R21 v Mariners | Fri 23 Feb | 9:45pm | SS3 | #AvoidTheSpoon

No midfield presence 

Really liking watching Fox defend tonight. (And the good news is i'm seeing a lot of it!)

Fox is having a whale of a game.

He's stepped up a level at just the right time for us. Assuming he stays next season that is.

could well be on playing his contract? making the most if his game time, unlike most if the team.

Fox is proving tonight to be better than Rossi and Dura.

Zelic needs to shut the fudge up about the fudgeing back passes.  Only thing more boring than the actual game.

So much whistle from KGJ. He's looking kinda chunky, so maybe he just needs a rest more often.

The fudge are the commentators on about?

Fox and Durante are good but mainly because Singh Ridenton and even Ljujic getting bullied.

BURNS :@

changing the rules to make the game more attacking! I hate the back passing more than anyone, but it is a valid part of the game.

Burns looking terrible!!

I blame him for that... poor give away up the top of the pitch, and they counter to score just before the break.

Burns is hot garbage.

It had to come, get Burns a good talking to at half time

What the fudge doyle? get in front of your man, not run through him. only outcomes of that attempted tackle was a peno or a goal.

Been very poor so far and we deserve to be behind

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get patterson on!

VAR ruling

Nothing sure than death, taxes and crap Nix defending.

Love ya guts Doyle but that was piss poor.

Feels like I say this a lot, but that was the worst half of football I've ever seen from the Nix.

Not even the worst half since christmas sadly.

worst half of football from any team in a long time, god that was dull.

Jesus Christ.

At least CCM could string more than 2 passes together before giving the ball away.

more than two passes is not really an achievement.

While he was occasionally dull, especially since Christmas, Phoenix was way duller in the first half.

It was more a comment on the Nix.

Burns needs subbing

I think it is time for Welnix to book the team for a check up with a rheumatologist.

They were running like a herd of ancient arthritic anteaters.

We look like a very unhappy, confused, demoralised, lethargic, tactically bankrupt outfit. And this off the back of an excellent, if slightly lucky, win less than a week ago. Jesus wept, I've had a gutsful...

What is Roly doing for the next 45. CCM jockey size mids are bullying

So much this. Turn it around boys, it's been a shark of a week up here. Get it sorted and get in the fudgeing game. 

"Phoenix: playing other teams into winning form ever since"

Ridenton doing ok I thought.

Did Krishna recieve the ball to feet once during that half?

Even our long balls were dire.

Fixed that for you.

I might be wrong but I reckon it is not so much skill (except Da Silva who I rate) but just the speed and accuracy that are winning the game for CCM. I have not seen Ljujic and Ridenton being outplayed so relentlessly in a while, and if you add lack of running by Burns it it is a perfect storm (or Storm).   If you think CCM had no wins for 11 games in a row, and managed to beat the Jets and Glory recently, surely something must be learned from this debacle.

So poor, surely it's time to sack the manager, it just gets worse every week. We have some good players but you can't tell. Plumbing the depths right now.