Hope springs eternal

[ballantyne]

Events last night in Melbourne have me feeling hopeful. You can just imagine the goo on the Yellow Fever forum this morning.
We’re being offered a sweet run of faltering opposition in this first round robin, with a struggling Adelaide next and a Nix who haven’t yet scored from open play next after.
Compare this with our job over the holidays, when we play top four opposition every week. Although I can’t see us winning a game in December or January, if we can jag one or two in the next few weeks, we might have the confidence to get a point or two during that horror run mid-season.
That would put us on 7 points by the start of Feb and needing only two wins to exceed last year’s total. I really feel that getting some points in the next two rounds gives us a real chance of not finishing last again.

 

[Gratis]

I think our back end of the season will be much more productive. I predicted very few points from the first 8-12 games as we're setting up ala roar/AU. It took both of them a while to start the wins while they got the style right.

We're seeing progress game to game. That's massive in my mind. We haven't done that in the previous 2 years.

Surprised by Welly - really thought they'd be up there already.
4 games in and Syd have already won more games this season than we have since the beginning of last season. I really think we have to improve on that!

 

[ballantyne]

Nix look good on paper but are paper thin. Their hottest bench property is Ridenton, so a popular theory is that they have no competition for 1st team spots.

 

[Big Al]

Nix be missing up to 6 players in Canberra due to national team duty and we could be without Roux if. They go back to him.

Squad announced Thursday.

Two silly errors on the penalties then the damage done after red card. They changed formation and took over the game after half time until the red card.

We have given away plenty of scoring opportunities
Perth scored 3, missed at least another 3 sitters
Sydney scored 4, missed at least another 2 sitters
Roar scored 1, missed at least another 3 sitters
WSW scored 1, missed at least another 4 sitters

We have a long way to go and luck and clinical finishing has played apart.

Adelaide are not the same side without Carusca and are lacking finishing but our defence can't give up these easy opportunities
We need to stay in touch before our run of home games

 

[BrisRecky]

Yep, I reckon our season after NYE will improve outta sight...not top 4 improve but improve none the less

 

[Wombat]

Top 4 Recky!!

 

[FFC Mariner]

1 place above the Scum will do me