Round 2: Mariners v Nix

[style_cafe]

It`s nearly the end of the week so we need a game thread.

The Nix showed real character last week having having a 1-1 draw with Adelaide despite being down to only 10 men for over half the game.
In Ufuk Talay they have a coach that knows how to produce a disciplined defensive system as well as an attack that produces the odd goal or two.
Having missed last weeks game at Lake Gosford our guys will need to hit the ground running.
I`m sure they`ll be "champing at the bit" to get out and kick the season off.
Wellington have been a hard team to get results against in the past few seasons but i`m tipping a narrow win...

 

[FFC Mariner]

I cant see them outscoring us.
3-2 to CCM

 

[shipwreck]

Historically we play shit there and get dragged down to playing boring, windy, cold, wet football.

In saying that, I think we can win this

 

[JoyfulPenguin]

Phoenix were very dangerous on the counter against Adelaide but even before the send off were playing very defensively. Hopefully Beni/Silvera and can find a way to break them down.

They will be a very tough side to break down and can see this match very quickly devolving into endless transiton football. This should at the very least suit Michael Ruhs.

Should be a good test for Kaltak, John and or Windust. Is Triantis going to be away with the Young Socceroos for this one?

 

[shipwreck]

Phoenix were very dangerous on the counter against Adelaide but even before the send off were playing very defensively. Hopefully Beni/Silvera and can find a way to break them down.

They will be a very tough side to break down and can see this match very quickly devolving into endless transiton football. This should at the very least suit Michael Ruhs.

Should be a good test for Kaltak, John and or Windust. Is Triantis going to be away with the Young Socceroos for this one?

Yes

 

[Michael]

The Nix are a weird side. Average backline with only Wooton and sometimes Sail the stand outs. But they attack pretty well for the most part, especially on the counter. Ben Waine is the most underrated striker in the comp IMO. Their visa boys Kraev and Zawada looked the goods and will be fitter this week, other than that I think we beat them. No garang sub impact is annoying but we still have more than enough going forward.

 

[JoyfulPenguin]

Sasha Kuzevski and James Bayliss in for Nectar Triantis and Garang Kuol:

 

[marinermick]

Sasha Kuzevski and James Bayliss in for Nectar Triantis and Garang Kuol:

Lol, Vukovic and Windust as co-captains

 

[BrisRecky]

Yeh I’m with Thurbs, we’re gonna get at least 3 methinks …what the fire chickens get eludes me

 

[Corsair]

We're going to be well up for this, total destruction, 4-1. Let the beasts loose after a long off season, if we monster this the first home game will be huge and we need that. Only Oli Sail can save them, he is a good keeper. They played well against Perth, thought they'd collapse and they do have home advantage, but we're a coiled spring after so much downtime and have many goal scorers with a point to prove. Unleash months of anticipation and destroy them.

 

[true believer]

in Ufuk Talay i believe we play the best coach in the league outside monty .
anybody can win with melbourne and sydney money .
another hard fought game with the winner prevailing in the last 30

 

[FFC Mariner]

in Ufuk Talay i believe we play the best coach in the league outside monty .
anybody can win with melbourne and sydney money .
another hard fought game with the winner prevailing in the last 30

Rudan and Corica dont seem to be able to win wth money.

 

[Wombat]

Historically we play shit there and get dragged down to playing boring, windy, cold, wet football.

In saying that, I think we can win this

Didn't we beat them 3.0 last season?

 

[Ozhammer]

4-0 and ruined their homecoming

I back us to do something similar again this time around

 

[Charlie1]

Are the boys travelling today as a mate seen them at the airport. Is it unusual going a couple days before the game

 

[BrisRecky]

Rudan and Corica dont seem to be able to win wth money.

Usuk runs circles around those two over rated clowns with a budget the size of my pension, wont save him on the weekend however
COYY

 

[JoyfulPenguin]

 

[Wombat]

Pretty sure we will win easily. Hopefully John is alongside Laltak athough i have big faith in Windrush

 

[Wombat]

I got $2.90 for the win. $50 wager placed. I also bet on us v Perth getting $2.10. I'm tipping the price will shorten after we show the AL what we are made of against Nix.

 

[true believer]

Rudan and Corica dont seem to be able to win wth money.

Corica has a toilet seat . Rudan isn't a human being