v Gold Coast United - GAME ON

The complete back 4 and Smith were all so deep in the 1 half.....Ricky instructions I guess ...otherwise he would have change itChopperHarris2012-03-04 21:49:12

I think hat smith could do a good job for us if Ricki allowed him to play further up the pitch

Personally I thought Smith had an excellent game today. He won a lot of possesion for us in midfield and I thought his distribution was brilliant. Fitz2012-03-04 21:57:35

true.

Good to see gcu players at The Grand.

I watched him for a lot of the game today and the number of times he is either jogging slowly or just stopped completely when he should be busting a gut to get back or get a tackle in is just shocking. He spent half the game almost up front! He is lazy.

The tweets only started going over the edge near the end of the game. Once he'd made that crack about Pasty swallowing a shot "like a lady of the night" I was wondering whether someone should be prosecuted for being On Drugs in Charge Of A Twitter Account.

loved the section of play where siggy got himself up front for about 5mins

the game gets better and better as the evening rolls on (no pun intended)

you pass it to the left

I've never been to a game that was harder to watch than yesterdays - the standard of football was appalling.

...nice assessment WB. bwtcf2012-03-05 10:00:21

I think you are going a bit over the top with the negativity even though I can see where you are coming from. It had some sloppy finishing which is an area we have been pretty good at this year. In fact I would hazard a guess that we probably have the highest conversion rate of chances to goals in the league if such a thing could be measured.

Tactically I think we were good. We tried to pressure a young team in their own half while still having the defensive line deep enough to protect against a quick player running onto a freaky long ball. It worked pretty well even though we should have got a second much earlier. It was an awkward game following an awkward week and we got the three points.

The upcoming Melbourne games will be harder. I think Heart in particular has played really good football this year. I think a top 2 finish is unlikely, even if we win all 3 games, but coming 3rd would give us up to two home games in the finals which would be awesome.

If we had a striker... oh look.  Daniel out for season, chance for an injury replacement.  Potentially even an international one.

I reckon if Bertos had squared to it Ifill instead of shooting then the flood gates may of opened up.

Often happens.

Was there free food and drink?

Daniel is non visa, and its too late to sign a guest player.

I can't think of any ex A-League players floating around the state leagues who might be worth an injury replacement contract. I think we will see the season out with what we have, unless we pick up another injury.

I was initially disapointed after the game...as per the above comments but this morning reflecting on the game we did do some real good stuff. OK we blew about 23 shots on goal...some of them alarming misses. But the fact that we got ourselves into shooting positions so often shows we were doing a lot of things really well. In other games you shank a shot and it goes in, this time we were unlucky. Replay that game and we could win 5-0.

Dom post gives no credit to Tyson who pulled off some instinctive, reaction saves to deny some great shoots on goal/Blew.22012-03-05 11:21:17

Guest player isn't same as injury replacement.

Yes I know. Daniel is not an import, so we cannot replace him with an import with an injury replacement contract. I can't see any Kiwi or Aussie 'international' player who is available for an injury replacement contract.

If Hard News meant international, as in an import, it would have had to been a guest stint. The window for signing guest players has finished.

Your whole team is on the benefit

i thought smiths passing game was pretty good today and he was mobile around the field doing his job he made a couple of errors but everybody makes mistakes

i saw daniel on sunday limping around on crutches he needs a little more practice with them

and yet we came away with three poins. Seem to have the winning habit.

Thought the ref had a good game yesterday.

Good points. I agree.

The bouncy castles were awesome.

Yeah it was like a soup kitchen in there. Also a TAB next door for them to gamble away their benefit.

That goal from Durante ..looked like a mirror image of the one Giggs (900) scored v Canaries last week..just saying.

Ward nominated for Goal of the Round, and Tyson for save of the Round.
Vote here - http://www.footballaustralia.com.au/aleague/

Wow.  Not many goals this round then.

If Leo had of passed, that would have been a good one for goal of the round. Instead it's up for save of the round.rjmiller2012-03-05 16:07:52

Well that's just embarassing for everyone...

Ward's goal was like the lancing of a pus-sy boil.

Ha!.
 At the time it felt more like the pent up fart of relief you do when you've just escaped from polite company in quiet surroundings when you're just aching to let go.