FFA Cup

[nebakke]

May have already been mentioned, but who is the goalie that we have on the bench? "Beyhan Irmarko"

 

[true believer]

Triffro is killing it.

 

[VicMariner]

Is it just me or does Cernak look to be playing better?

 

[nebakke]

He definitely is TB and no VicMariner, It's definitely not just you... Probably still need to bear in mind that it's not quite the usual level of play, but still

 

[shipwreck]

I don't rate Cernak at all....

 

[VicMariner]

Bayswater City v Melb Victory. Kick off now.

 

[nebakke]

Mane is looking like he could turn out a handy addition though... He seems to have some ideas, which is a nice change up there

 

[MrCelery]

I don't rate Cernak at all....

Certainly Cernak does not seem to have that stand out quality. But you could also add Duke, and Fitzgerald to that list too.

Standouts were Trifiro, Mane, Rose, Caceres, Roux, with the defence largely untroubled.

Mane seems to have great vision and good distribution. Unlucky not to get a goal at the end.

 

[VicMariner]

Cernak wasn't impressive last season, any improvement is welcome.

For only our second pre-season game I thought we looked good.

And we are still in the Cup, unlike some other HAL teams.

 

[true believer]

Is it just me or does Cernak look to be playing better?

he was ordinary in the 2nd half. very happy with mane

 

[midfielder]

Liked those cheer girls

Certainly Cernak does not seem to have that stand out quality. But you could also add Duke, and Fitzgerald to that list too.

Standouts were Trifiro, Mane, Rose, Caceres, Roux, with the defence largely untroubled.

Mane seems to have great vision and good distribution. Unlucky not to get a goal at the end.

Agree

 

[sydmariner]

Liked those cheer girls

 

[sydmariner]

Looks like a decent size crowd. 5k?? More?

5200 was the official crowd

 

[Gratis]

the stream was great at the leagues club, full HD projected looked great
Mane will do some good things for us this season. only thing lacking really was intuitive knowledge of his team mates which won't take long to build. as was well said already - he had ideas and could execute them. looking forward to what Mane, Trif, Kim, Vernes, Fitzy combos up front will produce (weemac who?)

pretty happy with that particularly for how early in the preseason it is

 

[Wombat]

Certainly Cernak does not seem to have that stand out quality. But you could also add Duke, and Fitzgerald to that list too.

Standouts were Trifiro, Mane, Rose, Caceres, Roux, with the defence largely untroubled.

Mane seems to have great vision and good distribution. Unlucky not to get a goal at the end.

I only got to watch 20mins before I was dragged out of the study due to a family party, so hard to comment. From what I saw caceras was a real mixed bag....confident and skilful on the ball one minute and cheap turnovers the next.
fitzy also looked a bit sloppy.

 

[Roy Law]

I don't like out of season games at the best of times -lack of fitness and cohesion makes them error prone - but at least this had genuine reason to be played. Only saw bits and pieces of the second half due to other commitments; I thought the coverage was excellent -loud and clear here in England. We seemed under the cosh for the first 10 minutes or so of the second half, but good desperate defending, especially by Bosnar, kept them at bay. Later in the half we were well in control and could easily have had more with a little more timing on the passing. What little I saw of Cernak had me scratching my head as to how he is a professional footballer, but as I said, I did not see much of the game. I liked the low key entry of Mane, he seems to have good awareness, and excellent defensive positioning; he seemed to be holding back a bit but I reckon he is going to have a real impact on the A League.

 

[Roy Law]

May have already been mentioned, but who is the goalie that we have on the bench? "Beyhan Irmarko"

Academy goalkeeper; I think he played NYL last year for us

 

[nebakke]

Academy goalkeeper; I think he played NYL last year for us

Thanks Roy, have a "Like" for that ... I did end up googling him and finding a comment saying he played Academy as well...

For mine by the way, I think you missed our better half by - by quite a bit. Second half was a bit more scrappy until Hutch and Mane came on, I feel like we started looking a bit more stable again after that. But the first bit of the second half, had me in no doubt that we were watching the Mariners - On fire first half, a bit less stable in the second, although, once again, actually hitting the target when passing the ball... Sad that that's such a big deal, but I honestly think it is

So we'll come good and show 'em ALL!!!!

 

[BrisRecky]

well...the laptops shockwave thingy kept crashing and the video stream looked like stop start photography, BUT, that was 99% the laptop, then I got a fkn migraine, then I crashed at 8.15pm.....sort of saw the first goal...typical example of my fkn luck

 

[Capt. Awesome]

I thought overall it was a good preseason game taking into account our match fitness. Most of the scrappiness can be attributed to tiredness. As as stated before once Hutch and Mane came on we were back in control. I really liked the look of Mane. Every time he got a touch he created something. He is a very different player to Duke. Will be really interesting to see how Moss uses him. His balls in behind the defence were great and he wasn't afraid to take players on and draw the defense out. Very exciting.

I'm sorry but Cernak is woeful. Flashes of skill but seems lazy and never really got in good positions to receive the ball and when he did made poor choices. Not a fan at all.