Time to Sort S**t Out - CCM - Match Fred

Time to Sort S**t Out - CCM - Match Fred

The game is two whole weeks away but between now and then Ricki needs to formulate some sort of plan to get the Nix firing and grab our first win. I don't care if it takes our entire team running around snapping the mariners' legs but we need a proper result.

Well said that man!

Scrap Lochhead!!! he has fallen off the pace since he went away and gets drawn right in.manny muscat played well out there while T.L was away

Another option in Defensive Midfield is bringing Simon Elliot in..It sounds a bit hasty, but neither Dodd or Johnson seem to be the answer, and unless Tim Brown can both prove his fitness and be effective, I think Elliot is our best chance of getting a good performer there. 

kinda agree with HK Keeper

Round 3 over.
Looks as though there will be no El**ch-baiting next game, as he picked up a serious-looking injury. Other posters said ACL - my commentary was off as Mrs Wolf was talking to her sister again.

One wonders how much sorting out Ricki will have time for as he prepares the All Whites.

On a positive note, we may be last, but we're only a win from a playoff spot.

Come on boys!     

Would love to be a fly on the wall at the next team meeting.

big decision 20 bux for a ticket to watch the Phoenix or 20 bux to spend on beers.

yeh HK Keepers right play muscut out there..Lockhead looks like a different player since his return from the riverside..what happend over there???

Damn I was looking forward to ripping into El**ch all game!

Is it not time now to try a better formation?

MUST be two upfront.

I would like to see a 4-4-2 diamond shape.

                         Paston

Mulligan - McKain - Durante - Muscat
                        Johnson
Bertos                                       Gao
                       Daniel
          Smeltz          Barbarouses

Theres my team, I know a lot of you wont like it, but geez it is time for a change

Lochhead to come on as a sub, same with Coveny

Come to think of it, Hearfield needs to be in, he has been one of the better performers, maybe put Gao as a sub, Daniel of the left and Hearfield at CAM

                         Moss
Mulligan - McKain - Durante - Lochhead
                    Johnson/Dodd
Bertos                                       Daniel
                       Gao
          Smeltz          Hearfield

We do need two upfront. And Costa can add some spark off the bench. Choose the lesser of two evils for DM, I'm not sure where I stand on that yet.

4-4-2 and makesure that bertos gets a lot of ball as wide as possible.  When he played for Perth last year he tormented defenses and i dont see why he can't do it this year... we just need to get him the ball wide, in the right areas and get him to run at the defenders.  feedback2008-09-01 14:19:41

But you still have 5 defensive players there do you not?

Would you rather play a 10-0-0 formation?

We need to actually SCORE some too, not just concede...

I thought we had room for another all-out striker in the squadand the club was searching for such pre-season? Is there any news on that?

I am going to stick my neck out there:

3-5-2

With a lot of people picking Dodd as their DM, I would rather have Dodd at CB if that gives Mulligan and Lochead more freedom. And this year we have a team that is a lot better suited to it than last year.

                                    Moss
             Durante          Mckain         Dodd
Mulligan                                                   Lochead
                         Ferrante        Johnson
                                 Gao/Daniel
                         Hearfield        Smeltz
Bench:
Paston
Muscat
Daniel/Gao
Coveny

Or

                                    Moss
             Durante          Mckain         Dodd
Mulligan                                                   Lochead
                                    Ferrante
             Gao                 Hearfield       Daniel
                                    Smeltz

Bench:
Paston
Muscat
Bertos
Coveny

A 4-2-3-1 formation for me.

For me:-

Moss to keep his place but needs to take responsibility for organising his back four.

Back four of Mulligan, Dodd, Durante and Lochead.

Three in the middle with McKain, Johnson and Ferrante (Brown to come in for Johnson if he exists, although a cardboard cutout of Brown would have been as effective as some of our midfield last week).

Smelz up front with Daniel on left and Bertos on right (though tempted to pop Gao in there rather than Bertos).

spoken to cut out of Brown - he's dead keen to get out there, totally up for it!

I would like to see our top team go out together  against CCM, in the formation we trained for all off season i.e a 4-2-3-1

bopman2008-09-01 16:58:57

formation won't make an ounce of difference if we don't play with heart and as a team  - this isn't football manager
Cosimo2008-09-01 17:12:55

------------Moss------------
-Manny-Dodd---Durante-Lochhead
-Costa--Johnson-Daniel-Gao-
-------Covs------Smeltz---------

Bertos/Hearfield to come on for Covs after 60+

I think the best way to strengthen the midfield is to get more people in there.  We should slightly tweak the formation to be a 4-3-3 with 3 central midfielders and proper wingers.

I think we need to play 5 at the back with wingbacks, so that our widemen can play further foward (as they barely track back anyway) and so we have cover when the wingbacks push foward (as they have been doing at will).

Because all of us are excellent top-line coaches that know how a system works intimately and players roles in the selected system.

The Phoenix don't have a defensive midfielder on their books. Not a true defensive midfielder like Jonas Salley or dare I say it - Ivan Vicelich. So until they do they are better to play with an extra midfielder in the middle with coverage from wide players. Whatever system they choose to use they need to ensure they outnumber the opposition in the middle of the park and protect their weak middle where all the goals are coming from.