Glory vs LOLington - Match Thread

Jeez, I wish I shared your confidence about the Sydney game.  Big question is not if we can beat Sydney next week but will we beat the crowd attendance at Perth today.  I live in hope?????

By means of a 1-6-4 formation I mean gk, 6 defenders and 4 up front.  Our midfeild was missing.

Na, I'm sh*t scared. Just trying to be optimistic!

Isn't Sigmund from Auckland?  Non holders of the Ranfurly Sheild and no football team in the A-league?

Stop saying "I can feel a win is close", "watch out Sydney", "it's going to come together soon", "we're better than our league position" etc. etc.  Sydney will rip us apart next week.  It is not going to get better any time soon.  We're in for another season like the last. 

We'll win 4-0.

3 to moss (AKA Superman) and 1 own goal by the bling.

yep nail on the head. no advantage from our subs. Coach lets the game meander until it has drifted away from us, and then panic subs. I thought twice in the last two games there were moments when bold coaching could have helped us with the momentum. When we had the impetus leading up to that goal mouth scramble last week, and around the 60 minute mark or earlier this week.

He signed the players, runs the trainings, and picks the team. So he is accountable. Shall we wait for another wooden spoon before doing anything? Get rid of him before it is too late.

Yeh but he does hava point though.  Mulligan made one or two timely tackles but overall he was ball watching just like he did against Add Ladys and the Sailors last week.  Sigmund looked solid last week and deserved to start today. Mulligan is out of his depth I'm afraid.

I'll go with that. Sekulovski came on and gave Mulligan all sorts of problems for about 10 mins before he set up the penalty. A change should have been made (or at least been coming) at that stage, not 7 minutes after the goal.wolfman2008-09-21 21:24:48

Who else would you have coach, there is no one else. And please no one suggest Jacobs.

simon_hampton2008-09-21 21:25:02

                              Moss        

Mulligan      McKain    Durrante     Lochead
                           
                               Johnson

         Bertos              Gao                   Daniel
            
                   Kwasnik
                                 Smeltz
                           

They had a mid-week game in Asia and brought there entire squad and were missing Pantelis.

was very difficult to watch today the ball speed and general skill level was quite poor, I think it's time they gave the Young New Zealand players a decent opportunity Draper and Costa can't do a whole lot worse than what happening atm and maybe inject some much needed energy and confidence into the nix.

It's been almost 9 months since the Nix won a game of 'real' footy...

Is that all?  It feels longer than that.

1st half highlights
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-5J0023mOU

1-0 down,less than 10 mins to go and the tactical change to drive for an equaliser is.... a fullback swap.

really?

I'm not a big believer in the theory that change in manager will force an immediate upturn in performances, but... it's not *just* poor tactics that are costing us games, it's the below-par performances. They are looking beat before a ball is kicked.

So, what's happening with the team? Coveny's mid-week ourburst is evidence of a disconnect, and I'm wondering whether the cracks are showing? Has Ricky lost the squad? If that's the case, no amount of team bonding is going to recover that.

why FFS? what difference does it make except to make it better to be a fan? I shouldn't be optimistic because you aren't? how is it gonna change the performance? get real

3 Games without a goal.

F u c kchocnut2008-09-21 21:39:47

Oh, my prescience strikes again. Unfortunately. Wrote that two days ago.

Another sh*t game, another sh*t performance. I'm tired of writing the same old sh*t after every game, but here goes quickly just for keeping up appeareances - get Mulligan (fark, his such a waste of space) out, put Siggy in, push McKain into midfield and Dodd at CB, put Costa on the bench and try and find some help from somwehere, to Smeltzy. I really feel sorry for the guy.

And Mossy is a legend.

Just went rampage walking home!!

f**k

My team for Next week.

               Moss
Moss Moss Moss Moss
Moss Moss Moss Moss
    Smeltz Smeltz

If It makes anyone feel better I just beat Perth on Fifa

what highlights?

Tight as a drum at the back. Midfield were huge. Up front we were electric... 

Eh? what? when? 

Oops, these comments were for another forum...  sorry.

good tactics suggested from someone who cant even spell equation

We're gunna lose Smeltz at this rate. And what the bloody hell was leaving Coveny out all about. He worked his ass off in that last game, I've never seen a nix player do more running. What a kick in the teeth for him. Ricki's substitutions are just a bloody laughing stock. We were miles, miles better last season and I don't know how. Were Felipe and Aloisi really that great of a loss? Or did we just assume that once we got a few defenders with good reputations that everything would be served up on a platter for us. 

If i were smeltz id be saying "sign me a damn strike partner or ill be leaving for a team who wont leave me up front on my own to do all the work every week"

Tegal2008-09-21 21:51:58

Order of the phoenix paston said hearfield had the strongest shot

i havnt seen a hard one yet

 I called all Rickis subs before he made them. I was happy with them -just think it should have been at least 10min earlier for each.

And not just because your powers of prediction are so strong, I agree with everyone of your suggestions. Only thing I'd add is replacements for Hearfield and Gao.

What are you doing next week as I think we do with you assisting RH.

that really was the problem though