Phoenix v Gypsies Sun 25th @ 4:00pm

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almost 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

What we need is a midfield player like McGlinchey. Pace, football brain and the ability to open up defences.Very unlike anything we have.

If you are old and wise you were probably young and stupid

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almost 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Bloody hell we are so bloody slow,as for counter attacking our idea seems to be go backwards more often than we go forwards.

Congratulations boys on getting us to another finals series.But and a big one at that i dont think that we can kid ourselves in any way that it has been a pretty watch.At least we are there lets hope there is some serious work done on the squad for next season.

GET YOUR SHIRTS OFF FOR THE BOYS

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almost 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Now that was sh*t. it's all well and good to hold onto the ball but do something with the farkin thing other than give it away in our own half. we were devoid of ideas today and this can't continue if we want to win the finals series

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almost 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

WPFC1 wrote:

Pavlovic blows .

Fixed.

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almost 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

We are Wank

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almost 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Doloras wrote:

It was pretty plain that Iffy was still getting over the flu. Still, I am glad that those moaners who said that Boring Defensive Ricki was going to park the bus were wrong.Now: to start praying that Heart don't come fifth.

Yes, it truly was a magnificent display of attacking football, how wrong we all were

Same old same old for this season. Our FIFTH home defeat which is very poor stuff. Surprisingly Durante was at fault for both goals with 2 woeful passes under no pressure.

We are fairly devoid of ideas going forward and when we do create chances the finishing is just not good enough. Greenacre's one-on-one first half was a truly terrible effort, and Pavlovich's just showed how bad he really is, first touch of a crippled donkey.

Midfield of Brown and Lia is just appalling. Brown barely scores any more so offers literally nothing and Lia is crap, pure and simple. For this off the ball work that their fan clubs say they do, we've been overrun in midfield 2 weeks running in midfield with those pair posted missing!

Agree with whoever said above that we are far too slow...counter attacks break down so often because of dithering on the ball, usually Bertos, and the chance is lost.

Lots of work needed in the pre season and I would not be unhappy with an entire new midfield, preferably with players that can control games and not jog around aimlessly.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qe_B5CzbTJo - Caceres winning penalty v Perth - footage from the Fever Zone

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almost 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Crowd size?

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almost 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Steve-O wrote:

Doloras wrote:

Yes, it truly was a magnificent display of attacking football, how wrong we all were

Same old same old for this season. Our FIFTH home defeat which is very poor stuff. Surprisingly Durante was at fault for both goals with 2 woeful passes under no pressure.

I think her point was its not like we came out with a defensive mindset. We did look to attack, we were just a bit sh*t at it.

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almost 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

chrispy wrote:

Crowd size?

Just shy of 10k

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almost 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

chrispy wrote:

Crowd size?

I seem to recall from the television it was about 9,700. Or something. Under 10,000 anyway. I stand to be corrected, even though I am sitting.

Hey you bastards I'm still here.

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almost 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

chrispy wrote:

Crowd size?

9802

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almost 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Jeff Vader wrote:

Where is the drop Leo crowd?

Right here and I still say it

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almost 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Jeff, please don't say you're saying that because he scored a goal (That looked like it was intended to be a cross)

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almost 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

giddyup wrote:

chrispy wrote:

Crowd size?

9802

Woah. I thought that they were harping on during the week how strong the ticket sales were

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almost 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

homer_simpson wrote:

Jeff Vader wrote:

Where is the drop Leo crowd?

Right here and I still say it

I say drop him too!!...he did nothing all game and the goal..well looked like a cross to me

" If you only have a hammer you tend to see every problem as a nail" - maslow

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almost 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

On the basis of today's showing, I think Greenie to the bench, Ward to the wing, Sanchez into the middle and Pav somewhere the f*ck away from here. On the Pav note, what exactly has he done that say, Dakota Lukas, couldn't have done?

People like Coldplay and voted for the Nazis. You can't trust people.

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almost 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

I think Ward played very well, had some great touches on the ball. Did enough to start ahead of one of Brown, Sanchez or Lia.

Yellow Fever - Misery loves company

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almost 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Doloras wrote:

you couldnt have been watching the same game as me then...we were devoid of ideas, and as for attacking..phh we couldnt have attacked our way out of a paper bag and as for parking the bus...we aint good enough to do that

" If you only have a hammer you tend to see every problem as a nail" - maslow

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almost 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Quote[On the Pav note, what exactly has he done that say, Dakota Lukas, couldn't have done? ]
Being chosen by Ricki to play hamezilla2012-03-25 20:17:07

COYN

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almost 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

patrick478 wrote:

I think Ward played very well, had some great touches on the ball. Did enough to start ahead of one of Brown, Sanchez or Lia.

Said to my mate that I had seen more of Ward in the 10 minutes he had been on at that point than I had seen Brown and Lia the entire game.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qe_B5CzbTJo - Caceres winning penalty v Perth - footage from the Fever Zone

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almost 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Steve-O wrote:

Doloras wrote:

Yes, it truly was a magnificent display of attacking football, how wrong we all were

very happy to agree with you on this with one addition maybe a new manager who has some idea

" If you only have a hammer you tend to see every problem as a nail" - maslow

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almost 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

BarryZuckerkorn wrote:

Not get sent off for dissent? Not been a bit of a c**t to phoenix sponsors?

