vs Planes Sunday 4:30pm

Moss

Bertos Boxall Durante Hogg

Fenton Muscat Sanchez Ifill

Brockie Stein

Its change for the sake of it and some players may not be as good as the ones they replace (and in fact may perform worse and take a shellacking again) but Ricki cannot pick those players again and condone that performance. I'm actually advocating change for the sake of it if only to teach players accountability, actions and consequences, call it what you like. Moss comes in purely on an offchance that a different voice at the back may make a difference, not for anything that Paston has done/not done.

Also in the Herald:

"Herbert's chances of turning the side around have been made tougher with five of his players one caution away from a single-match ban.

Andrew Durante, Ben Sigmund, Louis Fenton, Manny Muscat and Jeremy Brockie have all picked up four yellow cards and another before round 21 would lead to an automatic suspension."

It could get a lot worse before it gets better.

 Agree whole heartedly, Paston eneds a breather after that horror show, not much he could have done about most of the goals. Siggy too needs a break to think about his game.

 Based on last night a Fenton suspension would be a problem...  particularly considering his last was for that 'dive' against Victory.  Fucking A-League refs.

Heskey time.

 another marquee to rip us apart oh joy.

Sad way to head into a milestone for the club. Sunday marks the Nix's 150th game (Regular & Play off games).

maybe they'll win at home just for us?

If they don't I will be demanding a sacrificial lamb, I'm looking at you Downey.

 Making the trip up for this one...Not sure why though...

Not sure that is correct use of honking there George.

Milestones make us honk or we're honking when we have milestones.

Different tack from last match:

We DON'T want 7.

And we're gonna get dicked. I just know it.

(need to wash gear from last match too).

Looking forward to my fritz wiener. The football is merely a side show. 

surely this week, Ricki just has to look at our fragilities and build from the back.

this weeks goal should be keep a clean sheet. Who cares about scoring. We need to get some confidence back, and the ones with the least at the moment will be the defenders.

With manny back, lets hope he can hit some form. But the main job he needs to remember is to sit in front of the back 4. He shouldnt push up. If he wants to do that then he should have stuck with RB. Siggy is often caught out pushing forward to cut out a pass where realistically, it should be manny (or whoever is playing DM) to be the one who is covering that area

Also, could we please see a slightly more balanced bench this week please? 3 wingers isnt exactly the smartest way to use this limited space

finding it a little hard to entice people to come to this game, will work on them for rest of the week but not holding out much hope of filling the car.

Agreed, focus on defense. The attack isn't really suffering anyway, just not scoring. I mean we hoofed everything against Sydney and it resulted more shots than they had in spite of the scoreline. Its only a matter of time until they start banging goals in (hopefully Brockie gets fired up to prove GVE wrong). The defense on the other hand is dire at the moment and the leaks have to stop before the team can stop going backward let alone move forward.

Tough decision to make this week, head to the game or mow the lawn.

Mild or honey mustard? Hmmm. 

Agree with OP formation, except would rather Iffy upfront and Stein wide.

Who wants to pick the crowd - 3-4000?

 2k

I just head in the sports news Hard News is the Yellowfever Ring leader.  Awesome

Mark Watson wants calls from Phoenix fans re the season.    Keeps blaming Ricki for losing Marco, Kosta etc.

Mark Watson? That guys is a real fruit loop of a broadcaster. If its not triathlon or multisport then we have no idea about being a real athlete.

Radio Sport?

 yep, could use some factoids from Fever.

What time was News on? I can't find him in the On Demand stuff.

Think it was 12pm sports news on radio sport 

http://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/auckland/news/spsoc/604084290-phoenix-supporters-struggling-to-keep-faith 

How many home league games have we now played since our first? I make it 74 - this Jets game will be the 75th + 4 finals games? Please correct me, I would like an accurate count.

Hope we can go 3 games without the ref giving Dura a card for some weak sauce. 

[Sigh] there's always cards against the Jets. 

"Its time for... Wheel of BanStick!" 

"Spin the Wheel of Incompetent Officiating!"

 "Roll the Red Mist Dice!" 

"You could win a new CAR....d"

"Will the contestants take points or the mystery bag?" 

"After the break find out who won't be coming back next week."

Might be a plan to have Boxall start, so we don't run the chance of having both Dura AND Siggy carded  in same game, quite possible given the amount of pressure they're all under.

Okay, am now over Saturday( still hurts and grates but better). Picked the home shirt of floor in wardrobe and wore out today. Kept my head held high, and answered all the jibes and smartarsed comments, with"Phoenix til i die, thru thick and thin".

Back to supporting the team 100%, and looking forward to this game. Weather is supposed to be fine(so should be raining with strong winds).

COYN

I find that glassing the f*ckers stops any comments.

It doesn't always work out if there are more of them.

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