R1 vs Newcastle Jets | Sun 21st Oct | 5:00pm | Westpac Stadium

Agree. DJ does tend to dribble a lot. :) 

Agreed.  If we do not lose against the Mariners this season, I'll be happy with the season.  

I would expect C-Diddy is halfway through his season's wishlist? How many time do we play the Jets this year?

Some great songs from the 80;s :)

Wanker personified. 

You are obviously not that smart. I had an opinion and YOU told me to pipe down.

Of course you have a clown like Buffoon agreeing with you, 

you use to be nicer Leggy! Years of underperformingredients NIX taking its toll.

Jesus christ I told you to pipe down because you said that I tend to dribble a lot, not because you disagree with my argument. But go on then, have another pop at me personally. The genesis of this whole thing was me in essence saying that I hope we can get some points off the next two games, as the four games after that look pretty tough. That's really not that controversial an opinion, so the fact that that comment has led to this is pathetic

Yeah that must be it.

If this is the level of our debate after a Phoenix win, I'm already dreading checking this website after a hard-fought draw away to Brisbane next week.

Yea, has been  a long 11 years. 

gents, we fudgeing won! lets just enjoy it while we have it.

Watched a replay this afternoon. Pretty scratchy game which is somewhat understandable given its early in the season. Thought it was pretty even so pretty happy to get 3 points. It was probably one of those games that we would have lost in previous seasons. So while I'm not getting carried away, it's pleasing to see us grind out a result that was somewhat undeserved. 

Too fudgeing many!

Ernie is unlikely to underestimate us again, and he may have Roy O'Donovan back by then.

But he doesnt have Nabbout this season. They are much worse team without him!

WTF happened there thought it was a pretty tame exchange of ideas compared to to some threads.God forbid the season turns to shark.

Lots of things I was really happy with, but I was expecting (hoping for) one or two more exciting attacking moments that showed we could surprise teams. Ground out a result, but didn't get out of 2nd or 3rd on attack IMO. Which means I think there is more firepower than what we've seen so far.

Imagine what a finisher like Rossi could do in the situations Krishna and Williams found themselves in.

Even a big man up front as a pivot who can hold the play up for the faster players to play off of. Feel like we’re missing one cog to the machine. Anyway I think I can say we’re all excited to see how this professional performance will carry on to the rest of the season, COY fudgeing N

Dunno if this will interest anyone but this is the Expected Goals Match Plot of the game

That graph doesnt include our first goal.

I had wondered about the thinking behind this. Presumably it's because Dura doesn't have the legs to sprint half the pitch if needed?

The flip side of that, is if they hit us on the counter from a corner (which is bound to happen), he's not going to have the legs to chase them down either.

So based on FTBL  player Ratings it was a very poor game?

But we beat the 2017/18 League toppers

Filip Kurto - 7                 Glenn Moss - 6.5

Tom Doyle - 5                 Jason Hoffman - 6

Andrew Durante - 6        Nigel Boogard - 4

Steve Taylor - 6.5            Nikolai Topor-Stanley - 5

Louis Fenton - 5              Daniel Georgievski - 4

Mandi - 6                          Lachlan Jackson - 4.5

Sarpreet Singh - 6.5        Matthew Ridenton - 4.5

Alex Rufer - 6.5                Steven Ugarkovic - 5

Liberato Cacace - 6          Ronny Vargas - 5

Roy Krishna - 6.5             Dimi Petratos - 6

David Williams - 5.5         Jair - 4

Substitutes

Mitch Nichols - 5               Kaine Sheppard - 4

Max Burgess - 4                Ivan Vujica - 5

Nathan Burns - N/A           Mitch Austin - 5

Team average

       5.80                                       4.6 

It shows you how likely it is to score a goal from a certain position on the field. Highly likely to score from a shot inside the 5m box, very likely from around the penalty, the moment you try from outside the 16m box chances go down very quick. It’s statistics.

Ronaldo’s expected goals is just a tiny margin better than avarage, but he shoots very often in high expected goals areas and he does it very often. Remember Ernie always saying try to shot from inside the box, it just more likely to score from from there.

I guess it's that, yeah, Dura can't get up and back at pace. Rudan's looked at it and said, well Dura's got the smarts and the experience to get his positioning right to try and close down the space while he waits for Doyle, Taylor, Fents, Cacace and the rest of the cavalry to arrive.

I'd rather Dura be ten yards ahead of the bloke on the counter with time to think than trying to chase him down.

I can just see the writing on the wall. They hit us on the counter, Dura can't match the pace, chops em down. Red.

Were there really only 9k people there? It "felt" like over 10k and I thought I'd read somewhere the pax was in the 13k-ish?

Hopefully a lot of those casual supporters come back for the next game after enjoying the first win of the season on a sunny afternoon.

It's a solution looking for a problem.  People have stopped going not because the "fan experience" is not entertaining enough, it's because we have been crap!  If the team is more successful we will get better crowds, it's that simple - adding music during the games (a) does not improve the atmosphere, and (b) is far more likely to put off the people who go every week than add to the crowds with people who actually like music during games.  

These seem like mostly fair ratings, if not a bit harsh on Fenton. We still have a long way to go.

Was somewhat surprised to see the stats after the game - that we had only 40% possession and won only 44% of the "duels".

You are always amped and cognitively biased watching your team live, I thought the possession and duels were pretty even.

Also only 3 shots on target against 6.

I'm a totally blinkered Nix fan.

We murdered em lols

Only 60% passing accuracy vs 76%.  

About the only stat we won was corners. 

this was my first game in a while - brought my 3 year old son along for his first game and he enjoyed the experience (watched f all of the game but seemed pretty pumped when we got home).   when I decided recently to go I scanned the fixture list and was a bit surprised to see this will be the only game earlier than 7pm.  Didn't 5pm Sunday used to be the standard fixture time for us?    A shame as I'd be likely to bring the boy along to multiple further games this season but with no more early games I won't.   

I guess you can't hit every demographic with the fixture list but they seem to be missing this part of the market with the kick off times.  I've seen some comments that we have no say in the fixture list - is that right?  Surely the club puts forward their preferences in some way

Was a good crowd in but that was presumably aided by the good weather and the holiday Monday

My guess is that Rudan is not going to bench Dura until he has to, even if he has Fox etc available. Could be a mental thing for the team. There might be a slow transition depending on what type of opposition we're playing, and Dura is shaping up throughout the season. 

Incidentally, I assumed Taylor must be ancient based on all his achievements in the EPL already under his belt. Pleased to see he is way younger (born 1986) than Dura (born 1982) , and only a year older than Krishna (born 1987), and two years older than Williams (born 1988).

Personally I felt it was more that Victory didn't convert their chances. Troisi had some great opportunities, as did their new striker. That said, city were very strong too and both of those sides are going to be very tough to play this year.

Excited for a win first up, fairly even game could really have gone either way but perhaps a sign our luck is changing.

Lots of love for Kurto, but I thought for all the positives there were also some negatives. Shot stopping and distribution looked really good, but his dealing with balls in the air was really worrying and he was hesitant to come off his line to through balls. Could just be a confidence thing first up and hopefully we see that improving through the season. 

I don't rate those ratings -  Rufer given credit for Fenton's work below.

Alex Rufer - 6.5

Got back in time to block former team-mate Matthew Ridenton's shot off the line on 30 minutes. A decent performance as the tempo raised and Newcastle surged for an equaliser.