Yellow Fury vs NQ Fury (Match Fred)

Most of us on here are phoenix till we die but after today a lot of the part time fans won't turn up next week after that even though we played great in the first half, the last 20 seconds could lose 3 or so thousand fans.

Some people need to and watch the TV replay because it strikes me that the 94th minute is clouding memories.

well that was so crap i had to join this forum finally to release my angst. great goal in the 7th minute, for the other 87minutes a painful lack of finishing. why is it always ferrante,brown or daniel on the end of our chances. 3 draws=1 .winfrom the moment ifill left it was all downhill.

no, never.

Absolutely Gut. Most probably one of the best time i had had in the FeverZone in all 3 seasons. Sun beating down, good football. And then that Goal. Was a long injury time. but thought the ref had an ok game. the Caceras Free kick was rubbish to.

Next week. 4 points out of two games at home. I can live with that

 

Notwithstanding I would have liked a win, can't say we deserved it with that performance. First fifteen was encouraging but by half time the stats read 50/50 possession and 50/50 territory, and we're the home team. In the second half they edged ahead in possession (I think I heard it was 55 - 45 to them after 30 minutes) and once Ifil went off we pretty much ran out of ideas. They were always going to throw the long ball at us if we didn't put another one away, and thought we pretty much invited them to have a go at us. We  almost survived, we were past the allowed overtime whne they got the free kick, but they only needed one bit of luck with that tactic and they finally got it.

If we had held on I think I'd still be disappointed with the game plan, but at least the win would have helped forget.

And now we have the in form Central Coast, hopefully we'll spank them 5 - 0 against all the odds.

The most frustrating thing is we seem to have the personnel to do better, we just don't seem to have the plan to take advantage of it.

Best part was the sunshine, you can't beat Wellington on a good day.

agree. Paston sucks - he's too flat footed. Not agile at all.

Are you seriously blaming the manager?

Adelaide was a touchies fault
Roar we never finished
Melborne we never finished
Fury we never finished and concede a freekick in a dumb place late in the game.

If we were getting played off the park, I'd agree with you, but Ricki did say it would take 5 weeks to click and other than the 2 losses, in the 7 games so far (1 win and 4 draws) we have been the better/more dominate footballing side.

Changing the manager wont mean that strikers start scoring and I fail to see how you relate the two. Thats like saying Ronaldo and Rooney wouldn't have scored if Ferguson wasn't in charge

If you want to point the finger at someone, point it at the players. The Phoenix as a whole are playing much better football than the last two years, just can't finish.

Are you seriously blaming the manager?

Adelaide was a touchies fault
Roar we never finished
Melborne we never finished
Fury we never finished and concede a freekick in a dumb place late in the game.

hopin this was written by ray charles...

Well quit supporting them then.

Seriously, we created a million chances today based on formation and tactics we played (in both halves) were the dominant side, apart from going out on the pitch I struggle to see how on earth RH can do more than that.  At some stage the people paid the money to score the goals may just actually have to do it.

Sure, if playing 1 up front meant we struggled to create chances then I could understand the angst but quite clearly that isn't the case.  We create plenty of chances, we control possession and we play more balls in to the area than our opposition, at that point it stops being the managers job and it needs the players to finish those chances.

bugger off to your specially created kindergarten thread. he kept us in that game for a long time...

On the plus side, I thought Caeceres looked very promising.

bugger off to your specially created kindergarten thread. he kept us in that game for a long time...

playin great for Melbourne eh...

So we take a creative player off and put another striker on (or push Ifill fully forward and lose his work rate in the middle of the pitch) and we should start scoring in droves??? You are looking at the same group of players who can't put away the bucket load of chances they are getting now... Start Chen, who do you drop? Bar McKain, that team is the strongest Phoenix team we have.

Until its tried its hard to speculate on how it would go but my gut feeling is that you could play 4-4-2 and get more of the same.

So we take a creative player off and put another striker on (or push Ifill fully forward and lose his work rate in the middle of the pitch) and we should start scoring in droves??? You are looking at the same group of players who can't put away the bucket load of chances they are getting now... Start Chen, who do you drop? Bar McKain, that team is the strongest Phoenix team we have.Until its tried its hard to speculate on how it would go but my gut feeling is that you could play 4-4-2 and get more of the same.Its the players, not the coaches

ok

Lochy was gd,