Roarcelona vs Nix Wed 26 Jan 8pm

Is it legal to form a wall infront of our goal box?

^^ C'Mon Phoenix lets beat these guys.. Perhaps would have to play the best game of our history but oh well just get a sneaky goal then park the bus.

It would have to be one of those big bendy buses and I reckon thats still not wide enough to stop 'em Tom!

Not only that think we might need more than one lucky goal.

Hat trick to Rojas is the only way out with points haha. Then he'll be signed by the roar.
raynes2011-01-10 17:32:16

What are the bookies paying for a Phoenix win? $100?

Some sterling reverse-jinx work here. Keep it up and we'll win at a canter.

Not many of us left that agree with this.

this game we dont have a chance.. lets just hope dont get beaten to bad for our GD

I like this as every other game everyone thinks we will win. Maybe this is a good omen.
However, Roar do have to play this Wednesday.

Siggie's got previous form!

I agree with this.

and hes unanimous in that

i'm not relying on anything exciting happening but there is always hope!!

Well remember we do have Vukovic. He's a really good goalie, and he does his job well. We just need to have confidence in Vuko. Oh, and in everyone else, but so we don't loose too badly..

I wish we passed like Barcelona.. or Spain.

I wish we had he same type of money to invest like spain or barca..

If we are making comparisons with the Roar and Barcelona then remember how Mourinho coached Inter to beat Barca in the Champs league final.

4-4-2 time IMO. I can't believe we've got no Manny for this one... sigh.

               Vuko

Hearfield Siggy   Dura    Lochy

Ward     Lia       Brown   Bertos / Rojax     

        Greenie   D-Mac

Bench: Rojax / Bertos, Pav, Daniel, The Crow

I would start Rojas if the weather's not too hot and humid, and let him run his ass off, otherwise, let Bertos run himself ragged in the heat, then as it starts to cool, bring on a fresh Rojas around 60min to run at their tired defence all night. Also, you just know Ange Postaletter has come up with some way to shut dowen Rojas early in the game. He's got enough pacey players to do it.

Their team is not exactly tall, so we should look to exploit that at the front, make sure we have Target man & finisher up front. If ifill was well, i would have even said D-Mac and Ifill up front.

Not larry-longball bullsh*t, but good runs down the flanks, with crosses into the center. sh*t even Lia was getting amongst it last week.

I think also, we wont have much luck playing up through the middle, they play too tight, but we can't simply outrun them down the side, so we need to hunt in pairs down the flanks.

If Rojas goes for a run, then Lia or Brown need to be nearby in support for good sharp passing options, not making blasting runs to the center. That's why we've got two up front.

Going to be a tough game, and i dont think we shoud be encouraging our FB's to be pushing forward too often.

We also need to be very careful about the score one and then soak the pressure, because from memory, we're sh*t at that, and usually give away the cheap goals near fulltime. And the Roar just simply won't stop coming at us. They won't sit back on 1 goal. They'll wanna score 10.

Totally agree. We aint gonna be able to score an ugly tim brown wonderstrike in the first min and hold on for the rest of the game like against perth.

Just quietly if the rain keeps up, could be potentially rescheduled, I'd rather the match gets cancelled than rescheduled and we both take a point anyone else keen on that?

Yeah, I like the sounds of that.
*shifty eyes.*

I can seriously see this game getting postponed. Flooding is hitting Brisbane, parts of the city are being evacuated and surrounding towns are cut off, if not submerged. To me it would not seem right to play the game anyway with a backdrop of so much destruction in the area and the potentially considerable loss of life.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10699091&ref=twitter

I'm with Clarke.  Point each.

f**k it, play the game here. No doubt some Nix fans will wear orange anyway.

Just some of a 'bubbly' persuasion -

Drewhurst said something....but we really shouldn't listen to anything that man says.

Is he not? Surely he'd have 5 cards by now.

5 cards = muscat out.

A suspension for 5 cards is only in the first 21 rounds.  After that you need 8, at which point you get two games off.  Siggy currently on 7, Durante on 6 and Brown and Muscat on 5 each.

 

liverpoolfan12011-01-11 16:37:53

The oracle knows it all, who needs google with Piney around

I heard him say that and almost threw my beer at the TV. The incompetence pisses me off and on top of that he sounds like a knob.

Brisbane have have 100ml pf rain since 9am today. There is a bit of flooding at thr moment but the rain will be gone by evening, and the forecast is goo for the next 6 days. Temp on Sunday around 29/30.
The game will be played this weekend.

suncorp is currently an evac centre hopefully they remembered the keep off the grass signs lol

Hm.. I'm guessing that means there will be no game?
Could change around I guess.

It'll be called off - the flooding will be worse tomorrow and is due to peak on Thursday... Suncorp is an evac centre tho I doubt the ground staff and pitch prep will be high on the priority list.

Sounds like it could exceed '74 where Toowong/Milton went pretty well under... not to mention the airport :p

We'll see...