Tim Brown Supporters Club

Tim Brown Supporters Club

Good on you, Timmy. Fantastic effort for the team.

one swallow does not make a spring...or a decent porno. Nice goal though Cosimo2012-01-15 22:44:36

haha

Brown and Scholes scoring winners on the same day...martinb2012-01-15 22:44:12

Scholes and Brown don't fit in the same sentance. Scholes is the greatest player to ever walk the earth.

True but Brown hasn't been as bad as everyone makes out. Its a lot of band wagonning.

In the middle of the pitch is our one person that wins nearly every header and gets up for a fair few. Doesn't always graft back so well but he does a lot of stuff off the ball that makes up for that.

Again, I say this week, they came at us down the flank, specifically Muscats, which Miron telegraphed  in his spiels. They came through the middle a little more than last week but I put that down to only 1 DM and missing Lia.

You spelt Pele wrong.

Hmm - thought his off the ball play was the main problem

Scholes was born in 1974 and Brown was born in 1981. Scholes has played 676 matches for his club and Brown has played 101. Brown has scored 21 total goals and Scholes has scored 151.

Both sealed wins for their club today with popular goals.

martinb2012-01-15 23:09:54

probably the only actual comparison you could safely make is that they are both their managers favourite players. Other than that, its like comparing a five star restaurant chef to a burger flipper at maccas.

oh come on man- really enjoyed that goal today! Also fun to stir- but they do both make late runs into the box and I think Brown has scored a couple from distance against Sydney...

Sign me up, I don't understand how anyone could hate Brown. Ball winner, heart on his sleeve, late runs resulting in key goals.

Brown deserves to be one of the first names on the team sheet each week, but Scholes is proof that God has red hair.

I thought God was either Welsh or Cameroonian.

Either way he was a left-footer.

Junior822012-01-16 00:31:21

He had a really good game,capped off with the winning goal. Good job!

And you spelt Diego Armando Maradona wrong.

He did have a good game, and he got better as it went on (he was still hesitant and slow to react to situations on the first half).  But I haven't seen any Timmy "hate" on this forum .  However, I have seen (and expressed myself) a good deal of frustration about his recent poor form.    Binkley2012-01-16 12:57:32

Scholes did no such thing. He OPENED the scoring in a 3 - 0 win. bwtcf2012-01-16 09:27:18

I have a theory that Brown only performs when Sanchez isnt on the park. Brown likes to cruise around that front third, and when Snachez is playing, Brown doesnt know what to do as much?

Anyone agree with theory?

vote for browny

Voted for Adnan, because his goal was in fact the goal of the round. No question.

A central midfielder shouldn't go missing as much as he does. Just because he pops up with a few goals - doesn't make up for that. You could forgive smeltz for that as he was actually a striker.

He did have a good game yesterday though. Keep it going from here Timmy!

Wasn't Brown meant to be the other DM?

He was needed a few more times than that in the game. He didn't seem to pop up on those occasions.

Was great he scored, but it's just annoying how he can be so absent, score a cheeky one, and then all is forgotten.

He is the VC after all, he should be as noticeable every game as Durante. Is he is doing that?

As far as I could figure they were playing a 4-4-2 diamond and Brown was the left mid.

Oh OK, i'll hush my mouth on the "where the bloody hell was he as the other DM" rant then. :)

Well he is expected to defend. In fact in that formation he is probably required to cover more ground than in a 4-3-3.

I heaerd Brown's name more in that game than i have in any other this year... unfortunately it was for the Gold Coast player.

Smith is an attacking midfielder and he'll take a spot anywhere. He has not a clue about being a DM much like Downey is a RB that has no idea about scoring goals. Why people think we had two DM's out there is beyond me. Brown is more a box to box midfielder without excelling at either end really and Lia sits deeper than the two of them. Brown is generally a DM for the Phoenix and was the only one on the pitch. That basically gave us 5 attack minded players in Smith, Sanchez, Ifiil, Ward and Greenacre. I think that formation works better with Lia than Brown purely cause Lia sits deeper. Brown got quite far forward yesterday and he does roam forward as part of his natural game but you don't need to do that when you are surrounded by the players he had.

I take esception with the aerial stuff because he is our only player that really gets up for headers in the middle of the field. Without him, we would have no aerial presence in the middle of the field.

I would say Ricki has had Smith playing a holding midfield role rather than a defensive mdifield role, which is a bit different in my eyes (maybe because thats where I have played)

i also think Smith has been our best in the air recently and has amazing hang time whereas I cant remember Brown doing that well in the air until quite recently. By no means is Brown a defensive or attacking midfielder, and when Sanchez is on the park, he needs to carry out more defensive duties than he has down in previous years in my opinion

The previous two seasons we have always had two deeper, more positionally disciplined players than Brown in Lia and Manny. I don't think Brown has ever really played DM much for the Phoenix. Now that we have Sanchez playing mainly in a support striker/AM role I don't think Brown still looking to get forward adds balance to the team. It puts a lot of pressure on our deeper central midfielder to cover opposition attacks, especially when our full backs push forward we can be left with only 3 players behind the ball. There are also ramifications on how we attack/build play with less passing options out of defence, recycling possession and switching play.

Not sure how Sanchez would go in a deeper role, but could switch with Brown and still allows us to have Brown's aerial threat without having him to offer much else or dropping one of Brown or Sanchez. I still think Smith offers something next to play maker like Lia, a sort of crude comparison would be Khedira and Schweinsteiger (Sanchez our Oezil). Well that's my 2 cents.

I Tim Brown

...Ever since the day in Season 1 when he signed my Tim Brown Suction Man for me...

The Ifill/C-Diddy/Greenacre Sandwich needs more Brown!

mjp22012-01-16 17:41:52

Like most I was surprised when Sanchez was subbed off so early in the 2nd half, but thought it might've had something to do with him several times coughing up the ball in our defensive third, one of which eventually led to Manny's off the line heroics. Maybe Ricki simply lost patience with him, I'm not sure. In short though, Sanchez is not and never will be a defensive mid.