R22 vs Adelaide United | Sat 5th Mar | 7:15pm | RoF

Great goal

Goal conceded from another set piece... This time our own attacking one. 

That is how to play football

Can McGlinchey stop fudgeing floating the free kicks in? Pointless. Led to goal. Stupid stuff.

Is Dewhurst injured?

So that's what Adelaide do when they get pissed off. We do silly pay back fouls. Nothing out wide. Adelaide just sitting back on us and hitting us on the counter

well constructed goal Adelaide, dammit..

Among all the rubbish calls this season, that's gotta make the top 10, or at least the top 25

That's something that always bugs me about our setpieces, that floaty hopeful stuff. Never works.

The ref trying to do make up calls now our season's gone?

Theory is we got targetman now, I guess

It's just McGlinchey. Roly whips them in.

McGlinchey cuts inside and has a crap shot again

Roly's been very good this half. Love how he can spin on a dime and elude the tackle.

Ok if we come out of the blocks looking like we want to win in the second half, we might have  a chance, call me optimistic but Adelaide weren't the better team that half in my opinion 

This is the most space he's had in about 10 games - really should have an assist to his name.

Word!

First 25 mins we were as good as I have seen us. Pressing high and looking good and the we went to sleep and Adelaide took advantage. 

Wee mac is not the player he was at CCM and I wish Roly would stop falling over so easily.

Until Manny cost us the second goal.

Warriors and Hurricanes not doing any better, so you Kiwis must be spoilt for choice!

Yeah I thought about a multi against the three teams I support..Highlanders are NZ team of course.

It's the old story: teams target the high quality creative player, double team him, foul him constantly, player responds by screaming and falling down at every opportunity when he's not been given enough protection by the officials. A blight on the game but I can't really blame him.

It doesn't help that Roly tries to turn even though he has 3 players around him. Just pass it back, then pass it to an unmarked player.

keystone cops

Jeez that is fudgeing awful defence

Barry Crocker defending.

Doesn't help that we've been gifted two chances and have taken neither too

Shambles

Piss off to City, Manny.

(I am joking, don't get your knickers in a knot)

City fans will be hoping they get the Manny that played against them and not the Manny that is playing tonight.

Feel sorry for the faithful who have turned up to watch this humiliation. All too familiar defending from the Nix.

We haven't been clinical enough, Adelaide have made a few terrible errors in front of their own goal but we haven't been able to punish them for it

Mossy seems like he's the only one fired up out there, if only he had a decent couple of pegs so we could chuck him in outfield 

Exactly. Adelaide have punished us. We've fluffed around with it. Difference between good teams and bad ones.

Was looking at flights down to Wellington for one of the next couple of games. Gunna be worth it?

Watson does some good things but he has a bit of an elephant touch

Its as though everytime we begin to get bent over we offer the opposition lube...

Watson's muffed a couple of touches, but still looks to have the makings of a footballer. Clearly ahead of Chen and Paladini, and certainly by virtue of scoring has surpassed Brownlie.

Powell looking a bit tentative still