WPM R21 vs Melbourne City | Fri 28th Feb | 7:30pm | RoF / Sky Sport 2

That Sheridan shot. How can a professional footballer, who can spend the entirety of his working life practicing football, under zero pressure from a marker, shoot that poorly? Enough to make you weep

Italiano throwing his bottle of water because of Walkers stupid release in a tight spot... sorry Italiano, you picked him... your fault.

Yellow Army and O Wellington sounding great 

imanixsupporter

That Sheridan shot. How can a professional footballer, who can spend the entirety of his working life practicing football, under zero pressure from a marker, shoot that poorly? Enough to make you weep

Rufer was no better for his first 8 years.

MetalLegNZ

Italiano throwing his bottle of water because of Walkers stupid release in a tight spot... sorry Italiano, you picked him... your fault.

Chico being a bit held back by Walker imo. But not Walker’s fault. Apparently Ishige has an illness.

This is the most frustrated I have ever seen Kosta in a game 

It's so annoying watching this because we have better players on the bench. By the time they come on we will probably need to take off some of Rufer, Payne, Geraldes as according to Chiefy they aren't currently fit to play 90. Would have been cool for us to have a crack with our best team for 45 minutes. 

Well for positives, we aren't losing, Rufer and Geraldes playing well and we still have some quality to come off the bench.

MOTM so far, and it's not even close, are the Fever. Great noise, great energy, for the whole half. Amazing. Thankfully they're making a lot of noise because I've spent most of the half with my head in my hands not watching the game.

Positives: Rufer has put a lot more gristle back into the defensive third. Geraldes continues to show he is top notch. Some good confident takes by AKH suggest he has shrugged off his uneven performance last week.

Need to rev things up a bit in the 2nd half and risk losing. A stodgy point ain't much use to us.

We need to win right??

If Chief gets resigned I will lost my sharke. He is the most negative coach we have ever had, the way we play is embarrassing to football. 

3 of our 5 imports are on the bench - and one of them won't get on bar an injury.

The imports are wrong, the tactics are wrong and his messaging all swason has been incoherent.

We better be a different team in the second half and show some intent on the press and actually having a bit more ball.

I love a liquored up Yellow Fever.  Hope ot sounds as great on TV as it does in the stadium.

Maaaaaaatt

imanixsupporter

Sheridan and Walker doing literally nothing. Who could have foreseen this??

 Hey walker fluffed a perfectly weighted pass from Chico and Sheridan managed to hit row z. 

"If you're in Row Z and you're hit in the head, it'sa Sheridan !"

Well... I was certainly expecting something other than what we've seen so far...
Wasn't expecting a win but, you know... something...? Anything?

LT01

Well for positives, we aren't losing, Rufer and Geraldes playing well and we still have some quality to come off the bench.

Also this time last game we were 3-0 down. So that’s something.

I feel like what we are doing is working except that final third where the opposition just needs to mark up Kosta.

What could have been if Rojas had been fit all season and is knee deep in form right now.

Still feel like we have fluffed some chances and so have Melbourne.  Game could really go either way.  Hopefully ours.

COYN!!!!!

queenofthequail

Well... I was certainly expecting something other than what we've seen so far...
Wasn't expecting a win but, you know... something...? Anything?

Different team in the midfield every week.  Between the limits of the kids and the lack of well oiled combinations it's all very hit n hope.

We are lucky to be in the game still - we need something completely different in the second half. 

Walker and Retre off please.

What is apparent is there is a hugh gap between the midfield and the front players.

It needs some of those midfield players to drive centrally forward with the ball at times to reduce the space. 

Also the full backs are not doing much to help out 

Love having Rufs back from the start. Really showed his class a few times - including twice in quick succession when Retre lost the ball and Rufer just came in no nonsense and got it back.

bahahahahahha our kick off sums us up at the moment - farcical.

Jesus Walker, you managed to screw up the kick off?? Come on lad, sort it out and produce something positive.

was bizarre. terrible pass. walker was narrow like he didnt know it was happening

Retre - I said he needed to be subbed. Passenger.

Jesus. Another dire game.

It's been the case for a while now, but we really don't deserve to make the finals this season.

As for these 6 or 7 wins that we require, well I'm struggling to see where we'll get 1 or 2...

Prove me wrong for fudge sake lads. Prove me fudgeing wrong.

Needs more back passing . When in the opposition half, we should pass all the way back to Alby

that was fugly

Could see a goal coming as soon as Retre passed it to no one

You could see that coming from the moment Payne hesitated. I just shut my eyes and waited for coup de grace.

retre's run was a nothing run, facing the sideline. wrong option from payne, should have seen it's a pointless run. and retre's pass, jaysus

Fudge me, just as I was typing my previous post.

Sub Retre now for the love of football.

Wouldn’t fudge around Chiefy until the 60th minute it make your subs

Put your note book down

It’s obviously got to be done now!!

TILIO BLASTS MELBOURNE CITY IN FRONT! It's been coming! Phoenix choke up possession inside their own half, with an underhit return pass from Paulo Retre failing to reach Tim Payne. Kavian Rahmani pounces, before Andreas Kuen slide the ball across the face of the penalty area towards Max Caputo. He lets Marco Tilio run onto the ball to shoot instead of taking it on himself and Tilio emphatically strikes the ball low past Alby Kelly-Heald from twelve yards out. How will Wellington Phoenix respond now?!

How will we respond?  Ideas??

retre's cooked 8 minutes in to the second half. no recovery. gives the ball away (again) dives in to a tackle from behind that doesn't even stop the play and jogs back to the next phase. rubbish

far out Retre

Now Retre ruining our attacking chances as well!

AucklandPhoenix

Wouldn’t fudge around Chiefy until the 60th minute it make your subs

Put your note book down

It’s obviously got to be done now!!

he looked like the wally with the brolly there

(steve mclaren after a paul robinson shoker for england  for those who dont have a clue what im on about)

Oh I hate Tillio. Not good enough for Scotland, but always scores against us.