Though yeah, wouldn't be too disappointed if we let Pavlovich go.

Tegal2012-03-25 20:23:48

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almost 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Pavlovich has now had enough time to prove himself, he hasn't, time to say bye bye.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qe_B5CzbTJo - Caceres winning penalty v Perth - footage from the Fever Zone

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almost 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Leggy wrote:

What we need is a midfield player like McGlinchey. Pace, football brain and the ability to open up defences.Very unlike anything we have.

lol - we'd need to find another two or three players who could keep up with him as well.

dunno - thought today showed how close you can go with a bit of effort. CCM were so much techically better than us and finished a couple of goals clinically. But for all that we hustled and bustled and created a heap of chances. Just a shame that each time we did that, they'd had time to have a beer, put a bet on the TAB, share a few jokes and pop out to see how we were going and get 8 behind the ball. Reminded me of playing Brisbane when every Nix player on the ball had two or three defenders surrounding them before they could think what the heck was going on.

Fourth is a pretty good effort, but it'd be great to have a youth team and a few fit, fast young fellas coming on.

As for Brown, ffs every time he fouled he looked like he couldn't see how the ref could have called it. Brown's tackle is like Pavlovich's first touch. totally unco.

Still enjoyed the game, CCM were a pleasure to watch a lot of the time and despite their limitations the Nix stayed in it, sort of, and created plenty of half chances.

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almost 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

We have limitations. But we also have an advantage - having NZ and australian players count as local. That balances it out for me.

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almost 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

BarryZuckerkorn wrote:

HN will bag him bit Wards output in terms of goals and assists in a 3rd of a season has matched greenacres whole seasons output (4).. Sad but true.

Im all for greenie to bench for the crunch game, anything to get Sanchez back up front to play with ifill. Probably no chance in hell ricki will see it that way. I just cant see us progessing with Lia/Brown/Greenie as our middle 3.

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almost 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

On the other hand, Greenie has more goals than Paston. So we should move Greenie to goalkeeper, and put Ward up front.

Grand final here we come.

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almost 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Tegal wrote:

On the other hand, Greenie has more goals than Paston. So we should move Greenie to goalkeeper, and put Ward up front.

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Grand final here we come.

Yellow Fever - Misery loves company

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almost 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Tegal wrote:

On the other hand, Greenie has more goals than Paston. So we should move Greenie to goalkeeper, and put Ward up front.

Grand final here we come.

Being an import one could surely expect that?

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almost 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Steve-O wrote:

Pavlovich has now had enough time to prove himself, he hasn't, time to say bye bye.

Agreed.

However, I think this loss goes on Dura, 2 poor touches - ruthlessly punished - led directly to goals - just like the 3rd goal (a poor touch by Lia) we conceded against the Victory.

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almost 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

chuckywolf wrote:

BarryZuckerkorn wrote:

I just think Greenie's age seems to be showing, and although he works hard I don't think he scores or creates enough to justify starting in a central attacking position - especially when he's not a big target man either! And we looked at our best this season when we had Sanchez playing centrally so that's my solution. Agreed that Ricki won't see it that way though

People like Coldplay and voted for the Nazis. You can't trust people.

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almost 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

probably the least miserable i've felt after a home loss- perhaps i'm getting used to them

though it more a case of knowing that once they'd scored two - there was not a lot riding on the rest of the game apart from, pride, form, and crowd numbers for friday

oh and in agreement with others - Pav's comedy value is now outweighed by the fact that we desperately need a player or 2 who can score

oh well at least - touch wood - there were no injuries

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almost 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Tegal wrote:

We have limitations. But we also have an advantage - having NZ and australian players count as local. That balances it out for me.

Sometimes I wonder if this is a disadvantage. If Kiwis counted as imports we'd maybe be more likely to get shot of Brown, Lochhead and Bertos...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qe_B5CzbTJo - Caceres winning penalty v Perth - footage from the Fever Zone

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almost 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Steve-O wrote:

Tegal wrote:

We have limitations. But we also have an advantage - having NZ and australian players count as local. That balances it out for me.

Sometimes I wonder if this is a disadvantage. If Kiwis counted as imports we'd maybe be more likely to get shot of Brown, Lochhead and Bertos...

I was actually thinking that as I typed. Good call.

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almost 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

TIP-Dadi wrote:

Steve-O wrote:

Pavlovich has now had enough time to prove himself, he hasn't, time to say bye bye.

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Agreed.

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However, I think this loss goes on Dura, 2 poor touches - ruthlessly punished - led directly to goals - just like the 3rd goal (a poor touch by Lia) ï¿½we conceded against the Victory.

Thing is, it is easier to forgive Durante as he is usually very solid. He was at fault for both goals though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qe_B5CzbTJo - Caceres winning penalty v Perth - footage from the Fever Zone

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almost 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

early in the first half dura went over to the side line and got something off one of the sideline staff and looked like he was swallowing some pills

he might not have been in the best of nick

if it's something like Iffy's flu then hopefully it won't spread

lots of 'if' s there and probably nothing to worry about

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almost 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

only 2 if's actually

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almost 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

true, i must try harder

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almost 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

You didn't have any if's there!

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almost 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

damn!

this if-ing business is way harder than i thoughttigers2012-03-25 21:42:14

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