The players were not awful but were the better team in fighting for 50/50 balls. In some of the flat patches, some of the players can't do much if the ball is in the air and bouncing and not on t....................QUOTE]
I shortened your quote for brevities sake (hope you don't mind)
There are lies and then there are statistics (badly paraphrased I think), yes we had more shots but as you said only 4 were on target which is poor.18 shots on goal but only 4 on target with all that possession at least half should have been on target.
As you know possession in football is nothing if you don't use it and we did not use it well on most occasions. Our counter attacks were mostly slow and predictable, we left Greenacre isolated so many times up front, with some of the pace we had there should have been support all around him.
We have to use our assets better i.e. we have pace down the flanks lets use it instead of tippy tappy passing amongst the midfielders. When we did use our pace to get to the byline often there were only 1 or 2 players in the box.
A lot of our passes went astray or were ineffective, when you see Ifil popping up at left back then you know theres something wrong.
Adelaide were poor tonight a shadow of their former selves and we should have buried them in the first half. We have a good team but didn't play well last night, especially in the 2nd half, Leo had a very average game by his standards, I had to ask someone if he was actually playing.
We seemed to lack direction going forward and the speed of our attack was poor, maybe it was to do with the formation (which was baffling for a home game).
I don't know about you but for anyone to be happy with a draw at home in a game where we supposedly dominated then people don't have much ambition for the club. I expect us to beat teams at home, we do have the players to do that and there are some signs of things clicking but there is a lot to work on.
There just didn't seem to me to be any real spark or zip to our game, there were a few signs that things are coming together so I'll pull back from my 'we were awful' comments but I still think we played very averagely based on the team we had on the park and the team we were playing.
I am happy with our purchases of Greenacre and Ifil though. Ifil especially looks likely to be one of the leagues best players this season (in fact probably is already) and Greenacre works like a Trojan and has very good spatial awareness , goals will come for him if our midfield steps up.
But one thing I think we can all agree on was that the officials were poor tonight, forget about the disallowed goal that was a 50/50 call. But Ifil and Greenacre we getting bundled over everytime the went up for a ball, and there were some baffling calls from the linesman. The FFA has to do something about the quality of the refs and quickly because it is to the detriment of the league.
Finaly to the F***Knuckles who threw bottles I hope that you are caught and never allowed at a sporting event at the ROF again.
Teza2009-09-05 08:49:12
"Phoenix till they lose"
Who were the 
. Best thing is that we kept our record at home. maybe the boys will be fired up for melbourne. hope so