WPM R8 vs Macarthur FC | Sat 14th Dec | 5pm | RoF - 12 Pubs!

Come on Phoenix! 

This is stressful. How are we not 4-1 up?

Is Sheridan a left back?

Seems to be. 

Couple a goals please Cola! Sooner the better.

Fudgesake.

Shambles 

Mac arnt even good, if we lost to a good team it would have been not as bad. But we have been all over this game

That was a good action by the Bulls. Can't fault that goal. Shame, but you cannot begrudge them that goal.

That’s terrible defending. Absolutely embarrassing.

We've just been giving them too many chances this half

Gotta try salvage a point here

Yeah we really need to tighten up our back line. Probably need a defender during the transfer window.

We should be winning this game, not losing. Not a good day in the office by any standard.

Just asking who is a better like for like replacement for Marco? Cola or Ball? 

No slight to Cola, but Ball has better close control and can run an offense better. 

Conceding more. Scoring less. Keeper is saving fewer. Don’t think it’s a Nagasawa issue lads. Tbf it’s not Ball either. I don’t know. Thought we were smashing them. 

Though been happy by how Hughes and Olu have kept their head in the game. 

More Al-Taay please!

Why did Chiefy replace Sutton with Sheridan? He's useless at LB

Last throw of the dice.

imanixsupporter

Why did Chiefy replace Sutton with Sheridan? He's useless at LB

 
Less good than Sutton…but Sutton has been very good.

How are we losing to this pack of hypocrites and cods?

Typical useless Cola touch. Turns the ball over, doesn’t know where his teammates are and sets MacArthur away.

Kick these f-s. They have truly earned it.

Crawling back on to the pitch for cramp to stop a corner is such poor sportsmanship

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Crawling back on to the pitch for cramp to stop a corner is such poor sportsmanship

 
That’s what I was saying, thank you. 

Should've won that, City better fudgeing beat AFC tomorrow night at AAMI.

For fudge sake. That is worse than losing against the AFC last week.
AFC played well, Macarthur played like a bunch of cods.

And only one yellow card, very late, was piss poor. It only encouraged the filthy play by Brattan.

imanixsupporter

Why did Chiefy replace Sutton with Sheridan? He's useless at LB

Yeah I thought Sutton should have stayed on, unless there was a niggle or something.
Also, in hindsight, I thought that once he came on, Al-Taay looked better than Retre in the same position.  Retre is solid, but Al-Taay seems to have a better awareness.

Very disappointing

Only ourselves to blame though.

When we were good, we looked very good - but lapses in concentration mean we weren't consistently good throughout the match, and we gave them too many chances and too much time on the ball

Rojas was pretty gassed in the 2nd half and our creativity suffered in the 2nd when he tired and ultimately got subbed - we need someone to step up in creating dangerous attacks in his absence otherwise we are relying too heavily on 1 player

Right. 

Wtf lads? 

Great save from Kurto, but our defense loses focus and we get stung. A little blame on Josh, tbh not much blame on Hughes. 

We’re only 3/4 of a team. 

We’re missing a goal scorer. Perhaps we’re missing a player to shadow Rufer? 

How did we lose that? I want us to win not lose beautifully. And not to lose to a bunch of wankers taking cheap shots, rolling back on the pitch etc. 

I feel we dominated and lost. You can’t blame luck over and over again. 

I think this one is a little bit on Chiefy again, though he is getting closer to figuring out what he should be doing with the players at his disposal.

Sheridan is a great player but he is a right back, and Chiefy has been trying to shoehorn into the team everywhere but RB all season and it doesn't work. Colakovski is useless, I'd rather have seen more OVH and Ball.

Maybe next week is time to try a different partner with Wootton, either Piper or even trying Payne there and putting Sheridan at RB. Worth a go when Hughes scores an OG and a pen giveaway in consecutive games. 

Still, I am happy enough with that defeat. Rotten luck that the combination of us gifting them a pen, Kurto having an absolute blinder & us missing a bunch of great chances all conspired to see us lose but we are heading in the right direction.  

martinb

Right. 

Wtf lads? 

Great save from Kurto, but our defense loses focus and we get stung. A little blame on Josh, tbh not much blame on Hughes. 

We’re only 3/4 of a team. 

We’re missing a goal scorer. Perhaps we’re missing a player to shadow Rufer? 

How did we lose that? I want us to win not lose beautifully. And not to lose to a bunch of wankers taking cheap shots, rolling back on the pitch etc. 

I feel we dominated and lost. You can’t blame luck over and over again. 

I think we lost the game in the first 30 minutes, through the inexplicable inertia, and after that we were playing catchup. 

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And only one yellow card, very late, was piss poor. It only encouraged the filthy play by Brattan.

I thought it helped us earlier on though. Lots of their players went to ground dictating that they should have got a foul and he waved play on. 

I thought the ref, Brattan aside was fairly good. The game flowed and he didn’t do anything mind boggling, the aforementioned Brattan card excepted. And he was consistent. No late flurry of cards for standards different to what he had set.

imanixsupporter

I think this one is a little bit on Chiefy again, though he is getting closer to figuring out what he should be doing with the players at his disposal.

