R3 ccm v perth banana skin's

[pjennings]

Two more home games in the coming week.

5/11/2024 Shanghai Shenhua 7:00pm
10/11/2024 Wellington 4:00pm

 

[Yorkshire Mariners FC]

Much much improved but still not anywhere near where he needs to be.

I agree. The amount of times Steele and Alfie run into the same space is infuriating and Steele being the youngsters 'gives way' to Alfie. As mentioned previously, I think they don't work that well together (atm). I have yo-yoed with my opinion of Alfie. He did what Mauragis couldn't and set up a surefire goal for Kuz though. Jacko has his work cut out to get his combinations right.

 

[Wombat]

Ok. I had an enjoyable day at the Football with the family and a couple of mates. My Grand-daughter did the walk out with the girls team which was so cute. The only downside was the weather.

Now onto the Football.

The ladies were very good. The keeper is so sharp and has lost weight and looks miles better than Dumount. The back 4 is a bit agricultural at times but works very hard.
The midfield is sharper this year and Izzy Gomez and PetaTrimis were exceptional. In the second half Rasmussen and Galic came on and were also fantastic (stacked bench!).
The attacking options.....oh my days, Pennock and Nunn are probably the best two players in the Ninja league (calling it after 1 game!!). they should make the boys train with these two to pick up some tips.
Evans is a decent foil too. Aggressive and quick.
Also credit the ladies for spending alot of time with the fans after the game.

I commented on Facebook last week that i thought this team might win the comp this season. Just smashed the current champions. Its looking good.

The Men.

It started so well. Alfie was on fire and we were quick and playing well. But after 15 mins we went back to slow plodding Football and passing to anyone not in a yellow shirt.
Perth are shit and played for a draw.

Dylan 7. I like him. Apart from that ridiculous pass to a Perth forward, he looks the goods.
Sash 7.5 Alot to like. Caught out of position defensively a couple of times and a couple of poor final third passes but one of our best.
Paull. 7. His best game so far.
Tappy. 6 Hopefully it just a strain.
Kaltak 6.5. Slowly improving. Some great headers. Passing still sloppy.
Mauragis 5.5 Worked hard but decision making and passing was rather poor. One decent shot.
Steele 5.5. Defo better than last week and occasionally looked for a forward pass. Less timid but still kills our go forward more often than not.
Alfie. 7.5 Maybe our only class player. Scared to shoot and final third passing let him down.
Doka 6.5. Real mixed bag. Butchered some good attacking opportunities but also shows more ticker and drive than most. Will never be a 10 but also has good skills for a fullback.
Alou 5.5 Defended well from the front. Needs to anticipate the ball coming across.
Brandtman 5.5. Some good skills but diasappears for periods and is NOT an A League quality striker at this stage.

Subs.
Diesel 6.5. I liked what i saw.
Feijao 6.5. Improving.
Big Edmo. 6. That defending was quality. That first time shot when he could have controlled it on the edge of the box was shite.
Eames 6. Couple of lovely passes out to the wing.
Ngor 5.5. Didn't really happen today.

Lift the workrate, especially off the ball.

 

[Capn Gus Bloodbeard]

300% plus a red
Talked out of it by var . Whats the difference between this and the bulls yellow card scandal

Under the new laws, dogso-handball that's not deliberate (ie is an unnatural position foul, as this one should be) and results in a pk is now a caution.

That's a new one this season.

I have no idea how var ruled that one. Atrocious, but the sort of reffing we are used to, and the rookie didn't have the stones to push back even though you could tell it took him a long time to be able to justify the change.


Still have the same problems in attack as we have all season. And in defence too. Perth are Shite and we couldn't beat them

 

[Huddo]

I didn't hear what the ref said after he had looked at his TV screen, but from watching the reply on the big screen I assumed the Penalty would be reversed as the ball hit the arm at the level of the armpit.
The rule for the past couple of seasons has been the ball must hit the arm below the armpit level to be a Hand Ball.
Did the ball hit at or below that level? If it took that long to decide it must have been very close indeed - and the correct call is then No Penalty.
That being the case the Ref was correct in overturning his initial decision.
Incidentally, I thought he did a very good job tonight - there were some 50/50 calls and they went both ways.

But the ball hitting the arm isn't being debated.
The ref concedes the ball hit the arm. Just that the arm was in a natural position in his onfield review.

What I'm asking is where is the review of the players movement. It's great to say he was removing the arm to a natural position. But he checked his retreat, to placed himself in a defensive position. There is no defender after him. the ref gave it in real time, so it needed clear and obvious to turn it.

I'm all for a reduction of Handballs after last year. But that's a handball every year since I was 6.

 

[sydmariner]

Whats the difference between this and the bulls yellow card scandal

About $10000.