Forum Phoenix
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What is it with us and throwing games, leagues, qualifiers, finals away?
I can't stand the title of chokers being thrown at us. But it's getting impossible to defend.
Absolutely fuming after that. Deeply upsetting loss. Very surprised some thought it was a a good performance. Some individuals were decent, like Duke, but as a team performance I thought it was insipid. I make allowances for all our changes and youth. Sure. But as Arnie said. "This is not a second string side" Yet we played timid, fretful, sloppy, second rate football. Just look at Matty's game as one example. What on earth?
They are an absolute RUBBISH side. With a moronic coach. And we kept them in the game with horrible first touches and even worse decisions. And why in hell in the last ten did Pellegrino decide to drop back in defense after playing alongside Duke all game, giving them the first easy access they had into our front third for the last several critical minutes? Arnie surely didn't tell him to drop did he?
Drives me crazy when football sides lose their discipline at the most critical time and start sitting too deep at the end of matches. At the very least it always invites trouble, and hurts more often than not, HURTS you like tonight. My GOD we missed weemac. Just thirty minutes of him for Pellegrino and it's a completely different game.
Right, just deleted a two paragraph rant on Pellers. He's a Mariner. So I'm biting my bloody tongue. But he's simply not good enough. Makes Sterj looks like bloody Ronaldo. And Caceres, where the hell did he go in the last thirty? We needed eleven on the park second half and he went MIA. And disagree with those rating Morton and Griffiths. Hutch, there was a moment where the team, fell apart. It wasn't subtle in it's approach. We were fraying mentally. And completely unnecessarily. But Arnie for one of the first times in 3 years completely missed it with his subs. And unfortunately you either missed it out on the park or you weren't able to rouse them.
That game was a total utter screwup as far as I'm concerned. Our worst throw away since the ROAR GF, and we've thrown a bloody few away between now and then. Such a bitter taste as losing to those clowns makes me feel like we now don't even deserve to qualify. Which cuts to the bone. Must have been truly horrible for our away fans, and the team watching back at home too. We should have destroyed those muppets. They deserved to be utterly destroyed. Yet somehow we only managed to destroy ourselves once more.
Anyone who knows my posts, knows I'm a pretty philosophical kind of fan and always try to be rational and supportive. But sometime everything we damn well do seems like one more missed penalty. All that hard work, promise and excitement, ending in total pain and frustration and waste, and a loss on the weekend to Ange now on top of that would be unbearable. And unfortunately, it's just the sort of pain we seem so well acquainted with.
Sorry crew. Sorry Mariners. I completely fail as fan tonight.
My only consolation is...
At least we're not Adelaide.
I can't stand the title of chokers being thrown at us. But it's getting impossible to defend.
Absolutely fuming after that. Deeply upsetting loss. Very surprised some thought it was a a good performance. Some individuals were decent, like Duke, but as a team performance I thought it was insipid. I make allowances for all our changes and youth. Sure. But as Arnie said. "This is not a second string side" Yet we played timid, fretful, sloppy, second rate football. Just look at Matty's game as one example. What on earth?
They are an absolute RUBBISH side. With a moronic coach. And we kept them in the game with horrible first touches and even worse decisions. And why in hell in the last ten did Pellegrino decide to drop back in defense after playing alongside Duke all game, giving them the first easy access they had into our front third for the last several critical minutes? Arnie surely didn't tell him to drop did he?
Drives me crazy when football sides lose their discipline at the most critical time and start sitting too deep at the end of matches. At the very least it always invites trouble, and hurts more often than not, HURTS you like tonight. My GOD we missed weemac. Just thirty minutes of him for Pellegrino and it's a completely different game.
Right, just deleted a two paragraph rant on Pellers. He's a Mariner. So I'm biting my bloody tongue. But he's simply not good enough. Makes Sterj looks like bloody Ronaldo. And Caceres, where the hell did he go in the last thirty? We needed eleven on the park second half and he went MIA. And disagree with those rating Morton and Griffiths. Hutch, there was a moment where the team, fell apart. It wasn't subtle in it's approach. We were fraying mentally. And completely unnecessarily. But Arnie for one of the first times in 3 years completely missed it with his subs. And unfortunately you either missed it out on the park or you weren't able to rouse them.
That game was a total utter screwup as far as I'm concerned. Our worst throw away since the ROAR GF, and we've thrown a bloody few away between now and then. Such a bitter taste as losing to those clowns makes me feel like we now don't even deserve to qualify. Which cuts to the bone. Must have been truly horrible for our away fans, and the team watching back at home too. We should have destroyed those muppets. They deserved to be utterly destroyed. Yet somehow we only managed to destroy ourselves once more.
Anyone who knows my posts, knows I'm a pretty philosophical kind of fan and always try to be rational and supportive. But sometime everything we damn well do seems like one more missed penalty. All that hard work, promise and excitement, ending in total pain and frustration and waste, and a loss on the weekend to Ange now on top of that would be unbearable. And unfortunately, it's just the sort of pain we seem so well acquainted with.
Sorry crew. Sorry Mariners. I completely fail as fan tonight.
My only consolation is...
At least we're not Adelaide.
