R20 vs Melbourne City | Sat 18th Feb | 7:35pm | RoF

Were both of the goals offside?  The first looked clearly. The second looked marginal.

To be fair I thought he looked like a decent RB.

The 1st was an own goal and the second was not offside.

there was no offside in the lead up to the own goal either.

We're not that bad tonight, but really getting out-muscled by a side who knows how to apply it. 

We have very low standards if we consider that 'not that bad'. Missing a penalty, missing big chances - these are things you can't do every game if you want to compete.

Manny should be off, though. Got no yellow for the penalty nor did he get a yellow for the shoulder into Doyle's head.

The way this season has gone we would have been better keeping Appiah than signing Kosta. At least there would have been some lols

Manny did that almost every game he played for us.

Could do with some good luck this half

Cmon lads

Not debating that. 

Or, you know, some good play.

Instead, we'll probably say 'woe is me' and lose 4-1.

Was that a red card tackle?

I think you've let the depression of the season as a whole really get to you, if you seriously think that the Nix have been playing badly. A lot of chances created, some decent football - made to pay for two mistakes and that can happen to any team. The problem is that all the supporters knew that when the chances kept falling but again didn't stick, we'd end up going behind and losing it. Measure of the teams character how they come back from this, even good teams can fall 2 goals behind, how they recover is key.

It gets redder every replay I see.

wheres Mikey?

Sorry, but missing a penalty and not taking our chances is not "bad luck". Letting a player get pass our fullback and put in a ball when Lowry should've been playing him offside is not "bad luck" either.

I never said anything about bad luck.

Smeltz is the sensible choice to bring on but I hope Singh gets a decent run.

So if it's not bad luck, and we're 2-0 down, how are we playing well?

Some of our decision making and execution is not so good

However we are not a "lucky" team. 

Case in point there eh

Who said anything about playing well? We're not playing that bad. Not bad enough to deserve to be 2 - 0 down.

OK we're terrible now.

Dreadful.  Awful.  Terrible.

One goal down and we've been kak ever since. Losers mentality. /trump

Might as well give the kids more gametime for the rest of the season.

fudge that and fudge this

Very poor today.  Kosta penalty miss could have changed this game oh well I guess thats what $750k per year gets you.

Could we have launched that corner any higher?  I don't think so.

I've said it before but Barbarouses is a Kostant  disappointment. Option taking is very poor, execution the same. He comes across as a really dumb footballer. Malik shouldn't still be on the pitch - straight red that tackle.and please, please, please give Singh some game time

The Kids are Alright

yeah Singh

Thought Ridenton has been good.  Hopefully Singh makes a mark here.  Good to see him out there.

Garry Owen

Barry Crocker from Doyle

Great goal from Kosta there.  He has shown glimpses of that all season and finally didn't blow the final touch.

good stuff Kosta - triple nutmeg

Nice but if he'd done the business on the penalty we might still be in this.