Jets v Nix Saturday 20/11 @ 9pm SS2

What so he can nip back to into the midfield and send a ball for himself to run onto.Its about the only way he might get any delivery at present.Far to much hope being put on him and not from me.Why is it every team we play recently looks like they have bags load more time and players with genuine speed.Our solution get another older player.

I was at a wedding - good noms, met some great people and never watched the game.

News ftw.

Call yourself a fan,next you will be leaving early.

tbh..I decided to take a nap with 30 to go...TO get ready to watch the NQLD vs Roar game.

Best decision I made today.

I can take a loss in most cases but not when i have outlaws from oz visiting from FKN Newcastle.

Exactly!

Its our defence. With last seasons defence, we probably wouldve had 3 draws and a win from our last 4 games. Its not like we won a lot of games last season anyway, we just didnt concede anywhere near as many goals. And we were lucky with our finals run that results from other games went our way allowing for two matches at home.

Seems like i missed a good game to miss when we win I'll be watching in gold coast with my scarf.

Boring frist half..skipped second.  Who was Greenacre attempting to flick lomg balls onto?  Chances to shoot for others were taken too far..Ifill just turns himself inside out and no one else nowadays.  Mt Doom beckons...

Struggling to find any interest to watch. I used to watch every single game be ready before kick off but now we lack entertaining football, we struggle to score and i just think were missing that bit of spark.

more ball movement, less Ifill and Ward losing the ball?

wot a poor performance that was - ifil not interested, ward/ lia giving away the ball everytime they had it - hearfield just generally poor, and really paston needs to go he does not command the box and thats where the defence struggle not knowing what he is going to do..... no imagination in midfield all elliot/ lia and ward do is crab across the midfield - just poor and it hasnt just been last nite that you can say that about....

On this performance Hearfield a shoo in for the socceroos...

This has probably been said before but  for some of you who never got to see them  now you know what it was like watching the Kingz and Knights play you just have to keep turning up every week hoping things will change for the better and it will i'm sure.

Oh and again we have nothing in the middle of the park to spark anything no pace no flair no nothing how many spots have we got left in the team now can we pick someone up in the transfer window ?
giddyup2010-11-21 09:02:16

 

 

You can't blame solely the defense, ok we are not as good now without Mckain, but there was times he was out last season. It's our speed, passing, ball retention in the middle and I'm not convinced about our folk paid to score goals either. We are conceding goals as we are not getting anywhere near giving the opposition problems in their own half. The midfield might as wel notl exist.

We have zero time on the ball, we get closed down and lose it within a second or two. Or if we manage to get a pass off it goes to the opposition or is less than useless. We get long balls out to the wings which either miss the target or get kicked out.

We used to moan about players not taking shots on the edge of the box in the first couple of seasons but we rarely even get those chances now as we are closed down so quickly.

The inspired signings of last season Ifill and Greenie have not been repeated as Ricki had his hands full at the world cup.

Our players with pace, or with the ability to beat a player look jaded, (Ifill and Bertos). Our recruitment policy this year has been short-sighted and the other teams that didn't have to worry about the world cup have, as a lot of people on here have said, grown without us.
ForteanTimes2010-11-21 10:04:55

I loved it how after 4-5 rubbish performances in a row, ricki trotted out the same starting 11 bar 2 enforced changes with the same aimless tactics. Longballs to 5'6 greeny playing alone up front and shoddy crosses coming in from the wings with out of form players like ifill and bertos and the perenially average hearfield the most guilty. ricki seems to have run out of ideas and hit the wall. i now understand why Kosta has had so much more success this season

when Lochead is back. that is when we will rise again.
and we didn't do long balls the WHOLE time, some of the time we were doing some really good passing in the midfield. :D
First 20 minutes/first half was good, I don't understand why we can never show in the second.

Agree - another loss so we're all seeing doom

We were never actually that good last year.

Originally posted by Stack

We just don't look as good as we did last season.

We were never actually that good last year.

 

you are rigth last year we had a team who worked hard for each other - we never were brilliant and Ricki should have built on this with the right recruitment. the faces on the bench smacked of men who had given up. the comments about he is off and he is to slow or not beating his man that is all just bluster that says we are playing s**t which has to come down to the culture at training and in the club. the day that Dura came off last year when we lost away and said "that was rubbish we were hopeless etc"was the day we got better he was angry, no one seems angry about how bad we are right now.

 

going to watch team welly to get my love for the game back

I think the players bought in had great potential - North had the same background as dura, ex jets player, starting socceroo, he just hasn't fitted in well enough yet - probably doesn't help that he's playing cb one week and rb the next. Same with Ward, he had great potential, just hasn't fitted onto Ricki's style yet, once agin, he's a central attacker not a wide player and except for last night we've been trying to attack from the wings.

Anyone else also find it strange that Ricki just sits on the bench vacantly looking on for 99% of the game too? No instructions being relayed or anything most of the time? He barely looks interested, and the performances of the team seem to reflect that too.

Thats been one thing which annoys me about Ricki he doesn't show emotion when hes on the sideline hes hardly ever off his seat.

I had a girls night out so didn't watch the game, lucky I didn't. Sounds terrible from all accounts.

It's understandable that you don't see him out of his seat at the touch line, because you're probably watching the game. But I've seen him up at the touch line screaming orders etc a lot. Don't fault him on passion, because that is one thing he does not lack.

Seriously you go overboard  Steveo and exaggerate things trying to back your points up. You cant have been watching him for 99%  of the time, unless you were at the game and were fixated on him, (in which case call in the men in white coats  ) and I recall him talking to his assistant a few times when the cameras were on him.

He is a defense minded coach, we all know that, it seems he is struggling to get the defense right, let alone get the attack sparked. At least he is going for a proven attacker in Griffiths, hope it is confirmed soon, he cant get here fast enough for me.


 

LOL  

why don't we make some big changes to our starting line up, lets properly experiment, we don't have too much to loose.

I thought Musa was primarily a centre back? Not sure if playing 4 centre backs isd the answer?

Is Ali Abbas being cited by the FFA and banned for his punch?  If Siggy gets 3 matches for the slightest tap on Adrian Leijer then Abbas should at least get a match.  A punch is a punch.

Jag2010-11-22 13:07:03