Player rantings v Heart

Player rantings v Heart

FFS Dominate a game for an hour, lose it... sheesh

drop everyone to a 1 (gotta give them credit for putting on their boots) except Vuka and muscat.

Disappointing, but not disgraceful. Not great though when your keeper is the best player on the park.

Best rating of the night goes to the Yellow Fever boys who outsang the locals. Awesome! 

Vuka and Manny I feel are the only ones that can hold their heads up

I always get a good laugh every week when the player who scores a goal gets top rating.
Perhaps the rest of the game does not matter to some people.
Tim was not even close today.

I don't think they are the worst team in the league. Today they played some good football.

Vuckovic 7 - no chance with goals, some decent claims and great save from header

in general these are just too high, how did brown get 7 for touching the ball twice?

Lochhead: 1/2

Worst performance ever by him tonight, got constantly screwed and was responsible for letting through his attacker who set up the first goal.

Totally agree but would have given Manny a 7. Also agree with your Greenacre comment and glad to see someone else thought Bertos was crap today. As much as I love Iffy, he was terrible today.

They may seem high to you but they are a reflection of my glass half-full attitude at the moment. Brown gets an inflated score because he scored a goal and a well taken one at that. Otherwise it might have been closer to a 6.

yeh mjp22010-09-19 20:23:39

Our travelling fans deserve a 10/10  great effort by them
Pity the team let them down

Today's effort by the regular starters (e.g. Greenacre who looked off his game) might mean Pavlovic sees a bit more game-time. I hope so anyway - Pavlovic looked good when he came on against the Victory last Wednesday.

OK so I'm going to give this whole 'rantings' thing a  go:

Vukovic: 7: Did well with the shots he could save and was unlucky to concede the two he did, would get a higher rating if he wonder saved their second.

Sigmund: 3.5: Is incredibly good at standing up and blocking players when they run at him, sh*t at everything else.

Dura: 6: Didn't really have a lot to do, but at the end of the day we conceded two and plyed long ball central so anything higher is a bit generous.

North: 6: Exactly as above.

Lochead: 2.5: Can't attack, can't defend, does he even try any more?

Brown: 4: Can't pass, apparently forgot how to tackle.

Ward: 4: Can pass, also can't tackle didn't score, it all evens out.

Muscat: 6:  Basically was holding our team together for large portions of the game, and pretty much one of our best players.

Bertos: 4: If you're lookig for some to slowly dribble towards the opposition defence, then do nothing as they tackle him, this is yr man.

Ifill: 4.5: Mr. Forgetful seems to have forgotten he was our best player... he looked well out of it.

Greenacre: 4: Wasn't really in the game, mainly due to the ineptitude further back. But I would like to see him contest 50-50s more, may have put away that chance in the first half.

Herbert: 2: What was he thinking of with his subs. When yr bossing a game against a team without their regular defenders why would you be so conservative with yr plans? Needs to be more aggressive with his selections and subs and generally more of a proactive manager.


ahhhh... the sweet release of an angst filled post

Thats not jet lag its just a body clock thing. When I go on leave I still wake up at the same time as if I'm working. Same thing if going to Oz on holiday, wake up at 6am NZ time for the whole 1 or 2 weeks I'm there.

Would you rate RH as a conservative manager then? while I still have a boner over our world cup results, did we ever really push hard for goals during that tournament?

Well the last time I went to Oz for 5 days I certainly didn't wake up at 5am every day after at least a year of getting up at 7am.

why on earth did hearlfield get brought on in a central role??

Yeah no doubt I would say he's conservative, and quite reactive. With the WC we basically had a game plan of defend and play long/diagonal and it worked out quite well, he never really had to change anything and I would say overall we were quite lucky to get the results we did.

In terms of the nix, he barely ever makes early subs even when we are playing sh*t. He also seems to have some favorites like Bertos and Lochead, who have been crap for long periods of time (see majority of last season) and doesn't really drop them.

I mean obvs there some limit to changing it around depending on form in terms of getting a team to gel, but when you have an unchanged line up and are bossing the game but cannot score, why did he not make an 'attacking' substitution til after we conceded? Was he happy with our ineffectual attacks and the quality of attacking possession? Surely not... or he has far lower expectations this season than some of us on here do

Vukovic - 7 - Can't blame him for either goal.  Some good saves.
Durante - 5 - Average at best, n00b at worst.
North - Didn't see him.
Sigmund - 3 - Terrible.
Ward - 4 - Did his darndest to undo his good work against Sydney.  Effectively set up their second.  Tried to be tricky when he could pass on several occasions and failed hard.
Muscat - 5.5 - Tried, limited success.
Brown - 4.5 - Just dire.  A goal, not even two, can cover how poor he was.
Hearfield - 5.5 - Far from our worst.
Lochhead - 4 - Bad.
Greenacre - 4 - Did nothing.
Ifill - 4.5 - Was fat, useless, and uncreative all match.  Most of that 4.5 is down to his good cross for Brown's goal.
MacAllister - Horribly frustrating to watch.
Daniel - 6 - Actually tried.
Bertos - 6 - Tried, especially later on.

Ricki Herbert - 3 - Dropped the ball horribly.

Easiily one of our worst games.  So poor.  One positive is that we can't get worse.

When is Pavlovic back?  Despite his absence he's still earned himself a start.

You're obviously not a finely tuned athlete like Ii am Steve-O

The subs seemed to reflect panic and the (poor) quality of our off season signings. With Ifill out of form we don't have anyone else to go to on the park. Lots of journeyman like performances, but Manny aside, not a lot of real quality.

The whole team looked hungover.Leo and lochead are robots can't get a reaction out of them.they defintley need time on the sideline.I don't know what ifill was on the night before but he looked very rough and rickys subs are bizzare to say the least.hearfield for greenacre...what?

That goes for for any team. You are only as good as the opposition lets you.
However, they did look look like they had the ability to knock the ball around.

What a load of bollox, it was 5.00pm NZ time, it shouldnt make any difference what time they wake up. Stop making excuses, the whole team were sh*te, including RH.

Yeah i agree with this, Bertos did alot and worked pretty hard. Considering hes used to coming off for someone like Daniel pretty much every game i think he did well throughout the full 90. Beat a lot of players, put in a lot of good balls, and got back quickly when Heart were on the counter.

Did you actually watch the first 75 minutes? Agree, Berttos finally came alive in the last 15 mins but up until then he was his usual ineffective self. When was the last time he actually beat a player with pace and sent in a decent cross? He seems to have  no pace off the mark at the moment, defenders just go with him and keep him wide where he may attempt another ineffectual cross. The best we can expect off an attempt at a cross at the moment from Leo is to gain a corner after he cannons it straight into the defender in front of him. He will then usually proceed to deliver yet another awful corner.