R7 vs Melbourne Victory | Tues 17th Jan | 7:45pm | RoF

Yeah, just park on the street - it's free after 6 and there should be plenty of parking around, your best bet is probably behind the Old Government Buildings/Victoria University School of law, but anywhere around Parliament is fine.

If you wanted to park near the back bencher you might have trouble with the earthquake demolition going on so probably best to avoid the Thorndon area.

Going to be some interesting selections for the starting 11 surely. Can they start Roly and Gui? surely not. What about the Kosta problem, he hasn't looked convincing in quite a few games, will they start him on the bench and bring Krishna straight back in? Such a looong time since I can remember having positive selection issues at the nix.

Anyone get a text from the nix this morning saying $10 tickets were available from ticketek?  Code to use is PHOENIX10

get into it.

Firing up slowly.  

relax guys, we've got this! 3-1 nix!

WeeMac benched? What is WRONG with these people.

Second game in three days after returning from an injury, is what's wrong.

Has the starting team been announced??

Erm, you realise he just came back from injury right? Would be madness to start him again.

Yeah

... and...?

We've got to be thrilled with a striking pairing of Krishna and Smeltz. It doesn't get much better, right across the comp.

please god not another 6-1 thrashing or whatever it was...

We want 6?

POLL TIME:

In what minute will Berisha first fall over in the Penalty Area and appeal for a penalty?

Go!

I give him about 8 minutes

Just bought my first ever 'happiness insurance' at the tab. $3.75 for Berisha the bastard to score and melbourne to win. Feels wrong betting against us. come on nix!

and for the Berisha dive and penalty appeal sweepstake, im picking minute 12.

We finally have some decent quality off the bench. That's good to see.

Berisha at 27

Streeem?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJn3zjBOvHs

Good on ya..hope its not a draw although I would accept that.

Pretty sure you've just answered your own question there champ!

we are not great at dribbling thru people....so pass it or shoot Roy

Ha ha, look at Broxham trying to rugby-tackle Lia in the box.

own goal..

ROLY!!!!

We gotta do something as fans to try and keep Roly!

Maybe we already have done - losing Ernie?

Maybe if we all turned up at a match some time...

Agreed. You can see the difference in his attitude now he is playing in a more suitable position

Nice

Well, this is going better than I expected.

As said above, Roly up the field is a revelation. A-Rod and Vinnie are beginning to look like a midfield, amazingly enough. The Vuktree (do we still call them the Tards?) don't seem to have any ideas apart from pumping it up the flank to Marco or Ben Khallafah. This does not look like a top-2 side. Only real niggle is that Kosta still doesn't seem to "have it" - probably be subbed for WeeMac at 60-65 minutes.

Second half will IMHO depend on if the wind is as strong as it was Saturday - if so, the MVFC game might be more effective with those long balls. Here's hoping we can hold on.

Kosta hasn't been terrible- he's been part of the equation. Smeltz has got a decent football brain, missing a bit of pace.