Phoenix v Sydney - Nov 1 - match thread

disappointing but not as gut wrenching as some of those late goal concessions that cost us 2 points

One thing frustrates me and not just this game. That is the amount of times Lochhead or Bertos and a few others bang in their crosses 15-20 metres from the by-line. Tonight I saw Lochhead twice just hit the ball over to no effect. He had space in front of him both times. He can beat a player so why not try to get down the paddock just a few yards more?
I'm sure Greenie would appreciate it.

Tim Brown does not have the technical ability to be a central midfielder in the A-League

all you negative guys can get over it..show some positiveness for the games ahead. dam u winge like bitches lol

based on what? daniel the last couple of weeks has been at his best for us. Hearfield has no first tough, scores occasionally, at best a bench player.

We didn't seem to be able to muster anything through the middle.  At the start all our attack seemed to go down the left, and they had us out numbered there 2-1....

Agreed Royal. Have been saying the same for weeks and commented that last week we did much less of this and actually got into the box and hit the byline before crossing. These aimless diagonal punts into the box are rarely going to cause any problems because they are floated in, no pace on the ball, and any header that is won is not going to trouble the keeper because its nearly impossible to get any power on the header. Although most of them we don't even get near to heading them anyway.

Costa scored from just such a cross.

Costa scored from a low cross fired in with a bit of pace, not a floated diagonal effort.

mate, that's Lochhead for ya.

runs straight down line never looks up and hoofs in the cross.

Good case in point. Other crosses wasted when they could have got further down the park

Sigmund, Lockhead and Brown for starters, or were you watching a another game from me today

As I said during the week, the Gold Coast are a very poor side

Some more hack journalism in the match report.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/football/3020017/Phoenix-return-to-the-real-world

"The Phoenix's cause was not helped by the early loss of goalkeeper Mark Paston, who left the field with a suspected hip injury in just the eighth minute after colliding heavily with an attacker."

He collided with Sigmund. Clearly.

"Barbarouses finally gave Wellington something to cheer about when he latched on to a Daniel cross in the 81st minute"

It was a cross by Ifill.

Do they even watch the game???

You think 3 of the better players for us this year shouldn't be on the park?

well - i thought it was an entertaining game.

Sydney came out looking like they were playing a team that scored 6 goals last week and they really put it on the park against us.  played well and deserved a lead but maybe a bit more conservative play by us might have kept us closer at half time 

Then second half we got back into it, costa played well.  entertaining footy from both sides. Sydney and us could both have scored a couple more goals (penalty included)

beaten by a better team, with a fair bit more pace than us.  might be a useful lesson for ricki and the lads to work through, i think they might get more out of this game than the GCU one, so long as they don't get down about it.  i thought they kept playing positively so hopefully they'll still be "up" as a squad.

over and out from me, enjoyed all your comments, even the usual smithy/Steve-O joust

have a good night all

After last week i'm surprised they didn't switch off after 80 minutes, as that is how long they think a game of football goes for.

Are you kidding? They all have one bad game. Kind of agree with brown however.
Sigmund and Lochhead are both good players. Sigmunds been outstanding lately, for both club and country
threat2009-11-01 22:16:52

oh well. crashing back to earth. pretty crap first half. Sydney are a pretty good side to be fair. Brosque and Bridge combining well. I'd like to see the ball swung in from left hand corners (not Daniel outswinging). Also Daniel crossing dead balls on the right. Also agreewith whoever said Lochy shouldnt cross so early when he has space. Crowther is mental i think

Are people using random name generators for these posts ?

Rojas for Paston !
Ferrante for Ifill !

Steve-O for Ricki!

got rid of Dodd & Kwasnik....now all we need to do is get rid of Hearfield and Mulligan and we will be right ;)

Fallon for Steve-O

Alan Shearer for Ricki !!!!!!!!    

Nice one HN, almost as funny as Hearfield for Daniel.  Not quite, but almost.

After some poor early defending, I didnt think we were too bad.