HAL Round 7

[Atomic]

My heart skipped a beat when I saw the following headline in the Sydney Morning Herald:

"Sun shines then the clouds roll in for luckless premiers"

It was a match report on the Scum v SheepSaggers... and NOT about the Premiers... i.e. US. A reminder to Mr Hassett... we are the Premiers!

 

[dibo]

Harpers gushing praise of Zura is quite sickening really. The guy is shit, face facts

Zura played a very good game. Harper praising kind of ruined it for me.

Zura looked like he wanted to be there, and looked to get the ball and then do something with it. In that regard he was one of Newcastles best. He was still some way short of Elrich the younger, who Id sign in a heartbeat leaving aside the goal he was persistently threatening again. Lollerskates at Matt Thompson though!

My heart skipped a beat when I saw the following headline in the Sydney Morning Herald:

"Sun shines then the clouds roll in for luckless premiers"

It was a match report on the Scum v SheepSaggers... and NOT about the Premiers... i.e. US. A reminder to Mr Hassett... we are the Premiers!

It's the subeditor that writes the headlines, very rarely the journo. Hassett's a football person, he'd know the difference.

 

[~Floss~]

Lollerskates at Matt Thompson though!

Hmm... remember Porter in Rd1? Same patch of grass, same stage of the game, similar situation.

How do you spell the sound of the Twighlight Zone theme? (do-do do-do, do-do do-do....)

 

[Omni]

That was an hilarious penalty, what the heck was he doing! Scummers lucky though, should have been more for the Nux.

Nice work from patafta to steal Zura's goal!

 

[marinermick]

Nice work from patafta to steal Zura's goal!

If you look at the replay closely Zura actually heads the all in Patafta's direction so it was quite a deliberate assist.

I still thought Zura was pish though. He just had one of his better games which is not saying much as he was coming from a super low level. If he can only have that much of a minimal impact against the Nix then there really is no hope for him.

People have to realise that he is being paid marquee wages as a striker and has not had even one decent attempt on target. Still, better value than Aloisi or Agostino this season.

 

[dibo]

Nice work from patafta to steal Zura's goal!

If you look at the replay closely Zura actually heads the all in Patafta's direction so it was quite a deliberate assist.

I still thought Zura was pish though. He just had one of his better games which is not saying much as he was coming from a super low level. If he can only have that much of a minimal impact against the Nix then there really is no hope for him.

People have to realise that he is being paid marquee wages as a striker and has not had even one decent attempt on target. Still, better value than Aloi$i or Agostino this season.

is it just me or did we get ludicrously lucky with aloisi last year?

he was playing on one leg then, we had to reshape our entire attack and our win-loss record went backwards with him in the team compared to without, but all the same he scored 7 in 15 - something that he hasn't done since his glory days at osasuna - and tended to draw players to his back.

 

[Ted]

maybe it had something to do with the players behind him?

 

[marinermick]

Nice work from patafta to steal Zura's goal!

If you look at the replay closely Zura actually heads the all in Patafta's direction so it was quite a deliberate assist.

I still thought Zura was pish though. He just had one of his better games which is not saying much as he was coming from a super low level. If he can only have that much of a minimal impact against the Nix then there really is no hope for him.

People have to realise that he is being paid marquee wages as a striker and has not had even one decent attempt on target. Still, better value than Aloi$i or Agostino this season.

is it just me or did we get ludicrously lucky with Aloi$i last year?

he was playing on one leg then, we had to reshape our entire attack and our win-loss record went backwards with him in the team compared to without, but all the same he scored 7 in 15 - something that he hasn't done since his glory days at osasuna - and tended to draw players to his back.

didn't he score 7 in his first eight games or something?

as his knee got worse and his whinging to referees increased he didn't plug any away

 

[T]

He also taught Matty Simon a fair bit and drew the defenders...... but I think we got the last of the decent play from him.

 

[dibo]

Nice work from patafta to steal Zura's goal!

If you look at the replay closely Zura actually heads the all in Patafta's direction so it was quite a deliberate assist.

I still thought Zura was pish though. He just had one of his better games which is not saying much as he was coming from a super low level. If he can only have that much of a minimal impact against the Nix then there really is no hope for him.

People have to realise that he is being paid marquee wages as a striker and has not had even one decent attempt on target. Still, better value than Aloi$i or Agostino this season.

is it just me or did we get ludicrously lucky with Aloi$i last year?

he was playing on one leg then, we had to reshape our entire attack and our win-loss record went backwards with him in the team compared to without, but all the same he scored 7 in 15 - something that he hasn't done since his glory days at osasuna - and tended to draw players to his back.

didn't he score 7 in his first eight games or something?

as his knee got worse and his whinging to referees increased he didn't plug any away

it's little wonder that when he said 'i'm offered $1.4 mill down the road' the club chose to keep their coins in the purse.

 

[marinermick]

Nice work from patafta to steal Zura's goal!

If you look at the replay closely Zura actually heads the all in Patafta's direction so it was quite a deliberate assist.

I still thought Zura was pish though. He just had one of his better games which is not saying much as he was coming from a super low level. If he can only have that much of a minimal impact against the Nix then there really is no hope for him.

People have to realise that he is being paid marquee wages as a striker and has not had even one decent attempt on target. Still, better value than Aloi$i or Agostino this season.

is it just me or did we get ludicrously lucky with Aloi$i last year?

he was playing on one leg then, we had to reshape our entire attack and our win-loss record went backwards with him in the team compared to without, but all the same he scored 7 in 15 - something that he hasn't done since his glory days at osasuna - and tended to draw players to his back.

didn't he score 7 in his first eight games or something?

as his knee got worse and his whinging to referees increased he didn't plug any away

it's little wonder that when he said 'i'm offered $1.4 mill down the road' the club chose to keep their coins in the purse.

haha, too true

it was entertaining to get fergie's opinion on this after he had a couple of beers at last season's preso night

 

[FFC Mariner]

Rumour is that we knew he was off to Syd so made a big offer just to get them to up theirs (as per Milligan after V1)