Player rattings v Tards

Player rattings v Tards

Hmm Hmm Well I'll try and be objective about it.....

Ricki - 0

Ricki may not have been at his best but the lack of spine and gicing away the ball isn't something he can control.

Phoenix - meh.

It was more for the formation he used.

Yeh Ricki was taking a gamble with his formation, taking Siggy off was taking it a bit far, but HN is right, poor ball retention was bad. However, surely Ricky needed to play at least one of Leo & Caceres if he's got a target man.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing- prematch I agree with his thinking in that we had nothing to lose in supposed all out attack and the formation used. Didn't really take into consideration just how good Melb were I guess.  

I agree Bigtobz.

I thought it was a bold and brave move but one that had a bit of logic. Nothing to lose, we dominated Melbourne at home and it was always going to be tough result to pinch away. I didn't expect a 4 goal drubbing (1 offside) and didn't expect to see Diego start or Leo on the bench either. The players really didn't play well and with 2.5 strikers up front, its not like we didn't have the targets. Just relied on Diego to give it to them and didn't retain the bal in the middlel. I thought Brown was lucky to stay on especially when he had a yellow and leaps in swinging on the play where McKain got his yellow, right after he had just gotten his.

Either way, Melbourne have been a class outfit for a long time under Merrick. Its certainly a statement game smashing us (and to be fair we are a good side) by 4. That 4th goal was just sublime and thats a team firing at the moment. I would not think that any sides would underestimate, nor be as confident as we tried to be when facing Melbourne over the rest of the season.

The only danger I fear is that result takes away any confidence going into CHR. I doubt any team would have stopped that today so hopefully we don't overanalyse it. Possession football and the return of Lia and Lochhead please.

What goal was offside?

3rd one when the ball gets to Kruse at halfway....

3rd, he was over the half when passed. I still think 2nd may have been aswell.

Agree mostly, but I saw Costa actually do a couple of nice passes when he came on, I have no reason to mark him down from the default 5.

Lia still out I think. 2 matches for 8 if you've already had 1 for 5?

its obligatory for costa to score low. we lose 4-0 and hes the only 2

Diego - 0. Didnt do anything. Terrible set pieces

Not his biggest Fan but I'd up Manny by one, both him and Hearfield struggled in that formation and it was not anywhere near his ideal position . Do they all hate Greenacre? Did anyone actually give him the ball last night? 

because the coach controls how well the players play on the day??? he came in with an attacking mindset cos he knew we had to win, risky sure but needed to be done. He would have trained the guys with that shape and hopefully givne the guys their set roles, unfortunately the players on the park didn't pull it off....was it too big an ask - maybe, so sure Ricki may score low but a 0 indicates your blaming it all on him.

just por really, much like the perth game, noone really turned up,

well i thought hearfield was dreadful last night. he was constantly giving ball away, running himself into blind alleys. subs should have been made much earlier. Ifill was good first half but got carried away tried to do everything himself in second.

0 for all players, they were dreadful last night. Nothing to take from the game except dont play that formation again with that playing combination and the fact that Lochead and Vinnie not playing is a big loss to the team.

I thought Brown was easily the best for us. Put in some crunching tackles...didn't get sent off. Got into scoring situations well. Had a scorching shot just skim the upright and had another good shot saved.

That was only card number 7 wasn't it??

Caceras should be playing every week, end of story. He has been playing very well and deserves to start regularly.

The problem with the phoenix is that when the backline has the ball there is no movement from the midfielders..therefore all the backline just lob the ball forward, which most the time leads to giving the ball away..lia and brown need to be that link, and create space for the fullbacks to pass to..

TWO THOUSAND

Correct

The differance with us is that we don't have enough players that have a football brain.