Nix v RADelaide Saturday 27th October, 7:30pm SS2 from Hindmarsh

Our next goal celebration should be: line up as a team,take 3 steps,fall over. 

Adelaide have done this before. 

No, but if you look closely, the Melbourne defender (Vargus?) touches Cristiano on the arm, so there was contact.  Definite penalty, yours truly - A-League (we can't 2nd guess referees) MRP

Clear contact on the arm, therefore there was a foul. FFA logic.

All the nix players falling over as soon as the ball hits the back of the net would be a great celebration,and send a real message (and probably incur another fine which could get us another karma keg)

To be honest, when I read the decision I felt sick. How they could come to that decision reeks of something more sinister. I have laughed at some comments in the past about how the FFA may have it in for the Nix and don't want them to win the league, but this decision deserves a red card and a ban

Players should all take dives when shaking hands with Geronimo at our home match against them.

I'd just say one thing - Adelaide have done pretty well with their Argentinians, first Flores and now this guy...

This is my work's local.

Half of it is all awesomeness. The other half is the dogs bollocks.

It's a sign.

(no really, it is a sign).

If it was the other way round and a Nix player had dived (god forbid) the card would have been recinded and the nix player banned for 2 games.  Any time a nix player is less than 2m onside he is offside and vice versa.  Look at the statistics on cards and penalties awarded to the nix to see how we are treated.  We will not be allowed to win this league.  We will never be allowed in the top two to make sure the GF is not over here.  We will never be allowed to make the GF Remember the Sydney punched in goal.

The game was reffed down the middle until we scored.  The instruction was clearly sent out at half time to the refs.  Even the biased full of shit commentators stated "Home town decisions" and the "Phoenix not getting the rub of the green"

The email bomb idea has merit

I am only going to comment on the Ben Sigmund incident and not the interesting offside calls.

The dive is not the real problem.

Problem 1.  The player was not denied an obvious goal scoring opportunity. The keeper was closer to the ball than the attacker.  The attacker had kicked the ball so far ahead that he had no likelyhood of getting it back before our keeper scopped it up.  This is evident in the footage.

Problem 2  The Assistance Referee was abysmal.  He had a better view of the incident and should have called the referee over and said what he saw.  He saw the tug, he saw the attacker lift his legs as though he had been kicked when he had not and he saw that the attacker has no chance of scoring.  Abysmal in that he left his partner out to dry.

Problem 3  Our failure to recognise FFA's constant view that it is their competition, their rules, their judge, jury and executioner and the obvious lack of justice shown by them against a non Australian team.  We should realise that this has happened to every team playing in all of the codes run by and from Australia.

Problem 4  We expected FFA do to do anything other than what they did.  Our hearts said they should,  but our brains should have told us that they would do just what they did - nothing - see problem 3.

Problem 5  FFA has now made diving legal.

Well, I suggest we now learn some appropriate Spanish words to greet Jeronimo when he appears at the Ring of Fire.  But we need to make it known to FFA that Jeronimo is not the only one showing poor judgement.

How about at the adelaide home game everybody sits down when he touches the ball .Simulate falling over?

shit not till Feb 24th

Hire Clattenburg? I hear he's about to be sacked for being racist, and you know how they love that shit in 'fuckin straya'

email bomb to the FFA, it's shocking and I for one think we should all be calling for an independant review, searching out corruption in our game.

An Idea I have been throwing around for the past 5 seasons! There is an old match thread somewhere on here that backs up my claim!

Maybe the mods can find it ad post a linkie?

Pwaaaahahahahahahahahaha!

patrick478 wrote:

terminator_x wrote:

Sigh, there's a parallel universe where Siggy doesn't touch Jeronimo, Paston grabs the ball just before legitimately colliding with him and leaving the little bastard unconscious on the ground. I wanna live in that world.

This is the darkest timeline. 

*Heart Emoticon* He should have caught the dice!

Yeah yeah that's the story! Holding up score cards every time he hits the deck would look classic!

Total BS. The key to it now though is that the boys can refocus and use it as fuel to smash the Tards this weekend.

Pin these headlines all over the walls boys!

Those calling it a conspiracy, that is ridiculous, the FFA are too incompetent for that. The limited scope of the MRP has let them avoid dealing with the bigger issue, that is bureaucracy.

Hope the boys can put this behind them and focus on the Victory game. Picking up points there is vital.

Meanwhile, somewhere in Jared Gilletts tiny little brain...

This is getting silly. After an extreme close-up super-slo-mo replay it is very, very obvious that Siggy brutally fouled the Agentinian version of Greg Luganis by lightly brushing his arm

You're probably sitting on a chair now. I challenge you to lightly brush your own arm (or ask a bystander to do it for you) without being knocked clear off your chair and ending up sprawled on the carpet.

 Adelaide fan tells me that we should be upset by Durante as "Code of Conduct applies, not libel law. It is unprofessional and disrespectful in the extreme to call a fellow player a cheat."

Not when he's a cheat, it isn't!

Adelaide fans have this one wrong! They think that the FFA are punishing Durante for calling another player a cheat. The truth is they are reprimanding him for labelling the Match Officials as incompetent!

So all you Adelaide fans out there, pull your heads out of your arses and see this for what it really is!

NB: This post was typed whilst I was lying on the floor at work after a colleague walked within 5 yards of me and knocked me to the ground!!!

This is relevant.

Tana Umanga will be in Wellington for Tactical Tiddlywinks training pre next A League home game.

Football is a non contact game and refs will strictly enforce this on the Wellington Phoenix. 

 It is some of JayFC's finest work.

Two tweets from Clint Bolton yesterday:

"Maybe we can kill 2 birds with 1 stone & bring in netball referees to make football a non contact sport.....  #divedivedive"

"and while we're at it why don't we just get rid of keepers & defenders seeing as they just get in the way....."

Mr Bolton went up in my estimations after I read those.

 He's from Newcastle...

I am not a Twit!

Anyways, that hand signal means something totally different in Newcastle and it's not alsways something you might "Like"

It shows a clip of Tim Brown diving... Ummm... Cheat ?