WPM R7 vs Newcastle Jets | Sat 9th Dec | 7:30pm | RoF/SkySport 2

Not sure who has been good tonight, but I feel Nico has been particularly pants. 

I miss Reno. He has something no one in our team has right now. He can shoot well from distance.

Marto

I miss Reno. He has something no one in our team has right now. He can shoot well from distance.

I dont miss him. He was injured 50% of the time and very promising without delivering the rest. Glad he has found another club and play though

Full credit to the Jets fans. Must be a bit chilly for them right now!

Their keeper laughing at these crosses as he comes to catch them should tell us everything we need to know about our game plan - It's not working...

Might as well chuck on some of the kids at this point. They cant do any worse than who is already out there. 

The fact that Payne has been one of our most dangerous players today says all about our day.

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If that’s not the face of a warrior watching his camp in flames. 

Salut, Kraev! You’ve never given up today.

martinb

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If that’s not the face of a warrior watching his camp in flames. 

Salut, Kraev! You’ve never given up today.

 two good shots against Scott. Scott possibly MoM today.

Be interesting to see the shot stats. Jets have literally scored off the only raids they've made. 

Bar being out of position which lead to the first goal, Payne has been very good today. I would say he has been our most dangerous player. His work on the wing has put Kosta to shame. 

kwlap

Bar being out of position which lead to the first goal, Payne has been very good today. I would say he has been our most dangerous player. His work on the wing has put Kosta to shame. 

 I think Kosta has been good this season but he's passing it too much in the box instead of trusting himself and shooting. 

Marto

martinb

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If that’s not the face of a warrior watching his camp in flames. 

Salut, Kraev! You’ve never given up today.

 two good shots against Scott. Scott possibly MoM today.

 
Jets have been very good. Coach, goalkeeper, defenders, particularly. 

Another day we’d have won this. 

Scott spills that free kick a second, there’s a chance. Scott Paulsenesque.

Ah well, we peaked this week with all the awards and top dog status; now it's back to reality.  

The Negative:
- The attendance, was hoping for 10k
- Slow, lethargic start (again imo)
- Atrocious crossing and sloppy passing
- Unnecessary fouls given away

The Positive:
- Only the 1st defeat of the season
- The subs were great and brought a lot of energy
- Yellow Fever was vocal/supportive until the end - RESPECT
- Strong finish, just unlucky it wouldn't fall for us

Next week we'll see what we're made of. What's the response going to be? I take tonight as a good learning curve, for both the youngsters and the coach.

This is where we find out the strength of this team.

Paulsen had a bad game, but so did the team.  We either come back stronger or the wheels come off.  Please be the first one.

Thought the ref was particularly good. Didn’t buy Reno’s theatrics. Reno especially looked like an idiot after grabbing his head with minimal contact when compared to Zawada a moment or two later. 

The ref allowed play and a contest in the middle of the park and didn’t give a soft yellow that might have seen a more cautious game. But he was consistent and even handed also so what could have been full of needle and resentment flowed. 

We just can't help playing shark teams into form

What was the attendance?

martinb

We haven’t made the Jets doubt themselves. We do and they’ll crumble. 

But also- we cashed our luck other weeks. Paulsen saved two pens, had two cleared off his line and others cleared from close range. Today they got there first. Maybe twice. We didn’t get our attack right. And maybe Chief got a little out coached. He’s a new coach with teams adapting to his system. We’ll see. 

One goal with 15 to 20 left though… the Jets could easily crack.

Well, I admire your optimism...

That was sharke and definitely felt like one of those days . Nothing was working and the fact that Payne hit the post with his awesome effort summed it up. Subs were generally good, and as someone else said, on another day we’d had got something out of that. Fudgeing annoying though. Hope zawada isn’t too injured. What was the attendance today, they didn’t say it at the stadium? 

Did they not announce it at the ground ?

WanderingSheep

That was sharke and definitely felt like one of those days . Nothing was working and the fact that Payne hit the post with his awesome effort summed it up. Subs were generally good, and as someone else said, on another day we’d had got something out of that. Fudgeing annoying though. Hope zawada isn’t too injured. What was the attendance today, they didn’t say it at the stadium? 

Outpost

Ah well, we peaked this week with all the awards and top dog status; now it's back to reality.  

I was thinking along the same lines, normal service resumes.  I hope the ladies can make up for it tomorrow.

Don't think they announced it, but I agree with others who've guessed around 6k.

Big games against MacArthur and then Wanderers at home. I’m hoping for at least 1 win out of those 2 would show that we are still in the race.

mjp2

Don't think they announced it, but I agree with others who've guessed around 6k.

You reckon? I thought it was on par with the Brisbane game but I was sat elsewhere. Shame regardless.

