MoM vs Roar

MoM vs Roar

Hard to choose though Smeltz was good.

played absolutely awful. when the first goal was scored they sat back and allowed the roar to do what they wanted. midfield was absolutely dire, no-one to hold onto the ball and pass it around... all in all one of the worst performances

Plodder, his reaction after being blatantly hacked was one of a true professional!! Lonegunmen2008-12-29 19:06:23

Went for Bertos, who looked good when on attack. Nice cross for the 2nd goal. Muscat was good until he started to tire and Oar went round him. Also thought Durante was good, despite getting sent off.

Muscat. I think he played great football for at least 75'. Both Mc Kain and Dodd looked a bit shaky today. Durante did Ok but got sent off (his first foul resulting in a booking was silly in my opinion, as the man he tackled was never going to get to the ball).

Bertos did OK but on and off. Smeltzy worked very hard but didn't have too many chances to do anything. Brown ran heaps but God he butchered a counter attack in the second half where any other Nix player - not including Dodd - would've at least worked the keeper.

After running his arse off following Zullo all over the pitch, Muscat had to fight Oar and he did that well. He got beaten a few times but Oar only broke loose once or twice. His goal is not related to Muscat's marking.

Muscat today. Fouled Oar in twice in the last 5 but never beaten

I went for Muscat. Marked Zullo out of the game.

How about the travelling fans? I only saw last 30 but they drowned out the roar fans..

good Manny's finally getting some of the credit he deserves!!! Keep them votes coming boys.

tough call, most played ok. Manny for me though, he had the toughest assignments all night, with Zullo and the Oar to mark.

Manny for me, one of his best games i thought plus the rest were average!

I thought Lochead was superb at the back, so went for him. Muscat was good until he started getting tired, and then he was giving away too many fouls that were putting pressure on us.
Bertos was the best going forward.

In the same way Muscat allowed cross after cross to come from his side, one of which ended up in our net, 3-4 of which Lochead had to clear out under immense pressure from the back post?

Yep, Lochy losing the ball was stupid, but overall, he was the best defensive player we had on the park. IMO.
el grapadura2008-12-29 11:38:30

Would have gone for Lochead but his lapse at the end cost us the game. Sure Muscat got beaten a couple of times by Oar who was outsdtanding when he came on but up until then he was better than most, not a high standard admittedly.

Durante did well and only got sent off because Dodd and Lochead left him totally exposed.

Midfield were out totally played.

Only saw bits of the match as at work, but muscat looked ok in a pretty average performance by the team. Moss looked really out of sorts and really small in goal!

Hearfield for me.

Had a few good runs and had obviously been taking turning lessons from Smeltzy, and of course, he scored a goal

Meh the team was so bad that its a hard one, has to be Muscat or Bertos.  Not Hearfield, made some decent runs but he is still blind.  He got a lucky goal that was helped in by Reddy.  Was a stunning cross by Bertos.  I'll go leo

Lochy

He most likely would've got the ball back if Durante hadn't fouled the QLD player - though Durante couldn't really take that chance really.

The midfield should be disappointed - they were atrocious.
valeo2008-12-29 16:19:35

Yeah we need a more consistent midifeld, lets sign up Elliott.

He was exposed for the first one (Dodd, what were you doing), but Lochy had tracked back well (although he had given the ball away rather stupidly and needlessly) for the second.

Despite that, Durante showed very poor technique when faced with a ball-runner in front of him. He gets too squared on and flat footed, and gives himself little chance to recover once beaten, hence the fouls. I'd noticed this earlier as well as his tendency to get muscled off the ball too easily for a centre-back, so maybe his suspension next week isn't the worst thing. Hope Siggy will be back by then.

I still don't rate Muscat. He gets caught out far too often for my liking (though I do think he did a good job up until about the 75th/80th min mark). Guess he's the best choice that we have at the moment though.

...crikey... I must have seen a different match....

Muscat played well, he had the two most difficult players to mark the entire game - Zullo in the first half ran him ragged and then the spritly Oar comes on and takes advantage of a tiring manny.

i thought manny played really well, he did a good job of containing Zullo. Everyone's saying about Durante's sending off that it was alright and he had to do it, but Lochhead had got back well and could have made the tackle

So Muscat's error which contributed to a Queensland goal is nothing really, and Lochead's mistake which indirectly led to a goal is the worst piece of defending in the history of the game?

Get yourself an uppercut. Or two. Or a few hundred, you badly need them.

Hillarious.  I just wanted to cancel out your misguided vote