MOM V WSW Round 2

http://www.easypolls.net/poll.html?p=526398dfe4b0707c21e77ace

Carlos excelente

Struggling with no Boyd option

Better than having a Boyd option

Missing Ernie option ...

great team performance

Ifill for me the amount of energy in the team when he came on was a good thing to see

lols at lia on 6%

Correctified.

Iffy quite obviously changed the game when he came on.

I'm not so sure he ballsed up to be honest. I just think that he was getting nothing from his wide men in tucking in and tracking back so just rotated them

From this:                                                                                                            To this:

Leo, Siggy, Durante, Caira                                                                                Leo, Siggy, Durante, Caira

        Manny, Lia                                                                                                         Manny, Lia

Brockie, Carlos, Kenny                                                                                       Kenny, Carlos, Hicks

              Stein                                                                                                                  Brockie

I think this game should make him realise that Brockie is a striker and not a wide man and that its either him or Stein starting unless he wants to play 2 up front. I don't think this is an Ernie balls up.

Argh. The classic vote for the most shit player. Classic.

A good coach will adjust according to what the other team lets you do [or doesn't let you do]. Have to be right on the money when it comes to switching personel though as you can't change them back again like in basketball or American football. That same starting line up might have been ok against another team. Wonder how Ernie handles Stein? given he wasn't very happy at all about being pulled. 

Stein will probably get over it. The change clearly had a positive result and I am sure he will be told that it was a change in "system" as much as personnel with Hicks being more defensively minded than Brockie or Cunningham.

Lets face it NO Footballer likes being subbed after 30 mins, let alone a professional footballer. I would be more concerned if he was not pissed about it.

Agreed, Stein (and most of the team actually) doesn't strike me as a diva. Yes he'll be pissed, but hopefully that'll be a positive thing for the team (healthy competition etc.) rather than a disruptive thing. To be honest if he was the type to throw his toys I think he would have done it already after a year of being player wrong under Ricki.

Durante for me.

Loved iffy and carlos' contributions but without dura WSW woulda been outta sight long before our goal

Not that I voted for him, but interesting to see our goalscorer sitting on 1% for the poll!

All those scoring opportunities he got himself into were rubbish?

Thought he had one of his busier games tbh.

same

Bit wasteful early on but always a threat, i was impressed with him first game back

Brockie was good for me. Found space mainly from good service from Carlos and Leo when he was wide but was trying to shoot when he needed to cross.

Strikers are meant to be a bit selfish but I get the sense he really isn't bothered about shooting from anywhere when he is in space, even when there may be better options on the cards.

Think this is mainly cause he scored so many blinders last year. But the way he plays doesn't lend itself much to Carlos getting shots on goal as Brocks will often try get behind defenders rather than drop in and lay back to the mids. That's the dirty work stein did last week which really influenced our buildup play.

Brockie will struggle for votes due to his routine disappearing act. I'm sure once the goals start raining in he'll pick up more though. Also after last season we probably all expect him to score at least that often again, first game back being early days though of course

Agree last season. But didn't personally think he did the Tim Brown special in that last game.

Guess its more of a case of there being more obvious candidates in that game i.e Hernandez.

Last year Tyler Boyd earned the most number of votes across the season and also won when we applied a 3/2/1 system to the votes for each game.

The MoM votes only have little to moderate correlation to how impactful a player is across a whole season.

Despite the likelyhood of all the Boyd fangirls stacking the votes, i do remember voting for him after some of those games where he really was one of the only positive sparks we had at times.

Think Brockie scores goals but that doesn't equate into great performances.

A llot of the time, the ones who show a bit of determination and hard work will look good in these things

Tyler Boyd???? Where is the punch line?

lol

Tyler Boyd mustered close to 20 appearances for zilch impact last year. I would have rated him as the luckiest player, maybe lia aside, in terms of the coach's willingness to give him another crack. By my recollection he might have earned one penalty, but otherwise had no assists, no goals, and to top it off missed a peno.

Not bad for 17

yeah I think we need to remember that Boyd is only young, and growing into being a professional footballer, for me he shows the right instincts and gets himself into the right places to score goals - need a bit of composure but that will come with time.

So we start players who don't make an impact bc they're young? From what I've seen he looks like the kid with all the athleticism and speed wo got noticed young, but who lacks the technical game, vision and instincts to really succeed. But bc he's young, he might make it yet. 

And no assists and no goals isn't even good for 17. 

never mentioned starting him, giving him 15-20 minutes from the bench against tired legs would be my recomendation.