Wellington Phoenix Men

WPM R15 vs Melbourne Victory | Fri 3rd Feb | 9:45pm | SS7

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about 3 years ago · edited about 3 years ago · History
martinb
Wanna win the league we’ve gotta show more backbone than we’ve so far. Nice tackle by Surman just before. Unlucky on that call, but as someone pointed out our attack has been the less threatening of the two most of the game. Gotta lift.

this game we've been out attacked for sure, but we o have one of the highest goal scoring records in the league (3rd I think)

Queenslander 3x a year.

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about 3 years ago
Other team they would play it for five minutes in the VAR room to find the angle to give a pen.
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about 3 years ago
theprof
goal keepers dropped the ball and taken Ball out - Pen? won't even be looked at!
 it was looked at ... of course we know the result. 

Eastbourne Football Club - we're  gonna take the Chatham Cup this year.

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about 3 years ago
MetalLegNZ
Ok with the foul being given and a decent fk.

Not ok with us forgetting how to play once we take the lead.
We are really missing Lewis. He's gives so much of the attacking impetus in this team.
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about 3 years ago
Ellliot begging for a second yellow by fudging around with the throw in. The players are there, throw the fudging thing.
Proud to have attended the first 175 Consecutive "Home" Wellington Phoenix "A League" Games !!

The Ruf, The Ruf, The Ruf is on Fire!!

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about 3 years ago
Well we just got away with blatantly pulling their man to the ground in an attacking position. I hope that does away with all the anti Nix ref bullshark here.
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about 3 years ago
LG
Ellliot begging for a second yellow by fudging around with the throw in. The players are there, throw the fudging thing.
Yep that would be peak A League: being given a second yellow for time wasting when you are behind in the match. I've seen it happen though.
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about 3 years ago
theprof
kwlap
Shark, he is good. Well done Oska!!

really good,especially for a Striker that wasnt renowned for scoring a lot of goals.

Scoring a goal every 160 minutes or so before he came here. That’s not appalling.
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about 3 years ago
We are 2-1 down and Zawada had to hold it up for 5+ seconds before anyone else got remotely near him. WTF is going on!?
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about 3 years ago
Outpost
MetalLegNZ
Ok with the foul being given and a decent fk.

Not ok with us forgetting how to play once we take the lead.
We are really missing Lewis. He's gives so much of the attacking impetus in this team.

But we have other players. At the moment we’re so ponderous in possession and nobody wants or is moving the ball forward. 


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about 3 years ago
ClubOranje
theprof
kwlap
Shark, he is good. Well done Oska!!

really good,especially for a Striker that wasnt renowned for scoring a lot of goals.

Scoring a goal every 160 minutes or so before he came here. That’s not appalling.

agreed, it was more a sarcastic comment referring to all those that were worried we'd made a mistake when we first signed him.

Queenslander 3x a year.

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about 3 years ago
martinb
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MetalLegNZ
Ok with the foul being given and a decent fk.

Not ok with us forgetting how to play once we take the lead.
We are really missing Lewis. He's gives so much of the attacking impetus in this team.

But we have other players. At the moment we’re so ponderous in possession and nobody wants or is moving the ball forward. 

Ugarkovic and Rufer should be good enough to do the same as Lewis.

Queenslander 3x a year.

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about 3 years ago
Red?
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about 3 years ago
Good to finally see some more bloody subs
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about 3 years ago
Come on Sasse, do somethin' sassy.
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about 3 years ago
llucky it even got a whistle.
changes coming on..... Sasse for Kosta, Sutton for mauragis.

Queenslander 3x a year.

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about 3 years ago
should have been red for sure, yellow at least.

Queenslander 3x a year.

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about 3 years ago
Maaaaaaatt
wilbaker
Red?
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Ive seen reds for less, no doubt Domey will be questioning the role of VAR again this week 
 
And lack of Payne has hurt us. We’d be much more dominant with him in possession and probably better shaped in defense.


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about 3 years ago
We haven’t turned up for the last 60mins
I have an amazing ability to find my way out of mazes. I'm pathological. 
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about 3 years ago
Fornarolli stands on Ball's hand - accidently of course.
Rufer for Pennignton and Van Hattum for Ball

Queenslander 3x a year.

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about 3 years ago
Man we are lucky to nit be down by 4 or so by now. Gotta pick this shark up.
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about 3 years ago
Oh dear, that is a terrible pass from Sasse.
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about 3 years ago
Being dominated by the team at the bottom of the table…


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about 3 years ago
We will be lucky to score if we keep playing like that!!
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about 3 years ago
We lost the plot. We need a wonder.
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about 3 years ago
Why on earth did he sub kraev off at half time old has done nothing
SMFC till I die!
Only one team in melbourne!
F*** Victory and Heart
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about 3 years ago
nufc_nz
Being dominated by the team at the bottom of the table…
bottom or top of this league this season is almost meaningless, it's very tight.
14 points separate top to bottom.
10 points between top and 4th (us)
4 points between 6th and bottom.
A couple of wins and it all changes.

Queenslander 3x a year.

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about 3 years ago
Do they want to keep possession playing sideways or do they want to go forward, score and win??
Proud to have attended the first 175 Consecutive "Home" Wellington Phoenix "A League" Games !!

The Ruf, The Ruf, The Ruf is on Fire!!

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about 3 years ago
Playing like we have 10 men
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about 3 years ago
Hellas_johnny
Why on earth did he sub kraev off at half time old has done nothing

at a guess it would be due to Kraev struggling to have an impact and maybe he wasnt defending as much as he needed to be?

Queenslander 3x a year.

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about 3 years ago
In either defence or attack, our midfield has been absent tonight. No options and movement when playing forward meaning that we pass it across the backline a few times and then have Laws play a ball into the forwards. While we retreating they are taking up space where not victory players are. Just bonkers to watch
I have an amazing ability to find my way out of mazes. I'm pathological. 
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about 3 years ago
missing Lewis big time, Ugarkovic certainly does not offer as much without him

Queenslander 3x a year.

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about 3 years ago
This has been our worst half of football in quite a long time. Subs seem to have actually unbalanced the team.

And can Ugarkovic please stop it with the mad solo runs and wild strikes into row Z?
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about 3 years ago
We have had one comfortable win all season. I've lost count of the leads we have squandered and when we haven't squandered leads we've barely held on a handful of times. We immediately look awful as soon as we take the lead time and time again, there must be something psychological going on
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about 3 years ago
imanixsupporter
We have had one comfortable win all season. I've lost count of the leads we have squandered and when we haven't squandered leads we've barely held on a handful of times. We immediately look awful as soon as we take the lead time and time again, there must be something psychological going on

it's either tactical or a mindset - neither is great, you really want your players to be ruthless when they take a lead, we almost switch off.

Queenslander 3x a year.

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about 3 years ago
I don’t think Urg and Rufer can play together. Their styles don’t compliment each other’s skill sets. I’d like to see Nic and Urg next week (don’t expect to though)
I have an amazing ability to find my way out of mazes. I'm pathological. 
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about 3 years ago
not sure Pennington plays any better with Rufer either to be fair - they'd both be too defensively minded.

Queenslander 3x a year.

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