The Smurfs are in Town aka Round 18 vs SFC

[VicMariner]

VAR helps the Mariners?
I thought that was against the rules.

 

[Capn Gus Bloodbeard]

Geez, Urena really has no confidence 1-on-1 - it's just not where he likes to be at all.

 

[Capn Gus Bloodbeard]

VAR helps the Mariners?
I thought that was against the rules.

I know! And one of them was even the wrong decision!!!

I honestly think that being top of the table has helped a few decisions go our way - we've benefitted from VAR, even VAR errors, a couple of times this season, and been screwed over....well, less, though still screwed plenty of times.

 

[Ads]

Need Kuol sub now!
Break up the play.
Mental boost now!

 

[Capn Gus Bloodbeard]

Crowd of 10 200 at Gosford- great to see

The SFC clash is often an entertaining match - probably my favourite fixture, even moreso than the F3 derby

 

[Capn Gus Bloodbeard]

I wish...1) that Staj would bring Kuol on sooner, and 2) he'd stop taking Urena off for Kuol; that's why Kuol never gets any service. These 2 need to be playing together

 

[VicMariner]

Great to hear the band but they need to be more active imo.
On TV they really add something.

MOAR BRASS!!!

 

[shipwreck]

Kye.... Wtf

 

[Capn Gus Bloodbeard]

What the actual f**k Rowles. May as well have turned around and scored the damn thing yourself.

Still costs us way too many goals

 

[Ads]

Dam, one of the very few stray passes from Kye all year.

a lot of our players are tired and getting caught in front of the ball.

Can we get the ball to Kuol.

 

[Capn Gus Bloodbeard]

Jesus Christ, another game where we just cannot shoot to save ourselves. So many chances blown.

 

[Capn Gus Bloodbeard]

Dam, one of the very few stray passes from Kye all year.

a lot of our players are tired and getting caught in front of the ball.

Can we get the ball to Kuol.

I feel like our fitness has dropped off in about the last 2 months....so often we seem to be conceding in the last 20min or so, and it's usually a goal that's been a long time coming.

I mean, Rowles wasn't the only one at fault here, but that pass is utterly inexcusable.

Just surprising to see how bad we are at late game, after being the fittest team on the park at the start of the season.

I think we definitely still need some recruiting to do in both the back line and the front line.

 

[Josho Howe]

Draw does it no favours smh

 

[scottmac]

Niz won't score a goal in the aleague with shooting like that. May just keep him here for a stretch

 

[Capn Gus Bloodbeard]

Niz won't score a goal in the aleague with shooting like that. May just keep him here for a stretch

Thought he must have kicked the ground or something.
Rowles' pass to set up SFC had more pace on it than Nizzy's shot.

DDS' blew a few chances too, sending it straight to the keeper.

Both teams wasted a lot of chances. Could've easily been a 5-5 draw with the chances.

 

[greenlig]

We can't shoot, that's why we lost the three points.

 

[scottmac]

We can't shoot, that's why we lost the three points.

Yeah shooting was off. That 3rd goal really should have come. Sydney really let us play through the middle in the first half and that goal in extra time kinda killed our win

 

[Melange]

Well played Miller!

 

[Stoxxo]

We can't shoot, that's why we lost the three points.

100%
Imagine if DDS and Nizzy could shoot, in saying that they would both be in Europe if that was the case

 

[Forum Phoenix]

Need Kuol sub now!
Break up the play.
Mental boost now!

This. Was screaming it at Staj. Needed to shift the dynamic - all that relentless pressure added up imo and contributed to Rowles f**king up.

Kuol.., Christ what has the kid got to do to get more than a a few minutes off the bench.

Also while Ollie is amazing, once he doesn’t have the legs to track runs and do his defensive duties, he has to be subbed like everyone else. drop Nizz into the middle and bring on Casella so we can at least have a chance at matching all their fresh legs. For 25 minutes they just got to waltz up to our 18 yard box again and again and again. Staj is clearly getting so much right, but our tactics through that period were very poor and could have lost the lot.