Lovely to watch the first game of the season in the Fox, and such a good game it was too. Cheers to Davey and Jono and Davey's friend whose name I didn't hear.
Okay: I'm not happy with only 12,000 to watch that thorough spanking of Del Piero FC (or with Dewhurst's ramblings, I wish we'd had the Aussie commentators) - but if it really is 7 degrees in Wellywood, then good effort for all the shirts-off lads.
I have nothing to say bad about our team at all - except, as mentioned, that Totori had some brain fades and was pushed off the ball too easily, but remember his cracking shot that hit the upright?!? I'll forgive him a lot for that. Leo was pushed a couple of times on defence in the second half and he got back well. And Manny was ENORMOUS. His delivery to Louis Fenton... wow, just wow.
But as a 'keeper, I have to declare that game the Ivan Necevski Comedy Hour. WTF? As if it wasn't bad enough that his all-white outfit made him look like a 40s East European fascist dictator, he made Totori look like a model of composition. And of course my pretend bf Pasty was fan-freakin-tastic.
Stein is a real find and I want to see Big Pete explain how he sucks now. Fenton... well, what can I say, he deserved his celebration in front of the fever. Boyd looks like one of the New Kids on the Block. Clarke did some nice things in his brief period on the field.
I can only imagine what the ADP fanboys back in Turin thought about that big ball of nothing. To be fair, he was definitely the best Bling player, which is really not saying much. WTF? Some of their passing was just criminally sloppy, especially against Muscat and Fenton. I have no idea what they were thinking.