Jets v Roar

Jets v Roar

Evening all�looking forward to this one.

 

8pm kickoff at EnergyAustralia Stadium in Newcastle. Winner through to Grand Final v CCM at SFS next Sunday.  If level at 90 minutes, extra-time then penalties.  The away goals rule doesn�t apply.

 

Team news:

 

Queensland: Danny Tiatto returns from suspension, but only makes the bench.

Newcastle: Denni is back into the squad at the expense of Jason Hoffman, but also only makes the bench.

 

Newcastle

Covic

Durante- North-Thompson

Elrich-A.Griffiths-Musialik-Holland-D�Apuzzo

J.Griffiths-Bridge

 

Queensland

Reddy

Packer-Moore-Ogenovski-McLoughlin

McKay-Marcinho-Murdocca

Kruse- Reinaldo-Zullo

 

A number of players from both sides are on a yellow card from the finals series, meaning another tonight will see them miss the GF next week.  They are�

Queensland: Andrew Packer, Josh McCloughan, Massimo Murdocca, Matt McKay and Sasa Ognenovski.

Newcastle: Andrew Durante, Matt Thompson, Noel Spencer and Jin-Hyung Song.

 

Miscellaneous trainspotting:

 

Both Newcastle and Queensland are looking to make their first ever A-League Grand Final.

 

In nine previous A-League encounters, the home team has never won a Newcastle Jets v Queensland Roar match. In five previous clashes at EnergyAustralia Stadium, Queensland have won three with the other two matches (both played this season) ending level.

 

Newcastle�s loss last week broke a four-match winning streak.  Queensland�s win last week was their first in five matches.

 

Queensland have twice had penalties saved by the Jets� Ante Covic this season with Simon Lynch and Craig Moore the culprits.  A Queensland spotty tonight would almost certainly be taken by Sasa Ognenovski.

 

Newcastle are the youngest team in the A-league with an average age of 23 yrs and 338 days.

 

The secret for Queensland is to score first, because Newcastle haven�t lost after scoring the opening goal in the last two seasons. In fact, they have won 18 of 21 matches after scoring the first goal over the past two seasons.

 

Coverage:

 

TV: Sky Sport 2

Radio links: ABC 1233 (Newcastle) www.abc.net.au/newcastle or 4BC 1116 AM (Brisbane) www.4bc.com.au

Not to get sidetracked liverpool1 but has anybody mentioned this morning's result to you?

What result was that Smithy ?

I can loan you a tape of Ipswich beating Barnsley in the play-off final a few years back by way of consolation...

And back to the game at hand...

I'd rather talk about the Ipswich Barnsley game.  One of my favourite sporting memories of the last few years!

...and they're off.

Aitkenmike are you just another of Hard News's myriad aliases?

Thank god Cockerill is commentating this match...he's okay.  Harper's a knob mind you.

That's three of us now...

Marcinho no...

Shocking miss.  Open goal, twenty feet over from about 5 yards.
Hard News2008-02-17 20:08:10

Marcinho must have been watching Anthony Neonakis at the Hilton Petone today...same finishing...

f**k I hate these two teams.

6 minutes - Matt Thompson runs round 4 clogs in the area and hits the post.

well you are guaranteed to see 1 of them lose tonight and hopefully in a week the other will fall to the Mariners

nice ball by kruse, in an otherwise error ridden game (a few nerves out there it seems)

When ?  I've seen him have one touch and it was rubbish. (watch him get a hat trick now).

the first-time ball over the top to zullo who was at the top of the box

haha why does that not suprise me.... marcinho is even worse than reinaldo, terrible finisher.. makes u wonder how they can play professionally, do it every day yet manage to steal a miss from the jaws of a goal nearly every week.. so poor

that what made reinaldo's goal last week so damn annoying, the 1 time he gets it right, in true aussie commentating fashion they spend the rest of the game talking like he's god of finishing...
muso2008-02-17 20:43:28

Ahmad seems to have taken possession of his brother's body....

and the word is the jets don't let a lead go


edit matty thompson scores whilst ognenovski off
tigers2008-02-17 20:45:51

Thompson 1-0 (I quite like him).

In it goes....er, hurrah anyone?

Nut grabber shouldve squared it up just then, greedy bastard

If it stays like this Queensland will get a red.

To expand on tigers statement, Ognenovski off getting a head wound bandaged when Newcastle scored.

hard to get a lot of joy from either of these teams scoring, a red card for either side would raise a bigger cheer in this house

be interesting to see what farina tells his lot to do and if Taj Minnecon gets a run

hhhaahaa - everyone's favourite ad is on

Is anyone else bored?

This game reminds me of Marist vs Wairarapa today...

Frankie Mac's lover 'The adelaide ad women' is pissing me off more than Joel Griffiths right now..

Cue half time Frankie Macs effigy burning......

well the commnetator's pretending not to be -   "a Fantastic first half"
tigers2008-02-17 21:08:43

The grossly over-rated Kruse gets yanked...

16,021 - Conspiracy

f**k me they're holding on for grim life here.

my money's on Ognenowski if they went for it

shame it's cost him a final place (if they make it)


edit Sash and A griffwanka square up following a bump from sash that cost him a yellow
tigers2008-02-17 21:38:12

THAT was the best moment of the match - Moore has completely poleaxed Joel Griffiths.  Well worth a yellow card

Cant agree moore, he was never any good. Thought after he established himself in the team he could  just kruse the rest of the season....

How long to go? Radio died.