WPM FFA Cup vs Melbourne City | Wed 5th Jan | 9:30pm | My Football (YouTube)

So Payne, Hooper & Van Hattum?? out

Oh fudge, Rufer at CB! I'm outta popcorn for this one lads

It will be interesting.

 So Payne, Hooper & Van Hattum?? out 

Or Surman/ Bozinovski/ Prso

WTF

YoungHeart

wilbaker

Finally gonna see the Pennington Lewis midfield combo. Rufer at CB will be interesting.

Thought that myself. Sink or swim time indeed. Will be interesting to see how that unfolds. 

City have named a stronger lineup than would have been suggested earlier on in the week.

Time for the boys to stand up and be counted. COYN! 

What is City's line up?

Saw Rufer wasn't in the midfield... Was happy. 

Scroll another cm... Wtf. 

Who knows...given how woeful Rufer has been in midfield, maybe he might be better as CB.

Magnificentman

Who knows...given how woeful Rufer has been in midfield, maybe he might be better as CB.

He's pretty good in the air. A tough gig though considering how unhappy with the back four Uffie was in the last game.

I guess with Rufer at CB his only option will be to pass it forwards.

The poor guy will probably score an own goal playing at CB, bringing his total in competitive matches for the Nix to -1.

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MetalLegNZ

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9P7Mk9d3Q0I

MetalLegNZ

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 https://youtu.be/9P7Mk9d3Q0I

Waine should have shot there

How good was that ball from Elliot to Waine... shame Waine seemed to hesitate a bit.

Decent start to be fair. Hopefully we take advantage of some City rustiness.

Waine should've had a crack when through there though. Dallied though and the opportunity evaporated. 

theprof

I guess with Rufer at CB his only option will be to pass it forwards.

No, passing back to the keeper whilst the keeper is under pressure is the main option.

I saw a forward pass from rufer!!!

You're sharkting me. 

i shark not

Bahahaha up ya!!

Went down quicker than a melbourne $2 hooker.

What a joke. Pennington had to watch himself too. Can’t go calling the … a ref…

justice

That wasn’t a pen so karma strikes with that miss 

Good fudgeen job!! Never a pen...
Terrible reffing to the fore once more.

Terrible penalty (both by the ref and Jamieson).

Lewis is looking the best he has for a while... more like the Lewis of pre Olympics.

This ref is so bad

Ball gets a yellow card for taking a shot, cool.

Yellow Card?!?!

Think we're tracking pretty well so far. Game is pretty tight and bugger all opportunities for either side. 

City the stronger team on paper, with a bit more quality and experience but we're well in this. Ball needs to up his game because he's given away possession far too many times already this half (Maybe I'm just being harsh because he's the elder statesman of our team this evening...)

All in all, pretty positive, coming from where we've been the past few games. Keep it up lads 👍

With the bs yellows Ball’s had this year he should just king hit one of the CBs in the first five minutes just because it’s coming anyway…especially when that prick lead an elbow through the back of his head for no foul. 

Pennington has been really good so far

Funny that the ref is 'letting plenty go'... except for when their guy falls over with almost no contact in the box.

That's at least three fouls against us in the past 4-5 minutes that this idiot has let go.

Crap officiating filtering down into the FFA Cup. Could've seen that coming a mile off.

Bet that’s bs too. Remember when they had to actually check with VAR for Waine’s goal and it was onside?

I feel like that was onside..