Game Discussion.

I think you'll find that football is a 90 minute game   

unless you're Ferrante, in that case we'll bag the sh*t out of you

The first half was a great watch and I was surprised that we didn't go in ahead. 2nd we were poorer but still seemed to be good enough for the win. Finishing seems to be the problem at the moment and players not willing to take shots when the opportunity arises. Dodd had a couple of good chances from corners in the 2nd half but unfortunately couldn't get them on target. Still can't wait for the next game and the first Phoenix win in the A-League.

think he took 1 free kick that went over guess his set pieces wer bad then ha.... he does get a bit sloppy at time in possesion but his sharpness will come hes got sum great turns and good vision he will be a stand out

Yep his 1-free kick was a dissapointment. He didn't play well today. Can people stop rating him on his reputation.

well then filipes was a disapointment to cmon man you hav to understand what a game winner is and he is 1... uve seen him play a few times and your having a go at him thats prti poor

A: He Dives

why is diving bad he could win us penaltys and get us some good set piece oppurtunites its good we hav that

Oh please. Why is diving bad?

Because referees arent gonna give them over here. Footy's a physical game.

Folks, a sense of reality here please. The Nix dominated the first half should have scored - didn't - and were made to pay, end of story.

Defence solid.

Midfield - dominant

Frontmen  - a little stagnant when we had the chance to  swing the ball in.

At the end of the day it was a classic smash and  grab by Newscastle - soak up the pressure and score a jammy, bloody jammy, goal.


Bugger.


But it has happened to better teams than the Nix and it will happen again.

i listened to the game on Radio sport. Loved it, sure we lost, but as others have said, sounds like we played well and just missed the final shot to score.
gonna keep my eye no that grabaseat site and see if a flight from hammiehole to wellywood pops up around a home game for the 'nix.
I would love to go and see them.. scream one of my lungs out and support our team in the A league.
This team shows some real promise and dont seem to be out classed.

GO THE NIX

Good posting Seus

Yep - good to see some sense coming in to the thread. Was it not a good game of footie? and are we only here for the good times?
Bloody unlucky not to win, and at least it means I'll be there to watch there first home win when we fly up for the game on the 22nd.
Go the 'Nix.

Massivepeebs2007-09-09 22:25:41

Phoenix played well and it's early days yet so I don't think we are going to go down like the Knights, although some (not all, SOME) of the play was Knights-ish and didn't impress me one bit. I'm confident we'll bounce back against Sydney.

People who blame the ref of Ferrante are blind, mad, or bad losers (or a combination of them). The ref did well, and Ferrante may have missed a few chances, but he didn't have a bad game at all. I know it's good to have someone to blame as it makes it feel that if it wasn't for that person then things wouldn't have gone bad, but nobody played bad. We can't blame anyone, we just have to get in behind the team and support them whatever happens.

If anyone cant see this as a better performance than last week, they are blind. Defence was so much better, well done Christie. Our left side defence to mid to attack was very classy, I'm confident about the next few games.

Yes I must say, when I saw OLeary in the middle I thought "we're history". The number of times he cost the Knights! But he did well today. Good one Peter!

how negatives that celticfc.poor form

Agree whole-heartedly LoyalGunner.

Ferrante's shooting has been mud, but it won't get better if you bench him. The rest of his game has been solid.

Things will come good - patience is a virtue after all.

right guys

Ditto on that Wolfben,was a good summary HeySeus.Early days for our Phoenix..entertaining game but our boys couldn't finish, though they played the better game.

Defence much improved - never really looked like conceding - goal was lucky deflection - sh*t happens.

Best chances fell to Ferrante, who couldn't hit a barn door from 3 paces (though did OK otherwise)  - sh*t happens.

Daniel got injured and  Felipe got tired, leaving us with no cutting edge unfortunately before we had managed to score - sh*t happens.

Let's hope that's used up all of the sh*t that's going to happen to us for a while - time for it to happen to our opponents instead, starting next week!

Go Go the Nix!

right guys CelticFC2007-09-10 09:20:43

It's all good CelticFC.

lol sweet deals Loyalgunna

That 1st 45 IMHO was the best I've seen from the team. They created so many chances and the defence looked well in control. We lost it in midfield around the 65th minutes, they scored that deflection - which Moss was unlucky not to get a hand too. awesome attempt by him, and then in about the 83rd minute we came back storming.

I think overall, when we played football we looked like contenders for the title. uncle steve2007-09-09 23:33:01

Hah.Oops :/ Been talking about League and union too much..
valeo2007-09-09 23:44:31

The team:

Moss-7

Christie-8
Dodd-7
O'Dor-7
Lochead-9

Aloisi-5
Johnson-6.5
Ferrante-6
Felipe-7
Daniel-4.5

Smeltz-7

Coveny-4
Brownlie-7


i was really impressed with Lochead and Plodder...both did really well playing smart, Brownlie was good coming off the bench too

um, good game should have scored earlier but that's football. you just got that niggling feeling as the game wore on that something like that was going to happen, and it did.

I thought we played better than against Melbourne for the most part, but just not in fron of the box. If one of those shots had gone in we'd be away laughing

Perspective please, we are one win away from the top half of the table. Only two teams have more than three competition points at this stage.  Yesterday was a solid competitive performance. 

we played better ball controll wise, but we still cant score.

Why?
why not 30,000 so they know what a full stadium looks like?

I went to see entertaining football and that's what I got.

The problem in the previous game was poor defence, so I assume time was taken the fix the problem during the week - and the problem is now fixed.

This week's problem was shooting on target - hopefully that will be fixed for the next game.

GO the Nix !!!


btw - from aisle 21 it looked like the successful free kick by the Jets was a set piece - the ball hit hard round the wall straight at a Jets player who deflected it into the net.