WPM R3 @ Central Coast Mariners | Sun 2nd Nov | 7:00pm | SS3

Same old Aussies always cheating 

That defending. Bit of a worry.

If we lose this, I'll be extra pissed

Wonder if Mariners will be as physical with Piper

We will be ruing those great chances in the first half, I will be really peeved off. Need to score for flips sake

That fudge face Steel! What an asshole!

More weak reffing

Should of been his second Yellow

ballane

Wonder if Mariners will be as physical with Piper

 
And he gets in there to tell Steele. Good. The guy’s obviously lost it. A chance to tilt him. 

But the Mariners get 4 of their bigger players in. You’d swear they practice it at training.

Taupoboy

Should of been his second Yellow

4th.

Seems like teams are just going to kick us all match - refs don't care

Who’s controlling the game the way we saw Piper and Armiento do? 

Brooke-Smith is a potential liability if he’s not scoring.

 

Plot Twist: Steele is doing a Davila/Lewis and spot-fixing. He’s trying to get Red Carded for a fat bag of cash under the table.

Referee Danaskos knows about this, and refuses to send Steele off… Also because if he sends Steele off, then Danaskos loses HIS spot-fixing bet for 0 red cards this game.

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Eze needs a right foot.
And the ref needs a pair.

lol I have to admit I did think something like that about trying to get a yellow! 

Arms all over piper then a shoulder charge to avoid the quick through while the balls out of play and nothing. Danaskos has had a sharkter today 

Maaaaaaatt

Arms all over piper then a shoulder charge to avoid the quick through while the balls out of play and nothing. Danaskos has had a sharkter today 

For years the product on the pitch has been decent.
The referee standard holds us back.

Hard to see us beating AFC if we can't put away this rabble

2 points lost there. Shame because that is one of the teams we need points off to make the six

maynardf

Maaaaaaatt

Arms all over piper then a shoulder charge to avoid the quick through while the balls out of play and nothing. Danaskos has had a sharkter today 

For years the product on the pitch has been decent.
The referee standard holds us back.

I'm sure they are told not to give too many yellows.
I think that approach is spoiling the game.

2 points dropped here and vs glory, who are probably the two worst teams in the league this season, second half was very disappointing, let them back into the game quite easily and early

A bit disappointing at the end.

maynardf

Maaaaaaatt

Arms all over piper then a shoulder charge to avoid the quick through while the balls out of play and nothing. Danaskos has had a sharkter today 

For years the product on the pitch has been decent.
The referee standard holds us back.

Referee remuneration needs to be so much better. Make it an attractive career to pursue and you'll get more quality referees, and more referees full stop which the grassroots game needs.

It's a joke that not every A-League ref is professional.

As a ref myself its so hard to watch them bottle easy card after easy card every week - not just for us, the leniency is across the league this year.

Hughes and Kelly-Heald played well I thought. Conchie must have been doing something because we were worst just after he went off. 

Should have put the game away. Eze looked industrious, perhaps didn’t have his best game and still scored and got in place to score.

Still a point with players injured and out. 

Only thing I thought is that we wasted Piper. Maybe I’m going to have to join the start Piper crew, because he was ready to make a difference but didn’t get the ball. 

Our dead ball was a bit average, but also their two big blokes at the back were fairly decent. 

Nice for us to start strong for once, but we don't have the team/depth to go for all 90 minutes at this point.

Hopefully a few returning faces in the team for the derby next weekend!

martinb

Hughes and Kelly-Heald played well I thought. Conchie must have been doing something because we were worst just after he went off. 

Should have put the game away. Eze looked industrious, perhaps didn’t have his best game and still scored and got in place to score.

Still a point with players injured and out. 

Only thing I thought is that we wasted Piper. Maybe I’m going to have to join the start Piper crew, because he was ready to make a difference but didn’t get the ball. 

Our dead ball was a bit average, but also their two big blokes at the back were fairly decent. 

Piper is on a minutes restriction

number8

That fudge face Steel! What an asshole!

Kazu is an innocent faced angel, but he did tackle and land on him. An example of experience…! Rile up the hair trigger guy. 

Nixieboys222

We can’t complain about referees after last weeks Eze situation 😂😅

Bullion

No yellow for two "agricultural" challenges from Steele - this is the outcome of challenges refs are ok with at the moment.

Yes we can. No comparison.

Nelfoos

martinb

Hughes and Kelly-Heald played well I thought. Conchie must have been doing something because we were worst just after he went off. 

Should have put the game away. Eze looked industrious, perhaps didn’t have his best game and still scored and got in place to score.

Still a point with players injured and out. 

