R14 vs Brisbane Roar | Sun 10 Jan | 7:00pm | SS1 | Kids go free

look at that energy.

I thought it was, can't go controlling the ball with your arm.

Still think his arms were up and it's not like the ball was struck at him with no time to react, it was poor judgment/technique that resulted in his arm controlling the ball.

Like all these things, the ref didn't call it so it didn't happen.

Would you rather have Sarpong? At least Appiah was asking questions of their defence and putting them under some pressure. And unfortunately at the moment that's all the options we have up front.

I invite you all to comment on the "deliberate" vs "accidental" handball here:

Interpretations of handball have changed since that incident. 

Handling the ball involves a deliberate act of a player making contact with the ball with his hand or arm. The referee must take the following into consideration: 

• the movement of the hand towards the ball (not the ball towards the hand) 
• the distance between the opponent and the ball (unexpected ball) 
• the position of the hand does not necessarily mean that there is an

  infringement 

• touching the ball with an object held in the hand (clothing, shinguard, etc.)

  counts as an infringement 

• hitting the ball with a thrown object (boot, shinguard, etc.) counts as an

  infringement

Thanks.

My understanding was if band touches ball its penalty season.  Its the players job to ensure her\his hands aren't in the way.

But that makes more sense.

Thanks Bullion, I've always thought that awarding a penalty and giving Harry a red card for that incident was harsh - the shot on goal was so fast, he simply stood there and was hit by the ball. Yes it rolled off his arm / forearm, and it prevented a goal. But it was not deliberate, or in today's parlance, not a handball.

In the olden days Ifill would have scored from this.....

Theory 1:

In his few appearances earlier in the season, physically he looked quite big - doing lots of weights. IIRC James Dean described him as a "beast" in preseason. This surprised me because my memory of him at WSW he was rather skeletal. Those earlier games this year, to me, he looked slow and laboured (too much bulk?)

Last game he showed pace and made me think managment or personally he had changed his preparation (more cardio, less weights?)

Nostalgia. 

for the second time this season ticketek have sold my stand in the fever zone, this has not really been a problem as the people were happy to move when i showed them my season pass. but the question remains how can my stand be sold if it is a season ticket ?

phoned the phoenix hotline and talked to brenda who started by saying that your seat could not be sold on their system because it is held for every match and therefor cannot be sold. after i had told her this was not the first time this has happened she said if it happened again to ask the person for the transaction number of there ticket and then they can work out what is happening within their system to allow it to happen.

if you are the person who had the ticket to my stand on sunday could you either post the transaction number here or contact brenda at ticketek so hopefully she can sort this out.

Great game Phoenix - TAB would have loved it - most punters had it for Brisbane around 3-1

However,

two far post runs by the striker to support McGlinchley and one for Powell may have lead to goals. 

With a 4-3-3 formation - one of the strikers should be running the far post every cross. @basicfootball.com.

Next time a tap in.

Sometimes a game just works for me. Yesterday was one of those times. I got so involved!!  

Rewatched the highlights... I had no idea appiah was so close at the end! Also ridenton shoulda done better with his very free header

with both teams without their two best goal scorers in hindsight it had 0-0 written all over it..shame I didn't put my $10 on it.

That like asking if I'd prefer a cold or the flu. Both are pretty minging. 

does he have a right shooting foot?

A fun night in the zone. Highlights: Mossy's saves, Ridenton's backheel save, booing North and him giving us a wave to acknowledge it, Fox's work, Dura's leadership of that whole back four, Powell's running, Lia & Riera keeping their classy midfield at bay, Appiah pressurizing them into mistakes, Mikey making things happen. A good night and a pleasing result.

congrats on being the 1 millionth fan as well

They did have programmes, but they have gone for a "season" programme this year $5 but same every game

Agree, congratulations!

Thanks guys. It was certainly a very pleasant surprise. Awesome prize from Huawei.

This actually happened when we played CCM a week ago, except I think it was Ridenton (?) and not mcGlinchey who crossed into the box for a Powell tap-in.

Agreed, I hoped he would choose to direct his header sharp to the ground for a bounce if he could not get it directly at the goal.

Agreed, but I would take the cold (Appiah) based on the speed. 

In contrast, the flu (Sarpong) just lingers there, with prospects for improvement more distant than with the cold.

A cold is nothing but influenza is a serious illness.

I would always take someone who runs his guts out over a gifted but not awfully interested player.

I would rather Sarpong than a marathon runner. At least with a decent footballer he may create/take a chance that wins a game.

He has only looked like doing that a couple of times with way more minutes than Appiah. Sarpong really doesn't seem to want to be here, when we were playing Adelaide he just needed to run at Hall to force an error, Hall looked really shaky. Everyone in the front line was putting pressure on him except Sarpong. He just wasn't involved in the press, just didn't look interested. All Sarpong needed to do was have a little bit of intent and he would have been getting into good positions to score, but he just didn't look like he cared apart from that one shot that came off the post. If the ball comes to him, he'll have a go but he's not trying to create anything, not chasing anything.

At least Appiah seems to care and wants to create something. Even if its just madly running at defence and putting them into a panic. That is contributing more than what Sarpong manages to do.

I wont' say that I'm advocating for Apiah to start, I think he's probably good to have off teh bench running at tired defenders. But I don't think Sarpong is a starting player either. We need a new striker in this window.