Fuck this, fuck everything.
This.
I predict a podcast of self-flagellatory gloom this week. Angstsplosion magnitude 9.
Merrick's subbing is often baffling. It has completely killed off the last few games. I also am confused, Perth were full of back up players and for the most part they managed to string passes together. What is our excuse?
Not watched it tonight as at work, buit have you seen the options he has on the bench when we have a few yellows or injuries? Some kid who would be in the reserves in other teams and Bertos as replacment attackers?
Total lack of investment.
Maybe the Mexicans were right. We should stick to rugby.
Oi Oi Edgecumbe... lets have a clean sheet
Merrick's subbing is often baffling. It has completely killed off the last few games. I also am confused, Perth were full of back up players and for the most part they managed to string passes together. What is our excuse?
Not watched it tonight as at work, buit have you seen the options he has on the bench when we have a few yellows or injuries? Some kid who would be in the reserves in other teams and Bertos as replacment attackers?
Total lack of investment.
Take the 4th goal out of it and I thought 3-2 to them would have reflected the game okay. They were better. God it hurts to say that, cos they are missing half their team and are generally horseshit. And they have a lunatic keeper.
Actually, getting outplayed quite a bit these days
Fuck you owners buy some better players!
Marquee for Lia...
Please...
Same old problem. We're 2 quality midfielders short. Hick's out of his depth completely. Too much to expect the real young potential talents, Ridenton and Rufer to solve that issue yet.
Welnix - where are you? Your fantasy football dreams are utter nonsense and we need $$$$$.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qe_B5CzbTJo - Caceres winning penalty v Perth - footage from the Fever Zone
Maybe the Mexicans were right. We should stick to rugby.
Actually, getting outplayed quite a bit these days
Sign Chris James ASAP
Getting where?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qe_B5CzbTJo - Caceres winning penalty v Perth - footage from the Fever Zone
Sign Chris James ASAP
We scored some nice goals tonight. Perhaps deserved to get something out of the game...
There is no depth in this team. And with so many inexperienced youngsters our AW's just can't afford to stuff up on top of that.
I don't know what to say anymore to be honest. Feels like it's all been said anyway. We're just going in circles...
I agree some players might need to go.
But this team is just not clicking...
On a day where our strikers score a couple of goals our defence opens the front door...
And when we're tight at the back our attack is poor.
Well that's it. Expect nothing from this season. Bottom line:
This NiX team is a step behind every other team and with too many weaknesses all across the board.
If we can get a win somewhere, perhaps some confidence will bring change.
But yeah I don't wana be in that dressing room right now...
Anyone still think Brockies holiday in Toronto was a good idea?
Another failed right back experiment.
Who votes for signing a right back?
hands up
My hand's up.
You can't afford to get torn apart on the flanks like that...
We need a decent RB asap!!
Fenton is way better up front.
The amount of times he's cost us goals... Just can't happen
A shame about Fenton. After his standout game last week when he kept Bridge and Minniecon quiet he was all at sea tonight. It wasn't just the fact that he couldn't cope with the pressure that was deliberately put on him all game (his bad luck that he was marking the best player on the park) but his passing and general decision making was terribly poor.
Didn't help that there was almost no midfield cover. It was like last season all over again watching Sidnei and co wander through the vast unpopulated acreage of our midfield.
We are pants. By the end of the game it was embarrassing. It feels like the team is a mess atm. There are so many things that need fixing that it's difficult to know where to start. I still have faith in Merrick but it's getting frustrating to watch us play because we should be doing better than this.
Was going to post but think i must be in the wrong forums.So much negativity about the place especially from those who are always critical of it.LOL
Should make for an interesting crowd next week.
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Makes you wonder about the Roar game next week.
Fact is over 90 min Perth were by far the better side. Sharp passing, and pace just killed us plus the two AW defenders were poor and Moss making that horror gaff did not help.
"Phoenix till they lose"
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We are not fast enough, nor sharp enough, basically all over the pitch. Every team in the league looks ahead of us in almost every area if the team.
You can argue that Heart are worse all you want, but even that's debatable.
If we don't win next week the crowd on 22 Dec will be about 3000.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qe_B5CzbTJo - Caceres winning penalty v Perth - footage from the Fever Zone
Well I gave up 3 hours of sleep and had to get up again at 5:15am to come to work. The game was reasonably good to watch except the shit passing, the lack of someone pulling the trigger in front of their goal - and when we did, we scored two great goals.
We should not have lost that game and sorry to say IMHO our back four defence was shit for the last 30 mins. At sixes and 7's all the time. Fenton could be a good fullback but he's been left out to dry by a midfield that isn't there far too often. Siggy & Durante were not playing their best. and I think Manny has now found out that he's our best Left Back option. But who do we replace Riera with?
Very disappointed we didn't beat them. Moss pulled off a few excellent saves in there and then went and did a Robert Green for their last.
