R18 v Adelaide United | Sat 27th Jan | 7.35pm | Westpac Stadium | #Dura278

We really aren't as bad as is being made out.  They have had one 'shot' from a break from half way that was squibbed due to the pressure from the defenders chasing them down and snuck through.  Other than that it has been pretty even.  

I was fully on board the negative nellies band wagon at the end of last year, but I think it's crazy if you can't see the massive improvement since then.  Sure we have our crap moments but, hey, it's the A-League, and we are at the bottom of it.  What can you expect!

Fair cop..we are missing Roy a lot.  Have had some god moments but we look flat.

Yep, I agree with both, definitely missing Roy.

Where is Krishna? Any word on that?

We've had 37% of the ball, completed 65% of our passes and had four shots. Two of those were Durante from corners and the others were outside the box from Parkhouse and Burns. Hardly setting the world alight.

2nd best for most of the half. lack of movement up front and in the middle. Need to control the ball better if we want to get back into this. 

Strangely we loook slow and tired tonight. You would think the biggish crowd and Dura’s milestone game would have been enough motivation.

Resorting to long range, low percentage shots because Adelaide look very solid defending anything played into the box.

Missing Krishna massively.

Playing this poorly I will be happy with a draw but this should be a game we targeting as a win if we have any hopes of playing semi final football 

ONE aggressive run in 47’. More pedestrian than the local tram stop. Kid O’Doherty made 3 run in a minute.

injured. hamstring i think

We are not bad but apart from the first 10 min when we looked on top Adelaide have had a lot more ball than us.

Time for Singh. He's our best option on the bench to add some attacking threat.

We've been the better team in the first half which is what makes Italiano's feck up so much more frustrating. Hopefully we'll have a good halftime talk and come out blood thirsty.

We haven't been great but nor have Adelaide. Dullish midfield grind really.

Oh don't get me wrong, we aren't fantastic, i'm just not going all doom and gloom.

massive push guys a draw is no good

Paracki being deeper isn't helping either.with quicker attacks and holding.

How did he miss that?

Positive: Some good game time for Singh

Negative: 75% of our goals this season are from players not on the field.

They haven't got Lia so Even Stevens bro

Curious as to how players who are not on the field can score 75% of our goals?

it's all us 

Push push push

Try harder

corner means goal

This is better stuff from the Nix. Just need a little bit better quality finishing.

Crowd 6,000, if I hsard correctly. Jeez.

we really arent at the party tonight are we.

Watson would be a pretty good option off the bench right now...

IPL auction underway btw

we need some kenny cunningham kinda magic here.

That call on Singh was special. Yeh, Watto does better with the ball on the deck and Burns, but he's off now so.

Munro goes for 400K, not bad considering he probably wasn't on their radar much just 3 months ago.

we try hard but jeez we lack quality sometimes. At least half our squad is not A League quality

we needed Krishna so badly

Probably best to stop attempting crosses.

Stokes(city to keep it on topic) is a laugh at that price.

We really rely on Roy for spark.

Hero time

Bullocks... bar for Ridenton and Italiano every other player is an experienced pro.

Agreed for both.

rogerson, galloway, parkhouse, mcgarry, lowry, abbas, rufer, sail, italiano, smith, ridenton... all not up to it for me. and when you compare our imports, yeah they're decent but nowhere near the acumen of what other clubs bring in