R19 vs Melbourne Victory | Sun 1st Mar | 7:00pm

A rod did heeeeaps of work tonight.

Sometimes a win is worth more than 3 points, that was one of those games.  I'd say a 4 or 5 pointer

Love this!

So many of our players had absolute blinders tonight: Burns, Roly, Boxall, Moss, Durante, A-Rod. Absolutely stellar performance to get back and win that one.

Is that one of our absolute best performances? I reckon it is.

2 goals from set pieces in one game!? That's more of a shock than beating Victory away! Fudgeing great effort from the lads though. Still hasn't properly sunk in

Sell out next week...hottest ticket in town! 

Might have a cheeky tenner on Victory here. We always conceed late to them...

More interesting to me than the goals from set pieces is the restoration of the pattern we had before the Asian Cup break, where we would start taking teams apart from 65-70 minutes in through greater fitness or staying power.

The defence came right after about 30 mins and excelled in the last 20. Even Griffiths contributed, perhaps he might be our lucky charm? Fantastic effort all around by everyone. A monkey off our back so to speak.

Those odds stacked against us were a huge anti jinx, and i fudgeing loved that Boxall goal . We need him in to play up front to head some in .

Oh cool you're trolling through pages and pages of posts and quoting things people said at a stage where we were getting pumped. You're so smart !

I'll take the $47.00 return on my $10.00 investment :)   Not as high odds as some people got but I placed the bet on Monday.

Great game to watch that one.  End to end stuff with some really nice touches from both teams but a fair result I reckon.

Well done lads.

why must you do the gloat thing? people post this stuff for anti-jinx reasons

And Archie friggen Thompson at long last did not score against us. My life is complete!

Impressed with how Griffiths slotted straight in, might be a starter next week.

That game showed how far Ernie has taken this club in just a season and a half.

Just amazing.

I bet Ernie had IMMENSE satisfaction from that performance and result.

Both good games.  I think this game had the better football.

bam and the voodoo is gone

Careful, we're not top of the league yet. Team's still too erratic for my liking. Plus we seem to find it easier to play against a high-skill team of Tards than the idiot munters at WSW and the Jest. I still want to see a "Plan B" involving Nutpuncher.

Boxall's runs near the end -- beautiful.

great stuff.

Eat. Sleep. Conquer the streak.

career game for boxall

fitness and concentration won a high quality game in the end

What was the foul count for this game?

Our last two games really should have had a fewer opposition players on the park at the end.  

Two remarkable things

Set pieces, which makes Melbin absolute poos at defending them

Boxall headering on target

A night of firsts. Brilliant

People give Boxall a lot of shark but I rate him. He's a fudgeing beast. Should've had a couple goals tonight. For a big lump he gets forward so well

Definitely! Imagine how dangerous he could be if he becomes more consistent with his final pass...

Hmmm..I don't think he is up to it speed wise yet..He dropped back to midfield pretty quickly.  Good to have him for variation tho.

*makes room for Steve-O in the circle jerk*

You are to this thread what JV is to the cricket thread.

Excellent game to watch between two highly skillful teams both trying to play football.....MV didn't try and kick the crap out of us.

Such a great feeling to finally beat MV on their home turf. So many of the lads put in a good shift....Durante and Boxall were excellent. Moss kept brilliantly especially at the end. A-Rod and Roly were great. Burns was outstanding...not everything he did came off but he really put their back four under pressure.

So pleased for Ernie.....beating MV would have made him very happy

My 10 yr old son just told me the following joke

What the difference between Melb Vic and a Triangle

A Triangle has 3 points

Where's Steve-O? he only posts when we lose...oh wait

Well, there's a reason I don't post there, because I'd just be reminding everyone we're going to be knocked out in the semifinals again. :)

Did you not see him come from nowhere and absolutely burn off 2 victory players? Thought he was really good, surprised by how much pace he has for a 35 year old.

If it makes you feel any better, someone said exactly the same thing on the MVFC forum...