Phoenix vs Adelaide

1-1 Still in.
Advantage CCM tho' with Ogerrs missing next one

STAND UP FOR THE LADS!!!

That was hands down the bravest show this team has put on in its short history. Congratulations guys. You've done yourselves and the club proud.

Who would've thought we'd be still in with a rough chance of a top 4 place 3 or 4 months ago?

great heart lads

That was a very very good performance, if we had 11 men could/should have won.

Still, brilliant perfermance, all over them!

great effort by the boys...bad luck for brownie but 2 yellows =a pain in the arse...just a pity when refs leave themselves open to calls of bias..ie ognonowskis tackle on mckain..love to know how that isnt a sending off offence....still there was a lot to admire in that effort..damn shame that it wasnt there at odd times during the season..good to see costaon and looking  like he belonged...big ups the the fever for a great supporters effort 

Well done boys. We're still in it -just.
Streaming was sh@t in the second half, but it looked like a good, even end to end contest, even after we went down to 10 men.
It's not exactly "in our own hands" as some are saying, but if we do our bit next week there's a chance of playoff football.

Well really thought that that Omgwhathisnamekis should have been red carded for the knee in guts, he was going full on and there was no way he could have reached that ball that Mckains got and he knew that.

They all played well, even when one man down. Smeltz gave his all but couldn't just get that slightly glance/deflection touch in his finishing. He was marked heavily although Leo, Costa and Daniel help create gaps for him to sneak in.AllWhitebelievr2009-01-18 19:09:13

well done lads. Massive respect.
You've done the fever proud.
Lets hope Adelaide recover and thrash CCM leaving us to beat Melbourne and create history.

And to those who doubted Costa...

We would be out of this competition if it wasn't for him

He had a stunner today, would have to be MOM, Mossy played well too when called upon, a couple of mistakes but generally very solid

All of those who said this last week after the SFC game should be well and truly ashamed of themselves.

e.g. this was posted last week
Originally posted by Garry

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wondeful game. one of the better games this season. just we could have won??!!

how can they do what brown did for his second yellow in a crucial part of the field and get away with no cards the ref was inconsistent and as usual bias imo.

that ref was a f**kwit sorry but he was absolutely horrible

well done phoenix great effort the 2nd half

That was good play. sh*t reffing

Am I the only one who finds the "OMG The referees are bias Just coz where from NZ" sydrome just a tad repedtitive, stupid, boring and unnesscary?

We played tonight like we really wanted it - great heart, great spirit - same again next week lads !!!

did anyone else think dat shane smeltz wasnt up to standard

No you're not. Ben Williams aside (even the aussies agree about him) they're not that bad. Just think back to the Warriors early days, that was something to complain about

Good on Costa for battling, but he wasn't near a flash as some are raving about on here. Ogre had his measure all day.
Great he scored a goal and he will benefit greatly.

Top effort from the side to get a point, but two things erk me.
1. Brown's tackle on Dodd when he was on a yellow and with so much of the game to go - dumb. What did he think would happen?
2. Bertos barge two minutes later when he was on a yellow - even dumber.
If the ref was consistent- and he was quite the opposite - then Bertos would have/should have gone as well and we would have had 9.

Shame Smeltz was off his game, he might have nailed the winner in the last two minutes in any other game.

great effort

Royal2009-01-18 20:00:23

But Royal, given his first start in the context of things it was a superb effort and show the promise of whats to come - all the Aleague teams are giving there youngsters a go, we seem to be a bit slow in promoting ours - Go Hard Costa!

You got it. People on here say he was great just because he was promising.
I thought he did well under the circumstances, but was no means great. Great goal though!
It means he might get a few more goes and I'd like to see him on next week.

Great game...
The way Adelaide strolled through with that early goal I thought....he we go, we are in for a hiding. But from then on I reckon we outplayed them for large periods of the game. Top effort from the lads especially going down to 10 men. We played with a lot of heart.

Smeltz was marked out of the game....but Costa and Leo played well. I don't think Costa was MOM but he didn't look out of place....got himself around the field and took a nice goal. I even thought Kwasnik had some nice touches.

Muscat and Siggy were fantastic on defense....remember how worried we were pre season about the right back slot....its yours forever Manny!!!!

Our season is still live....with one game to go. Come on lads!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

i don't think he was biased i think he was sh*t without a doubt, how do you let them foul us and continue play then pull a yellow card out for a tackle similar or lesser of in value for us,  f**king sh*t house to go 80 minutes without giving them the same he gave us thats all

giddyup2009-01-18 20:15:05

I felt threatened in my seat by Lochheads crosses all day. Lame

Honestly that was the best game the phoenix have played this season (without the result)

Was well played by both team I thought, ref ruined the spectacle. He was completely biased as far as the cards he gave out. Several hand balls in the box he missed - worst game ever by a ref! Adelaide will be disappointing that they couldn't finish it off though.

yeh - very enjoyable gamne after the first 15 minutes or so.

but Adelaide were playing their 5th game in 15 days, so might have helped us and explain why we were still all over them with 10 players.

still, best I've seen from them yet, apart from the finishing.  Don't know what the corner count was but it must have been well up in the second half.  You'd have liked to finish one of them for the win.

Yeah nothing could be done there.

 One of the best matches I've been to although I am really glum about the final result.

To many touches at times from Bertos et al, or people not moving into a shooting position to get at the end of a ball.

Sorry but the Kiwi-bias being boring etc is a load of crap. The ref had a shocker and was the worst performance I seen a ref come up with.

Great heart in the 2nd half but a terrible first half an hour.

Great stuff but I'm gutted.

Great performance.

I think the ref was poor and missed too many free kicks, mostly Wellingtons way.

it would be interesting to read the report on that refereeing performance - i believe he was inconsistent with the cards he gave , professional fouls and studs up tackles got us cards but  the same sort of offence went uncarded when adelaide players were involved tigers2009-01-18 21:10:47

Was watching with an ex All White and after seeing the replay, not only was it not a yellow card for Brown, it was not even a fowl.Don't think I have ever seen a game with so many cards.Have these refs ever played the game?

aside from a the inconsistent refereeing (which must surely bring a bit of discredit upon the league) that second half performance was as gutsy as anything i can recall, since our great come back v melb in the first ever game