Phx V Miramar - What time is kickoff?

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almost 17 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Krishna and Corrales would do well in the NZFC

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almost 17 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Plodder play well?

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almost 17 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

by the sound of it, we played sh!t.

we are PROFESSIONALS ??? right ??????

we should be slotting 4 or 5 past 'em easy at least. AT LEAST !!!!!!!

does not sound too promising.

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almost 17 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

SC03 wrote:

Sounds poor compared with how GCU were hammering their local opposition. Sydney FC however have been getting similar results against local Sydney teams.

NSWPL > NZFC > Central league > Gold Coast local sides.

Gold Coast hammered a side by 12, but other results have been closer.

How's my driving? - Whine here

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almost 17 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

SC03 wrote:

Sounds poor compared with how GCU were hammering their local opposition. Sydney FC however have been getting similar results against local Sydney teams.

And the top Sydney clubs are far better than the likes of Miramar.

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almost 17 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Its early days and the Nix havent put out anything like their starting line up yet. Plodder wont be starting at centre mid during the season.

A dog with a bone :)

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almost 17 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

footballmad wrote:

Tawa v Phoenix next week anyone.

Its Lower Hutt V the Nix next week.

A dog with a bone :)

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almost 17 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Ginja Ninja wrote:

loyalgunner wrote:

Oh, so Costa and not a triallist? And with the own goal that was already going in, who took the shot?

Bertos with the corner. Possibly McKain with the shot (header)

Yep was McKain, the triallist on the left wing first half Villasonz or whatever and the guy up front with Costa in the second were easily the stand-out trialists. Mulligan and Costa were our best players IMO

You know we belong together...

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almost 17 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Oska wrote:

Ginja Ninja wrote:

loyalgunner wrote:

Oh, so Costa and not a triallist? And with the own goal that was already going in, who took the shot?

Bertos with the corner. Possibly McKain with the shot (header)

Yep was McKain, the triallist on the left wing first half Villasonz or whatever and the guy up front with Costa in the second were easily the stand-out trialists. Mulligan and Costa were our best players IMO

I'd prefer Andrew Mulligan to be fair....

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almost 17 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Its past your bedtime Oska, Mully was crap.

A dog with a bone :)

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almost 17 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

[/QUOTE] Yep was McKain, the triallist on the left wing first half Villasonz or whatever and the guy up front with Costa in the second were easily the stand-out trialists. Mulligan and Costa were our best players IMO [/QUOTE]

Slow down speed racer! Nearly fell off my seat when you mentioned Mulligan being one of our best.
loyalgunner2009-05-26 22:24:15

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almost 17 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Coxey wrote:

Oska wrote:

Ginja Ninja wrote:

loyalgunner wrote:

Oh, so Costa and not a triallist? And with the own goal that was already going in, who took the shot?

Bertos with the corner. Possibly McKain with the shot (header)

I'd prefer Andrew Mulligan to be fair....

Shameless.

You can't use the same joke twice in one night like that.

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almost 17 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

In all fairness, Mulligan did a bloody good job today.

Those boots were polished to perfection

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almost 17 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

nightz wrote:

Its past your bedtime Oska, Mully was crap.

While you and torne were talking, I managed to watch the game.

Mulligan wasn't as good as you think

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almost 17 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

I don't know what you guys are talking about... From what i'm hearing the game sounded great!
Mulligan seems to be pushing for starting and we may have found a good left midfielder and maybe a good striker. Anyone know who he is? Costa sounds that he is improving on his efforts from last season, its a bit tough to gauge though because it isn't an a league team..

Still awesome! The pieces of the puzzle are starting to come together.

Bit worrying about Krishna and Corrales...

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almost 17 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Oska wrote:

Ginja Ninja wrote:

loyalgunner wrote:

Oh, so Costa and not a triallist? And with the own goal that was already going in, who took the shot?

Bertos with the corner. Possibly McKain with the shot (header)

that 12 yrd old up front in the second half was pants. Bertos was the best there, followed by Eager

Founder

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almost 17 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

From what I saw Mulligan didn't miss a beat...