Only thing I thought is that we wasted Piper. Maybe I’m going to have to join the start Piper crew, because he was ready to make a difference but didn’t get the ball. 

Our dead ball was a bit average, but also their two big blokes at the back were fairly decent. 

Piper is on a minutes restriction

True. Then we need to get the damn ball to him!

Armiento post match said the injuries disrupted their play especially in the second half. Proud of the team....they have a strong team spirit 
Rednayne got man of the match. Five saves. Sometimes that happens in a march where the keeper plays a blinder.
Looks like we will be fielding the academy against AFC.
Josh played his best game so far. Eze has a huge engine ..still running after 90mins. Another day he would have had a hat trick.
I really like this team. Hats off to Chiefy

We did the inverse of our first two games. This time came out of the blocks firing but let it slip after the half hour mark. 

A point away from home is a point away from home. And I'm sure we'd all take being undefeated heading into the derby if offered in pre-season. 

Lots to work on though. Its early days so im sure we will settle in to the season but theres a real messy/flustered quality to our approach whether its the high line or the passing or the decision making it all just appears a bit untidy. 

Hoping most of the injuries are all minor, we need everybody back so we can start playing to our full potential, because there definitely is something there with the style we are trying to play. Just the quicker everyone's back on the deck the quicker it can bed in.

We played really well, unlucky but i like the style of play.

Ishige and Payne are two of our senior creative players. After hitting the post I had a feeling he had a winner in him today. 

Thought Cassidy was good too. 

But we missed some creative drive at the end of the game. Brooke-Smith and Eze were close. Loved their combinations. Wonder where we are replacing Payne, Conchie and Ishige and if we’ll get any apologies from the referees. Still have been impressed that Chief doesn’t do an Uffie and growl from sideline. And that we didn’t retaliate. 

Though I’m mixed on that. It didn’t entirely work today, ignoring the fouls. I tended to focus on duels a bit…

Nelfoos

maynardf

Maaaaaaatt

Arms all over piper then a shoulder charge to avoid the quick through while the balls out of play and nothing. Danaskos has had a sharkter today 

For years the product on the pitch has been decent.
The referee standard holds us back.

Referee remuneration needs to be so much better. Make it an attractive career to pursue and you'll get more quality referees, and more referees full stop which the grassroots game needs.

It's a joke that not every A-League ref is professional.

As a ref myself its so hard to watch them bottle easy card after easy card every week - not just for us, the leniency is across the league this year.

I think referees have learned (whether conscious or subconsciously), that there's no real benefit to them to give out yellow and red cards. 

It can create controversy for their careers if it's a bad call, so they have all become so lenient that nothing ever happens and players can get away with anything these days.

Ninja

Nelfoos

maynardf

Maaaaaaatt

Arms all over piper then a shoulder charge to avoid the quick through while the balls out of play and nothing. Danaskos has had a sharkter today 

For years the product on the pitch has been decent.
The referee standard holds us back.

Referee remuneration needs to be so much better. Make it an attractive career to pursue and you'll get more quality referees, and more referees full stop which the grassroots game needs.

It's a joke that not every A-League ref is professional.

As a ref myself its so hard to watch them bottle easy card after easy card every week - not just for us, the leniency is across the league this year.

I think referees have learned (whether conscious or subconsciously), that there's no real benefit to them to give out yellow and red cards. 

It can create controversy for their careers if it's a bad call, so they have all become so lenient that nothing ever happens and players can get away with anything these days.

Nah, they're actively getting instructions from on high to "let the game flow".

And also Central Coast and their coach can go get fckt. For a while they were classy, now they’re some decent players and some dinosaurs.

We came here last season and they played this late tackles, taking out our playmaker BS mixed in with a lot of swearing at the ref and visibly dissenting with arms wide, playing to their fans. 

Same again today and they’ve injured two of our players. 

Last year McCalmont, this year Steele.

Steele seems a weird guy and had the nerve in his interview to call the Nix’s playing style weird.

AucklandPhoenix

Steele seems a weird guy and had the nerve in his interview to call the Nix’s playing style weird.

‘I called everyone a €^^€€%* and I talked ^>€+% about their mums and sisters and nawon would fight moi! Bunch of weirdos.’ 

Steele sounded like he is as thick as a plank. Should have had at least two yellows.
Im all for letting play flow but if players get seriously injured because of foul play then the refs have to act.
These injuries may well cost us the season. We cant expect youngsters on debut to win games for us.

Redmayne 100% earned CCM the point tonight.  Some of those shots should have gone in if it wasn't for his exceptional performance.

 A lot to like about that game, bit fudge me CCM got away with a loooooot.