Does anyone think that while the whole world is against us, siege mentality, backs against the wall approach seems to have galvanised the squad that perhaps it's going a touch over the top?
Regardless if we were right or wrong in each incident, isn't part of football accepting sometimes things go against you, IE your not ever going to get every call.
and sticking up for yourself against dirty opposition players is all well and good but surely you have to be careful it doesn't boil over.
Sail while he could have been in the complete right re the high foot at the end, does put himself at the mercy of the referee/match review panel for his reaction. Have we tipped over the scales of being pushovers a bit too far?
Regardless if we were right or wrong in each incident, isn't part of football accepting sometimes things go against you, IE your not ever going to get every call.
and sticking up for yourself against dirty opposition players is all well and good but surely you have to be careful it doesn't boil over.
Sail while he could have been in the complete right re the high foot at the end, does put himself at the mercy of the referee/match review panel for his reaction. Have we tipped over the scales of being pushovers a bit too far?
Not yet. 3 wins on the bounce, even though we disappointingly conceded the clean sheet late on.
Pennington- yes, had that rep in Italy and went too far, but unlucky.
Uffie- has to measure his approach. It seemed with Gothy there was a bit of good cop, bad cop. It seemed to me that Uffie pissed off the linesman on his side and then we got every possible call after that called against us, particularly a number against Zawada.
Sail- risky to push the bloke over. But it’s not on for cheap shots to be allowed just because the whistle has gone.
I don’t feel, strangely, like our football has been as dominant as we were earlier. It’s more difficult for us to hold possession and move it smoothly through the centre. But we’ve kept two clean sheets and got three wins.
let me ask it another way - do you think some of the stuff that's a bit close to being OTT makes any difference to the last couple of results?
I totally get we needed to add some steel to our game and not be pushed around and step up etc etc - but is that extra 1% or 2% on top needed?
That Sydney game gave the team a point to prove and the majority of the games have looked scrappier than it has in previous games, but the team is winning.
Maybe that borderline OTT is a step towards the team fighting back against the odds.
Dunno, if they scale it back, maybe results do to?