R10 vs Melbourne Victory | Sat 14th Dec | 7:00pm | SS7

He's only a bit of a donkey. By donkey standards he's way too good. 

I don't like it. As the commentators say we're slick, we're carving them up in midfield, and then they take their scraps of possession and give it to Nabbout and sharkcod Kruse and only Master Stefan is keeping us in it.

We don't have a REAL attacking threat up front. Roll on Hooper's contribution.

Agree. That said, our non real attacking threats are getting better and we're starting to see combinations, triangles, lay offs to create around and in the box. Not always working, but we're seeing more each game. 

Think we'll keep improving. And hopefully Hooper plays some football some day. 

[Edit: this is the best 'Nix play we' ve seen for years. Plenty to like.] 

Sotirios definitely fouled him but he had a chunk of Sotirios shirt the whole way down. 

Could be wrong (usually am) but it seemed like they both scrappily took each other down. 

It's interesting them showing repeated replays of that supposed foul on Kruse. I don't know if it's a deliberate tactic by opposition teams or not but David Ball cops a lot heavy physical treatment that mostly goes unpunished. 1st half he was crunched three times and had his shirt pulled but none fouls according to the ref.

ball was clipped there, should have gone down.

Brenton Speed was praising us all first half and is now doing it again. Heady days.

nope just a stumble.....still should have gone down and forced the ref to make a decision.

Devlin is having a blinder in defence.

so so close from De Vere.

How brilliant is it to have actual squad depth?

Oh that stings how close that was. 

Our players need to learn to shoot down. 

another donkey doing well now: Devere

taking to much time to shoot

Imagine the chaos that Hooper could cause just by simply being on the pitch. Give him 20, Talay!

and again

reckon you'll see hooper on for Piscopo soon enough.

Where is our missing piece of the puzzle to bang a couple in? 

How many games against Victory have we ever lead in possession and territory??

Victory look out on their feet.

That's fantastic seeing Sotirio track back so far for that dangerous MV break. He gets through a power of defence that goes unnoticed.

Ha ha, I can hear the Travelling Fever :D

Devlin's won a nice wee foul there!!!

justifed red card too

huge

You don't need to be "kicking at a player" if you studs up kick a player in the head.

"He's gone for the ball".  Does that matter once you kick him in the head?

mmmm..high boot but no intent as such..small afters?

yeah - you can argue he got the ball, but he shouldnt be leaving the ground like that to play at the ball. Its wreckless at worse but still a red.

How do the commentators not see much there? 

Its a flying studs up challenge. That's a red on the ground. 

Wow, maybe there is a pro-Nix ref conspiracy

What the hell is Harper on about.

my recollection is our record against 10 isn't great...

This season feels like a whole lot of justice being delivered to us for all the sharke decisions we've had go against us!

Oh come on, how can they say that's not serious dangerous play!? If Cacace's was a red so was that every time!

we need to score now and kill this game!!

"Once you've played the ball you can't detatch your hip and put your foot back on the ground". Yes.  That's the whole point of the high foot rule.  You can't kick the ball when it's up at head height - you might kick someone in the face.

Attacking subs on now, please. Let's run them into the ground

Sounds like a lot of crap to me.

well maybe from the last couple of games....

Davila is a terrific little player. We are yet to see the best of him I reckon.