Game Thread

Breaks my f**king heart...

I guess the only way to solve our defensive woes is to score as many goals as possible.

What can I say: PLODDER

KINGZ: Crap
KNIIGHTS: Crap
PHOENIX: Crap

Why do we bother with him?

An overreaction based on the last two minutes of a single game right there.

haven't seen the video of the game yet , but from the stand ...

Low points, the result - obviously, poor communication and decision-making for their two goals, that card happy w**ker, players tiring in last 10 and misplacing short balls, a seeming lack of willingness to shoot (perhaps this forum needs to look at how they responded to Ferrante -at least he has the balls to have a lash), not one of Daniel's more influential performances - for me their goal came -initially- as a result of Daniel waiting for the ball to come to him on the edge of their box

High points - Tim Brown's first full run (he adds a lot in my view), Smeltz's workrate, Elrich's ability, YF - in good voice, Lochead in patches, Moss'es shot stopping and 1:1 efforts, felipe's imminent return to fitness,  edit - oh yeah and some well-timed tackles from Doddy

a hard game to watch at times, I really felt good at 1/2 time but that ending was a killer


I still have complete faith in Ricky and our lot!!

Here's to some points from Adelaide!!!
tigers2007-10-21 21:11:07

Agree Feverpitch

We should have won that. Daniel has to stop playing with the ball, and get a f**king cross in.

Agree, mostly. But communication starts from the back and too many times today the defence was called on to clear a ball that could eaily have been dealt with by Moss. Despite his shot blocking, he would be disappointed with the first goal.

Still wanted Ricki to ring the changes a lot earlier than he did - I mean only one sub at that on 83 mins after your international team and Smeltz, Brown, Christie and Lochhead had played 90 mins on Wednesday - ffs. And the fact that Elrich was making his first start and Lia is still short of match fitness - disappointed.

Does he have the guts to drop Aloisi or even sub him????

I'll watch the replay at midnight tonight just to confirm first impressions  - overall it was a very enjoyable game and there were some very promising plays. Defensively there were some stupid moves; missed tackles, passing the ball straight to the opposition and for the forwards there was the usual dithering in front of the goalmouth instead of shots on goal -  but didn't spoil the overall enjoyment of the game.

This week's best chant - when this large bird flew over the fever everyone looked up, pointed and started  chanting 'seagull .... seagull ....' - hilarious

bahahaha - thats what it was - we were chanting segal segal at the security guard.

O'Dor had another shocker. Put Clebo back in Centre with Dodd

agreed bring bak clebo george paston and felipe and get a good result next week let barbarouses brwonlie and others play against galaxy and get the points where they actually count

i like Clebo as a character and am disappointed he has cemented a place, but i do feel O'Dor is more mobile and less likely to fall foul of card-happy idiots like today's ref

Please Dr quack, come on the forum and tell me I'm not compleletly wrong to loathe who ever was in the middle today, for me he was the worst ref since the Jets match here

[QUOTE=HarryPeters]We should have won that. Daniel has to stop playing with the ball, and get a f**king cross in.[/QUOTE

but we will be  BACK

Where do I start? I may not make any friends with what I am about to say. Lonegunmen2007-10-21 23:42:13

Just passing on what we do no offence intended, especially to RH as he an excellent coach

I would agree with everything you said Lonegunmen.  Fever_Pitch2007-10-21 23:58:54

Thanks. I know it's negative but I hope it is taken more as constructive critism. These are issues that can be solved on a training field.

Week after week this defence astound me. It's not just the tackling, but it's the lack of anticipation, dreadful vision, poor first touch, no control and even worse... pathetic distribution.

Even my young son understands that if your options are limited, just hoof it out for a throw in. Ho many times do we give the ball away at the back from an incomplete pass or from poor contact with the ball. It's shocking.

The Midfield is working hard but is a bit left-biased at the moment and our final balls into the box have definitely been improving, but are still lacking the appropraite quality.

Smeltz might be working hard, but he doesn't pull the trigger anywhere early enough. Seems to want get to a one-on-one before he'll even try and score, as do a few too many others.

The annoying thing is that with some work on the defence we could be looking a much better team. Minor changes, major impact... most of the goals we concede are just plain ridiculous and you find yourselves laughing at how inept we've been rather than commenting on the goal... don't think I've ever been heard to say "..there's nothing we could have done about that...!"

It's just getting embarassing now.

Elrich has improved the right side considerably. The Elrich-Plodder combo isn't as good as the Daniel-Lochhead one, but it will come (hopefully).

The honeymoon is well and truly over and we can't keep slapping ourselves on the back and saying how well we've done just to be here, fans are great, top support etc.  With the team we've got, our results SHOULD be better.

Agreed. Too often he charges up the field around their box with the ball then stops and turns, waiting for support, when he should have a crack himself.

did anyone see that pondleyak  cnut  turn to yellow fever and take a bow  at the final whistle bloddy   man i wanted to pelt him with dirty mrs mac's pies,  ar$e whole

Haha yeah I saw that. t**ser. Everything I was going to say has pretty much been covered, but will reiterate the fact Moss needs to catch the ball! Unnessecary pressure comes from moments llike he had today, he is gold the rest of the time. Only other problem I see is the lack of willingness to take someone on 1-1. When Felipe is back it is noticable that when he skins someone, the chances are that much better because they have lost a defender. Thats obvious. But too often imo, we back down from taking on players and opt to put a ball in around them. Sorry for the rant, just heartbroken. Haha  

not that i condone throwing things, just wound me up was all

Yep but did you also see some of there players clapping the fever zone as well.

plodder off .i kinda wna see ricky get ruthless and drop players for terrible errors but we dnt have the depthfelipe2007-10-22 11:22:14

yeah i did  and their goal keeper  reminding us of the score, whose to say the weren't being sarcastic
anyway i'm over it now, had my rant, now get on with the next game COYN

Who was the guy putting up the YF banner at the start of the game?

Me why.

Definitely not! We need to keep Lochhead, Dodd, and Christie in the starting line-up. I'm still undecided about O'Dor though.

Despite what has been typed on this site - even by myself, over the last 18 hours and what happened on the pitch, I hope to be back at the next home game!

Elrich obviously an obvious positive from the game. Him and Felipe could carve teams apart when they play together.

It was a great game to watch, but for the tragic few minutes.

Does anyone have links to the highlights or goals? I'd love to see the Elrich goal, and the CCM penalty miss.

goals are here

Worst game of the season by the lads, to many long passes to no-one, when they should ave kept it. Lochead and Elrich had a good games...Daniel hardly got the ball and when he did he had no space to move it, the times he did ave room he did great stuff.

Next week..... Daniel LMF, Elrich AMF, Felipe RMF(if fit), Aloisi DMF...Best midfeild in the league.

Nestling2007-10-22 18:48:28

wouldn't call it our worst the game against queensland in my opinion has been our worst.

I'd swap Elrich and Felipe.