

If the cut on the grass is straight, he was very much onside.

01 Jan 07:50
RR
Fenix
RR
VAR over rules the offside, 1-3!!

I saw this down the pub. What have I missed,  I thought it was well offside, only one defender in front. Was he behind the ball when passed???

If the cut on the grass is straight, he was very much onside.

 Great. None of us are too disappointed with that,lol!
01 Jan 08:04
C'mon the Draw!
01 Jan 08:17
What a chance for Macarthur. Vickery doesn't get the shot on target. 0-0
01 Jan 08:33 · edited 01 Jan 08:41 · History
We’ve never had a moment’s acknowledgment or appreciation for the lone path in professional football we beat for the country or the confederation come to that, from this lot.

We took professional football to Auckland for over a decade, so that it was bubbling there where two teams had failed, before it came back. 

As someone noted about Robbie Williams, the arrogant thing is only attractive when you’re winning. 

Cosgrove going to ground, Woud’s protestations after sticking it to us in that podcast, Corica’s whining at the ref when they were fouling out play too, and McFlynn and Becker to boot, cos it must be the fault of the distraction of a tailgate and a water fight, all stunk up the joint big time today. The mongrels got taken to the pound.

Milligan the current star coach, perhaps only for the week. And those two knee injuries seemed nasty and a high price…

But yeh, we don’t always have to come to the most negative conclusions about our team on the forum. It’s a league full of quality and inconsistency this season and on our day we can beat anyone.

Edit: and oddly enough I thought that Francois guy was the most dangerous today when he came on. I’ve slagged him before, but fair play he delivered 4-5 dangerous balls in, before failing on that corner.


01 Jan 08:42
Woof, nice finish that. Macarthur open the scoring. 0-1 
01 Jan 09:24
Can Barba make a difference? 
01 Jan 09:56
He can't.

Surely that's Staj's time done at Western Sydney.
01 Jan 09:57 · edited 01 Jan 09:59 · History
Unrealistic to expect Chiefy to be relieved of his duties anytime soon when Stajcic hasnt been sacked yet and his Wanderers team is behind us on the table despite being stacked with quality 
01 Jan 09:58
Bulls win it.
Proud to have attended the first 175 Consecutive "Home" Wellington Phoenix "A League" Games !!

The Ruf, The Ruf, The Ruf is on Fire!!

01 Jan 10:23
Whats up with WSW? Such good players, but no results. 
01 Jan 17:58
I know xG isn't everyone's cup of tea but this table does match the eye test. Their attack is woefully under performing and its costing them big time.

02 Jan 08:49
Perth strike first, 1 nil.  
02 Jan 09:14 · edited 02 Jan 09:22 · History
I'm not one to judge but does pennington just look like a very very average footballer and  excuse the pun.
02 Jan 09:15
Good to see Sutts back fit and starting. 3 in a row now. Giving himself a chance at making the World Cup squad if Libby or FdV get injured 
02 Jan 10:10 · edited 02 Jan 10:12 · History
Sutts (Sam) quite lackadaisically lets a ball past him which results in the third Victory goal. 3-1
02 Jan 10:18
Maybe they'll score a couple more so our result won't seem as bad
02 Jan 10:23
imanixsupporter
Unrealistic to expect Chiefy to be relieved of his duties anytime soon when Stajcic hasnt been sacked yet and his Wanderers team is behind us on the table despite being stacked with quality 

Just reading through the pages and my thoughts are exactly this. Chiefy may have the Nix underperforming but given the Nix squad, injuries etc that's a misdemeanor compared to the sharkshow Stajic is presiding over at Wanderers.

It's no exaggeration to say Wanderers should be challenging for the plate with the squad they have. They're 11th!
02 Jan 10:34
Victory get the job done, ends 3-2 to them. 
02 Jan 18:07
Getting back to the AFC tragedy...LOL. Just watched the replay. My initial thoughts on Cosgrove were correct. Hes a very limited footballer. Must have had more than six half  chances including a number of headers near the goal....for zero. Also i like the way AL refs are ignoring his constant flopping. He sits on the ground waving his arms and they ignore him. After a season and s half Corica has still not worked out his attack.
02 Jan 19:00 · edited 02 Jan 19:00 · History
Cosgrove still manages to earn opponents a red card, or a penalty (or both) a game

Oi Oi Edgecumbe... lets have a clean sheet

02 Jan 19:14
austin111
Getting back to the AFC tragedy...LOL. Just watched the replay. My initial thoughts on Cosgrove were correct. Hes a very limited footballer. Must have had more than six half  chances including a number of headers near the goal....for zero. Also i like the way AL refs are ignoring his constant flopping. He sits on the ground waving his arms and they ignore him. After a season and s half Corica has still not worked out his attack.

Which was absolutely what I said when he signed. He had a freak purple patch with us and then returned to form.
03 Jan 03:40
Oi Oi Edgecumbe
Cosgrove still manages to earn opponents a red card, or a penalty (or both) a game

That based on two pens and a red against us and not much against anyone else? And a couple of goals against us to boot, which is half his season tally…


03 Jan 04:17
martinb
Oi Oi Edgecumbe
Cosgrove still manages to earn opponents a red card, or a penalty (or both) a game

That based on two pens and a red against us and not much against anyone else? And a couple of goals against us to boot, which is half his season tally…


He is tied first for Goals + Assists in the league this season.

Three for me, and two for them.

03 Jan 08:03
That city Sydney crowd looks a bit bleak. I’m hoping it is just delayed footage 

Central Hawkes Bay Nix
and tragic follower of Charlton Athletic 
03 Jan 14:24
Buffon II
martinb
Oi Oi Edgecumbe
Cosgrove still manages to earn opponents a red card, or a penalty (or both) a game

That based on two pens and a red against us and not much against anyone else? And a couple of goals against us to boot, which is half his season tally…


He is tied first for Goals + Assists in the league this season.

Just saying we’ve helped him with that! And that’s only 4 goals. No dominant goal-scorers in the league this year like some seasons. Perhaps reflecting the drop in the TV deal. 


03 Jan 19:20
City/Sydney ended 0-0 last night. Sounds like it was a pretty dire game.
03 Jan 21:33
Caught the studio team after switching over from the Nix women and they all looked bored and nearly asleep from it. As soon as I saw 0-0, I understood. 
Proud to have attended the first 175 Consecutive "Home" Wellington Phoenix "A League" Games !!

The Ruf, The Ruf, The Ruf is on Fire!!

03 Jan 22:10
Useless Sydney.
04 Jan 06:07
Be good if the Adelaide womens team amd CCM mens team won tonight.
04 Jan 06:10
Procrastinixing
Be good if the Adelaide womens team amd CCM mens team won tonight.

And the Sydney women since we face Sporty Spice next.
04 Jan 06:17
True.  Both womens games are nil all so far. 
04 Jan 07:03
Adelaide take the lead in the 46th minute
04 Jan 07:18
Poop, switched over to see Mel City is leading one nil.  Not scored by McNamara. 
04 Jan 07:47
Adelaide manage to hold on, they were under seige for most of the second half.
04 Jan 07:58
Sadly the other result did not go our way, City finish the game one nil 
04 Jan 07:59
Adelaide men v CCM men up shortly
04 Jan 08:48 · edited 04 Jan 08:49 · History
CCM men are leading 1 nil.  Just started watching so no idea of who or when the goal was scored.

Also looks like a really good crowd.
04 Jan 08:55
Adelaide miss the chance down one end and CCM score at the other. 0-2