vs Victory Wed 9:30pm SS1

He said he wants to give Melbourne "a good hiding".

Buffon II2010-09-14 18:59:32

f**kwits we may be, but we are good at at least two things:

1) Identifying useless twats in our club

and

2) giving them to you.

[QUOTE=kiwi pie]f**kwits we may be, but we are good at at least two things:
1) Identifying useless twats in our club and 2) giving them to you. maybe that useless twat nick ward will score another cr*p goal tomorrow then. 

just dont give us that 'has-been' thug muscat though.

Wardy's planning on giving us a hiding, so I'd expect nothing less than a hat trick.

some more goals of the same quality wouldn't go amiss, just quietly!

Reasons not to listen to the Tards: They think it's time for Marvin Angulo to show what he can do and be given a start as the man in the hole... where he will be playing against Muscat, Durante and probably North, (arguably) our two best players so far and our oz marquee.

What Melb fans are saying that?

Why would they replace Hernandez with Angulo?

Have a bad feeling about Ward v his old club - the last time there was a build up like this was for Dadi v Perth and we know how that turned out.valeo2010-09-14 20:52:39

I was reading the melb forums and they were going on about how Hernandez and Ricardinho looked f**ked after 60 mins on Sunday and the Marvin should be given a start...

True. I dont get all this talk about players being especially fired up to go hard against their old clubs. Why wouldnt they be like that every Saturday??

Eh, hope he does. Hernandez and his free kicks scare me.

Picking Brown to have a good game - he always seems to play well against Melbourne. Remember that beautiful finish from a Daniel cross last season at Etihad. Also remember a header and that finish at home when we won 2-1.valeo2010-09-14 21:24:35

Also remember that own goal when we lost 4-0.

hope you aren't getting blisters, you might want to put the spade down and have a rest

That does seem a sure fire way to make sure he fires tomorrow KP.  Tempting fate much ?

Will be interesting to see how he deals with the inevitable heckles from the Melb crowd - if he got booed that much when he played for them..

Bring it!

So that's why you're on the YF forums so much? A gift from the Tardboard?

This. To be honest the whole idea of players getting extra fired up when playing against their old club seems like somewhat of a media-created (or at least exaggerated) phenomenon.

For instance, 442 seem to have used Ward's quote on wanting to give them a hiding a little out of context. Ward probably wants to give most teams a hiding, that's kind of his job.

That said, it is always a good spectacle for fans, which was more what I was getting at. I imagine Dadi's penalty was one of the highlights of the season for Perth fans last year.ShowUsYaNix2010-09-15 00:21:08

Ward just has to play like he did on Saturday, when he was our best. He then in turn created more room for Leo, who also won't have to speculate where Hearfield will hoof the ball.
Glad Danny is in goal. He'll be our #1 keeper for the remainder.

Not if he performs like he did in the last match he won't.

"Fresh from the Arctic chill of Norway, North has no fears of the Wellington weather." The quotes off stuff are just bizarre. He arrived from a Norwegian summer!

sounds promising if North will slot into fullback. Sounds like tonight it could be:

                   Vukovich
North Sigmund Durante Lochhead
                     Muscat
            Brown        Ward
Bertos          Pavlovich        Ifill

Bench: Paston, Hearfield, Daniel, Mac/ Greenie?

He may have come from the Norwegian summer, but Tromso must be one of the few cities that has worse climate than Wellington - the city centre is 300km inside the Arctic circle and the highest average high temperature in summer is 15.3 degrees!

I spent a month there last year thinking it would be freezing, but the majority of the time it was over 20 degrees and got up to and in excess of 30 degrees. I know the winter is ridiculously cold and dark, but he wasn't there in the winter.Luis Garcia2010-09-15 11:44:55

Haha yeah changed it a little. But the summer is actually really warm, plus it's 24 hour daylight. I was wearing a singlet and eating snickers icecreams just to keep cool.Luis Garcia2010-09-15 11:49:52

Me too - they note that in the warmest summer on record (1972) the temperature reached 30 degrees, so going by that, it would seem that that kind of temperature happens once in a blue moon.

Looking at the weather stats, it also looks like the window of the relatively warm weather (say in the range LG has postulated in the edit) is very small, seemingly confined to July and perhaps August (though there's a noticable drop in average highs between these two months also). The other months for which in Europe would still expect warm weather (May/June/September) are quite cold (June less so, but May and September look brutal to me).

In other news, the Phoenix have a game tonight...

EG - I just looked it up, an when I was there last year, it was the warmest temperatures in 57 years. So 2010 could well have been similar, even if it was colder. But yes, more about the game tonight.

I don't doubt that - just think that the window of such weather is very small, and that for most of the year it's much colder than here.

And what's this talk about a football game tonight? Who's playing? When? Can someone please enlighten me? el grapadura2010-09-15 12:09:57

Is it in Tromso ?

Very true, but North was only there for Spring and Summer, he can't complain too much. But as I say that, Australia is warmer than here, so he'd be used to much warmer weather.

TIL vs TW.

Doesnt everyone always talk about the weather....

So? He is our marquee. But because he's Australian he's our Australian marquee.Luis Garcia2010-09-15 13:06:41

Hopefully see McMaster get some game time.