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R1 vs Perth Glory | Sunday 12th Oct | 5pm | RoF
got a lot of work to do
totally. If you are going to play a mobile fast midfield then you need to have fast defenders. I don't blame Reira for any of that. We look light weight.
Our defense is awful
We've had the same backline pretty much since the '08 / '09 seasons. Seamonster, Durante and even Muscat aren't the players they were.
That tackle that Manny did after the whistle went reminded me of the other, dirty Muscat.
As far as I can see it this was more of the same as what we saw last year.
Our midfield was hard-working but often fizzled out going forward, a bit too static and flat up front, plus defensively shaky at times and immediately punished for it.
There were however some positives, I thought Bonevacia and Burns were great.
Brockie, McGlinchy and Rodriguez were quiet.
Very disappointing, we deserved a point at least but must say this was an organized, disceplined Perth side.
Basically this.
Roly, after a nervy first 15 minutes, was great I thought. A-Rod was invisible, but perhaps like someone else said it's because he's playing deeper.
The main concern for mine is that our defence is still so shaky. For a team with no real strikers except Brockie, we need to be far more solid.
Our defense was shocking. Siggy huffing around. Our team though just can't connect.
Nice to get the first game out of the way. We were pretty nervous/mistake ridden. Reira too deep, and line too deep. We all sat off too much. Ref let a lot of perth bullying in the midfield go. Roly not right sided midfielder. We looked unfit.
Oh, and this squad is by far better than 09/10. Just need to chill, compete, and play. I'm still real excite bout this season.....
The Positives.
Bonevacia. Watching him off the ball he covers a lot of ground like Reira and really gets involved. He also has a truck load of passion and A little bit of class as well.
Burns: just the player we needed, pace, nice touch and a lovely turn.
Negetives:
Gorrin.. What a waste of space. Never have I seen a midfielder be so invisible. I tried to watch him off the ball but even that was difficult. Having Lia come on to replace him says it all.
Brockie: I'm not even going to comment on him as it has been said all before.
I would immediately drop those two, replacing them with Cunningham wide, placing burns in brockies role and wee Mac back into the midfield.
As for the crowd what gives there? A big pre season, good coverage, new signings and a lovely day. At this rate we will be down to 4k if we lose a couple.
I thought this was a let down after what we saw against West Ham and Newcastle. Defence is still shaky and there isn't enough up front to finish chances.
That's a poor result. Perth hardly ever win here and most people reckon they will miss the six. After such a long off season you would expect the players to come out and gel a lot better. It just didn't happen today. I was impressed by Bonevacia and Burns (needed a finish though). Most of the rest were poor. I predicted that the Phoenix would get 7th this season but I also thought we would win this game. 26 games still to go but a disappointing start.
I thought this was a let down after what we saw against West Ham and Newcastle. Defence is still shaky and there isn't enough up front to finish chances.
well done! Welcome to supporting a football team!
Another thing is we conceded 51 goals last season and are conceding more goals each and every season. Most of the preseason angst centered on our strikers but I have always been concerned about our defence. Most people thought the defence would be fine with Reira + Bonevacia screening. However, a lot of the goals we conceded last season happened like that 2nd one today. Reira's screening isn't going to protect against basic defensive errors we saw today and saw repeatedly last year.
Once again, I know there are 26 games to go but it's hard to be positive after that.
This is what happens when you have statistically the worst defence in the league and you bring ONE new player into that defence from the ASB Premiership. End result = defence is still rubbish.
Gorrin was anonymous, Roly was involved but ultimately ineffective and other than the goal, McGlinchey struggled a bit. Burns should scored at least once. Brockie was as expected, crap. He cannot lead the line to save himself.
Got to question Ernie today too. No plan B at all, brings on Krishna on 90 minutes, and at 1-1 when we're trying to push on and win a game he brings on Vinnie Lia who manages to play a big part in us losing, and then misses a decent chance to equalise by a mile.
Very disappointing result and performance, bar about 15 minutes in the first half.
I thought this was a let down after what we saw against West Ham and Newcastle. Defence is still shaky and there isn't enough up front to finish chances.
well done! Welcome to supporting a football team!
Thanks for the welcome.
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This is what happens when you have statistically the worst defence in the league and you bring ONE new player into that defence from the ASB Premiership. End result = defence is still rubbish.
