R16 away @ Adelaide

[BrisRecky]

Well that was a fun 93.5 minutes

 

[Capn Gus Bloodbeard]

Gillett got a research position ? Researching what , how to get a fkn personality and not f**k up footy games

Yeah, that's why he's off to Ingerland

 

[nebakke]

For... f**k Sake... And we're back to BAU...

f**king sitting deep in defence and clearly out of ideas and we're back at it... Left ruing how Hoole should have been f**king pulled at the 60th...

My biggest frustration right now is that I actually think we have the cattle to have gotten something out of pretty much every game for the last month, so much of it smells like shitty man-management on the day...

 

[shipwreck]

Pretty passenger from Hiariej there... Disappointing

 

[Josho Howe]

The most familiar of scripts plays out. Shock.

 

[nebakke]

Leaves me with the usual question... WTF IS MY NEW QUALITY CB!?

 

[shipwreck]

I'm gonna start betting on the other team to win the second half, it's happened almost like clockwork for over a month and the odds have been very good

 

[Capn Gus Bloodbeard]

This all comes back to that first goal because Kennedy was supposed to mark a striker.

That's corner strategy. THAT I'm putting on Mulvey.

 

[nebakke]

f**k this sport, f**k this team, I'm getting drunk... See ya for more punishment next week.

 

[Josho Howe]

Cya next week against *checks fixture* Victory with Toivonen and Honda back...............joy

 

[MagpieMariner]

Oh dear, that's not going to be nice.

 

[Capn Gus Bloodbeard]

Cya next week against *checks fixture* Victory with Toivonen and Honda back...............joy

Yeah but Millar is better than Honda. He has more assists.

 

[BaysideMariner]

I am unsure how to feel. Such a great effort for 70 minutes. Then we just sat back and invited them to score. Then do we blame Millar and Hirariej? or do we blame the entire team.
We looked better tonight. I will go to next weeks game to see the evolution of the side. I just hope it is without Hoole. Goal or not he is an oxygen thief.

 

[Cricko_086]

This summer of football is ver hard on my liver!

 

[FFC Mariner]

Simply not fit enough.

 

[scottmac]

Simply not fit enough.

Recovery is a major issue along with being at a high level of fitness before you need to recover

 

[Coastalraider]

I honesty think it’s a fatigue thing now, but mentally as well as physically.
Our squad isn’t as good as everyone elses - that a fact that’s hard to argue. For us to be competitive, we have to operate at a higher level of effort, and that can only be sustained for so long. Mid way through the second halves, we are not only running out of puff, but we start making bad decisions due to mental fatigue.
Other teams make a sub to bring impact, we make subs because our players can’t run anymore.

 

[true believer]

i blame mm 100% . we needed go forward so he subs mcglinchy and clisby and kekeris gets no time at all .
what a f'kn dud mm is .

 

[turbo]

Just caught up, that’s a tough loss to take. On the plus side we don’t look like a 10th place team and we really took it to them today. Had enough chances to win it.

Stand out issues for me:
Hoole was largely invisible outside of the goal and maybe 5-10 mins after. Should have been subbed earlier.
MM should have been starting subs around 60 mins, the drop off was obvious at home so surely he saw it too. Bringing Clisby on was a strange choice too.
Simon does a huge amount of work and some good stuff but he just isn’t a dangerous striker and as a result we’re always looking to someone else to provide the goals. A few times especially early he held up the ball instead of passing it on again and stopped a quick counter in its tracks.
The Ref seemed really reluctant to call anything today, was pretty even about it but it definitely suited Adelaide’s style more than ours. When Isaais (I think) ran in to Simons back and MM got the yellow that was just wrong. Good to see the VAR didn’t screw is on that handball.

The next game will be tough but now the midweek games have stopped and Jem is coming in we should put in a decent showing. We aren’t the push overs we were 10 rounds ago.

Also honourable mention to Rowles on the goal saving clearance.

 

[turbo]

Gillett got a research position ? Researching what , how to get a fkn personality and not f**k up footy games

Gillett graduated with a PhD in Biomechanics from The University of Queensland in December 2018, which focused on children with Cerebral Palsy. Gillett has been offered and accepted a position at Liverpool John Moore's University, where he will continue his research

Feel like an arsehole yet?