R2 vs Sydney FC | Sun 20th Oct | 8:00pm | SS7

So no Hooper?

They have stated Hooper wont be available to play until the 3rd round

Is that a paperwork thing or a lets us see how fit you are first thing?

Does anyone know a site that will stream this match? I'm in Europe and wasn't able to find a stream last weekend.

Did you try this?Geo blocked in some countries.

https://www.youtube.com/user/TheHyundaiALeague/vid...

Both I believe

I have a gut feeling that Kosta is going to have a blinder against us

The cod always does

Surely it's a "you don't get off a 24 hour plane journey and play pro sport within 3 days" thing

Our attacking players are going to be trying to prove they deserve a starting spot with Hooper coming so:

Nix 17 Sydney 2

An apt old time tune.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmBxVfQTuvI

Loving the excitement around this game, the thread is going off

Lol - Fire Up People!!

 coyn 8)

How can you fire up when your about to get thrashed? We really need the Mexican and Sortirio to play well to have any sort of a chance.

Interesting to see the response from last week lame first half. I guess someone has to score to get a bit of momentum and believe I don’t see us get trashed.

not an unexpected post from yourselt - cheer up man, yes it's going to be tough, but have some hope, its only the second game of the season.

Agreed!!! It's football, hopefully McCowatt starts up front

Wasn't expecting us to win any of our first 3 games. Just want to see the next step in new team development.

Sydney at virtual full strength - toughest away game on the list (next to Perth) - TAB odds (Nix $8.50) sums it up.

Will still have a few dollars on that though.

Modz, is there a way to hide posts from certain users? Asking for a friend?

Looking forward to Royz's spelling variation of said name.

Fire Up!

why do mods let Royz continue to post all this shark. I get freedom of speech etc but its getting to the point where he is just posting to bait people...

Looking forward to this one. As disappointed as I was last week, we're still finding our feet as a team. Hopefully see a positive response in today's game. 

COYN 

Dear Sydney,

For your 4 to be omitted, could you please choose BAUMJOHANN, LE FONDRE, NINKOVIC, and BARBAROUSES?

Thanks in advance,

Yours etc.

People were predicting the Snakes would thrash us, you'd think they'd be cheered up by a 1-0 defeat

Its a stunning day in Sydney - crisp blue skies. 

Im keen to see the nix!

Highly unlikely but I'm praying that Uffie sees what everyone else sees and starts McCowatt and leaves Sotirio out of the squad. Ben Waine is just a better footballer in every sense than Sotirio and is the far more exciting bench option.

I think Ufuk knows how to beat SFC, but just doesn't have the squad ready yet for it, maybe in the return fixture.

UT promised a faster, more fired up style of play this week, especially in attack.

We will see a hard working Nix team but whether its going to be enough I'm not sure.

Looking forward to the game though.

Unchanged team, Scott has disappeared from the bench tho with only 6 subs named.

Don't know how Sotirio starts again hope he proves me wrong tho

could be just holding hoopers spot free to reduce the disruption from other players having to switch around

to change him immediately would be admit failure in selection- it's not good for a player to be cut so quickly either, on the other hand two dire performances can't help much either.

Here's hoping he has a good game

C'mon boys let's put the ball in Blings net

I guess he's the one guy with heaps of pace, but...