Decent game against WSW B team. But no punch.
JV's dead cert Cunningham ;) is looking more a dead loss at the moment as an import level player, though (I hope) that is still maybe too early to call. Good enough to be on the park, which is a heck of a lot better than many of our previous imports, but he's looking like he's not good enough to be winning games regularly; and his poor card history is starting to show up in his play. Still hope I'm wrong on that one.
Lia again played well enough and I think we are seeing more out of him this year. But he's still another journeyman that we know cannot make anything happen to produce a result. And to be fair you'd say the same of Riera, so far. Happy enough to have in the squad, but ...
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Enjoyed the game, we are playing some good football and we were definitely in the hunt. Donut on the board, just the point on the table. Signs of life but ... not enough punch, ... yet?
I think you have touched on something. Lia is playing well but is still a journeyman. If Ernie squeezed the best from this team, where would we be?
When you consider no one had a bad game and we are disjointed in the last 3rd, what more can he squeeze from this team whom should have taken 3 points against a Sydney team that have a nose bleed and dizzy head in 3rd and a WSW side whom are quality in 2nd. We almost had the Roar for a draw. its really only the 1st half at Melbourne, the Jets game where we have not looked good.
Roar 1-2 lost at the death
WSW 1-1
Jets 0-0 pants
Victory 2-3 Victory went 3 up and took the foot off.
Perth 1-1
Sydney 1-2 lost at the death
WSW 0-0
Also - played WSW twice and 2 draws. Not many teams will say that this season.
We are playing good football, just not finishing and thats the frustrating part especially when you review those games above and realise, for a goal against us by the Roar and Sydney and 1 today which we didn't have, we'd be a lot happier with only 1 loss.