Phoenix vs Jets 4pm Sunday 7th

 

Very awesome.

 

You can't quite hear it on there, but when Dura gives the mike to Troy for 'we've got the wind, the rain and the Phoenix', Troy wass either too pissed or didn't know the words, it was v funny. I'm picking too pissed in his case. 

 

maybe reading too much into it - could he be thinking about bringing keeping Sigmund in CB and bring McKain into CDM instead of ... (Lia ?)

 

I don't think Lia has been that bad- if he is a poor passer of the ball, then Chips can only be described as woeful. Manny/Timmy have been fine- I'd expect to see Chips and Dura reunited this weekend, Siggy the unlucky man to sit on the bench. 

 

Sydney are good 1 - 2's / give and go throught the middle and around edge of penalty area  thought having both Siggie and McKain along with Muscat may nullify that a bit. Brown gets so far forward it's hard to think of him as a defensive mid and we know he can oput them away so it does retain our attack though - as you point out may limit us turning defence into attack with some pin point passes without Lia.

 

Dunno - not suggesting would just seemed a cagey response from Ricky.

 

I assume that he will not be here in time for the game. Not too worried about that unless Ifill has more problems with his knee.

 

IMO Daniel in his present form would be ahead of Caceras anyway. I thought he was immense on Sunday...easliy his best game for ages. Some of those long passes to Ifill were Beckam-ish. Also his corners and crossing were way better than anyone elses. Those flat dipping corners were very accurate....much better than Leo's. Ifill praised Daniels contribution in his interview on TV1...probably because he was getting some accurate passes for a change.

 

To beat Sydney we will need to be much much more accurate than against the Jets. We had over 25 shots on goal....we will get hardly any against Sydney so the ones we get they will have to be on target. In tight games like this our chances to score will be few.

 

Same on defense....Sydney will not waste the sort of chances that the Jets missed. You just cannot let guys get one on one with the goalie. McCain will tighten that up.

 

Surprisingly with Troy the Nix'd line up more succesfully across the back than the AW's... 

 

Doesn't play to our strengths either which is Leo/Daniel and Ifill down the wings (too bad no one gets on the end of them most of the time)

 

btw ^ think that Lia wasn't that great against Newcastle to be honest. Passing wasn't to his usual standard and he tired quicker than Brown.

 

I feel that all the 'stand up' and the bloody awful mexican wave should be retained for those who are either bored or else only turn up when its a big game. were here to watch football(not soccer) for christsakes