R8 away @ Nix

[Timmah]

Sat 5:35pm AEDT (7:35pm Wellington local time)
Westpac Stadium, Wellington

Referee: Shaun Evans
Assistant Referee 1: Ashley Beecham
Assistant Referee 2: Andrew Lindsay
Fourth Official: Lachlan Keevers
VAR: Nick Waldron

NIX: 1.Filip KURTO, 4.Mandi SOSA, 5.Ryan LOWRY, 6.Dylan FOX, 8.Mitch NICHOLS, 9.Nathan BURNS, 11.David WILLIAMS, 13.Liberato CACACE, 14.Alex RUFER, 15.Michal KOPZCYNSKI, 16.Louis FENTON, 18.Sarpreet SINGH, 19.Tom DOYLE, 20.Oliver SAIL (gk), 21.Roy KRISHNA, 22.Andrew DURANTE (c), 23.Max BURGESS, 27.Steven TAYLOR,
**two to be omitted**

Ins: 1.Filip Kurto (Return from injury) 5.Ryan LOWRY (Return from suspension) 8.Mitch NICHOLS (promoted)
Outs: 40.Ante Covic (gk) (injury replacement period ended)
Unavailable: Nil

CCM: 3.Jack CLISBY, 4.Jake McGING, 5.Antony GOLEC, 7.Andrew HOOLE, 8.Michael McGLINCHEY, 11.Connor PAIN, 12.Adam PEARCE (gk), 13.Aiden O’NEILL, 15.Kye ROWLES, 16.Josh MACDONALD, 17.Peter KEKERIS,18.Matt MILLAR, 19.Matt SIMON (c), 20.Kalifa CISSE, 22.Jacob MELLING, 23.Mario SHABOW, 24.Joe GAUCI, 25.Jordan MURRAY
**two to be omitted**

Ins: 16.Josh MACDONALD (promoted), 17.Peter KEKERIS, 24.Joe GAUCI (promoted), 25.Jordan MURRAY (return from injury)
Outs: 1.Ben KENNEDY (leg injury) & 6.Tom HIARIEJ (calf injury)
Unavailable: 10.Tommy OAR (knee), 21.Corey GAMEIRO (calf), 44.Ross McCORMACK (knee)

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Off to the shaky isles on Saturday to face Wellington... who just beat Sydney 3-0 at Kogarah.

Ross now looking like a medium-term injury so won't be available. Could Aspro come straight in or does he need more NYL minutes? And is Oar back?

 

[Big Al]

Nix had perth beat till VAR as well.

They look better than us. Another long night I think.

Aspro way to soon.
Oar was another couple of weeks I thin

Not much information on Murray

 

[Insertnamehere]

So another demoralising performance and result in the offing? Upside is I have Krishna in my fantasy team, he should score 4 or 5...

 

[Rowdy]

Krishna made van der Linden look like a muppet on the weekend, poor Wilko was left just shaking his head.

We need our back 3 to play a bit tighter/narrower if we want to avoid being ripped a 'new-one'.

Likewise Millar & Clisby (yes Clisby & NO-ONE fcuk'n else Mike !) remember their defensive duties as much as the 'go-forward'

 

[Michael]

Just f**king start Tom H.
And just f**king win by any means.

Sick of getting kicked in the teeth by the club I love.

The players need to show more desperation and well, just be angry c**ts. They’re the ones being truly embarrassed by all of this.

 

[soccer mad]

Wellington showed real fight against Sydney and discipline this will be Rudan vs Mulvie . Both teams are quite similar to each other both have a tight ass budget and as many state league players. I want to be optimistic but based on what's been dished up this season, I don't have confidence in Mulvie tactical ability .

 

[Insertnamehere]

Wellington showed real fight against Sydney and discipline this will be Rudan vs Mulvie . Both teams are quite similar to each other both have a tight ass budget and as many state league players. I want to be optimistic but based on what's been dished up this season, I don't have confidence in Mulvie tactical ability .

They have krishna and a manager settled on his team. We don't have a striker and we have a manager who's happy to run with the owners theory that because there's no PnL losses don't count

 

[Rowdy]

'Battle of The Deities'


Lord Krishna

V

Our very own, Lord Golec


....... who will hopefully have none other than GOD himself, by his side .....

 

[Spacks]

This definitely won't end well.

 

[shipwreck]

Losing to the Nix will kill us, season over this weekend.

 

[Wombat]

Mulvey expected us to beat The Drive bys so he took some liberties. It backfired badly so now he needs to get it right and stop pretending he is Mike Bassett.

# Tommy In.

 

[Tevor]

I thought Krishna come off early in the SFC game with a hammy problem so he may not be there to torment our defence. Nix played smart and made SFC look very vulnerable at the back, could be the same situation we had with Okon in that he only lifted for the team for games against SFC. However having watched plenty of other HAL games so far this season we are clearly well below every team including the Nix, how happy would we be to have 2 wins and 2 draws after 7 rounds? That would be a successful start IMO.

Expecting us to hit a new low this weekend and make sure we hold onto the "worst start in HAL history" record for many years to come. I really can not see our first win coming at all let alone going over to NZ and beating the Nix. I'm sure Rudan will have them pumped because two wins on the trot really does kick start their season and bury us further into the abyss.

 

[Ozhammer]

Really worried about the damage this fixture is likely to do to our season tbh. No idea if MM can reconcile his differences with Tom H (he can’t even pronounce his name properly FFS - is that a deliberate sign of disrespect I wonder?) but if he persists with his current approach, the Nix will have a field day and all we will have to look forward to is yet another failed campaign.

 

[Ozhammer]

https://www.theroar.com.au/2018/12/08/the-mariners-arent-afraid-of-change-but-they-should-be/
This is right on the money imo.

 

[Capn Gus Bloodbeard]

This game will prime us for a 7-0 clobbering by the Scum..
I'd rather see us forfeit than turn up to this game

 

[Pirate Pete]

I don't know why I even bother with this forum at times with all the doom and gloom.
I'm already feeling depressed about next weekend.
The Coopers Home Brew forum is much more fun.

 

[priorpeter]

I don't know why I even bother with this forum at times with all the doom and gloom.
I'm already feeling depressed about next weekend.
The Coopers Home Brew forum is much more fun.

Misery loves company

 

[localpom]

I don't know why I even bother with this forum at times with all the doom and gloom.
I'm already feeling depressed about next weekend.
The Coopers Home Brew forum is much more fun.

Yes,we are at an all time low. Drinking more is the only alternative. Unfortunately the next day blues are way worse so the only alternative is more drinking. Looking forward, hopefully soon-ish when i can watch a game and have an expectation we will win one in every 3 or 4.

 

[nebakke]

Meh... I was feeling bad about the next game before looking at the forum... It's been years since I saw anything that gave me cause for optimism around the club sadly and as optimistic as I normally feel, there's an end to the supply

 

[Offsider]

This game will prime us for a 7-0 clobbering by the Scum..
I'd rather see us forfeit than turn up to this game

If you’re not careful ........ people will start thinking you are more negative than I am.