Tards in town v Melb Sun 30th 4.30

No idea.  Something to with the character stream after the filename.

C-Diddy2011-10-31 11:06:25

As mentioned by another comment-I reckon we have played better in the last two games that we ever have. Don't have the 'name' players but some of the football has been outstanding. Regardless of how good your players are,you still need a little bit of luck- something we don't have at the moment.It is not like we have a team of no hopers.What we do lack is discipline. If we had great cover for every position then Ricki would be able to 'drop' the persistent infringers.These guys should have their pay docked if they get suspended.

Late on here, but just a few thoughts (probably all covered elsewhere but meh).

Some one else mentioned this, but I actually thought he won more than his share in the air yesterday and held up the ball really well when played into his feet 

He did well under the high ball, he won a fair few but then couldn't release a pass to another one of our players.

Without Ifill, our main tactic needs to be to exploit the wings, and the whip in a cross to the middle. The reason this didn't work all the time yesterday was that Bertos had a shocker, either losing the ball before he could make a cross, or the cross itself being rubbish. The next problem was, whenever Lochy or Sanchez made a decent cross, there wern't enough players in the box waiting for the header. This was where D-Mac excelled for us, he was tall and strong enough to win the ball and get a shot on target.

Really? I was watching live, and don't remember him winning any. Would be interested to watch a replay. Totally agree that he did well when played to his feet though.

Are they really saying Sammy Sanchez in that clip?

Or has my hearing completely gone?

Definately called him Sammy!

My opinion of Thompson's "penalty" has not changed. Was leaning forward and went down very easy when he realised he wasn't going to win the ball.

Also, Princess Leijer cleaning up Greenacre like that was nothing short of a disgrace!

My pick!

Another case for having a purpose-built stadium

Oh how much I would have loved to be that close to yell abuse at Archie when he danced around in his celebration.patrick4782011-10-31 14:17:48

Goals of the month compilation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=hYunenCU22c

Second dumbest...

Big call to claim that cost us the game.  We have no idea how the game would have turned out there.  Archie could have scored anyway and then momentum taken them to five.

Unfortunately this. We would have been able to walk away with at least a point otherwise.

pics from the game

+100

Anyone else means Ricki would need to change his preferred tactic

The penalty was scored. It counts on the board. Had the penalty not been given who knows what would have happened but in terms of absolutes that we know happened, that cost us the game.We could have won had we converted. In terms of absolutes, we didn't and didn't. See how it works?

To add to that, considering how thin our squad is, we are now even more in the poo. You think he would learn from when he popped Adrian Leijer and couldn't get back in the team and probably cost him game time at the WC but I guess not. Two things you'll never call SigmUnd is smart and disciplined.
Jeff Vader2011-10-31 16:18:00

We beat the Tards 1 - 0 for the period of the match when we had 10 men so not sure I follow your theory that we "lost" due to going down to 10...C-Diddy2011-10-31 16:20:51

Not true, we only had 10 when they scored the penalty

You know what I mean!

 yeah but it does not suit the discussion so I dont see!

OK then...

I BLAME BEN SigmUnd!!!

Is that better?

Needs more caps and twilight-esque angst

Not sure why we're all taking this one so badly. It's not like Malbin are our RRRRRRivals!

Because we could've, should've and would've won had we scored more than them

Wow! You've just managed to sum up the game of football in one sentence!

Fixed for Jeff.

You are incorrect.

A goalkeeper is considered to be in control of the ball:
� while the ball is between his hands or between his hand and any surface
(e.g. ground, own body)http://www.fifa.com/mm/document/affederation/generic/81/42/36/lawsofthegame_2010_11_e.pdf

I wish it was a goal too but I can't argue with the laws of the game.

Hey, stop quoting from the rules of the game.
It's..it's inconvenient.

I place more blame on Brown and Smith. Brown lost possession, and he jogged back to try win it back, While Smith was caught ball watching. Those mistakes put Siggy  in a 2-1 situation

Jeff has a history of Siggy bashing IIRC.

I'll confess I am not a SigmUnd fan. No problem with admitting that. He is a workmanlike CB who is not fast and regularly gets beaten in a footrace and turn, he is horrible on the ball when needs to make a decision whom to pass to (you can almost see the hamster running on the wheel in his mind) and he has frequent discipline brain lapses. But I'm not allowed to hate on him. You guys have your favourites and players you don't like and I don't bag you guys for the Phoenix players you guys don't rate (Brown gets mentioned a lot - Bertos seems to be the flavour of this week)

My general issue is that people want to forgive him for so much and overlook so many of his short comings because he plays hard. In fairness to the players, we have no idea who plays committed and its not really fair for any of us to call into question a players committment. I guess if I was one of the Phoenix players and the level with which I played at or was committed was questioned, I would be pretty pissed off.

That said, he has brain lapses ALOT but because he plays hard, we should forgive him. Its funny how other players make brain lapses, we don't forgive them because they do not have the outward appearance of playing with such perceived committment. We will blame Brown for that penalty because he didn't run back hard but because SigmUnd plays hard and thought he was back at Sumner playing rugby, thats forgivable. See how it works? If SigmUnd wasn't so 'committed' would we forgive him? If you say yes well then all your arguments go out the window for bandwagonning a player. If you say no then thats just hypocrasy but then I guess blaming Brown has just proved that.

Unfortunately, he just does not learn. I wonder if he was at any other club in the league, we would be so blind to this and if other coaches would be so lenient. We unfortunately have no one else and when we did (McKain) SigmUnd lost his place.

The facts remain. We lost by one goal. That one goal to go ahead was a penalty. That penalty was conceeded by SigmUnd. All the shoulda/coulda/woulda does not change that fact regardless how you want to argue it.
Jeff Vader2011-11-01 01:30:46

That was a result of Brown and Smith f**king up.