Views on Game

Time for Paston to get a start.

dude.. wtf r u watching the games seriously...... the fact that more goals have gone in than any other in the league is not because of moss... Moss has done extremely well to only have that many goals go in. This team is still young, which means they are prone to more defensive issues with knowing each others game and communicating well with one another, moss is not to blame for the goal count against him. Last week was the perfect example with lochhead's missed clearance leaving the striker in a position that he is expected to score in every time. against last night the second goal was not his fault, merely that there striker is extremely good and fought off o'dor to win the space he had

And the first goal was clearly his fault

justification?, u could blame many things for that goal.. reluctantly you could say alosi shouldnt have tryed for a header, it was unlucky

Think Nightz is stirring but he's got a point. Moss doesn't look as comfortable in the air as I hoped he would. I hate seeing keepers flapping at high balls - gives me the willies. In all other areas he looks good and can't be held responsible for bad defence.

As next week looks like there is going to be alot more players having their first team debut I would say Paston has a fair chance of starting.

No offense intended ,mind you im sure the Phoenix coach dosent  encourage it either but there was a lot of panic kicking by the defense last night!
Kiwi Jambo2007-09-23 16:53:39

why is it time for paston to get a start ?

You must have missed Friday nights game then. He (Breeze) was alot bloody worse than the Phoenix one (Williams)

Its in the rules. Players are not allowed to have blood on them or their outfit. Its a health issue. I'm sure you can appreciate the connection between sport, blood, 3rd world countries where football is played where blood type diseases are prevalent....
DrQuack322007-09-23 17:49:09

Saturday night was my first time at the Stadium to see the Phoenix.....I thought it was absolutely BRILLANT. The best atmosphere I have ever experianced at a sports event in New Zealand. You Yellow Fever guys were amazing. The way the chants were picked up by the rest of the crowd was fabulous.

That stat seems wrong to me, I think it was wrongly reported. The official A-League website has our posession at 49% which sounds much more accurate.

I think Moss has done very well and deserves to hold his spot.

Of course mate, that's a ridiculous number. I can't believe that any team would have that amount of possession in a game.
For example, Croatia was playing Andorra in EURO 2008 qualifying a few days back and had 74% possession. And Andorra's gameplan consists of putting 11 men into their own penalty box and try to keep the score down and crossing the halfway line maybe twice in the whole game. For the record, Croatia won 6-0.
So if Andorra got 26% possession in a game they lost so heavily employing the tactics they did, it's clearly ludicrous to believe Phoenix only had 15% possession last night.

Based on history Paston is better and as people have said when you go for a ball in the air you have to get it.