"Ive just re-visited this and once again realised that C-Diddy is a genius - a drunk, Newcastle bred disgrace - but a genius." - Hard News, 11:39am 4th June 2009

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almost 17 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

evan231 wrote:

Evan, After all these years I have known you, would I lie?

I don't know who your sources are, but it wasn't very flash at all.

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almost 17 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

C-Diddy wrote:

From what I saw Mulligan didn't miss a beat...

best laugh Ive had all week. All the good balls he was given and couldnt deliver them to the strikers, usually lost them to Miramars left back.

A dog with a bone :)

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almost 17 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

C-Diddy wrote:

From what I saw Mulligan didn't miss a beat...

He missed everything except Steven Gulley's legs last week.

How's my driving? - Whine here

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almost 17 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Thought we controlled the game pretty well, particularly in the 2nd half when we had the fresh players, but our lack of anyone to finish was a bit of a worry. I thought Costa, Leo & Hearfield looked pretty sharp, but was pretty disappointed with the triallists in the 1st half. They didn't even seem that enthusiastic in chasing things round imo.
Interesting to see McKain in CM and Muscat in the midfield.

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almost 17 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

I think it's pretty obvious to everyone that we're lacking 3-4 quality players in our squad. We've also kept too many average players - Ferrante, Christie etc. who while hard workers never really achieve anything with the ball. No suprise. valeo2009-05-26 23:06:37

a.haak

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almost 17 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Although I really like Ferrante I must agree with Valeo there.

Any idea on the games attendance?

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almost 17 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

It's the Phoenix vs an under strength 'mar in a social kick-around. If it's anything like last week (or the last two seasons) it will be a couple of hundred.

How's my driving? - Whine here

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almost 17 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

nightz wrote:

Its past your bedtime Oska, Mully was crap.

The rest of the team wasn't much better even though it was a training game,so it's a bit harsh to single him out,his crossing into the box was poor I agree, but he put in a pretty good effort last night.
giddyup2009-05-27 04:30:28

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almost 17 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

IMO

Krishna and Correles - did nothing maybe next year. They had their chance and have blown it for this year

Mulligan - did a lot of running but lets not confuse work rate with execution, also falls over to easy

Bertos - was stand out IMO

Barba - sorry but jury is out for me on him still. Scored a goal but from where i was it looked better than it was. Other than that he sqandered some bread and butter chances under no pressure

Back four - Lockhead, Durante, McKain and Manny seemed solid and comfortable for the most part albeit a little rusty and Mckain needs to use less long balls and when long balls are called for he need to up the completion rate

Paston - done he job when called upon. Had little to do

Ferrente - who

Lia - someone said Lia played but i can't remember seeing him, maybe sums up his contribution

Daniel - again his execution needs to be polished but work rate was good. Hopefully niggly injury from last year is behind him

Hearfield - OK, no more than you would expect

Brown - see Hearfield

Christie - Plodded about not really doing much

Other trailists -

Baldy right back 2nd half - No chance

Guy that played left mid who deliberatly handballed in first half in front of stand - say no more

Andy Barron - basic and reliable, but we have those already

Small fella up front - full of enthusiasm but lacks the skill or experience at mo

nzcopley2009-05-27 08:57:05

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almost 17 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

nzcopley wrote:

Baldy right back 2nd half - No chance

Lia

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almost 17 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

2nd half definately an improvement, as 1st was last week all over again. Having said that, some of the shots from reasonably decent positions in the latter half were laughable at times.

Krishna and Corrales get an A for effort, but they're don't appear to have the goods to be up front for us at the mo.

If they both grew a foot or two between now and next year it wouldn't hurt either...

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almost 17 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

el grapadura wrote:

nzcopley wrote:

Baldy right back 2nd half - No chance

Lia

Really! .....Oh dear

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almost 17 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

loyalgunner wrote:

SC03 wrote:

Sounds poor compared with how GCU were hammering their local opposition. Sydney FC however have been getting similar results against local Sydney teams.

And the top Sydney clubs are far better than the likes of Miramar.

