Really want to see Stein get another 90 minutes. Our best player technically and I know he's been a winger in his past career but would it be worth Ricki trying him in the ball playing CM role? That is if they want to continue to try this attacking game.
When he is up front the delivery is so poor he hardly gets the ball, let alone to his feet, so he drops to look for it, gets it and turns, old lazyballs Brockie is standing around picking his nose not making a run and marked by 2 defenders as usual, so he's got no option but to pass backward or laterally. Case in point last week he dropped back to our half, picked up the ball, turned and saw no option so ran all the way into the opposition box and almost scored.
Really rate the guy and can't help but think that in another A-League team giving him some even half reasonable ball to feet he would be banging them in. Early season home game (vs I can't remember) springs to mind when Ifill put him through and that composed finish was superb.
Maybe Boyd up front with Brockie to give an injection of energy and make some runs, he was lost last week out wide and may be able to be more involved centrally. Brockie has scored plenty but tends to feed off scraps and loose ball, hardly see him make an angled run or look for a quick 1-2, let alone play anyone else in.
I cant see Ricki making many changes this week, let alone the above, ever. But I live in hope.
I wonder if Stein would be better in that deeper lying role that Brockie has been playing.