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

Well, that was rather enjoyable.

It's such a mean-spirited thread, they don't rate us at all, or at least don't want to show it.

I've said it many times, I love reading the match thread when we've won.  It's fudging awesome!

Happiness all round.

would have loved  a rendition of are you watching Mark Bosnich from the zone after the third goal. Maybe Saturday  if winning at shirts off time

The posts in the dangerzone are often the best to read, you know, we're 1-0 up with 30, 20, 10 mins to go.

Hi JB

Fever came across really well on the telly. Could hear the chants in the background. 

Really nice for A-Rod whose had a rough time here tbh and never cemented a spot, not only to start two consecutive clean sheet games, but to be sung off like that when he was subbed. Plus all the rest. 

Also- surprising how when you start dominating all the little 50/50 or 35/65 calls suddenly start going for you. Thought we did fairly well out of the ref today.

Without wanting to sound like a dick, but what does this performance do to Ernie's next coaching gig prospects?

I do not think Victory played poorly - but there was a lot of good football played by us tonight against a decent team. I have not seen much of that over the last few months.And Des and Greenie were supposed to be only a "backup" stop-gap option (I said so myself...) So what do they have that Ernie did not?

Right for my 2 cents worth.

The zone was at it's best since last seasons protest against the FFA metrics. Loud and full of good songs.

The team played well.They had a plan and they stuck to it. Evidence of that can be seen with these two examples: Berisha & Rojas. Were they even in the game?? NO.

Also another blank sheet. 5 goals for, 0 against. Fortress ROF??

I suggest all those whom brought new fans to tonight's game, bring them back on Saturday - They are our lucky charms.

One highlight for me was having a so called fan in the row behind me calling the female lino a "Fudgeing Bitch" Only to be shut down by Vickimeist. Good job Vicki. 

Tratt has to be a serious contender for player of the season and or Most improved player. The club has indeed solved the right back issue for once and for all.

Greatful thanks for those around me to help make the atmosphere awesome! Better get back to work now...with no voice.

I think it's widely accepted that Ernie just got stale, and therefore the team under him did so too. It happens to the best of them. He'll bounce back.

I'm going to go ahead and say that'd we'd have been a fairly difficult team to handle at this point in time even if Ernie was coach. We would have picked up wins and momentum against the lower teams with him there, and you'd hope the McG back would have given us some bounce, and as he did with Joel Griff, he would have made good use of Smeltz.  I think we would have momentum at this point too...but that's hard to say.

Tough call. Very much Ernie's picks out there, but he couldn't bring himself to put Roly ahead of Fink it would seem and that left the team unbalanced. Gotta remember he signed Tratt and Doyle has come on under his coaching. Most of the pieces of success are his.

Very happy seeing Roly rampaging facing goal for the 'Nix and hope that he stays there! We gotta let him know as fans how hurt we'd be if he goes anywhere...

To be fair to Ernie; this is the strongest squad we've had all season. Smeltz has made a massive difference up front to our general play.

I hope you haven't thrown in the towel 

Just.

much improved from last week . very happy 

carry on to saturday please 

Great game!, Oh the butt hurt on the 442 forums is a laugh.

The biggest change is moving to the 4-5-1 which better suits our cattle, Ernie persisted with the 4-3-3 with both Gui + Roly in midfield & wasn't willing to change it. Maybe if he had Wee Mac available, things may have been different.

Couldn't catch the game for family reasons but thought oh well, we will get humped anyway. Then I wake up this morning and see this. Gutted I missed it. Does anyone have any screenshots of Kevin Muscat after the goals? I want to bask in his pain.

Wow what a great night. Just as good this morning!!  COYN

my voice has mostly returned, I'm tired as shark and sore, and I don't regret a thing.

Thank you you Nix, and YF.

Oh and is i just me or has Patrick's drumming gotten considerably better?  I thought it worked outstandingly with Krishnas on fire. 

My boy's wearing his Bonevacia top with pride today:

Damn that was a fine evening. 

Good job Fever and Patrick.  And last night I reckon 90% of the crowd was singing and clapping with you.

Seriously good job shutting down Victory.  They picked up their game in the second half and the lads still shut them out and had them stretched badly on the counter. 

Brisbane will be worried.  9/9..

Marco > Marco!

Fingers crossed Roly starts having fun again and stays with Nix

Why are we gloating at the Victory fans? Surely we should just celebrate our win and not their loss?

Up until Gui took a couple of games off you wouldn't have thought that Roly was the better of the two and he might not be, but going cost Gui the starting spot as Roly has claimed it with both hands.

Pretty sure that it was just a toy whistle the 6 year old girl with the pink jacket had in the middle of the zone.

Just intrigued for the sake of good conversation..

Yay such a good result. Realllly hoping for good weather on Saturday to get a much bigger crowd, would be great to see 10k plus again.

Let's put it this way. We don't call them "the Tards" because of anything to do with their team or their city. Just in that one game thread we had a great quote from someone threatening to send a pack of [slur for black people] to [perform surprise anal sex] on someone.

That's terrible. Much worse than someone posting a photo of her with response to my facetious "have a masty" comment. If I had been there, I and that individual would have had to tangle.

They were also big supporters in the save the nix campaign.

That sucks. Come on guys, keep it classy.... or at least, not blatantly sexist.

Fever sound awesome in this video highlights of last nights game

http://www.a-league.com.au/matchcentre/Wellington-...