Brisbane Roar vs Phoenix - Sunday, Nov 29

Same here - he had some good touches, got fouled a few times, in general had a decent performance. Really don't understand where the hate's coming from.

What they are saying in Courier Mail ..

Yeah, I was struggling to make out players as I couldn't see their numbers but in a game where most were poor Costa wasn't terrible. It was an off day for all, even Ifill.

Replay currently on for those in need of more misery.

Not our worst defeat.  We did have some opportunities.  Awful goal keeping from pretty boy.  Gould should have come on.

yes a barry crocker
worst performance of the year

but bring on Friday
bounce back quick you mighty bird of fire

We always or often follow up a sh*t performance(s) with a brilliant one and vice versa. Hopefully that'll happen on Friday.

Blame the bad game on the weather, and crap Aussie beer, and move onto the next one.

Glad I only saw 10 minutes of this game...including our goal

seems certain people expect hat tricks from costa every week.  regardless of how crap the side plays, hes always singled out. Probably the same people who constantly say greenacres not good enough

yeah tough on costa, to come on when we are at 10 men, and behind on the scoresheet....he ran well, didn't really get many chances....Daniel was fouled and we should have been on attack from there as opposed to coneding a goal, we could well have been 2 - 2 at that point whioch would have made a huge difference, the guy who dragged Ifill dwon should have been red carded, he was the last man in defence and Ifill was headed for goal - inept reffing, but we didn't play well either.

Mitch Nichol's assisting David Dodd. Is this the most useless combination to have scored a goal ever?

Oarsome how a single TV angle can sum up Muscat's overall ability.

he hung siggie out to dry a few times v sydney as well. couldnt handle brosques pace

I hate it when this happens.

Big serve to radio sport- stuck away from broadband listening to replays of the All Blacks and test cricket on their freakin channel- and the up date goes that Manny Durante has received a red card.

absolutely right. David Dodd must be a strong contender for worst A-League player ever. Crowther... 

Pretty sure that radio sport will have it if they have radio coverage where the Phoenix are playing, but as far as I know almost all the sides (bar CCM?) don't get any commentary.

shoulda played the whistle. he obviously gives up the chase back on the highlites. Anyways 4-1 comeback on friday

At what point after getting knocked over could he have chased down someone who won it, ran straight upfield, passed it up the line, passed directly to the striker, who slotted the goal.  Its not like they knocked it around the middle for a while, it was a swift counter attack.  You seem to be forgetting the other 10 players on the field (none of whom appeared to make themselves available to be passed to either.)

Thought we were doing ok first half, although giving away too many chances maybe.

You might want to watch the replay again.

Totally agree

you should really watch the replay before saying that. devere went down as well as daniel and daniel did start giving chase. By halfway he decided he'd put in a good effort and stopped. Not entirely his fault but a tired effort at best. As for not being able to pass to anyone, perhaps hearfield can give him some tips he didnt find it as hard

Saying it's totally Daniel's fault is a bit weird considering it happened near Brisbane's box. DeVere should never have been allowed to run so far.

Have watched the game a couple of times, the fact is that I cannot think of a player that had a good game.
As a unit we were poor. Our defence was crap, even with ten men we should had defended better.The two challenges that cost us were the red card(I thought it was) and Sigmunds, which was stupid as the player was running across the park and was going nowhere. We were lucky not to be 2 down sfter 10 min.
I know that every player can and has played better, so the fact that we have lost only one game in twelve tells me that this result should not get all us supporters in a real paddy. What we need is consistency.

Ok lets look at the positives from the game although theres not many...

didnt say it was all daniels fault although he did give up possesion initially. Just saying he could of done better. oh wait i forgot only greenacre,costa and crowther can be criticised

You are right. Lockhead ( I have been saying this since last year) is a very poor defender. Muscat is only OK , but for the AW's this is a BIG problem. If we have 2 of our defenders out for next week then this will show what we have on the bench.

I think the last six words said it all

I think you caught us on a good day. To be honest, we had to win more than you guys to keep our season alive. Reality is that with the majority of our squad available, we are a pretty handy unit and can mix it with the best. The combination of a fit Reinaldo and SVD up front are a handful for any defence in this league. Add to it the pinpoint crossing ability of young Tommy Oar and the speed of Henrique (though he didn't play yesterday) on the other wing, with a fit again Mass and McKay at the base of the diamond with Miller at the apex, and you can see that other teams will be looking very closely over their shoulders at us.

As for you guys, you didn't play that badly but in truth we deserved to win. Agree re Crowther- he is out of his depth. Also thought that Bertos was strangely quiet, as was Brown. Ifill scared the crap out of me every time he touched the ball but apart from him there wasn't much inventiveness in your front third. Was surprised that Costa didn't get a start- was he injured or something?

Good luck on Friday- the a-league needs you to at least take a point to stop the runaway train called MV. Mind you, MV looked very sharp last Saturday night but with your superior pressing game, I doubt that you'll give them the space that GCU did.        

I'm not a big fan of Postecoglu, surprised this result happened last Sunday.

The MVFC runaway train, LOL to that, but WPFC seem to lift against MVFC, especially at home.

Will be an interesting game.

Good to see Ricki's questioning why the Phoenix have laboured with 3 rookie referees so far this season.

I bet if that happened to Melbourne, the paint would be melting off the walls in FFA's head offices.

Foul on Daniel for the second goal.