Phoenix v Jets - Sunday 22

Brisbane look very average at the moment, but the thing is they have some great players that can do anything

IT'S NOT BLOODY TIDLY WINKS

Who ?

Miller ?  Maybe.  Oar ?  Slight chance. Nichols ?  No chance.  Henrique ?  Banstick.

Not sure where Zullo is at.

I thought Diego played a good game, comfortable on the ball, showed for it and passed ball around nicely.

Don't want to go back through the thread, so apologies if it has been discussed.

I would never want to take a goal away from my fav team and especially my current fav player Paul ifill, but what's the rule of having his boot at ear level and (after seeing the replay) kicking grizzly beer Milicevic in the bonce while scoring?

Grizzly voiced his displeasure but the rest certainly didn't seem to mind.
Royal2009-11-23 22:40:08

We desperately need the points against you guys this weekend but tbh I can't see it happening. Ange is just as bad as Frankie in  persisting with lost causes like Packer, Dodd ans Nichols. Can't believe that our biggest attacking spark in Oar was left on the bench. Henrique I can understood, given his lack of recent match practice.

Unfortunately, his brain snap near the end will ensure he is not available to face you guys. We need a fit Mass, Zullo, Miller and Reinaldo to be any chance of going on a late-season run. Unfortunately, that prospect is still a few weeks away.

As for the Nix, you're just getting better and better. I can see Daniel, Ifill and Bertos carving up Packer and Franjic, neither of whom are in the class of Muscat and Lochhead.       

I quite like Franjic.

He's an okay attacker but for me he struggles defensively which should be his bread and butter.

From what I understand, there is no specific law for 'high boot' as such, but there are laws to award free kicks, if in the referees opinion a raised boot is in danger of causing injury to a player eg a boot could end up in the face.
This law also seems to cover the efforts of bicycle kicks, injuring another player, or even the player executing the bicycle kick

Branko thought it was dangerous because the big Lump put his head down towards the ball.
It appeared on the TV he said to the referee 'He's f**king 6 foot 4' or something along those lines.

The referee didn't have a problem with the goal, and that's pretty much the end of the story.

From Law 12:

I have no problem with the goal because it was ours, but Ifill did kick his head and Milicevic hardly bent over at all, so it was definitely high. I think if it was in the middle of the field a free kick would have been given.
We'll take it, but would have complained if it was at the other end, just as the French would have moaned if an Irishman had scored off a hand ball. Win some, lose some
Royal2009-11-24 10:39:41

Player is always entitled to go for the ball, and in front of goal they tend to get more slack than they would if they were kung-fu kicking in the mid-field (or into the crowd in Cantona's case...)

If there was more connection with player than ball, then the referee would definitely have called a free kick, but it was mostly ball.

Did Milicevic even know he had copped one in the scone?

Didnt look like it to me

It did make him extremely ugly, so assumed it made contact. Maybe it didn't

I just thought he looked like that cos he got beaten to the ball.

Na, he got smacked in the head good and proper. Serves him right

Football Federation Australia (FFA) advises that Newcastle Jets Head Coach Branko Culina has breached the National Code of Conduct for his comments in the press conference following the Round 15 match between Newcastle Jets and Wellington Phoenix.

 

• FFA finds the Coach guilty of breaching clause 5.1 (a) of the Code;
• FFA is entitled to sanction Mr Culina in accordance with Part V of the FFA Statutes; and

On the basis of its finding, FFA imposes a fine, payable by the Coach to FFA, of $3,000.

What did he say ?

FFA are turning into a bunch of wowsers. First Vidmar, now Culina for by most standards very tepid remarks in terms of 'offensiveness'.

True story.

^^

Just a quick note on this game.