R19 vs WSW | Sun 14th Feb | 7:00pm | SS3

Riddenton looked far more comfortable in a central midfield role than makeshift fullback. Keep him there and let him fight for his place with Riera, Roly, McGlinchy, A Rod.

One thing that seemed to come out of this was this style definitely suits WeeMac (after all, its closer to how CCM played when he was there) and doesn't seem to suit Roly, who likes time on the ball a bit more I think. 

Being free as a bird helped.....

...because we had a fiesty striker keeping the CBs busy and central, allowing more 1v1s in wider areas.

Does anyone know if the team are staying in Sydney this week until the game vs the Jets?

I don't want to take any credit away from the team's performance on the park, but that's the first game I have watched in full since we beat Melbourne...pretty sure I have some voodoo juju going on currently

I thought Appiah had a bloody good run when he jumped on. Couple of gut busting runs and seemed to have a bit more control than previous weeks

When he went on a big mazy run then ended up in the corner...that basically summed up Appiah.

There was great team play when someone went down injured and we had possession. Dura passed to Appiah and got him to kick it out. Specialist.

Did we really play that much better or play differently than we have at other times this season.Yeah maybe but have seen Powell make similar runs all season and either the ball has never arrived or he just blazed it.For whatever reason yesterday the crosses or passes went where they were supposed to go and Powell just buried them.What ever is the reason they need to find it and repeat it this weekend and more importantly bring it home with them.

I cannot stand Jamieson so last night was particularly lovely for that reason alone. His defending was sooooooooo bad. I loved rewinding and watching his face after each of the goals, looking for others to blame, it was beautiful. Especially the first when he even looked over his shoulder for Powell before Doyle crossed, yet still lost him!

...apart from the hospital pass to Fenton which gave away the second WSW goal, you mean?

Yeah, there is a bit of a feeling that the luck just went our way this game. WSW could've quite easily had 5 themselves.

We lose = we're shark.

We win = we're lucky.

Scoring 5 can't be luck though. There was a noticeable formation change with Watson. Ernie said we setup specially for WSW so it might be we have uncovered the formula for beating them and will be shark against other teams, or it could be that we have found a new formation that suits our squad better.

Not saying we didn't play well. Just saying that the luck mostly fell on our side for once - and it did. What was it - 3 shots, 3 goals to their 10 shots on target for nothing or something?

I recall quite a few they should've buried.

Just like there have  been multiple games this season that I think we should've/could've won if we had a few things fall our way.

By the end of the game they had more shots on goal but a lot of those were desperate shots from outside of the box, we had the same shots on target. So the score line definitely flattered us but we were competitive.

See I saw that as Fenton stuffing up, but that was just my opinion (and I'm not a huge fan of Fenton this season so there may be some bias in my view)

Either way Moss did not do much with that second goal.

On the other hand the belter from Nicholls for their first goal was classy, almost reaching Roly Quality Standard.

yea i thought that the Fent had heaps of time to deal with the ball but didnt. I dont understand the hate towards appiah for that one. 

I thought Fenton got plain shoved in the back with no foul called.  But that is just my opinion (and I am not a huge fan of A League referees ever, so there may be some bias in my view).

A League referees are the one constant in the history of the A League. Sadly, their standard has been shark from day one and remains so up to last night.

highlights 8.30 on Sky

Can honestly say I did not see that coming,do people think it was a one off effort or could we go a bit of a run.

the different style might catch a few more out.

I think we could go on a bit of a run, but it will take us NOT reverting ONLY to the narrow, tik-a-tak passing we've been trying to do in and around the box.  That's great when it works, but it helps to have other routes to goal, to have alternatives.  It's too predictable and defend-able, if it's all we ever do.

Powell was stunning last night; he'll quite possibly never play a better game of football in his life.  Treasure it, man!  Having said that, let's hope he has lots more like it.  Watson's presence at the pointy end certainly helped us to be able take different routes to goal.

If we do get the paper work sorted for Alex then were suddenly going to have a wealth of young strikers.

"Wellington Weenix"?

Question for you experts.

The defender whom got a red card, which was a straight red, also had earlier been given a yellow. How does this stack up as a punishment as he had not received a second yellow. Does the yellow count against his total yellows and the red against his total reds etc.

Your questions were so much simpler when we played like shark.

If he'd been shown a second yellow, then neither yellow would have been counted towards a suspension, and it would just be the automatic one week suspension. This is what happened to Riera, he got his 5th yellow against Adelaide, but then got a second one so his total is current at 4.

Wellington 5-2, Liverpool 6-0. 

'Twas a good 12 hours of football for me.

Twas also good for me! (gooner)

Piney will be happy too.

Bloody Wellbeck!