Nix V Mariners Sat 22nd 5pm ft 12 Pubs of Lochhead

Good luck guys ... hope we win...

BTW in case its been missed the Mariners are having a Warts and all Doco made about them ... Mariners Doco .... just sharing... maybe some YF folk may get in the doco ... its a 6 part thing... 

Back to the match... I hope we can win as coming first means we go to Asia again... AU are right up our backside... BTW guys hands off weeMac at season end.... 

Tell them about 12 Pubs, I'm sure they would get some gold footage!

Bloody hell, that'd be interesting viewing. 

My Lineup

:                  McMaster                                 Bench: Paston, Fenton/Lia/Smith, Totori, Huysegems

Bertos Sigmund Durante Lochhead 

          Muscat          Smith/Lia

                   Sanchez

Fenton               Brockie              Boyd                

Playing in a 433

 Feeling a bit of nostalgia today (for many reasons, and a lof anger, too..)

Hence I'd line up like this on Saturday:

                                                                          Crowther

                                            Downey          Dura            O'Dor      Musa

                                                                  Manny               Smith

                                           Ifill 2 years ago                                          Fenton

                                                                                      Myself

                                                                                     Smeltz

why would you drop huysegems? genuine question.

I don't think the Nix have quite figured out the best way to use Huysegems. He was good against the Wanderers but looked totally out of sorts against Adelaide. When he first arrived he said in an interview that his strengths were mobility, pass, move and recieve with the ball at his feet...which is exactly what you would expect from a player with loads of experiance in Dutch football. However the Nix don't play like that...its quite obvious that pumping aerial crosses into him is a waste of time. He does look a very cool customer when he's in front of goal though.

 What they have to figure out is how to regularly get him into scoring positions.....which brings us back to our original problem of our non creative midfield. If we are still going to play a high percentage of long balls and aerial crosses then you could debate...what is the point of playing him?. Don't get me wrong...I think he is a very good player...but is he the right player for us?. Maybe a better version of a Billy Mehmet would have suited our style.

We are gonna get dicked. I just know it.

Also THIS. I think Ifill has played his best football for us up front in the middle. I'd go a front three of Stein, Iffy and Brockie.

Lucky no Podcast has been advocating Ifill at the pointy end for the last two months.

I've been advocating it since last year. Just putting it out there.

i reckon we go:

               McMaster
Bertos Sigmund Durante Lia
          Muscat       Ifill
Boyd         Sanchez     Fenton
                  Brockie

lol
http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/football/8096882/Herberts-dullball-failing-to-win-supporters 

Anyone that doesnt have Huysegems in their team cant see whats happening on the field.

(flame suit on)

i agree - btw that lineup is a pisstake / what mark reason would do

I got trolled :(

I was reading that article and thought it was a bit fishy then read the bit that had 'Ifill in front of the back 4 along side Muscat and Lia at LB' and realised it was a troll.

Caught the end of a radio ad for the game this morning. Sound's like there will be a Santa's grotto for the kids, so who is going to sit on Santa's lap and ask for our own Messi?

 With enough 12 pubs in us, most of the Fever Zone.

My guess on our line up

............Ryan

Pedj ... Dutchie.. Sainsbury ... Rose

........ Hutch .... Nick Mon

weeMac .... Rogic ..... Olly...

..... Macbree...

Bench

Berinne

Myle

Duke

Zac Anderson

Do CCM fans call weeMac weeMac or is that just us?

Midfielder is a CCM fan and he called him weeMac...

Yeah I know, sorry I meant do mariners fans call him that amongst themselves or is Midfielder just saying weemac because we say weemac.

After my first time seeing the reserve team in action I have to say I'm not looking forward to Saturday ( sad face emoticon).  Sorry to be a downer 

Saturday, December 22
Wellington Phoenix vCentral Coast Mariners
Venue: Westpac Stadium
Kick off: 5:00PM
Referee: Peter O'Leary
Assistant referee 1: Glen Lochrie
Assistant referee 2: Simon Lount
Fourth official: Matt Conger

Fuck.

According to Ryan's rovers we have a 58% win rate with him. It certainly doesn't seem it, maybe we've won a few with him in recent seasons?

Conga line in front of the fourth official when we score? 

Looking at Ultimate A League, he's only done is 3 times since this date 2 years ago

Considering he's just done CWC 3rd place game, he is a Kiwi and the Aussie refs have been an utter fucking disgrace this year and have fucked us a few times, it would be good to have an experienced referee rather than these rookies we get.

I think he's a good A-League ref but he's terrified of being seen as a home ref so gives us nothing.

That has been my thoughts too, but those are pretty good stats above ^