Nix v Heart, Thursday 27th Dec 7:30pm

I think that tactic would be very effective tonight against a hugely inexperienced Heart backline, and much more effective than trying to beat them in the air.

 I'd play the salt shaker alongside the pepper mill and get the tomato sauce bottle a little further foward and...  *best to stop now*

^this. As a result we will never be offside.

Just getting in a bit early since this is the last game for 2012:

Hi Ho Phoenix FC

Dedication once again..safe driving.

yes but could u get the service(silver) or get them to put it on a plate(dinner)?..Im sure they would fork it up...

We had three great opportunities last week to pull the ball back from a wide run to the goal line in the box, back to an unmarked player at the top of the box.  Not one of those plays was made.  every.single.time we tried an aerial ball accross the six yard box, or a shot into the side netting.  Either that or an aerial cross to the far corner flag. :)

Hopefully the comment that we-are-practicing-crosses is the fake media designed to make the obviously better pull back option a surprise .....

COYN

I have brother and sister in law, nephews and my own family pinned down for watching this tonight, but from afar on sunny holiday

fire up Nix

cutting it back to the edge of the box is good..if we get players streaming forward from midfield aka Tim Brown.  We must try and make it numbers game by getting more players forward when we go down the flanks.  It would be good to outnumber Hearts on attack..ie 6 on 4.

Ticket Gone

Must admit my heart sank when I heard they had been practicing crosses.....crossing to whom? we have the shortest group of attackers in the A-League. We have no one with any pretensions of heading ability. So WTF?

I am afraid the game plan from Ricki will be...."they have a couple of inexperianced CB's so just keep whacking the ball in and see what scraps we can pick up". If we start pumping high crosses I swear to God I will eat my season pass.!!!

Everyone in this forum has outlined what we need to do. Fenton and Boyd are good at getting in behind defenses. They need to vary it up by drilling the ball across the face of goal low and hard and have runners come in at the near post for deflections into goal or they need to  cut it back to the edge to pick up guys like Sanchez and others coming into the box. Above all they need to have patience. If they are wide and there is no obvious pass on then don't just always lob it into the mixer...use that only occasionally for variation. They also need to get into attacking situations faster....we tend to build up slow and by then the opposition defenders are set in numbers. 

If we are going to base our game around short passes around the box I would prefer Stein there to Brockie....Stein looks to have the skill set to play that sort of game. Brockie scores wondergoals but goes missing for large parts of every game.

We should win this game...but then I thought the same about the Sydney game.

Because the consensus of this forum could run a football team better than Ricki. Right? ;-)

Also, I never said anything along those lines. I don't know jack about tactics that don't involve the goalkeeper.

and don't forget ...

Nixmas Special: Our friends at Westpac Stadium are offering $15 car park rate for all home games over the summer holiday period, including Saturday 22 December, Thursday 27 December, Sunday 13 January, and Sunday 27 January

so what should Paston do? :>)

Hmmmm..$15 and 2 minutes walking or $3 off Stout St(or maybe free if street parking available), a beer and 10 mins walking....

On Sundays?  I think we had a mid week at the beginning of the year which meant that lots of workers filled up the spaces.

I think it was $10 parking last season.

Yeah that was the 3pm game on Big Wednesday.

Hope Manny has a big game.Keep the pressure up and make em pay.

Firing up!!

Prepare your best mexican wave.  Perhaps the capital day girls have never been to a game.  COYN!

Free advertising, and in a prominent part of the paper too. Can't complain.

I agree about the first two points, but we don't do mexican waves (unless it's playoff game and we've got x number of band wagon jumpers).  I'm not sure it will help boost crowd figure though.  Maybe wellington will surprise me.  Fingers crossed.  

How is the weather looking in Wellington?   

Overcast, no rain, not overly cold but not warm either. I guess you could describe it as 'average'.

I'm just wondering what combination of ignorance and arrogance would lead someone to make that statement. Because if you really mean it, then it's criminal negligence of you not to have sent your CV to Gareth yet.

 COYN let's be havin them. 3 points a must at home.

we REALLY need to win thia

Just walked through downtown Wellington and its absolutely empty....so all of us going will have to make 10 times the noise!

Mexican wave...arf!  How many people do you need to make a mexican wave?

COYN.....3 points is what we need!

well wouldn't you know, I checked the mail box and sure enough the 2 tickets I'd won a few weeks back have shown up today.  I already have ticket.    Would anyone like 2 free tickets to tonights game.  

COYN!!

yeow!!!! game day! lets break hearts!

If bouncy castles don't work then we might as well give Mexican waves a go.

Sure beats gringo apathy.

 time to turn this season around lads

Big game for Ricky and the boys tonight. Really hoping for something special. Nice night. No wind. No high temps compared with last few days. No excuses in that area. Can't wait.

heading zonewards

3 points necessary

entertainment optional