R2 vs Brisbane Roar | Sun 28th Oct | 7:00pm | SS3 | Four Kings

hope Taylor's miss isn't something we regret later. 1 point gained, hopefully we don't miss the 2 points though.

well done Nix.good hold out and had chances.  Cacace had a good game as did Kurto

Happy enough with that.  But Taylor lols

Entertaining game.  We've got a team worth watching.

The commentators last week said Westpac was voted best surface the last two seasons.

Mork bitter

Stefan Mauk you absolute cod. Listen to the stuff coming out of his mouth

Excellent result! Well happy with that.

Mauk - what a dick - they came out to defend, didnt look like they wanted to win it - we only drew with you due to a very close miss!!!

What a dick!

Pretty happy with the point to be honest - We generally were untroubled defensively and held our shape pretty well. Despite a lack of ball at times we still had the best opportunities.

Doyle MOM in my opinion.

Neither of these teams will be in the top four. 

Doyle, Taylor, Durante and Kurto all incredibly solid at the back. Our defensive structures are looking good and Brisbane seemed to run out of ideas as the game went on.

Pity we couldn't put away one of our chances, but will definitely take the draw.

Singh had a poor game today, easily the worst I have seen from him between the Nix and the AWs.  Doyle and Cacace played well apart from what happened to Tom near the end there.

A bit harsh on both teams I feel, though lacking a bit of quality in the box the second half was good end to end stuff. Not bad for the second game of the season. Nix still need an out and out striker though.

I thought the ref was very good, one of the best reffed matches I've seen in A-League.

Doyle was brilliant, MOTM for me too. Rufer disappointing today compared to the Jets game, Williams and Fenton never really fired up either. But really good performances from everyone else, Cacace surprised me a lot.

Ref was shaky at the start but I thought he did very well to be honest

Burns looked short on ideas again too.  Seemed clueless when he had the ball, especially near the box.  Lack of form/match fitness or has he simply "lost" it.?

Not a suprising comment from you. But have you seriously watched any of the other games? None of the teams look like they will make the top four at this stage.

You are easily pleased.

If nobody does get into the top four, does that mean if we get sixth we're in the final?

Agreed re striker

Who has looked top four material - the quality so far this year in front of goal has been poor by all teams. 

CCM have two draws and looked pants in both, but are seemingly good enough to compete.

No saying we are top four, but I think we will certainly be competative.

Kurto is a class keeper and he showed it again ths week. The back four was very good especially with Taylor organising them. Plenty of reasons to be an optimist

That is what she said.

thanks goodness the Brisbane forwards couldn’t attack a cross for sh*t

Happy

Superb shift by Doyle

Happy with the draw but we should have won that. Things are looking good so far.

If we terminate Kopa's loan we need a defensive midfielder more than a striker. Mandi can't play 90 minutes every week and say what you will about the quality up front but we have Krishna, Burns and Williams.

6 draws in 9 games, no one outshining the rest (not including the Vic-Perth match on now).  We seem tight at the back.  Poor call Leggy, we'd be top now if Taylor didn't shank his tap-in.

Thought we could've made our subs 5 mins or so earlier, decent players coming on there and we did look dangerous right at the end.

Agreed. I would have also left Krishna on. Felt we were the more likely to nick a goal at the end there.

Quite an even game I thought, so an away point is OK. Really liked the spirit of this team.....in past years we would have folded and conceded a goal late in the game. But even though some of the players looked like their legs had gone they kept battling away.

Could be useful having Burns and Nichols coming off the bench but I thought Burgess has not adjusted to the speed of the A-League. His decision making two games in a row has been way too slow. 

Really happy how the Rudan era is shaping up.......though to be honest that was not one of the great games of football to watch!

Having an Ozzie coaching the Nix has done wonders for our image across the ditch......the commentators were actually complementary for a change.

Would quite happily have Alex King ref more of our games if he keeps up that standard. Seemed to have a rapport with the players, made some sharp calls and punished cynical fouls with yellow cards.

The guy is an absolute cod, seemed to catch onto him after he fouled Cacace and then gave him a spray (even though it was a foul).

If he looks at the stats, we won more duels (ie we wanted it more), had more shots, more corners and, and crosses into the box were pretty even overall. Don't know how he comes to conclusion that he did.

He'd do well to remember that defending is also a large part of football, and although it's not always pretty, it's very pleasing to see we are structured and proving hard to break down. Good to see too that the Aussies are getting frustrated that they're not cracking us for an easy 2-3 goals a game this season (so far...)

First clean sheet since New Years Eve 2017, or 16 games, 17 if you include Bentleigh.

Has it really been that long? Jesus.

It's probably how they expected us to play more than the reality.

Disagree completely re: Burgess. He looked far sharper than Burns did when he came on, who did his usual try-to-dribble-then-get-tackled routine.

I think the main concern is the lack of mobility in CM, and the lack of interplay between our front 3. The rest; not bad - and defence looks very, very solid. Taylor is a man mountain at the back and Doyle was similar; Dura did well too.

Will take the point; could've won, but we could've easily lost last week so swings and roundabouts. The most pleasing thing for me, and a point of difference to past seasons, is that we did not wilt late in the game in the Brisbane heat. In fact, Brissy players were going down with cramp before us. It's a really good sign that we were still putting in a shift around the 85th min mark.

I think Mandi was a bit of a liability today, but it is forgiveable as he clearly is still recovering from injury. He struggled in Brisbane conditions more than others (or simply lacks fitness).  The fact that Rudan preferred to play him ahead of Kopa was quite telling.

Burgess will likely be a better player this year than Burns. I like Burnsie but part of that is the sentiment for his excellent season before he went off to Tokyo.  Also, I reckon  Rudan is probably doing a "Ridenton" on Burgess, like Ernie did by recruiting Ridenton after leaving Phoenix.  I think Rudan liked the potential of Burgess and decided to recruit him from the state league to Phoenix. While he has taken a bit of a punt on a promising player, he can also recruit him later to his next A-League club after Nix, assuming that Burgess progresses well at Wellington this and next year.

The ref did the best job of playing advantage that I have seen. Clear in his decisions as well. We kept cool and running on a warm afternoon. Doyle played his best ever game, despite being done totally once. Taylor's miss, but didn't upset his game. Dura coasting out of defence, running around their midfielder. Roy getting every run in the second half blocked off by fouls from their defenders, picked up twice by the ref.
What was Rudan having a go at Ross Aloisi about after the game? Maybe the deliberate fouling on Roy.