R6 v Sydney @ home

[Forum Phoenix]

First half was excellent. Good fight in all our players and we looked the hungrier side, out enthused and out played them. Unlucky to go in even.

But we ran out of gas and ideas in the second half I thought. However we didn’t run out of fight.

You could feel the momentum shifting and in that sun - first sub on 68 minutes is too late for mine.

Their second goal, besides being a wonder strike, was an error. Should have been closed down, travelled 20 metres in our half unopposed - that just can’t happen at this level.

With McCormack, Oar, Gameiro and Murray all out injured, our lack of attacking depth really hurt us and despite the will being there, made it very hard to turn the game around.

Weemac and Tom is not enough. And ten minutes for Shabow is not enough time.

Stop/start scrappy nature of the game didn’t help and SFC are soft and play for the whistle, which they got more than they deserved.

Which was the story of the game. I don’t think they deserve 3 points. But that’s football.

I’ll be here till I die. But God I’m tired of losing.

 

[Forum Phoenix]

I was sitting near the tunnel and the security were oblivious and talking for the first two minutes. Then they heard the crowd and looked over.

Hopeless. Was about the last thing we needed while chasing a game.

 

[Pirate Pete]

Hopeless. Was about the last thing we needed while chasing a game.

The dickhead was wearing a rugby union shirt and NRL shorts.
Hopefully they'll fine him heavily.

 

[Ancient Mariner]

Ok what I saw tonight.

Matty Simon's best game for ages and part of the reason was that Pain was there to take advantage of the head ons.

We have had nothing on the right until tonight, Miller grabbed his chance with both hands and now has it for the rest of the season.

Hirajei showed more in 15 minutes than Melling has done in 2 games and without the stupidity. I was reminded of when Moss (or was it Walmsley) left Montgomery out and the chant was "Where is Montgomery, he's f******g quality". If Mulvey picks Melling in front of him again (or just picks Melling again) I would say it is time for Mulveyout. I do not care how much heart and mongrel he shows he is a liability and was out of position for Sydney's second.

Le Fondre is a diving **** and got Golec an undeserved yellow. I doubt the match view committee will say anything about his dive (unlike the Perez bullshit).

The last two games have shown that at last we have started on the long journey back. The problem is we have only travelled 10 meters along a 10 kilometre road. We may get a win one day.

A good first half.

 

[Stephen Gibson]

We should have won tonight stupid Var gave Sydney fc
penalty should not have be
Counting The goal ok Ben Kennedy should have catch ball more better agolec is play shit now for us he should be on bech let Jordan Murray play and josh McDonald’s Ross has to slow he penalty more not
Rush Then when he play for Melbourne city he got them in that why we brought him for penalty kick he not do it from Stephen

 

[true believer]

The dickhead was wearing a rugby union shirt and NRL shorts.
Hopefully they'll fine him heavily.

he should spend a week in the cooler

 

[true believer]

miller is a ray of sunshine . i believe we're emerging from the darkness .
the penalty call was beyond a joke . As another punter remarked grant committed at least 4 yellow card fouls for nothing .
i believe this needs to be vigorously pursued with the FFA

i believe kekeris needs to be added to the bench to give us someone to run at them when they have tried legs

 

[Insertnamehere]

The dickhead was wearing a rugby union shirt and NRL shorts.
Hopefully they'll fine him heavily.

Wallabies. Worse team than us

 

[LFCMariners]

I'm not going to talk about that controversial penalty. It doesn't matter. 1 point or 0 points, fussing over what CCM "deserved" in this case is irrelevant. Winning should be the only acceptable result at home, unless CCM are a man down or fight back from 2 or 3 goal deficits. Otherwise, a draw is just treading water.

SFC's second goal was a top strike. No HAL team could defend against something like that. So essentially SFC scored from a penalty (a 50/50 scenario for any team) and a wonder strike.

A better performance from the team in defence, which is definitely better than last season. Problem is, I'm not yet convinced attack has improved. Last season was rubbish because Okon allowed a toxic culture to exist off-field and it reflected in the attitude we saw on the field too many times. The other problem was a lack of goal scoring ability, so while attitude and defence look notably better so far, CCM aren't getting the goals that win you games. Scoring 1 goal a game isn't good enough. You either throw the lead away or have to hope and pray for the 3 points. If CCM were a team who could often score 3 goals a game, today's decisions that went against them wouldn't matter so much.

 

[Michael]

There was no controversy in the penalty.
In this day and age and a team like Sydney that will never shy away from the pathetic dark arts of this sport in order to win when playing pathetically, it was a penalty.
Clear contact. And was inside the box.

The way Grant went down after the contact is why people are seeing it as controversial. Which I understand. But that’s how it is these days. It won’t change.
I don’t like it one bit, but it is what is. Pathetic.

 

[LFCMariners]

People around me were arguing about the fact he fell outside the box, even though his first step from falling was inside the box. It was a penalty, albeit a close one.

 

[Big Al]

Our attack is woeful

Mids are poor but were a little more aggressive in defence but when using the ball or backing up the attack they were terrible

Defence was actually pretty good

 

[shipwreck]

I'm still waiting for Aiden to tear up the league.

 

[Tevor]

I'm still waiting for Aiden to tear up the league.

Thought he went missing tonight to be honest. Totally agree, Millar is looking a better prospect at the moment.

 

[true believer]

There was no controversy in the penalty.
In this day and age and a team like Sydney that will never shy away from the pathetic dark arts of this sport in order to win when playing pathetically, it was a penalty.
Clear contact. And was inside the box.

The way Grant went down after the contact is why people are seeing it as controversial. Which I understand. But that’s how it is these days. It won’t change.
I don’t like it one bit, but it is what is. Pathetic.

grant contacts clisby , clisby get the ball first . its only a pen if you have a sydney shirt

 

[Wombat]

How is security that bad that a pitch invader gets on the field ON CRUTCHES?

Highlight of the evening.

 

[Wombat]

How is security that bad that a pitch invader gets on the field ON CRUTCHES?

The Indian security guard ran 10 yards away, when the invader started throwing punches....to radio for back up from the boys 110yards away. What a disgraceful flog. He then stayed away, even when his boss copped a head butt. The guy had a moon boot and crutches and you couldn't simply and gently pull him to the floor until some men or Police could take him away??

 

[scottmac]

Aiden is quality. He is already performing in a poor side That goal alone couldn't be scored by many. If Wout was here rather than Melling............ . My f**king God would we be different in midfield

 

[Antlion]

He got in front of Clisby but I don't remember him touching or taking continue of the ball - does he have to for it to be a pen? CapnGus you appear to be all over these sorts of deets?

 

[Insertnamehere]

grant contacts clisby , clisby get the ball first . its only a pen if you have a sydney shirt

Sorry but it was a pen.