Don’t think anyone has been happy with this season particularly. However, last season we were top of the table for 15 weeks. Over half the season. With half AFC’s budget. Certainly didn’t have Danny Hay as a video analyst or whatever his job is, from head All Whites coach.
That said as well, we’ve had plenty of seasons where we’ve scored a bunch and conceded more.
And I remember going back to Ernie wanting us to shoot from 6 yards out.
There’s so much aimless shooting in the A league. Taking a low percentage shot poorly isn’t taking responsibility.
There’s a reason it’s dire football this season- we’ve been losing. There’s plenty of football fans enjoy good defense and Pennington, Al-Taay and Rufer thwarted so many attacks. People seemed to like Paulsen.
I don’t think there’s any point telling us what we watched, whoever you are. We know what we watched. We’ve spent the season gnashing our teeth and rolling our eyes.
Last season for over half the season we were top of the table. We were the dominant team in the competition. One more piece of luck or skill and we were the Premiers.
Last season Adelaide topped the scoring charts from 8th on the table.
There are currently 6 teams ahead of Auckland FC on the goals scored metric. Equally Vic are 3rd on the 9th place for goals scored.
Thanks for telling us we’re losing football games. We know that.
We’ve had high scoring entertainers too. Plenty of them. Smeltz, Ifill, Burns, Krishna, Davila, Singh, Hemed…they didn’t bring us to within 45 seconds of our first trophy.
I think you’re describing a part of the problem and missing a chat that’s been going on for five or six months.
It hasn’t been the stats, but some of the curious decisions around the squad and the slow pace of the reaction to injuries that’s been the major bug bear, imo. Rojas, Cola, Ball, Al-Taay and Van Hattum’s spots could have been used better. And quite possibly Josh’s. Rufer being out and Conchie not quite being trusted indicates another wasted spot, if we’re not mucking around.