player ratings v Salted Dogs

player ratings v Salted Dogs

Well, over all it wouldn't be one of the Nix's best displays of football, but good teams win ugly at times, so I guess we're grateful. Two superb goals though. Pasty 7 Did everything right, hope the injury isn't too bad, not needed much

First half Siggy 2, 2nd half Siggy 8.

Brownie and Lia need to find their last season mojo. Plenty more to see in the middle from those two. Though similar can be said for most of the side.

It was't that Tim played badly, he just was not in the game. Sure, the ball to Paul I was great but apart from that he was never in it. If you go back over the game he only touched the ball about 10 times.

Then he needs to bring himself into the game.

It's not surprising Brown and Lia were a little bit anonymous since so much of our game plan seemed to involve the defence booting the ball way over the top of them.

Paston 7 - looked pretty decent, less punching, more catching

MOM would be muscat for his all round efforts - 8.5
paston didn't have to do much so wouldn't rate above 7
yea first half ifill was poor, second half was alot better - 7
Greeny and big mac played so so but still worked hard. both - 6.5

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I actually thought Toto looked alright when he came on, agree with 5, and that Daniel should be ahead of him. But still, he looked good.

Bit harsh. both deserve a 7 at least.

100% agreed

Don't think Brown and Lia did anything wrong this week.

Manny was clear MoM for mine - that setup/run was just beautiful and he defended good as well. Thought that Lochy was impressive as well.

Ifill had an off day but still managed to score - kind of shows how good he is.

Leo had a good first half but drifted in the 2nd.

Macallister was disappointing for mine but allowed Greenie to play his natural game again and Greenie performed well for the 2nd game in a row.

Toto should not be in front of Daniel.valeo2010-08-22 20:49:06

just focusing on midfield.

Perhaps Lia will be the fall guy when North arrives?

I honestly think North should just be a straight swap for Sigmund. Though I trust Rickis judgement.

But Bertos? Muscat does deserve to hold his spot. So something like this:

                      Paston
        Durante       Sigmund    North
Muscat                                 Lochhead
            Lia             Brown
                        Ifill
               Greenacre    McAllister

Though could quite easily slot Muscat to where Lia is and Bertos to where Muscat. My team doesn't give us a lot of attack out wide.

CCM worked out that Sigmund cannot distribute the ball and pressured him every time the ball went to him and he responded with an aimless hoof apart from one terrific ball he put through to Ifill. If there is any thought of playing 3 at the back Sigmund will need to pick up on his distribution big time. Defensively he was great.

Lia did a great job breaking down play in the midfield but was half a yard off the pace all day when it came to receiving the ball. In 4-4-2 Lia/Brown is a limited central midfield and really needs Bertos to get more involved.

Actually thought Toto looked ok when he came on.

Thought Paston put in a quality performance commanded his area well, pulled off a top save and all of this with an injury.

One good ball ?  Go back and have a closer look.  There were a number of occassions where Sigmund played balls forward to a player.  It was something I watched closely and very little was an 'aimless hoof'.

Not sure what you watched closely! Most were aimless hoofs.

Thank you for that well though out defence of your position.  It's still wrong.

Paston wasn't tested, but I thought he had a good game. He played really confidently despite his injury.

Man of the match easily Manny, he had a great game. I don't think anyone had a terrible game, it was more that the team didn't gel a lot of the time. We'll only get better this season.

shouldn't that be "hooves"

not that I'm wishing to intervene on the more pressing matter of how many were aimless

If they were hooves then they'd be armless

De Jong was awful.

He told us about a formation that wasn't played, he described tactics that weren't played. Generally the first 45 from both commentators was dreadful.

Which is why I am currently downloading a decent commentary to listen to on the ipod tomorrow.

Fixed

Also the offsides were pretty spot on. The reffing in the game was pretty good actually.

Commentary - moan, moan, cant stand those two.

Toto, I thought he is interesting and would like to see him in the middle, slipping delicate passes through.

Bullsh*t

Were many worse games last season

That first goal alone was worth the watchvaleo2010-08-23 00:18:07

mjp22010-08-23 01:51:39

Must have been the game plan as I was watching Brown and when Durante and Sigmund had possession Brown would just jog forward and at times Macallister, Greenacre and Brown where all within about 10metres of each other as a front 3 with long balls played into this area.

Brown hardly ever made moves looking for the ball, again evident when play was switched and Lia would be making the runs to offer himself to wide players and Brown would stay central, even though he would have been a lot closer to the play than Lia.

Must have been how Ricki wanted it. Definitely resulted in long balls as Lia was the only option to pass to in central midfield.

Sooner I get back down to the ROF to watch a game live again, the better. Obviously watching games on telly is giving me a false impression of McAllister because so far my opinion of him involves the words big, slow and carthorse. Not been impressed at all from what I've seen of him so far. Another downside of having him in there is that we are now bypassing our midfield to knock long balls to him. Hmm.

everyone did fine except for that 15min period after half time. CCM never looked like scoring. You can only beat whats in front of you.

Was arguing with my mate when watching that Siggy is a good player so we were counting how many of his long balls found a Nix player, was 2 out of about 9, the rest went straight to CCM players.