Us vs Mariners - 16:00 Sun - match Fred

Surely it's time to play two strikers?  Obviously Greenacre up front alone is not working, how many more rounds until we finally play two strikers?

No chance.  Gourdie is away.  No Gourdie, no football.

Hopefully McKain back will mean better service to Greenacre.. then the wide players will come into the game a bit more..always hopeful anyways

mckain = better service to greenacre???? I dont think so. Mckain is far better in the central of defence his distribution from the middle of the park tends to be poor.

My two things from yesterday: bopman2009-09-28 17:04:08

By the nature of a clean sheet one must infer paston had a reasonable game, for the sake of the nix and their season I hope he continues to improve, still hasnt won a lot of people over just yet though. Manny was class, a good turn around in form as I feel he has been poor the last few weeks.

Manny was real beneficiary of the Ifill injury.  With Ifill less mobile he was often in a position to cover Manny's forward forays which let Manny become much more of an attacking weapon.

disgree news. Ifill was a passenger in the second half stood 3/4s of the way up the pitch and just strolled around. Manny was a terrier, no thanks to ifill. Herbet should have shown some stones and dragged ifill after 50mins

Miles and Yatesy on the Ball show  will be from 12-2pm tomorrow then 1-2pm from next week.1332am on Radio Sport

Also, is there any point in the game where Greenacre got the ball without a Mariners player going through the back of him, without a foul being given ?

HN is the Real REAL expert in football! HN to replace RH!

 http://yellowfever.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=10331

Except if your thread idea is adopted we'd never get to choose a starting XI as we'd be going round in circles discussing the same things each week.

Herbert should've dragged Ifill off when he started having trouble, which was after 30mins. He started to get slower and was stretching alot. Marco could've got 55odd mins. Amazing how well Ifill did tho.

I think Herbert is actually growing a pair, I mean he had both youngsters play at the same time. Something none of us actually thought he was gonna do.

this week we need to play a 4-1-2-1-2 formation and really put pressure on the GCU defense.

                             

What the hell does this even mean?  He was ballsy enough to yank Diego before halftime when underperforming.  I'm not sure what ballsy substitutions you are talking about. 

Ferrante on for Ifill - that would be ballsy!

I agree - Herbert has been showing some balls recently, pulling no punches when it comes to sidelining (or demoting) players who have not been performing on the pitch (i.e Diego and Ferrante) while promoting those who do perform (Daniel and arguably Caceras from his first game off the bench).

From the recent home games, I assume that a lot of the decisions made on players who do end up on the bench, has a lot to do with a very proactive approach to selection based on refined and practiced coaching during training days. The sort of stuff we on the forum can only speculate about - basically I don't think Herbert's an idiot and I believe he's a lot more tactical and forward thinking (although possibly quite subtly) than we collectively give him credit for.