OH should be sacked regardless. Once he played eight defensive players against the might of Hong kong he lost me forever. And he won't select TS. He will select Jade North, despite any number of other players surely being in front of him. I like Archie T, but if it is "skill" not age that matters, how the hell has he done enough to keep being selected, despite not even being in the top ten goal scorers in our league while another Australian striker wins the golden boot scoring nearly three times as many goals as him over the season. All the while never getting injured and having a huge work rate.
Alex Brosque, has at best in the HAL managed half the number of goals DM just scored this season. Yet keeps being selected.
Meanwhile in a team that lacks creativity, he keeps Australia's undoubtedly most promising playmaker for the next generation of Australian football, Tommy, on the bench even when the team is playing absolutely dire. Then blasts and blames the young players, when he has an all but has retirement village FC out on the park.
Sooo..... about those Mariners. Great and important win. Clearly the better side, though as ever we almost managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Surely our luck must change one day and we will cruise through the semis, blitz the GF, ass our way through to the final of ACL, and then win the bloody lot.
Sterj...
He is not a "bad" player in truth, yet he is clearly our worst. And it hurts us. He offers nothing defensively. And very rarely does he offer anything independently creative, and rarely succeeds in doing what he sets out to do when he does, excepting only the more basic of passes. His positioning and runs are decent I think. Yet he is too slow to capitalise. He is not strong, physical or passionate enough to impose himself that way. And he lacks the work rate of even a much older striker in Mc Breen. All I really see him offering is calm and experience, which is not without merit, but it is simply not enough for me. We look much better with Olly, Duke or Fitzgerald on instead. And I'd probably throw caceres, and perhaps based on other peoples thoughts of last game even Mc'Donald in there too.
Why no second and third subs tonight when we there was the opportunity to kill of the last few vulnerable minutes? Bizarre no?
This makes me feel that Arnie's head has been just about done in by our not winning games we should and the plate itself despite being the better team. It can't be about fitness and preserving players with only a few minutes left as some suggested. He has to have been scared to make a change and have something go wrong doesn't he?
Re crowds, these games MUST be marketed, the FFA needs to step up. Clubs are already taking a loss just to compete. You can't truly expect them to throw more money at them.
A suggestion to the bay... For ACL games, please seriously consider coming up into the western stand with everyone else. Tonight you would have generated and received a lot of vocal and valuable active support. You would also have helped to educate the crowd and maybe garner some new members.
There are a lot of people willing to get in on the act. Three clap proves it. But it just won't happen till people feel more comfortable, and that just won't happen without greater familiarity and exposure. I think you guys would be amazed at the amount of good you could do if you positioned yourself up there for a game or two. Indeed I believe the traditional bay 16 positioning is probably costing you a lot more than you realise. And I for one would love to see that change. Because you deserve it.
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