R18 vs Newcastle Jets | Thurs 7th Feb | 9:50pm | SS4

Has Golec ever played CDM before? Can't remember if I've ever seen him there

Golec is not a CDM, not mobile enough, nor is he good on the ball. He is a bruiser.

He came from CCM!

Makes it hard..when heis not there shows up

We need to cancel the loan for Kopa, he can't do an adequate job in DM. All other imports I'd keep. 

Is Kopa the new scapegoat? I thought we all agree it was Doyle's role for that game? I don't think Kopa was particular badder than the rest of the bunch.

Maybe Kopa is not quite as slick at passing as Mandi, but he is still solid defensively. Tonight will be a good test, see how he goes marking Petratos on that side of the field. If he can keep Petratos quiet I will be happy.

Depends how fit Petratos is.  There was a chance he might have missed the game but Ernie knows how important this game is for them as well as for us. A half-fit Petratos is still more dangerous than some of our guys fully fit.

Fire Up!

COYN

Oh man we need to win this one COYN!.

Season defining, must win game tonight. I don't have much hope. #RudanOut.

Not many teams have been able to keep him quiet but considering the ludicrously high number of balls into the opposition box he has managed so far (way more than any other player in the league) the Jets clearly haven't been effective enough capitalising on them. 

Of course now that the utterly piss poor WSW has somewhat played them back into form it wouldn't surprise me if Petratos, Vargas and Jair suddenly all start firing at once. I suspect this game will have a lot of chances at both ends.

Time we scored from a corner. Tonight.

Lineup's been released. It's a dream come true!

Mandi back in surprisingly, must have been a very late addition. Him and Rufer in midfield, Kopa in the back replacing Doyle, it's the team that we all adored earlier in the season. Increasingly hyped for this one COYN

We already got one this year from a corner which is above our yearly average.

Time the other team don't score from a corner...

Doyle’s not even on the bench.

I like Rudan (not sure if I mentioned this before), he clearly sends a message when players don't perform. Doyle was correctly blamed for his part in it last weekend and has a spell out of the squad.  Not the first player and probably not the last.

happy with that line up, but yeah, we really need 3 points tonight. Don't care how we get them. COYN

Ridenton vs Rufer in the midfield is a match up I'm keen to see.

my only thoughts on this squad.  the bench has 2 defenders on it.  i wouldve thought ud have an extra attacker there in place of one of them.  apart from that great line up

COYN!!

and two attackers so it has balance..although I think it reflects our squad balance and approach.

Kurto out with a stomach bug!!!!

So Kurto out... this could be interesting...

Just when I was feeling optimistic 

big boots for Sail to fill.

We have a good squad on the park and the ball will get nowhere near Ollie. And he's pretty good.

2 VAR checks in the first minute......

i thought that's a pen on cacace

Commentator wants to shut the hell up, but that's nothing new. Useless irrelevant stats. 

certainly looked like there was contact......would have been soft

another standard over complicated dead ball

I wish sometimes we'd just do it simply, hit it to the dude in the box!

oh god! how on earth do we not score there.

bugger, great shot Mandi - no time to react for Fenton

Stream anyone? My usual isn't working 

Libby!

good save mossy

Rufer and libby have to score soon.