Gorrin was anonymous, Roly was involved but ultimately ineffective and other than the goal, McGlinchey struggled a bit. Burns should scored at least once. Brockie was as expected, crap. He cannot lead the line to save himself.
Got to question Ernie today too. No plan B at all, brings on Krishna on 90 minutes, and at 1-1 when we're trying to push on and win a game he brings on Vinnie Lia who manages to play a big part in us losing, and then misses a decent chance to equalise by a mile.
Very disappointing result and performance, bar about 15 minutes in the first half.
Crikey your post makes sense! Not sure you can blame Lia - it was well over when he was bought on.
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We are sooooooooo close to being a great side.
This is what happens when you have statistically the worst defence in the league and you bring ONE new player into that defence from the ASB Premiership. End result = defence is still rubbish.
Gorrin was anonymous, Roly was involved but ultimately ineffective and other than the goal, McGlinchey struggled a bit. Burns should scored at least once. Brockie was as expected, crap. He cannot lead the line to save himself.
Got to question Ernie today too. No plan B at all, brings on Krishna on 90 minutes, and at 1-1 when we're trying to push on and win a game he brings on Vinnie Lia who manages to play a big part in us losing, and then misses a decent chance to equalise by a mile.
Very disappointing result and performance, bar about 15 minutes in the first half.
Crikey your post makes sense! Not sure you can blame Lia - it was well over when he was bought on.
Wasn't Lia at fault for Perth's second goal?
Wasn't it still 1-1 when Lia came on? I also thought it was his pass that caught Siggy out? I may be wrong.
Not blaming Lia for the entire performance obviously, just questioning what he brings to the squad and what Ernie expected him to actually do by bringing him on?
Dissapointing way to start the season. Fucking annoying that sigmund was yet again involved in which was a late equalizer. That goal felt very football kingz-ish (gaining a goal and then giving one away soon after). Jeremy Brockie was shit. Nathan browns was very exciting but he missed a chance my great grandma could have finished off. Roly looked good if not sometimes risky. Need to just get rid of sigmund and durante with anyone else we have in our squad and i think we will all be better off for it!
Wasn't it still 1-1 when Lia came on? I also thought it was his pass that caught Siggy out? I may be wrong.
Not blaming Lia for the entire performance obviously, just questioning what he brings to the squad and what Ernie expected him to actually do by bringing him on?
I thought ht gave the pass to Siggy too. I thought that was more Lia's fault than Siggy's. Honestly, I think Ridenton offers more as a defensive midfielder than Sigmund. Boxall too.
This is what happens when you have statistically the worst defence in the league and you bring ONE new player into that defence from the ASB Premiership. End result = defence is still rubbish.
Gorrin was anonymous, Roly was involved but ultimately ineffective and other than the goal, McGlinchey struggled a bit. Burns should scored at least once. Brockie was as expected, crap. He cannot lead the line to save himself.
Got to question Ernie today too. No plan B at all, brings on Krishna on 90 minutes, and at 1-1 when we're trying to push on and win a game he brings on Vinnie Lia who manages to play a big part in us losing, and then misses a decent chance to equalise by a mile.
Very disappointing result and performance, bar about 15 minutes in the first half.
Crikey your post makes sense! Not sure you can blame Lia - it was well over when he was bought on.
Wasn't Lia at fault for Perth's second goal?
jeeesus christ it's always Lia's fault but at least I think he gave a shit when he came on. (and lost us the match probably)
The mistake was awful, but I don't think we created anywhere near enough chances today. We were not great going forward at all.
This is what happens when you have statistically the worst defence in the league and you bring ONE new player into that defence from the ASB Premiership. End result = defence is still rubbish.
Gorrin was anonymous, Roly was involved but ultimately ineffective and other than the goal, McGlinchey struggled a bit. Burns should scored at least once. Brockie was as expected, crap. He cannot lead the line to save himself.
Got to question Ernie today too. No plan B at all, brings on Krishna on 90 minutes, and at 1-1 when we're trying to push on and win a game he brings on Vinnie Lia who manages to play a big part in us losing, and then misses a decent chance to equalise by a mile.
Very disappointing result and performance, bar about 15 minutes in the first half.
Crikey your post makes sense! Not sure you can blame Lia - it was well over when he was bought on.
Wasn't Lia at fault for Perth's second goal?
jeeesus christ it's always Lia's fault but at least I think he gave a shit when he came on. (and lost us the match probably)
I like to think that all of our players give a shit even those ones who played poorly or were invisible.
