Brisbane Roar vs Phoenix - Sunday, Nov 29

Crowther was useless for the most part.

Bugger

+1

i suppose manny has managed Ok v most sides this season, it's not like all sides have a tommy oar to really make him look silly (tho' others will be trying it on again now)

we needed a confident, composed, organising goalie with one player down, bit much to ask from Reece

Kruse V Muscat could be interesting coming up

Frankie Mac2009-11-29 23:24:51

Ricki is going to appeal does it still mean he gets a 1 match ban or can that be over turned?

Probably appealing in the hope he dosnt get more than one match for throwing an elbow.

Daniel played a big part in their second goal - lost the ball easily, had the chance to stop the guy but didn't.

"making space" ??  you're avin a laugh. my point is he lost the ball then they ran up and scored.

Interesting they never showed a replay that far back but it looked pretty obvious at the time that he was pushed over by DeVere who then made the run.

The win does not take away from the fact that Charlie Miller is fat.

Wouldnt mind if we had a fat one like him who can serve it up for the strikers like he can.

oh how a game can change in the space of a couple of minutes

 

Who knows with Daniel he tends to fall over pretty easy. What bugged me is that he had the chance to stop DeVere and didn't. Contrast that to when Ifill made the break in the second half and got hauled down.

hahaha, as soon as he lost it/got bundled off it I knew the hate was coming.  Quite comical really "player in oppositions corner concedes goal (never mind the 10 others behind it!)

Glad i'm not the only one that saw that - thought I was going insane.

Crap, that was an awful game.  Crowther was absolutely awful.

A bit skeptical on the red card.  Was the elbow in the face?  From the replay angles the players body appeared to be in the way and I wasn't sure if it was in the face or chest?  Face definite red card though.

Right, I'm off for a few hours sleep before up for three consecutive games. Enough of this angst. Can't wait to trawl through it tomorrow morning.

Daniel was definitely fouled, not to mention no one made any effort to take a mercy pass from him. Then just before Miller made the obvious long pass to Reinaldo Lochhead for some inexplicable made no effort to mark Reinaldo - in fact I swear he actually ran away from him and into no mans land.

Ha ha ha well timed sir. Exactly what I needed.

Wont make a difference. They'll only over turn it if wrong on point of law. It'll get written up as Violent Conduct as Scottishboy said. It was violent and the ball was certainly not involved.

I wouldn't waste the appeal money.

Harsh. He came on as a sub when we were a man down, what miracle were you expecting?

Unless there is another angle not shown, I'll be hugely surprised if he doesn't get an extra week or two off.
Hard News2009-11-30 00:23:52

When you look at the sh*t they are doing like nailing throws up the line, and nailing diving, I think he'll be lucky not to be staring at 2-3. Previously clean record??

Can anyone tell me if it was definitely an elbow to the face?  The angle was poor.

Based on the only TV angle shown he has no defence.

Well I'll maintain that the other guy hit him.  The bastard.  But seriously, I'm yet to be convinced that the elbow was in the face (the forearm was certainly higher obviously), in which case I'd give him a yellow but nothing more.

They wouldn't show a replay at the ground.

Aye. Steptoe2009-11-30 12:56:30

spose im not the first to say this but once again, as with the sydney game, muscat was out paced and out played untill he saw red. cant afford to have a guy getting beaten and having crosses coming in all day.

that oar kid was bloody good though

Hangover from last week? I'm sure there's no excuses from the team but their conditioning after last week must have had an effect.
Manny losing 3.2kg was one and you don't recover fully from that in a week.

Oh lordy .. had to go to bed at half time (shift work) and waking up to this   .. can only hope the week gets better

Nah, that was a clear foul on Daniel, he had every right to expect the call. You could easily see Packer's arms extended and pushing Daniel's back, that call should be given every single time. We both just shook our heads in disbelief in not getting the foul, even before the whole move resulted in a goal. That section of play is what lost us the game effectively - we gave up the goal, lost the composure for about 10, during which we also lost Manny. The hole was a bit too big at that stage, although the free kick sealed it definitely for them.