R4 vs Melbourne City | Fri 9th Nov | 9:50pm | SS1 | Four Kings

Genuinely really pleased with this. Williams and Krishna back up top to run onto things, Doyle up further to provide some better delivery to them. Hopefully with four players giving them service (Doyle, Singh, mandi and nichols) we might be able to create something. Also stoked to see Fox getting the nod. Rufer and Burgess will bring a lot of energy off the bench, and we might see Kopa too. I'm excited

Not many attacking options off the bench but good team anyway

Libby and Burns dropped. Rufer and Burgess benched. Fox, Williams and Singh in. 

Think as Ernie said- we win early. We won't blow teams away with our running or fitness at this stage.

I got much too close to this for comfort. Was stuck on a tram right opposite when the ute was going up in flames. Then police came barrelling in from everywhere, then gunshots and at that point I was very, very keen to get off that tram! Amazing that people were just standing around taking footage. I was really worried about a secondary explosion which terrorists often employ, also the whereabouts of my wife who I was supposed to meet near by before going to the game. She was blissfully unaware about the whole thing but we decided not to go to the game.

Kia kaha!

Glad you're OK mate - sounds bloody scary!

Cacace must be on exam leave this week.

Burns on partental duties.

Level 3 Business Studies Exam > Thrashing City 5-1

Does sky's coverage start after kickoff? Or does it not actually kick off at 9.50?

Still hasn't started yet :( I'll be pissed if miss game

Still doing prematch?

There’s rememberance day pre match stuff on at the moment. Interesting that BT Sports broadcasts it but not Sky. 

why the fudge are we wearing that kit?

also, nice coverage sky. excellent.

Shouldve just worn our third kit

Some excellent ambition by our forwards, especially Krishna, passing is trying to be Barca like. Better than Cacace and Fenton hoofing it forward constantly

Change kit looks weird with black shorts

Oh ffs. 

Welp. There we go.

I get distinct feeling we can't win from behind. 

Why not just wear our regular kit of yellow and black that in no way clashes with light blue?  I don't understand the A-League sometimes.

Fenton fail

Fenton is one of the worst players to ever put on a Nix shirt.

I wonder what our boys would do if we actually made 3 passes in a row...

3 shark passes in a row from Mandi

Seems like Krishna's still not learnt the offside rule..

Why are we so far behind the league at the moment?? I wish we were competitive 

Things the Fox commentators can do

1. Fudge off

I missed the Taylor Swift concert for this?

so whenever we have the ball, we have no outlets due to their pressing. when they have the ball we drop back and let them run at us and have endless outlets. we need to get tighter on them and make them work for their passes. 

Positives- Williams 

Negatives- Almost everything else. Doyle, Fenton and Mandi in particular 

Liking the hustle from Williams and butters tonight. not yet effective, but at least they are showing effort

thats 3 poor passes from doyle. lets just stop passing to him

Fenton doing the giraffe on roller skates impression again.

havent minded mandi, at least his passes have positive intentions even if they arent making it through.. 

I think I have worked out the problem. Our guys are simply not very good footballers.

Cannot pass, shoot, dribble, tackle or head the ball.

All the tactics in the world cannot cover up these inadequacies 

Good freekick from Singh!

And a good ball in from Knuckles too.

good effort from singh. just needed mroe power