vs Adelaide, Sun 5pm, ChCh

In other hilarious news:

Is this the first time we've come from behind to win this season?

Great performance.� I really loved the way we moved the ball around today.� Nice and short, players moving off the ball.� Anything but a win today given how we played would have been an unrewarding result.� To a man they played excellent football.In particular, I want to give special praise to Manny Muscat.� Man he cut Flores out.� A lot of intercepts, and then he broadened it out with some great supporting runs to keep movements going.� Sigmund excellent, Tim Brown a good performance, Durrante worked over Van Djik after the goal, and Ifill, while he sort of drifted out of performance had some very nice touches.�� Viva la Phoenix, lets keep this style because this style is an absolute winner.� Well coached Rikki.

anyone got any more pics of the YF crowd? 

Would love to have been a fly on the wall during Ricki's half time talk, must have really laid in to the team, they were back on the pitch after only about 5 or so minutes and had to wait around for Adelaide to come out. What ever he said, it certainly worked

I've got a photo of some of them before and during the match

Great comments - couldn't agree more. O'Leary had a poor game which has only now been compounded by Herbert's 3 match ban. What Herbert did was fair. The Phoenix have suffered under refs like O'Leary who let opposition teams take free kicks and throw ins from well away from the offence and yet makes the Phoenix take them from exactly the right spot.

It is time someone got onto the refs about this blatant cheating and made them ref the game more fairly.
Phoenix won despite the ref this time, but too often have been on the receiving end of bad decisions.

I find it interesting watching the EPL games and see how close the refs usually are to the action whereas Hyundai League refs prefer to ref from 30-40 metres away; and it shows in some of their poor decision making and view of events. To me nothing looks as stupid/silly as a referee blowing really hard on his whistle and then running 40 metres to the incident to march the 10 metres back!!!!!

Brad ---> Herbert banned for three matches.

thanks bro, its way too harsh! who handed out the ban? i hope they challange it!

Well my time is up here in Christchurch im heading back home today.It wasnt the result that i wanted but thats life.I still enjoyed my time here,but i hope next year its back in Wellington.A BIG BIG THANK YOU to the Yellow Fever boys who we shared drinks with sat and sun before the game, your fans are great.I look foward to next year.All the best for the rest of the year guys

thanks bro, its way too harsh! who handed out the ban? i hope they challange it!

or hand out masks with Riki's face on them?

This result will mean nothing if we don't back it up with more in the next few games.

Sh*t 3 games? Is that the penalty for arguing with a ref? And did the Reds player get off Red Card suspension?

Thanks England, cause you finished off the Aussies early, we get to watch a replay of our Nix v Adelaide game on SS2 right now!

 

I loved when the fever started blowing their vuvezelas.

not to mention the King's kind offer of cheap booze when the building was given the all clear!