R2 V Central Coast Mariners | Sat 18th Oct | 7pm | SS4

You can give Perth credit or you cannot give credit but either way I still feel that Perth are pretty crap. Did people watch Adelaide vs Brisbane or Melbourne City vs Sydney? Those games were very impressive, high intensity show downs. Melbourne Victory were also hugely impressive and the Wanderers will be better when they get their defenders back and now they have signed Ruka. I didn't see Newcastle vs CCM and it sounds like both teams were crap (as expected). If people are going "Perth are actually really good" I feel they might be shocked by just how good Adelaide, Sydney and even Melbourne City are when we play them.

I think Perth were alright. Think Newcastle could be OK too.

I watched the other games except Victory WSW one. They looked like last season. Nothing majorly outstanding.

Just for information purposes only anyone heading over ... its our "Pink " day re women's breast cancer day ..

http://www.ccmariners.com.au/article/news-mariners...

So I guess when I do shirts off I'll play my part.

Just gotta get burnt first.

You guys meeting up anywhere pregame? Will plug it on the fever twitter/facey.

Waiting for confirmation from the Sydney nix fans but believe we're all heading to the hotel gosford from around 2pm. We might not get there till about 3 though. Depending on traffic etc.

Sweet. Let me know when it's confirmed. 

Awesome there is an event on Facebook and 2pm is the meetup time might be worth plugging the event. Event here

Doyle is our starting full back - he needs 5 games minimum before we start passing judgement

Does anyone have a way to record the game and upload it online? I have work friday and saturday nights (im a poor student who has no sky or recording device). I know its alot to ask but would really appreciate it lol.

Also I think we will start to gel in this game, really hope we start boyd or over brockie, boyd may finish just as bad but does a hell of alot better on and off the ball.

Blimey Jeff Get to bed!

Really hope we get a win here - the negativity is a little stifling

if it's only a little stifling then that's not to bad?

You cannot be serious.

Anyone who gets evicted for a YF shirts off at 80 minutes (if it happens) will be a bloody hero! The YF shirts off tradition is well established, well known, and respected. It would be a fantastic story for us if it happened.

I am looking forward to this game immensely.

Genuinely getting excited about this game. (False hope?) Think we will have learnt a lot from last week and the boys should have every reason to be fired up.

At the start of Ernie's reign our problem was we had no Riera. Now we have three guys who could do that job, but we're trying to play them all. Our mids are a bit samey and we don't have wingers/forwards with the x-factor that have shown it as of yet. Hopeful about Cunningham, nervous about Burns' lack of pre-season goals, waiting on McG. Looking for our scoring 'Riera-type' saviour now we have plenty of damn cover in DM.

Agreed.

I think Roly looks like he has he ability to play a bit further forward - A-Rod, too, though he didn't show much against Perth. We'll see.

I think it will take a few weeks to settle down with a starting 11 that works. Yea, we've had how many months off season but everyone looks good against your Lower Hutts, your Mirimars etc. ALeague is a a few steps up. I have faith in Ernie. Plenty of time to turn this around.

Its a bit more complicated than you might think to record a game and upload it but there is a torrent community which uploads the games in pretty good quality to watch later. You have to make an account and it is a private tracker so you can be banned for not sharing, it can be a bit unreliable and take a very long time to find peers but its here: acrossthetasman.com/

I don't know of anywhere where you can stream A-league replays for free, I believe you can with a sky account or perhaps another online paid streaming service. If anyone knows of other good options I'd like to hear them, I follow the league pretty much exclusively via internet.

Apologies if we aren't allowed to post this sort of thing, mods feel free to delete this post after Joey reads it ;)

Rodriquez is box to box rather than a defensive midfielder. I agree though that it doesn't make much sense to pick all three of those guys at once. I think we really need to play Weemac centrally so he can pop up on either side. Then we can fit another winger into the side.

He drinks when he wants, he drinks when he wants....

Liam Reddy, he drinks when he wants (according to Qantas)

If you score a goal for me Brockie

Reddy will drink responsibly

Mariners are horrible, we should win comfortably.

Everyone makes mistakes, said the dalek climbing off the dustbin! He'll be fine with more game time and Fenton's better used left mid. Brockie off for Cunningham; at least he chases back! 

Ha!! a Jasper Carrott quote.

Cheers man!

Paying $4.60! Good money to be made there.

And $3.60 for the draw.

"If you score a goal for me Brockie

I will bet responsibly."

They are probably thinking the same about us.

We are going to get humped.  I just know it.

how about victory paying more than Adelaide to win - their computer is cray cray at the TAB

Oh noes, we have been Ben Williams'ed

After all the negativity about the mariners and how shite they played on social media this should be the go . but have we really broken our away voodoo . or was that just season 11/12

Glad were are playing on Saturday as the weather is only 22 but going up to 27 on Sunday.

LOL Clutching at straws.