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

Yes Durante had a great game - Gosford crowd only 7237 - 10000 last week for big opener - so will they be on notice soon. Don't all have Sydney and Melbourne pop base to call on. 

If you watch the of back it all starts because dura doesn't push out to the man on the edge of the box. He's free to make the pass into a guy running in behind, Moss makes a strange decision to commit, Doyle gets caught between clearing and passing back, pretty sure he just freezes and gets caught between 2 thoughts. Not just his mistake

Burns was excellent - had an Ifill-esque influence last night, where he put us on his back when things were looking grim in the first half and dragged us back into the game, and then finished off easily for the winner.We'll really need both him and Weemac to carry on this way if we are to contend for the top six, as it looks we're good for one dumb goal given up a game.

Roly was also very good for us - amazing how we turned into an absolute rabble when he went off (even if we did deliberately sit back in the last 15).

Also surprised there's still so much knocking of Brockie - I'm well known as a Brockie critic, but you can't fault his contribution last night: won the penalty that eventually got us back in the game, played a crucial part in the second goal, got himself into a couple of other good positions, and chased hard the whole day. That's a pretty good game in my books.

Basic is OK but you have to make the correct decision all the time. No mistakes

My penny-worth of thoughts from last night..

- thought the performance was similar to last week - promising but with numerous scary moments

- the pitch was bobbly as all hell. We struggled with it in the first half - mis-hit passes, poor first touches, the works. Seems in the 2nd half we settled down a bit and played with 'softer feet' somewhat. 

- commentators were absolutely ridiculous. Literally the whole time until we led, they spoke of CCM's dominance. And yet it was like a flicked switch when we took the lead, all of a sudden we'd apparently been dominant the entire game, and our movement and passing was 'amazing'. It was like 1984, as if they'd gone back and erased all their previous comments from our memories, and acted like they'd been talking like that all along. 

- brockie and doyle both had decent games despite their high-profile moments

- we did very well to create the chances to win against their defence, which seemed very good

- after I hadnt noticed rodriguez for a while I watched him specifically for about 15 mins and was very impressed, however I'm pretty sure that coincided with the 20min period people said he looked good, so should be taken with a grain of salt

Quite happy with last night, think we can push on from here. Only downside really for me: 

"The 61-year-old also addressed a possible injury for Bonevacia, with the boss confirming that he had sustained a cork in his leg."

http://www.fourfourtwo.com/au/news/merrick-upbeat-...

Burns was immense for us last night. He's now had two games where he's arguably been our most influential and creative attacking player. It's early days, but I wonder if he keeps this up Postecoglou might be tempted to include him in the Roos' Asian Cup squad, especially considering they've been pretty rubbish at scoring goals in their last few games. If Ibini can make the squad, surely Burns if he continues this form would be worth a look?

Quite a few times in the match there seemed to be a lack of communication between Moss and Doyle.

Brockie appears to be the designated scapegoat, taking over from Vinnie.  Brockies work ethic was excellent last night and was instrumental in both goals.  He could have got a hattrick last night and these forums would be knocking him.

Tell you what impressed last night was the middle periid after the own goal, passing it around.

Brockie also missed a penalty and dragged a shot about 25 yards wide from about 15 yards out. I don't know if I would say he was excellent. But he was definitely good enough to justify his starting place, and the assist for Burns was quality.

Do you feel like a numpty now, Vader?

Hope he's not out for too long. If it's just  a cork it should be okay.

Honestly believe he will be our most essential player going forward.

That's some good work there Fox Sports

crazy that wasnt a red card, been passed over somewhat is the postgame chat 

I thought that the winning goal we scored was so special, that I made a poster of it.

A lot of you have misunderstood Brockie last njght. He was teasing the hell out of Reddy by doing the cross bar challenge and deliberately setting WeeMac up for the goal. He did it again for Burns too. Compared to previous efforgs, I'd give Brockie an 8 out of ten. He and Burns actually appear to play quite well off each other. Burns thus far has been an inspirational signing.

They gifted us that goal though. Apparently. (#TuiBillboard)

“We gifted them two goals and at this level you can’t do that,” - Phil Moss.

That's all well and good but the fact is, he was shite. Could have chipped Reddy, but poor shot....He had another chance to score across the face of goal but the ball would up at the corner flag....Missed the penalty because of no confidence. He ran around a lot? Well done little Jeremy. What else did you do? umm.......FUCK ALL. AS PER USUAL. He redeemed himself by heading the ball back 2 meters. Did he mean to? I would not be surprised if he was trying to score from that to be honest just like the amazing "back heal" which was just another fuck up. This will be his last season. MARK MY BALLS.

We must have gifted all the goals last night then.

To be fair, I'm still not sure how Roly wasn't sent off against Perth.

I just hope that this victory doesnt hide the cracks in this team. As much as three points is needed, I challenge anyone here to say we deserved to win this game. We played no better then we did against Perth. As for Brockie, I don't  often agree with NUfC but he is completely correct. He did play better then he did against Perth but yesterday was no better then asb standard. He needs to go before Newcastle.

We deserved to win this game.

What a ridiculous straw man argument.

U WOT ???????

He clearly went for power over placement. If he was confident in his scoring ability, he would have cushioned the ball in the goal.

Totally, put the same comment on the guardian site. Out of the two sides we were the better team.

Thought Brockie didn't even work hard in the first half - he was much improved in the 2nd half i thought, but still not great.

We did deserve to win. Could we play like that and win against one of the better sides in the competition? Probably not. In that game our best was very good but we fell off for large periods and other teams would punish us for that. I really hope Roly is fit for this week.

Thought we were just as good as CCM. Both teams had parts of the game where they dominated - just like against Perth, I thought we played some nice stuff. Unfortunately we haven't been able to put it together for a full game yet, but signs are reasonably promising if we can cut out the silly defensive mistakes.

Could anyone hear us? Didn't think the ccm fans made much noise.

We deserved to win this game. 

The bogans are breeding!!!

Aaaarrrrrgh!