Sheridan is a great player but he is a right back, and Chiefy has been trying to shoehorn into the team everywhere but RB all season and it doesn't work. Colakovski is useless, I'd rather have seen more OVH and Ball.

Maybe next week is time to try a different partner with Wootton, either Piper or even trying Payne there and putting Sheridan at RB. Worth a go when Hughes scores an OG and a pen giveaway in consecutive games. 

Still, I am happy enough with that defeat. Rotten luck that the combination of us gifting them a pen, Kurto having an absolute blinder & us missing a bunch of great chances all conspired to see us lose but we are heading in the right direction.  

Not sure we are heading in the right direction. I think it was a worse performance than that against AFC (despite the loss then), or CCM or Perth. We played as bad as our first game against Western United which we should have won.
Agree this one is on Chiefy. Sheridan is not a LB and we lost the momentum when Sutton came off.  Rufer did step up at that time, but it was too late for by then.
Apart from one brain fart too many, Hughes played OK and Josh did not have much to do today.  Yes, it might be different if Rojas was fully fit, but i agree with others that David Ball would have offered more as a creative sub than Walker who was largely invisible in his short cameo.

Not happy at the performance but at least happy that our players aren't shameless cheats.

How the guy who goes down with cramp, gets up, walks onto the pitch and goes down with cramp again just when we're about to have a corner doesn't get a yellow card is beyond me. Not to mention the constant timewasting antics like Germain taking ages to get off the pitch then coming back on to give the sub a hug for several seconds.

The acceptance of this type of behaviour in their club makes you understand why they were ripe for the match-fixing scandal they had.

Hughes has been at fault for 3 goals in the last 2 games - I love the giving young guys a chance but at some point you have to establish standards and drop players who aren't performing well enough.

imanixsupporter

I think this one is a little bit on Chiefy again, though he is getting closer to figuring out what he should be doing with the players at his disposal.

Sheridan is a great player but he is a right back, and Chiefy has been trying to shoehorn into the team everywhere but RB all season and it doesn't work. Colakovski is useless, I'd rather have seen more OVH and Ball.

Maybe next week is time to try a different partner with Wootton, either Piper or even trying Payne there and putting Sheridan at RB. Worth a go when Hughes scores an OG and a pen giveaway in consecutive games. 

Still, I am happy enough with that defeat. Rotten luck that the combination of us gifting them a pen, Kurto having an absolute blinder & us missing a bunch of great chances all conspired to see us lose but we are heading in the right direction.  

I have to disagree on Hughes a little. He worries me less than Josh. And (sometime defender’s union) as one of my friends used to say if you’re not giving away oggies occasionally you’re not doing it right. He is a calm defender and I have faith in him.

On another day the team has his back and we’re away laughing. Almost did today. 

Sheridan was out of position, but contributed okay given that.

I have to agree on Colakovski. If he’s not ready, don’t play him. What is he doing that you are consistently playing him for? That’s what I want to know. I think Walker has shown more. But not an enormous amount.

Our subs had an air of desperation. Though again the starting team should have got the job done. We’re lacking a bit of depth and quality. Which tbh Chief has to look at all his resources, if the club isn’t giving him better players. 

Dammit, thought we looked good and wanted to celebrate that second boy wonder goal with a confident win. May celebrate it anyway. 

That elbow by Brattan in the face of Al-Taay - I've seen ones like those given as red cards after VAR review in the A-League! I'm not saying they should be but still in shock as how that's not even a foul

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That elbow by Brattan in the face of Al-Taay - I've seen ones like those given as red cards after VAR review in the A-League! I'm not saying they should be but still in shock as how that's not even a foul

 
Yeh it’s amazing that the team that was cynical all game managed to hit us in the face with raised arms by accident twice, but unfortunately hard to prove it was deliberate. 

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That elbow by Brattan in the face of Al-Taay - I've seen ones like those given as red cards after VAR review in the A-League! I'm not saying they should be but still in shock as how that's not even a foul

Saw a shot of Al-Taay after the match - looks like it might become a black eye

I don't think the inexperienced ref is the reason we lost. I do think the Bulls realised very quickly this is a relatively non-interventional ref and they milked it to the fullest.  It is not the reason we lost, but it sure did not make it easier. If someone is outside the field unable to get up, crawling back onto a field of play to lie there is tomfoolery at best. 

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That elbow by Brattan in the face of Al-Taay - I've seen ones like those given as red cards after VAR review in the A-League! I'm not saying they should be but still in shock as how that's not even a foul

Saw a shot of Al-Taay after the match - looks like it might become a black eye

I don't like Brattan, but in all fairness Al-Taay was behind him and Brattan can easily claim he did not see him. They were not competing for the ball, the ball was in front of Brattan facing his own goal.

Brattan won for being the biggest dickhead on the field. I never liked the guy.
We had some good spells. But our subs are not not up to scratch, our counters nog hood enough and I expected more from Cola. I wish Ball back as the midfield enforcer when we get bullied.