R6 v Sydney @ home

[midfielder]

Just woke up from a snooze and the replay is on. Woke just in time to see ONeil’s goal.

Melling and Pain are equally to blame imo.

The ball was in front of the cove and McGlinchy i am pretty sure it was had the ball holder and SFC player made a run into the the space just behind McGlinchy and Melling covers the run. Good defending. McGing is very central but does have a player. Every one is matched up with a player except Pain who is hoping to break but was a fair way from ONeill, however as everyone has a man he needs to come back and cover the space. He doesn’t until it’s to late.

Melling stays with the attacker he tracked but pulls off him a bit. He is to slow to see ONeil has the open space and by the time he reacts its to late.

For me primary blame is with Pain. He whinges at others to cover his error.
Secondry blame is with Melling for being to slow to see the problem and react.

The person with the ball is the most dangerous and needs to be taken care of first

That's how I saw it but Melling IMO was closer and the more to blame.

 

[Big Al]

That's how I saw it but Melling IMO was closer and the more to blame.

If pain was on him to begin with there is no dribble and shot but Melling should of been awake as well

 

[Ancient Mariner]

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

I think we have to keep Golec because he has the speed back there that others don't. I like to think he will come good when he regains some confidence.

Agree about Ross we have to find a way to fit in with his abilities in return for his clear skill with penalties and free kicks around the box.

 

[Wombat]

Just woke up from a snooze and the replay is on. Woke just in time to see ONeil’s goal.

Melling and Pain are equally to blame imo.

The ball was in front of the cove and McGlinchy i am pretty sure it was had the ball holder and SFC player made a run into the the space just behind McGlinchy and Melling covers the run. Good defending. McGing is very central but does have a player. Every one is matched up with a player except Pain who is hoping to break but was a fair way from ONeill, however as everyone has a man he needs to come back and cover the space. He doesn’t until it’s to late.

Melling stays with the attacker he tracked but pulls off him a bit. He is to slow to see ONeil has the open space and by the time he reacts its to late.

For me primary blame is with Pain. He whinges at others to cover his error.
Secondry blame is with Melling for being to slow to see the problem and react.

The person with the ball is the most dangerous and needs to be taken care of first

Agree but Melling's reaction was criminal. Get your f**king body behind the ball son. and close them down. I wouldnt except that from a 10yo player.

 

[Capn Gus Bloodbeard]

I think we have to keep Golec because he has the speed back there that others don't. I like to think he will come good when he regains some confidence.

Agree about Ross we have to find a way to fit in with his abilities in return for his clear skill with penalties and free kicks around the box.

Golec has always been a sieve. A worrying proportion of last season's goals occurred because he was checking out the girls on the front 2 rows (presumably) rather than paying attention to the opponents. He'll be good most of the game, but completely fall asleep at critical moments and let goals in.

Haven't seen Ross demonstrate this famed 'free kick skill' yet.

 

[MrCelery]

I feel a lot better now. The Jets got hammered!

 

[MagpieMariner]

I feel a lot better now. The Jets got hammered!

They're still in front of us though. Of course, so's everybody else.

 

[sydmariner]

Matt Millar & Matt Simon both made team of the weak.

 

[Forum Phoenix]

Matt Millar & Matt Simon both made team of the weak.

Both played great games.

 

[Stoxxo]

Matt Millar & Matt Simon both made team of the weak.

Makes the pill even harder to swallow, a few really good individual efforts each week is a positive but it wont get us off the bottom of the league

 

[Forum Phoenix]

Agree it won’t. But don’t see how it makes it harder to swallow than a loss with no individual quality performances?

 

[turbo]

but it wont get us off the bottom of the league

With the performance the nix put in against Perth and still drawing with 10 men we can't rely on someone being worse we need to be better. The next three games v WSW, the nix and jets - the 3 sides immediately above us - are going to be crucial. If we don't do well we're going to cement our place at the bottom.

Edit: Unfortunately all of those sides are going to be seeing their game with us as an important step to gathering some momentum as well so we will really need to work for it. We need to win by 2 if we want to get out of 10th this weekend.

 

[Forum Phoenix]

I think we can win all three.

 

[Ozhammer]

Did anyone happen to notice if our warm up under the new strength and conditioning guy was any better this week?

 

[Ozhammer]

Just woke up from a snooze and the replay is on. Woke just in time to see ONeil’s goal.

Melling and Pain are equally to blame imo.

The ball was in front of the cove and McGlinchy i am pretty sure it was had the ball holder and SFC player made a run into the the space just behind McGlinchy and Melling covers the run. Good defending. McGing is very central but does have a player. Every one is matched up with a player except Pain who is hoping to break but was a fair way from ONeill, however as everyone has a man he needs to come back and cover the space. He doesn’t until it’s to late.

Melling stays with the attacker he tracked but pulls off him a bit. He is to slow to see ONeil has the open space and by the time he reacts its to late.

For me primary blame is with Pain. He whinges at others to cover his error.
Secondry blame is with Melling for being to slow to see the problem and react.

The person with the ball is the most dangerous and needs to be taken care of first

Rowles isn’t marking a player and if he was, the whole backline could have moved one opponent to the right and Melling would have been free to perform his primary role in front of the defence, so there was a collective lapse of concentration and it wasn’t all on Melling to be fair.

BUT it is the DM’s job to screen the back line not to drop into it and cause confusion as to who is marking who, so he needs to own that part of the error.

 

[marinermick]

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Rowles isn’t marking a player and if he was, the whole backline could have moved one opponent to the right and Melling would have been free to perform his primary role in front of the defence, so there was a collective lapse of concentration and it wasn’t all on Melling to be fair.

BUT it is the DM’s job to screen the back line not to drop into it and cause confusion as to who is marking who, so he needs to own that part of the error.

If you are playing a backline of three then often the DM has to drop into the backline. Weakness of the system but you would rather a player ping from forty yards instead of ten. This time the f**ker got it though.

 

[Big Al]

Rowles isn’t marking a player and if he was, the whole backline could have moved one opponent to the right and Melling would have been free to perform his primary role in front of the defence, so there was a collective lapse of concentration and it wasn’t all on Melling to be fair.

BUT it is the DM’s job to screen the back line not to drop into it and cause confusion as to who is marking who, so he needs to own that part of the error.

Rowles did have a man. McGing had compressed a fair way into the middle but McGings man was closer to Melling at one point. That was more McGing holding his position in the middle than moving over to what I considered his side as he was the RCB

Rowles was also the left CB of the three so the issue was the otherside.

That’s my reading of it

 

[Wombat]

BUT it is the DM’s job to screen the back line not to drop into it and cause confusion as to who is marking who, so he needs to own that part of the error.

Spot on. They are very disorganised but i guess its most of the teams 1st season together.

 

[BaysideMariner]

Did anyone happen to notice if our warm up under the new strength and conditioning guy was any better this week?

I watched the warm up and the team seemed like beginners in their first class trying to follow the leader. They were all watching closely. He seemed in control and it seemed intense. I havent watched before so I cannot comment on previous times.

 

[Insertnamehere]

Did anyone happen to notice if our warm up under the new strength and conditioning guy was any better this week?

I was concerned about the professionalism of the league when reading a fox article about Popas prep at perf, in that double daily sessions, a nutritionist and yoga were considered cutting edge. IMO bog standard for an elite athletic program.