Still, the team are playing a lot more attractive type football when their passes actually go to our players. I'd rather watch this than hoofball any day.
Sorry if this ramblimg doesn't make sense. 3 hours sleep and I'm knackered and still working.
We are not fast enough, nor sharp enough, basically all over the pitch. Every team in the league looks ahead of us in almost every area if the team.
You can argue that Heart are worse all you want, but even that's debatable.
If we don't win next week the crowd on 22 Dec will be about 3000.
If you are old and wise you were probably young and stupid
Still not got around to watching it today and unlikely as we got a few household issues going on. From what folk are saying a bit like last week when we lost our shape due to the subs.
Also highlights just how important it is to keep discipline and not get players suspended.
The one positive thing is staying at home and watching the football rather than hitting the turps means that my hangover is much smaller than it could be.
Fenton wasn't that bad. His was a commentators performance, defined by the no of times the commentators kept saying he's had a really tough night (which they had obviously predetermined on the basis that he would have a hard time marking Sidney). He had a couple of bad touches, one chest in particular, but actually that guy Sidney didn't get round him or expose him.
Who still thinks ifill should only be allowed to start on the bench?
@FT. Not really sure you could say we list shape due to subs. That would imply we had shape at some point before that.
@FT. Not really sure you could say we list shape due to subs. That would imply we had shape at some point before that.
Fenton wasn't that bad. His was a commentators performance, defined by the no of times the commentators kept saying he's had a really tough night (which they had obviously predetermined on the basis that he would have a hard time marking Sidney). He had a couple of bad touches, one chest in particular, but actually that guy Sidney didn't get round him or expose him.
Who still thinks ifill should only be allowed to start on the bench?
We didn't lose the game because of Fenton. Feel sorry for Ifill. Gave it heaps and is in a different league when he plays like that. Has the passion, guts and commitment to this club that many others didn't show last night when it counted. However, as many of us are agreed on, you can't do well in the A League without having A league standard midfielders. Not when you're playing the way we do now. And we'll get exposed even more soon. That last 25 mins is the worst I've ever seem them respond to a winning position in the game.
#transitionyear
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Fenton wasn't that bad. His was a commentators performance, defined by the no of times the commentators kept saying he's had a really tough night (which they had obviously predetermined on the basis that he would have a hard time marking Sidney). He had a couple of bad touches, one chest in particular, but actually that guy Sidney didn't get round him or expose him.
Who still thinks ifill should only be allowed to start on the bench?
Normo's coming home
Fenton wasn't that bad. His was a commentators performance, defined by the no of times the commentators kept saying he's had a really tough night (which they had obviously predetermined on the basis that he would have a hard time marking Sidney). He had a couple of bad touches, one chest in particular, but actually that guy Sidney didn't get round him or expose him.
Who still thinks ifill should only be allowed to start on the bench?
We didn't lose the game because of Fenton. Feel sorry for Ifill. Gave it heaps and is in a different league when he plays like that. Has the passion, guts and commitment to this club that many others didn't show last night when it counted. However, as many of us are agreed on, you can't do well in the A League without having A league standard midfielders. Not when you're playing the way we do now. And we'll get exposed even more soon. That last 25 mins is the worst I've ever seem them respond to a winning position in the game.
We're now at the point where we've played well and not won for so long it is fair to ask whether we're actually playing well
rojas, so special
My 2 cents worth:
1. lack of pace, major concern for a while now, but last night we were struggling to kept up with there young guys. To many players going missing for long periods of games, and from watching on TV, poor options when passing( or no options to pass) and players not looking around for runners, choosing to pass sideways or backwards or to a player well marked.
2. Need to get a team into the NYL (prob won't happen due to cost), so our reserves and youth can play against decent opponents. Perth newbies didn't look out of place in the HAL
3.Feel Welnix need to splash some cash in the short term until our promising youth are ready for the HAL or risk having no-one turning up to watch games wherever city they are played in.
4. Is it hard to attract quality players to Wellington? Maybe our budget is to tight or the lifestyle and weather is not appealing. So we end up with no-names or our 3rd or 4th whatever choice.
Some good patches(again), but at 2-1, thought would have been a good time to sit back and catch them on the counter.Most of second half seemed to be no-one in midfield. maybe the heat and travel was a factor but as we do this trip every season, you think it could have been sorted by now.
Not a bad game to watch if I wasn't a nix supporter.
Fenton wasn't that bad. His was a commentators performance, defined by the no of times the commentators kept saying he's had a really tough night (which they had obviously predetermined on the basis that he would have a hard time marking Sidney). He had a couple of bad touches, one chest in particular, but actually that guy Sidney didn't get round him or expose him.
Who still thinks ifill should only be allowed to start on the bench?
Ifill is the level by which imports should be measured. Genuinely puzzling we have Not gone back to the UK to try and get another Ifill
"Phoenix till they lose"
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