Unfortunately 'giving a shit' is not enough. I give a shit but I don't have a 2 year contract at the club.
bollocks to that. each side had its chances, but only one side took them.
Glad mcglinchy got a goal.. We should have taken our opportunity when we started dominating in the first half. Merrick should have subbed roly and Brockie earlier.
We had maybe 4 decent chances as the home team. Not enough.
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We did not deserve any points, simple as that!!
Why did Brockie play 90 minutes? He had no impact whatsoever. I can't recall a proper shot on goal, and for a striker who has no idea tactically what he's doing, not being at least able to shoot (or have strength) is dreadful.
Krishna should have come on in the 55th minute. Give him a chance to actually make an impact.
Oh and also, lia comes on, does nothing, plays a awful ball back toward sigmund which leads to Perths match winner. He literally came on and lost us the game.
As far as I can see it this was more of the same as what we saw last year.
Our midfield was hard-working but often fizzled out going forward, a bit too static and flat up front, plus defensively shaky at times and immediately punished for it.
There were however some positives, I thought Bonevacia and Burns were great.
Brockie, McGlinchy and Rodriguez were quiet.
Very disappointing, we deserved a point at least but must say this was an organized, disceplined Perth side.
I thought they were getting away with a lot of niggle off the ball. Ref was way too lenient or unaware of it.
Signs of a good team - but need to try some passing instead of dribbling around everyone just for giggles.
26 games to go - we can do this.
Glad mcglinchy got a goal.. We should have taken our opportunity when we started dominating in the first half. Merrick should have subbed roly and Brockie earlier.
Are you sure about that? Roly made the goal. He played well all in all. WeeMac was average, was A Rod even at the game, the less said about Jeremy the better.
Merrick was poor today too, questionable subs at questionable times and when it was clear that 4-3-3 was not working (it didn't work for us last year either), there was no attempt made to change the formation.
I would have been happy with this loss in Perth but at home, we're going to have Knights sized crowds soon.
Hopefully this loss will have shown Merrick etal that the result against West Ham* should be completely ignored and a good hard look at the front line and defence needs to happen. Might be time to give to give Boxall a run in place of Durante or Sigmund.
* West Ham have actually done OK so far in the Premiership following the tour downunder.
Ernie. New Zealand can spend money on New Zealand coaches to develop their experience. If we overlook those people we expect better. You have now had a year of NZ football and selected your own players. You have not done the job. Dont ever think that as a foreigner, continuing mediorcity at the Westpac Stadium will surfice.
Just had another look at that 2nd goal.
Both Siggy and Lia looked stupid in it.
Siggy actually was the one who called for the ball but in my opinion should've directed Lia to pass it BACK to Durante, instead its passed ACROSS the field which is suicidal cuz it catches the defense flat-footed and that's what happened.
The pass wasn't great, Siggy misjudged it and the rest is history.
I think it's becoming obvious that this defense can't be fixed.
Next time I'd like to see Cunningham and Fenton from the start instead of Doyle and Gorrin.
Also Brockie is not A-League class but I'm sure that's been said before. He's far too uninvolved.
Weemac man of the match. Dont agree with that but atleast the season has kicked off
Not sure if this is Australia not respecting the Phoenix, or we need another rally to freeweemac, but I missed the game, so went onto foxports.com.au match center to see the goals, and they have clips for both of Scotland Towns goals, but no mcglinchey clip. Why dont we get to see Phoenix goals
FFS
that is all
Poor pass from Lia, got to do better, he isnt good enough at this level. Game over
Disappointing thing for me is that all the major problems of last season have been repeated today:
- Inability to take our chances
- Defensive errors leading to goals
- Conceding late to lose the game
- Inability to win precious home games
On today's performance there is not a team in the league that wont see us as a fairly comfortable three points, home or away.
I've gone from really optimistic (honest) about the season ahead to thinking we may be certs for the wooden spoon!
Not honestly sure what the Gorrin / Lia position in the team actually does. We'd be better off with another body up front.
Didnt see the match. Was cooking our kai on the BBQ.
Way tooo much doom and gloom in here already.
We lost, yes but we've only played a grand total of 1 match this season! Also, having read the last few pages of doom it seems that the same people who were calling for more strikepower up front are now blaming the defence for the loss...
People need to relax a little. Its a long season ahead
