Nix vs Adelaide

Was quietly surprised that Reddy did so well considering he has been out of first team football for so long. One stupid clearance from a backpass, but overall his positioning was sound and although it was one of our more bumbling defensive efforts the back four seemed more comfortable having him between the sticks than Crowther.

In the 2nd half...Hearfield was marking/covering two players, and that is why he was getting caught out..If McKain, Durante or maybe Bertos were picking up their man - there would not of been an issue!! So I dont think you could blame hearfield at all for that problem when he got stuck marking two players..

Dunno, she's a model. I had just pull the picture off a t-shirt website from a google search because she had the "believe" definition on an all white shirt. Yeah she's a gorgeous gal from a modest church background, I think.

Those chips are really Brazilian toehacks and designed to deceive rather than to outpower the goalkeepers reach. It is quite accurate and South Americans, especially Brazilians, do it quite often. Its quite an underestimated skill which you don't normally see.

You can see on Reddy faces, that he's thinking "Damn, I thought it will be away from the goal and I could have stopped that". But to his credit, he learnt straightaway and pull off the save a few minutes afterward in the same type of situation. Hopefully he will continue recognise that same type of shot and account for the margin of error in his career. Can't take things for granted even your own judgement of ball path.

He has been quite steady today and he seems to be in the right position. It was that "Damn I could have dive and stop that one going in" on his face moment that gets all keepers because of the unusual ball flight.

If you'd read what I typed it's completely different from marking two players.  Two phoenix guys were on one of their players.  So quite the opposite infact.

Why is it when we are supposedly stacked with wide midfield players, we can not get a decent cross in to the box, even from a dead ball situation. Week after week Daniel and Berttos hit lame free kicks and crosses straight at defenders, or horrible loopy hanging balls.

he was garbage, poor touch and is WAY too small to be playing with the "men". If he perhaps had a bit of aggressiveness about him he could counter the fact he gets bumped off the ball stupidly easily, but he doesn't even have that. His whole attitude seems to come across as he doesn't even give a f**k he's on the park even though he should absolutely be savouring it. Doesn't put in half the effort that Costa does.

HAHAHAHAHA you cant be serious!!!!!!

agree...soft ref tonight......[.hate to think if Mike Hester had been in the middle....]  His lack of cards wrecked the match totally...how many fouls in the match ? ChopperHarris2009-12-19 09:08:58

Oh FFS, Rojas needs time to develop for sure, but like someone pointed out, he (and Costa) are at a disadvantage because Nix have no youth squad. Last year when Tommy Oar came on I thought exactly the same thing 'he's far too small and wont last 5 minutes' then he scored against us (from a free kick?) and now he's a regular starter.timmymadden2009-12-19 09:51:33

Lonegunmen2009-12-19 10:54:06

he barely got half the game time Costa did agree he wasn't flash but  he's 17, the real question is why does Ricki have so much faith in a 17 year old yet he keeps the likes of Diego on the bench or not even in the squad at all
giddyup2009-12-19 11:02:15

Exactly - we had one player who missed a couple of absolute sitters, would have won 3-1, so you sack the whole team?

Agree. A drew was a fair result I think and compared to our previous results away to Adelaide, i'm happy with it.

We played ok last night considering the players out and a draw was more than I expected if I am honest.

Caceres scored us goal in his first minute.
brilliant.

Pretty much well summed up. Real lack of urgency at the end pissed me off. Tim Brown had 3 good headed chances to of which were sitters, pretty annoying he didn't score.

we supposedly were 442 from the start with daniel up front. as predicted he was pants up front or maybe MIA is a better description. Anyone questioning costas game after playing the whole 1st half up front alone should maybe look at the delivery he gets.

Still a much better performance from the team last night than at the Ring of Dirt.

and 13 days for brown to learn how to finish.

He is going to have to develop a long long way before he will be A-League quality, obviously what he has done is no mean feat and well done to him and all for becoming involved in a professional squad at such a young age, but perhaps the club needs to look more carefully about how they blood younger players, Oar is more effective because the kid actually gets stuck in, I didn't see Rojas once put in an effort to keep a player off him. Sorry if it upsets you all to be critical of him, but if he is playing for a professional team then he is subject to the same criticism that any player would receive once they step upon the park.

He will bulk up as he grows over the next 3 or 4 years but he and Oar are two different players with 2 different roles. Oar has been given a licence to go for it. and he does with pace and skill as Manny found out. Rojas is different.

It wasn't only Brown who missed free headers. Durante did the same thing.

But it all comes back to the fact whenver our team gets in a decent position to take some shots at goal, they f**k it up.

Either we get someone trying to play freestyle football in the box, and lose possesion, or we have too many poor touches, and lose any advantage gained from quick passing.

Ifill's first touch has been quite awful in the last few games, and holding onto the ball instead of spreading it around just makes it too easy for the defence.

So yeah, if they can't pull their heads out, and start winning games, sack the whole team.

Think Caceres has been consistently better than Bertos and how he doesn't start ahead of Daniel is a mystery to me.

Goals are on the video clip on this link

http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,26505954-12428,00.html

Paper names Brown as James Brown :)

This goal was seen differently by a lot of others to the way you put it

"Adelaide's Brazilian fullback Alemao ignited the game with a stunning 30-metre strike in the 57th minute.....Alemao produced the game's highlight when he collected the ball in midfield, was left unmarked and unleashed his wonder strike into the net for his first goal of the season." 

"Alemao scored for the first time since January 3 when he gathered a loose ball just over the halfway line, dribbled a few metres forward before unleashing an unstoppable 30m drive into the corner of the net."

Because Caceres can't put in for the full 90 mins and also is allergic to defending

Yup, Caceres still has a lot to do to get a starting spot...of course anyone should look half decent for the first 5mins after being subbed in after 70 mins

Clowns the lot of them.


People say Caceres is an impact player.  Maybe that's true.  But regardless he should start next week as he'd probably make more of an impact then Daniel regardless of whether he actually did anything.

He did start the last couple of games and didn't do anything, hence why he dropped back to the bench..

He started one, maybe two games recently that I remember.  Even if he does nothing he'll be better than Daniel so there's not really an issue.

Interesting that, according to last night's commentary, he's 27, played for 11 clubs and hasn't really nailed down a starting spot at any of them. Keep him on the bench, imo.

I'd like to see someone better in his place then.  A lazy, useless, overconfident Bertos/Daniel isn't the answer.  Rojas?  Not while I'm still breathing.  Ferrante - certainly not and neither with Diego.

To be fair Leo was one of our best players in the 2nd half. The team, collectively, was bad for the most of the first.

Daniel didn't have his best game. Seemed to spend most of it on the deck after head clashes..

Not a great game from Daniel last night but if you measure his cumulative contribution to the Nix so far this season he's doing as well as Leo and far better than Caceres and Diego, both of whom are wildly inconsistent.

daniel has been very average for awhile now.