ALM/ALW R12 "Unite Round" - 12-14 January

[midfielder]

More latter but that was one gutzy draw.... full marks to Jacko ....

 

[priorpeter]

RE Tappy.- injured against wsw last weekend but should be ok for next weekend. Club gave him until very late but failed fitness test MD-1.
No idea where Doka and Migzy were.
Take a point from that randomly added fixture.
Niz 3
Faz 2
Kaltak 1

 

[shipwreck]

I'm guessing illness for the other two.

Hope Tappy is ok, please tell me it isn't ACL related.

 

[Corsair]

Great performance, feels like a win this morning.

 

[FFC Mariner]

Same as last week. Cumdog on the pitch and we score 3 or 4.
Our lack of a striker is what's hurting us.

 

[BrisRecky]

yep agreeing with FFC, a lack of a sniper is hurting....but as its been mentioned "i'll take that point" ....Jacko got the group together , not sure about moving nizzy back , I mean him and Angel were just getting some sort of telepathy or some such happening , probably only due to staffing issues this week, nice to see DWH looked hungry as when he hit the pitch.....STILL, Poppa's pack of nitwits' dropped more points with minutes to go...goodonya , drongos....oh, and MV wouldnt have scored without the pelanty ...so yeah
3 Faz
2 Nizzy
1 Brian

 

[booney]

Keeps losing it before he can

Nah he's just forgotten how to do them.

 

[booney]

Good result against a defence oriented team.Stupid penalty to give away-everyone seemed to waiting for someone to make the challenge but when it came it was too late and the foul resulted.

With all the absentees and with no more Tulio a lack of creativity was evident though when Nizzy worked his way up the pitch he worried the Victory boys.They are a very physical team( Popa's teams always are) and well organised in defence.

Wilson had a go as did Theo but no end product for both.Kuol missed a sitter and was monstered by Miranda and co.DWH looked fresh and pressed well and needed that run to get his confidence back.

Great midfield splitting run by Balard and the pass was exquisite.Well taken by Jing who kept his cool in the one on one with Izzo.Loved that Victory players looked deflated at the end of the match.

Arzani has nimble feet but could not last the ninety minutes.No wonder Arnie overlooked him for the Asian Cup squad.

 

[Stuartmcateer]

Arzani has nimble feet but could not last the ninety minutes.No wonder Arnie overlooked him for the Asian Cup squad.

As McGree showed last night, you don’t have to play for 90 minutes if you do your role.

Last night was crying out for a player with close ball control and nimble feet who could run at a tired defender rather than just hang crosses up and hoping duke wins a header.

 

[LG__]

Very gritty and tough performance, Faz, Niz and Balard were relentless.

Can’t help but think Kuol has been caught on his toes a fair bit, feel like he needs to just find that moment of urgency.

 

[style_cafe]

That's not really on Hally, Balard at fault there.

Looked like Balard heard a call and pulled out…

 

[Meerkat]

Drinking with his old man pregame. Adamant that he is here for the season and then will go.

Jacko is adamant in his press conference nobody is going (or he hopes nobody goes.) but no doubt that’s not true.

Funniest part of the conference was likening Will Wilson to Tulio ?

 

[style_cafe]

Context... we're playing the top of the table unbeaten team without our best player and a depleted squad, only 1-0 off a pen. We're not doing that badly.

And we’re the current Champions so why aren’t we the main game and fxxking Sydney FC the curtain raiser to us??????

 

[style_cafe]

NISSY WINNING A HEADER IN THE OPPOSITIONS BOX

LOLOLOLOL

Nizzy won 2 or 3 headers today, methinks he’s had a growth spurt…

 

[Archie]

We looked like a team who only just lost their best player but to fight back and equalise was a great sign of mental strength and resilience. However it was very frustrating how we often gave away possession quite easily and how we kept making runs along the sideline to cross it in when there would only be 1 player in the box, that through ball through the defence was always the way to go, (credit to Jing there as we’ve seen twice in recent weeks a ball come into him like that and he doesn’t commit but this time he did.) Alou should’ve scored in the 14th and that was a lazy penalty to give away from Dan which is unfortunate as he has been going well lately. Stinking hot in the ‘away bay’ yesterday, we were all sweating in the sun, I’m sure if it was in the shade there would’ve been heaps more yellow shirts in seats in the active bay as everyone was really trying to escape the sun which is fair. We got $ity next at home and that should also be a challenge but I know we are good enough to win, hopefully we can announce a signing between now and then aswell as our squad depth is a bit thin at the moment. Onto the next.

 

[turbo]

Looked like Balard heard a call and pulled out…

My take was he was shielding the ball expecting one of the CBs to pick it up but they weren’t on the same page. I put that one on max creating a dangerous situation

 

[Michael]

I put that one on max creating a dangerous situation

It was honestly bad from all 3-4 of the boys in that situation. Those things happen, max was excellent otherwise yet again, as was the entire backline.

 

[pjennings]

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It was honestly bad from all 3-4 of the boys in that situation. Those things happen, max was excellent otherwise yet again, as was the entire backline.

If Dan leaves him from behind I think Brian would have stopped him head on.

 

[Allreet?]

What a joke he is player of the match. Only played 70 mins and not even in the top 10 for players index

He is the enemy and all, but I thought he was head and shoulders best on pitch.

He shouldn't have been anywhere near Sydney though. After watching that load of wank last night against India, how many were crying out for someone like Arzani to come on and f**k shit up?

 

[midfielder]

Most have already expressed my thoughts..

This is just a couple of not so mentioned comments.... Storm had an absolutely one of his 9 out of 10 games, so much play down his side and his passes into the box should have lead to at least one goal.

Wilson & Theo, ,,, Wilson gave his all he ran and ran and ran, he made heaps of mistakes and he is a bench players... but he run himself into the ground and IMO he gets 10 out 10 for effort and 5 out of ten for for game but by heaven he gave his best....

Theo, another who ran himself into the ground, improved game on previous weeks, a very good last 20 minutes sub...

Special mention for Jacko, on paper we should not have got close to MV, on balance we were the better team, BTW anyone got any idea how many yellows they got...