Nix vs Perth Feb 2nd 5:00pm - The Fox pre and post game

#hewaswrong

Almost had an apoplexy in the last few minutes when Fenton farted around, lost possession and gave up a free kick on the edge of the box. Ugly win but a massive relief and a good team effort.

Ugly, but I'll take the win. Very much a game of two bottom clubs....

 ...sorry....

Just a reminder of what positivity  is.

Ugly win, fairly boring game overall but happy with three points

 In the words of the football philosopher, Bill Keegan, "today, I love football"

Boring, dire, poor skills for most of the game, hoofball..... hope we win the rest of our games like this.

It was the sort of win we needed, grafted it out.

Thought Hogg played well

Just got back from the game.. solid. Solid football, solid crowd, solid result. 

Not pretty, but what can you expect from two sides desperate to avoid the bottom spot?

I wouldn't read too much into only beating the bottom team by one, because they were up for it and, er, desperate.

Cernak had a good game. Hogg solid. Pasty, well, just OK really, I think it's time for Moss. Iffy good. 

Pretty good crowd and a good atmosphere. 

PS official crowd 12K

That was insanely boring............ but we won!

*looks at league table* #pathetic

He was OK, but several times he did dodgy moments where he drops the ball and then picks it up again. It's not so much the performance today but the performance over the last few weeks, e.g. being outjumped by Heskey last week. 

It's not a particularly strongly held opinion. 

that result bodes well for the next 8 games

Fred de jong was awful on comms. Just awful. 

Hogg did enough. Glad Boxall will get another run. Like to see stein benched perm.

PS Kudos for the "GARETH MORGAN'S FELINE ARMY" chant..

In two minds with Waffles, think he does some good hold up play, don't think he fits into the style of play RH chooses to use.

who cares. We won!!!

Clearly youve been hacked

Cernak looked really good, so did Hogg.

FZ was pretty decent i thought. Only early in the second half the atmosphere was a bit dead apart from that i enjoyed it.

Slighty disappointed i didn't get to meet the (in)famous Doloras.

so last weeks popular theme was why wasn't Waffles brought on instead of Brockie - and this week's theme is seems is that Brockie is twice the player (or some kind of fraction better at least) than Waffles.

I thought both were good today - Brockie worked harder and had a bit of a free licence and i thought in the first half Waffles worked really hard and linked play particularly well, he tailed off in the second half and i thought it was the right call to sub him for fresh legs.

I for one advocate them both playing next week - I guess the only change I might look at is possibly a formation change to 4-2-3-1 with Lia dropping off for Fenton or Sanchez and Cernak dropping deeper next to Manny.  But would be happy to see today's lineup next week (minus sigmund of course).  EDIT - just realised they may have already been playing 4-2-3-1

Was happy with Hogg - didn't think he would do so well - he covered really well once or twice (don't think i have seen lochead do that all season), so would be happy to see him continue.

 Couldnt give a shit what it looked like its a win and hopefully goes some way to giving the guys some confidence.Could be the start of another of our late runs to the finals

Cernak was class in the first half. Nice feet, a bit of pace, an athletic player and ran his socks off. Looked at first glance to be superior to Dani. Second half he faded but I am not sure how much top football he has had recently.

Brockie is rubbish. Soon as Stein went off we lost complete shape.