Phoenix v Sydney - 2/08

How can victory be so painful?

I'd offer to help, but i expect I'll be a bit busy on wednesday night

Swine.

you must be telepathic HH,

it actually shows that ed baranowski could be one of a biggest strengths this season, in all three preseason games we've shown incredible fitness and been going strong right up until the final whistle

be nice if we can build on our pattern by introducing a strong first half to our performances

Theres only oooooone Baranowski
Oooooone Baranowski
Walking along
Singing a song
Walking in an Eddie wonderland.....

A huge coup for us who is showing his value to the squad already....

be good if we do give a chant for eddie, especially late in the game

Why they only Brousqe pictures ?

GO THE PHOENIX!!! im so gutted ill miss the final.

a cunning plan might be to keep an eye on the "coverage of last night's game" topic Neveu

sunday star times hav nothing on the game fuk they are rubbish

Yes Thanx tigers will do

thats a great second half performance roll on the finals, feeling good

thats not fair- theres a photo of Ryan Nelson to cut out and put on your fridge...


....goes and gets coat

A few points on the game...

*Sigmund didn't really look that up to it. Easily flustered, suspect positionally - clearly at fault for the first goal when he let Brosque get inside him.
*Muscat looked nae bad, not perfect by any means though
*Jekyll and Hyde game. Was all Sydney in the first half when the Nix had absolutely nothing. Could've been three or four. Same can be said about the second half - all Nix. Once they got the first goal (inoccuous from a defensive mess-up between Fyfe and Necevski at our end), tails came up and it was on. Giraldi giving away a stupid penalty (Kwasnik was facing the corner flag and Giraldi put his hands in his back) was where the game really turned.
Although again, was a criminal backpass that allowed Gao to round Necevski for the second.

Nix need to start the game better, and will probably look better with Gao and Bertos on the pitch from the start, as well as certainly McKain at CB. But as I expected - easy top 4 material if not top 2.

Just gutted we threw it away being so defensively naive.

Good luck against the tards, hope you belt them.

cheers for the insights Jaza, it was a nightmare last night having so little information

midweek match under lights. doesn't get much better.
the nervous anticipation is with me already.

Even more unhappy at the way the cards were picked up. Both of Brosque's yellows over two games were as a result of him winning the foul and then mouthing off at the ref for not being sterner with the opposition. Whilst he had a point both times, f**king stupid thing to do.

NFI what happened with the reds. Was an all in brawl type situation when it happened and we didn't know who'd gone off until we got home.

Also though Johnno looked (sadly) off the pace and Ferrante's work was sketchy all night. Strangely enough the Nix looked weakest down the middle.

I'd be super interested to see a full Nix outfit after last night. More solidity down the middle with players coming back could prove very interestin.

Home final has to be celebrated, even if it is only the preseaon, you can't tell me that Sydney, didn't want to be there, or Central Coast or adelaide. They would have all wanted to be involved, adn win it! We have it at home in our second season!

This is aweseom for us, the game in NZ and bodes really well for the upcoming season.

Dissapointed with siggy - thought he'd do well

he just needs a bit of higher level experience and then we'll hopefully see what he can do

hey anyone know where you can see the goals of the phoenix playing sydney??!

im sure siggy will learn alot from dura and mckain

sure he will

dammit, relied on tv3 for some highlights but they didnt come to the show...

No footage of the game on tv 3, was anyone here watching one news?

problem is they cant source the footage. they are a tv news show, no video = no coverage

Not true. They quickly mention other sports at the end, an acknowledgement is ok