R10 V Central Coast Mariners | Sat 13th Dec | 5pm | Eden Park | Faltering Fullback

I spoke to soon ah, love the way Pheonix are playing with speed though, its how sydney and victory play. 

After being pretty pissed off and frustrated at the end of that game I now think that, as most people are saying, we actually played pretty darn well (finishing aside) and were a bit unlucky not to win that. There was some terrific passing in patches there, particularly anything that Roly had a hand in. 

I guess the disappointment mainly came from my expectations for this game based on the fact that we had 8 goals in 2, and the Mariners had won only 1 game all season. But this result just shows that especially in a salary-capped league you can't take any points for granted. Good lesson I suppose.

So anyone from the forums get a precious Hobbit shirt or prize pack?

rodriguez was amazeballs

I find him to be like an unflushable turd

we joked about that. Aguy in aisle 410 won it. Probably a first time attendee. He wasn't wearing any Nix colours.

Moss is a decent shot stopper that punches too much for my liking. He had a reasonable game but I think we could get a better one. Just my opinion. 

Matt Simon is a dickhead. His face is annoying. He always scores against us. Matt Simon is a dickhead.

Good question..if it was a free scoring class striker Roy goes but style changes are needed.  It would have to be back to 442..or drop Alex and go 433 but that would need a better right back.  Maybe its just striker rotation and using subs more.

Yeah I was sitting there wondering who on the bench Ernie could turn to to try and change the game. The truth being that there wasn't anyone that you could rely on. As much as I like Brockie and think he's a good player for a certain style of team having Boyd on the bench would do better for us.

We arguably have a better one in Italiano.  In saying that, besides the obvious gaff for the goal, I thought Moss played okay.

A couple more of those spills though and we might find a change of keeper.

Sometimes you play way better than the opposition but you can''t beat them, that's just football. There's no need to drastically change anything just because we had one game where we didn't finish our chances.

One thing that pissed me of though was our delivery from set pieces. We don't exactly have a lot of big guys to aim at, but I feel we can do better than these hanging balls to the far post every time. 

a central coast playr said to me aftrr the game "you must be gutted"

Home safe and kids are happy. Another trip completed. Happy hangovers those whom have them.

HN, I think the dickhead that was throwing bottle caps, chips and then his bottle must have been a rugby fan, he left at 80 minutes. mind you so did the drunk guy standing next to you.

Chelsea twunt

Chardonnay bottle?

Are you Wayne Scurrah?

Was an interesting game, felt we were the better team. CCM came to park the bus and score off the counter which is what they did. 

A lot of the time I saw five players across the back for CCM and whenever a Nix player turned inside he ran into 3-4 CCM players as they had flooded the middle. 

Finishing let us down, but we were better than CCM.

Two things disappointed in was the refereeing, felt should have been more cards, CCM were good and disrupting our players with dirty play and second as mention below was our free kicks, we had no idea what to do when we had one near the box and none of them really looked dangerous until the one WeeMac actually hit straight at goal instead of trying to lob in.

Cunningham should be a game changer but he is just playing so poorly. I would probably drop Cunningham ahead of Brockie. I agree that Boyd needs to be given a chance.

I think they mostly kept the integrity of our usual away kit at least. It wasn't so over the top as I was worried it would be. That did make the shirts a little lamer than people expected - but I thought they were ok, without being great.

I liked it. 

Not tacky, similar to usual away strip as Tegal says, and the Hobbit theme summed up our game: Very busy for the whole time, lots of creativity, but in the end came up a little ... short.

I'll get me coat.

He was also throwing them at the West ham guys. What a prick

He was also throwing them at the West ham guys. What a prick

EPL snobs much?

Oh well, that's OK that he threw stuff at you lot (waste of a bottle cap tbh).

Seriously - what the feck has EPL got to do with the A-League?

wait, that wasn't a west ham game we were at last night? 

I thought I must've got drunk and ended up in London

My apologies to Chelsea fans

If I knew it was Spurs vs WHam I would have made more of an effort to get up for it.

So skimming over the posts the conclusion I'm drawing about the crowd is that firstly it was piss poor, and secondly, it consisted of a bunch of drunken assholes who had some weird English Premier League rivalry that they insisted on displaying to demonstrate that they were real football fans. Whuuuuut?

I'm normally quite proud if I can't flush one away. Simons on the other hand.

This is why we need another A-League team in NZ.

Northern Wellington Wanderers?

No relegation in the A league. North Wellington would fit right in. 

Nice!