WPM R18 vs Brisbane Roar | Sat 12th March | 7:05pm | SS7

WeeNix
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590
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almost 11 years
Yes, go for another! Momentum is with us
Legend
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over 16 years
Come on Phoenix!
Starting XI
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about 10 years
Sotirio fudges up the easier looking chance and makes the harder looking one.
Starting XI
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about 10 years
How was that not a foul????
Marquee
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over 13 years
Let's keep our unbeaten record guys.
Legend
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over 16 years
Just sleeping down the right. 
Starting XI
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about 10 years
Legend
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over 16 years
Come On Phoenix!
Legend
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over 16 years
FFS!
we lose the ball at their end as old tumbles under a clear push by Neville and the concede from a shot from a decent save, where is the defence right now?
Marquee
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over 11 years
One of those days. First and only chance of the half and they bury it.
Phoenix Academy
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480
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over 2 years
Well that didn't last long. Fire up boys let's sneak one back again!
Marquee
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over 11 years
Half decent left foot and Ball would've had that.
Moar stars
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almost 12 years
This is the worst we’ve played. Don’t deserve a point.
Legend
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over 16 years
Outpost
Half decent left foot and Ball would've had that.
 
And he’d be playing in the Championship at least!
Legend
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over 16 years
Come on Phoenix!

Legend
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over 16 years
How has Hooper missed that?😭
Marquee
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over 11 years
Faaark! Thought that was in.
First Team Squad
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over 14 years
nufc_nz
This is the worst we’ve played. Don’t deserve a point.
Its not the worst, looking lethargic and out of ideas though. Whats with all the long balls?
Marquee
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over 11 years
Disappointing. Might be a lean patch coming up. Let's hope it doesn't cost us a playoff again like last season.
Moar stars
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almost 12 years
Lost to the worst team in the league. Embarrassing.
First Team Squad
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over 8 years
I hate this fudgeing sport
Legend
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over 16 years
Another game Sotirio gets that breakaway just before half time. Hooper buries that. Rufer doesn’t tackle with his knees, just as we were building a lot of pressure. 
We had no Piscopo. Sandoval was tired. Playing the ball in behind wasn’t quite as effective. 
It’s tough to beat Brisbane at home and we couldn’t. 

I think Hooper gets the goal rather than Sotirio though?
Legend
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djtim3000
nufc_nz
This is the worst we’ve played. Don’t deserve a point.
Its not the worst, looking lethargic and out of ideas though. Whats with all the long balls?

No playmakers and they’ve been effective for us of late?
WeeNix
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590
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almost 11 years
The famous banana skin.... Defensively sloppy and no ideas up front. A total black out, perhaps too many games in our legs and its catching up with us? Credit to Brisbane. They wanted it more
First Team Squad
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djtim3000
nufc_nz
This is the worst we’ve played. Don’t deserve a point.
Its not the worst, looking lethargic and out of ideas though. Whats with all the long balls?


No where near the worst imo. But still that was an incredibly frustrating watch. Never got going. Hooper seemed to bring a bit of quality and probably should have equalised there. Sharke.
Marquee
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over 13 years
I thought that Brisbane passes had a higher accuracy. Have not seen the stats but to the naked eye it looked like the accuracy difference was clear.
Marquee
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over 13 years
Although we lifted the game midway in the second half I thought that not having Rufer on the pitch might have been the problem by then. He seems to have become a much better ball distributor as the season wore on. Pennington was good but played a different role (or is a different player). 
Moar stars
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almost 12 years
InsulinMachine
The famous banana skin.... Defensively sloppy and no ideas up front. A total black out, perhaps too many games in our legs and its catching up with us? Credit to Brisbane. They wanted it more