On tv looked 7-8k. would be surprised if it was below 7 but certainly expected more.
Win against MacArthur maybe big crowd against wanderers. I’m sure it’ll be a good game regardless. 

WanderingSheep

mjp2

Don't think they announced it, but I agree with others who've guessed around 6k.

You reckon? I thought it was on par with the Brisbane game but I was sat elsewhere. Shame regardless.

I could be talked into 7k

theaucklandphoenixfan

On tv looked 7-8k. would be surprised if it was below 7 but certainly expected more.
Win against MacArthur maybe big crowd against wanderers. I’m sure it’ll be a good game regardless. 

WanderingSheep

mjp2

Don't think they announced it, but I agree with others who've guessed around 6k.

You reckon? I thought it was on par with the Brisbane game but I was sat elsewhere. Shame regardless.

Very disappointing from the Phonix.  I don't have much positive to say about it. Old and Ball tried to make things happen when they came on. The performance was as poor as playing in black at home,god the Phoenix do some dumb things at times.
Newcastle much the better side,fully deserved the win without question.

that was just one of those games, nothing worked, we had all the posession,more shots, more shots on target and getter accuracy with the ball.
Any other day and we win that by 2.
Just one of those games unfortunately, their keeper was on fire and ours made a mistake which cost the second goal.
It's the aleague and still 20 games to go.

I was impressed with Penningtons efforts to make a difference. He put in quite a shift. 

Attendance looked about 5k to me. 

We really need to move to a purpose-built, rectangular, stadium of ~10k capacity. I know I'm flogging a dead horse here, but the cake tin is just awful for watching football.

Oi Oi Edgecumbe

I was impressed with Penningtons efforts to make a difference. He put in quite a shift. 

 Yes he always does. Under-rated imo.

Ninja

Attendance looked about 5k to me. 

We really need to move to a purpose-built, rectangular, stadium of ~10k capacity. I know I'm flogging a dead horse here, but the cake tin is just awful for watching football.

Agree we need another stadium but fail to see why 10k is the figure thats always mentioned. Nothing in our past suggests that is what we should be expecting as an average turn out. Yet again the Phoenix fail to deliver when returning home after a good run of form. Frustrating that over the years this has become the norm. Those sorts of performances do nothing to convince casuals to turn up to games.

Could argue that this has been working to our favour in the first few weeks.. how many games do you earn a point when you have no shots on goal and the opposition has over 10 like the Victory game? Looking back, city should have earned at least a point by having a ridiculous goal line save and a penalty saved.. these things come in circles.. in reality the only convincing win was the roar one, even then they created double the chances we had 

theprof

that was just one of those games, nothing worked, we had all the posession,more shots, more shots on target and getter accuracy with the ball.
Any other day and we win that by 2.
Just one of those games unfortunately, their keeper was on fire and ours made a mistake which cost the second goal.
It's the aleague and still 20 games to go.

As much as I've loved the start to the season we've had, we've been riding our luck a lot. This result has been coming.

Ninja

Attendance looked about 5k to me. 

We really need to move to a purpose-built, rectangular, stadium of ~10k capacity. I know I'm flogging a dead horse here, but the cake tin is just awful for watching football.

I don't think it would look so empty with those multi coloured layers of seating like at Napier. The bright Yellow empasises it. Mind you, at T20 games, it really looks empty, because it is! 100 people max. And it was for Cricket that this design was chosen foremost.

ballane

Ninja

Attendance looked about 5k to me. 

We really need to move to a purpose-built, rectangular, stadium of ~10k capacity. I know I'm flogging a dead horse here, but the cake tin is just awful for watching football.

Agree we need another stadium but fail to see why 10k is the figure thats always mentioned. Nothing in our past suggests that is what we should be expecting as an average turn out. Yet again the Phoenix fail to deliver when returning home after a good run of form. Frustrating that over the years this has become the norm. Those sorts of performances do nothing to convince casuals to turn up to games.

Pricing has a lot to do with it. Yet another dead horse being flogged. Until the Stadium trust stop being so self centered and greedy, it will remain a mostly empty stadium with very few exceptions. At least a 10k stadium rectangle with rounded corners, would look more full AND give fans a closer view of the action.
They should have built it right beside this stadium and made use of the rail system. Too easy I guess. League, Union, & Fottball would have been a very happy bunch. Glad to see the Rugby giving up on Sky, good job.

It will be interesting to see how the team react to this loss. They have kept their feet on nthe ground thus far, but losing that game is a reality check. I think they will bounce back. This squad has the most backbone I have seen at the Nix yet.

There is no way 4395?
Looked similar to Brisbane game on tv. That’s got to be wrong? I wasn’t at the stadium though 

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