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Nothing to worry about after this result. As people have said previously we were without some pretty big names going in to the match (Gorrin warmed up for a while, but obviously missed out through this groin niggle),and we pushed Adelaide for 90% of the game. Cunningham, Boyd, Boxall all looked improved on last year, Boxall was really impressive playing in the sheilding role in front of the back 4.
As Andy said in his article above Doyle did well to contain Kamua and made some postive movements going forward. I thought Burns played well, probably took the wrong option in front of goal once or twice, but those one or two black spots were largely out weighed by his workrate, He was denied the winner acouple of times in goal mouth scrambles.
Apart from the openning five minutes, we played the ball around quite nicley. Good to see we have got a buy in to this from all the playing group. Conversely Adelaide tried to play out from the back early and were shut down by Brockie, Burns and Boyd. They then resorted to pumping the ball out to their (incredibly) fast wingers, who we didn't give enough respect before the goal.
Adelaide looked dangerous in the front third, but only really ever ventured this far up the feild after a rare Wellington mistake. They were very shaky at the back. Tarek Elrich must be the luckiest footballer in the A League, I know LBs are hard to come by, but Adelaide could feild a barrel that would make better decisions.
Also feck it was cold
TL:DR - We played well but lost, Adelaide played shit but won, feck it was cold
P.S. From a mate
"errnie barred from the technical area... didnt sign the code of conduct - hahahahah what bs!"