And that's before you realise it's a Miramar side that started without Dom Rowe, Craig Alderdice, and some others that I'm forgetting.

Was a mix and match of Miramar's first and reserve teams.

Incredible stamina. No shame. Yellow Fever.

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almost 17 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

I think we are getting a bit to pesimistic over this, from what I saw they were playing at half pace most of the time, when they did pick up the pace things looked better.

Its only a training game with players getting rid of the cobwebs, working on combinations etc. and as someone mentioned it wasn't the full team. I think we will see them get better over the next few games and the pace they play at increase.

It's not all doom and gloom.

As an aside was Diego there last night as I saw some South American looking guy walking out of the changing rooms at the end or was it one of the prospects?

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almost 17 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Probably Villazon.

No Diego.

Incredible stamina. No shame. Yellow Fever.

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almost 17 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Oh, and thought Lockhead was starting to get back to some form on the left as well. Made some nice runs up the sideline in the 1st half.

We definitely need some more height in the middle. None of Costa, Corrales, Krishna or the other short triallist striker really threatened to win much in the air.

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almost 17 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

giddyup wrote:

nightz wrote:

Its past your bedtime Oska, Mully was crap.

I mentioned purely because of all the players who did the full game he was the stand-out, saying that he was barely NZFC quality though.

You know we belong together...

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almost 17 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

el grapadura wrote:

nzcopley wrote:

Baldy right back 2nd half - No chance

Lia

No it was a triallist wearing v1.08s, Lia was in midfield wearing Vapors

You know we belong together...

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almost 17 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

I remember these things, and I am know in the starting XI, CHUS!

You know we belong together...

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almost 17 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

valeo wrote:

You're absolutely right valeo - it's blindingly obvious. And if we don't get those 3-4 quality players of A-League or better level (in addition to the signings of Diego and Greenacre), we'll be dwelling in the A-League basement this season. It's a bad indication when our main targets at the moment are Corrales and Krishna - OK NZFC players but in my view would struggle to even make the bench in the A-League. Hopefully the two players from Europe will be good enough for the A-League so that we can offer both of them contracts.

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almost 17 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

FFS: Last night was a TRAINING session.

Some of you , especially those who weren't there, are making far far far too much of it!!

dairyflat2009-05-27 12:03:50

Profile pic. Should you be interested. Lakhsen, on the right, lost touch with him.
Mohammed, on the left, I'm still in touch with. He's now living in Agadez, Niger. More focused on his animals now as tourism has dried up. Is active with a co-op promoting local goods, leather work and bijouterie, into Europe.
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almost 17 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

axmfc wrote:

valeo wrote:

I agree with you both - we are 3-4 quality players short of being competitve with the top tier of A-League clubs (Melbourne, Adelaide, ??). We aspire to win the A-League so our bench mark for recruitment therefore needs to be; would this player make the Melbourne or Adelaide starting 11 or squad ? Krishna and Corrales, and the 2 trialists on their way, need to be assessed against this standard.

I do however think we did make some necessary tough calls with respect to letting weaker players go in the off season and, with Diegos signing and a good 2nd striker, we will have a better squad this coming season than last season. In addition to recruiting the additional 3 or 4 quality players there are still some tough calls to be made (i.e. 3 or 4 still to be let go) however to get the squad to where it needs to be to be a top tier side.

But, subject to the 2nd striker signing, we have made reasonable progress.

We won't win the league but, if we can just sort out the 2nd striker, we can make the play-offs (top 6) and hopefully push for a top 4 finish - so we get a home play-off game.

First 4 games of the season will be so important - we need to get off to a flyer to get some momentum going and to rebuild interest and crowds.

He dribbles a lot and the opposition dont like it - you can see it all over their faces. (Ron Atkinson)

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almost 17 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

I remember last year making the pre-season cup final, the Phoenix were in the best shape ever during this period IMO. Then the season started, and they were crap... I would prefer if we done the opposite this year and cruised through the pre-season so we can rip up come the season's proper kick off.. so personally im not worried about last nights result

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