I was thinking it was a very harsh foul to give us to begin with, then almost went into shock when saw the referee point to the spot. You honestly saw it and thought penalty straight away?
Wasn't the ball a mile away? It really just looked like 2 players that had run into each other. One heading toward the ball (dura), the other running into an opposition player (culina). Not that I'm saying we should have had a foul either, just that if you did have to blow your whistle it would be for a nix freekick.
Allegedly
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Hell no.
Then we will have both him & Brockie standing round the halfway line doing nothing.
My recollection is that it had gone out of playing distance.
Even the Fox Sports 'experts' agreed that it was NOT a penalty, and I agree.
If you are old and wise you were probably young and stupid
Playing distance is not well defined but would be interpreted to be that the ball must be within the ability of the player to reach out and touch it with any part of his body that can legally play the ball.
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Playing distance is not well defined but would be interpreted to be that the ball must be within the ability of the player to reach out and touch it with any part of his body that can legally play the ball.
Don't start me on shepherding the ball out not being called for obstruction.
Just re-watched it on mysky. Durante heads the ball away and Culina goes into Durantes path gives the appearance of pushing Culina because his arm goes around him but he does not actually push him. The obstruction was the first and only offence
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Playing distance is not well defined but would be interpreted to be that the ball must be within the ability of the player to reach out and touch it with any part of his body that can legally play the ball.
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Sunday Shootout just showed footage of Ricki chipping a drink bottle into the wall in the dressing room in frustration during halftime. He cares.
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Indeed if anything Culina obstructed Dura. As I recall it he had recently headed the ball in the opposite direction of Culina's run and was moving in that direction. Crazy penalty to my mind. I would be pissed about it but really it didn't matter.
Although without that penalty it might have only been a record matching drubbing instead of a record breaking one.... Son of a
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Sunday Shootout just showed footage of Ricki chipping a drink bottle into the wall in the dressing room in frustration during halftime. He cares.
The Ruf, The Ruf, The Ruf is on Fire!!
noticed that a number of times, brockie and Stein both fighting for the same spot. I would have thought with 3 up front it would be simple, Fenton/Ifill to one post Stein to the middle and Brockie to the other post. Surely Greenie is coaching this???
Queenslander 3x a year.
I think the referee is quite lucky that the penalty decision has been forgotten about. Haven't seen a penalty decision that bad for a long time,that I can recall. A real shocker.
Never a penalty.
... in a million years
Even the Fox Sports 'experts' agreed that it was NOT a penalty, and I agree.
a.haak

Even the Fox Sports 'experts' agreed that it was NOT a penalty, and I agree.
Even the Fox Sports 'experts' agreed that it was NOT a penalty, and I agree.
Yellow Fever - Misery loves company
Sunday Shootout just showed footage of Ricki chipping a drink bottle into the wall in the dressing room in frustration during halftime. He cares.
ive got a song that wont take long, Adelaide are rubbish.. the second verse is same as the first.. ADELAIDE ARE RUBBISH
Sunday Shootout just showed footage of Ricki chipping a drink bottle into the wall in the dressing room in frustration during halftime. He cares.
Ah, so it IS him who tells the players to keep chipping the ball rather than hitting it with some purpose.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qe_B5CzbTJo - Caceres winning penalty v Perth - footage from the Fever Zone
Sunday Shootout just showed footage of Ricki chipping a drink bottle into the wall in the dressing room in frustration during halftime. He cares.
Ah, so it IS him who tells the players to keep chipping the ball rather than hitting it with some purpose.
a.haak

Thank you, I'm here all week.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qe_B5CzbTJo - Caceres winning penalty v Perth - footage from the Fever Zone
something is surely wrong at the phoenix
The squad looks unmotivated/ poorly coached...
Both the reserves and the first team squad cannot compete... YOu have to start asking questions now
Really? I've not noticed it. I thought we've been fine so far...
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Sunday Shootout just showed footage of Ricki chipping a drink bottle into the wall in the dressing room in frustration during halftime. He cares.
I'm more interested in if there was a Phoenix player there wanting to play it and it went to anywhere but him. Too long? Too short? High and loopy? C'mon details here...
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C'mon Phoenix what's going on. Talk to your fans. Media bans are archaic.
C'mon Phoenix what's going on. Talk to your fans. Media bans are archaic.
"Phoenix till they lose"
Posting 97% bollox, 8% lies and 3.658% genuine opinion.
Genuine opinion: FTFFA
Sunday Shootout just showed footage of Ricki chipping a drink bottle into the wall in the dressing room in frustration during halftime. He cares.
The bottle was going nowhere, just like the ball on the field.
You could see dressing room at half time in one of those dodgy streams, oh boy, the Nix players looked pretty sad, heads down.
"Thanx for all ur support for those asking my ankles all good!yesterday was one of the toughest days of my career but I promise wel bounce bk" -- Paul Ifill
*giggles*
Firstly, to the international audience watching, whilst you might think you look like a clever and ironic bunch of wits, in actual fact you far more closely resemble a bunch of ignorant hicks.Humour bypass much?
And what's with the pic of Ernie?
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Sunday Shootout just showed footage of Ricki chipping a drink bottle into the wall in the dressing room in frustration during halftime. He cares.
Audio had "have you lost your $@#$%%^ bottle u lot?...well here it is."
A small town in Europe........looking to bounce straight back up....well that aint going to happen
C'mon Phoenix what's going on. Talk to your fans. Media bans are archaic.
a.haak

At the very least they should be apologising to the fans and offering to refund tickets for anyone in the away section out of the players team funds.
Normo's coming home
Sunday Shootout just showed footage of Ricki chipping a drink bottle into the wall in the dressing room in frustration during halftime. He cares.
Audio had "have you lost your $@#$%%^ bottle u lot?...well here it is."
Yellow Fever - Misery loves company
At the very least they should be apologising to the fans and offering to refund tickets for anyone in the away section out of the players team funds.
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