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Hard road ahead for the finals!

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Hard road ahead for the finals!
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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Quote from the Melbourne Age

"Queensland is second with 23 points, and its coach, former Socceroo boss Frank Farina, believes 28 points will be enough to guarantee a finals berth because the closeness of the competition means that all teams will continue to take points off each other."

We are currently on 12 points

Which means that we need 16 points minimum from our remaining 8 games,

ie 5 wins and 1 draw
    4 wins and 4 draws

It is still on!!
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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Yep, we're still very much in the hunt. Considering the way we've been playing recently, we have the ability to win every one of our remaining games. Some more consistency and composure and we could still be in the run Inter rocks2007-11-19 22:43:23
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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
its hardly like the other teams are a bunch of blind muppets though. granted we r playing well but with the exception of perth i would say we go into most matches as underdogs. 16 points is very gettable but my god it will be a challenge

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Optimism is always good, but finishing 5th or 6th wouldnt be too bad either...
 
Lets take it game by game, shall we?
 
Sure, finals would be great, but i just dont see us pushing ourselves to make the top 4. Central Coast, Adelaide, Melbourne, Queensland, and even the dirty jets look like amazing teams, and for us to win 5 out of the next 8 against these teams is a bit of stretch...
 
...but with all my heart, i want this to happen, lets go ricki, get these nix off to another running start this weekend...Melbourne who?
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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
I just want to beat Melbourne so I can hold one over Dad. 

a.haak

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

True we have never looked too flash playing away from home...but we did stich up more wins away from home than at the ring of fire.Melbourne  is struggling. I think we have a chance against them

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Against the top four (CCM, Queensland, Adelaide and Newcastle) we have a record of 1 draw and 7 losses in eight matches.  Against the teams in the bottom half of the table we have a record of three wins and two draws.  This suggests we are competitive in the league, but need a step up to compete for and in the play offs.  I don't think it will happen this season (hope to be proved wrong of course) but if experience and a little squad strengthening work we ought to be able to improve that record against the top clubs next season.  Then the play offs beckon.
Selhurst Park, 25 January 1995
What else could he have done?
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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
ya also bearing in mind how some of those losses came about, were competitive indeed, just need to work on composure, which will come with more team experience in general
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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
All we asked of the boys this year was to be competitive and I think we've achieved that. Very good base to work from.

a.haak

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