To many games? Wasn’t that our 2nd game in 20 days?
Phoenix Academy
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200
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almost 3 years
Told you all! Although the temp was only 25c the humidity was %65 and i believe it took its toll on the legs of the players, But still there's no excuse for switching off in the 1st half. 
We are still in the top 6 so that's the only plus from this match.
Starting XI
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about 17 years
two terrible teams, playing pedestrian football, filmed on a handycam by a drunk
and 1 other
Starting XI
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over 5 years
Well that was poor. Not looking like a top 6 team with a performance like that. Brisbane didn't even play very well. No intensity from us. Disappointing.
That's balls 5th yellow I think. Terrible game to watch.
So next game against Newcsatle we are going to be pretty thin.
No, Ball, Rufer, AW contingent. Piscopo and Van Hattum injured. 
WeeNix
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630
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over 15 years
Conceding the first while we were still mentally on the bus to the ground, and then the second right after an extended spell of dominance and an equalizer...what a gut punch
Starting XI
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about 17 years
Mainland FC
nufc_nz
Mainland FC
InsulinMachine
I hope UT is going to bring on some of the fresher, younger players earlier. Roar aren't that strong. All we need is some hunger and more will to attack 
I am not seeing low level of hunger. What I am seeing is high level of humidity.
 

What? It’s 25 degrees and 50% humidity. What you on about? These are professional athletes.
OK, please find me another reason that a team that performed exceptionally well last Wednesday is playing sluggishly and without much impact tonight, against the bottom of the table team. And getting a swag of yellow cards against a team with arguably less skillful players than the Nix. And please include reasons for our poor record when playing away at Brisbane.

Was at the game.  Not overly hot and certainly not any more humid then NSW has been.  

We were lucky on Wednesday with our poor defending.  Today those birds came home to roost. That was a poor Roar team we lost to.

True to career form Wootton was MIA for the first goal. Payne poor too. Should have started Fenton.
One in a million
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about 17 years
Agree, over all a poor showing. The start was awful. Passes to Sutton were all wrong, Payne made silly errors, we kept giving them chances. However, when we got our game going finally we controlled the game until Rufer went off. Sadly the injury doesn't look good. Hoops made a difference, but I would have liked to see him and Sandoval together on the pitch. Sandoval wasn't playing great but they had a good combination going earlier in the season. Oh well, the next game will be quite a challenge, with missing players and the Jets out for revenge.
WeeNix
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580
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over 4 years
I think we have missed Piscopo in the last few games he hasn't played in. Jets and Roar isolate and crowd Sandoval from the rest of the team (pretty much similar to what we were seeing with Piscopo before Sandoval's arrival). As a result, we really lose that creativity on both sides of our pitch. Heads up heading into next game.
First Team Squad
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almost 17 years
reg22
two terrible teams, playing pedestrian football, filmed on a handycam by a drunk

And that's not even mentioning the drunkard fans (myself included).
Phoenix Academy
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450
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over 2 years
Sandoval seems to blow hot or cold. He plays well when Piscopo is playing. Maybe a little friendly competition going on there that boosts the quality of both players. Piscopo was a big miss. 
Pennington considering his game time this season, did well again, his corners, passing and technique are all quality IMHO. 
Phoenix Academy
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360
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over 3 years
Was at the game, geez we can look like world beaters sometime but terrible at times. Not one player stood up, the centre back pairing of Wotton and Laws although solid individual defenders and technically capable, give opposition far too much space at times and you can tell no one communicates and while Sutton is good going foward, he’s a real liability defensively. Roar gsme plan was simple, nab an early goal and sit back, the ease they scored both goals is ridiculous and you feel if they had a more attacking game play, they probably could have had a few more..  up foward I didn’t think we weren’t too bad but Sotirio is a player who plays on the counter attack so he was pretty wasted as Roar had a low block. Hopper did well when coming on but long term, we cant keep on relying  on Sail to keep us in matches, like we have in many previous games. It’s unsustainable and won’t get us very far 
Starting XI
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almost 10 years
Uggh 😒

Batman and Thai food it seems was the winner on the night.

Judging by the comments in here we sounded very average. 

First Team Squad
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over 5 years
I think the big thing in this game was conceding that early goal. This season every time we've conceded the first goal we've lost and since going on this run we've always been first to score. Especially with the Brisbane Roar game plan to sit back to get an early goal doesn't do us any favors. 

WPM R18 vs Brisbane Roar | Sat 12th March | 7:05pm | SS7

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