Central Coast Mariners V Sydney FC

[Ironbark]

Horrendous defending. Ballard was shocking. Hall was worst on pitch and Kye was ordinary.

What happened?

Miller and Beni the only bright lights.

and Niz did some superb work more than once

 

[booney]

Poor defending in second half -even Rowles below his usual standard and Hall definitely well below par.Farrell again often caught out and in attack his passing and crossing was poor.

Ballard not physical enough when confronted by good attackers and attacking mids.Urena and Cummings just crowded out by Sydney's defenders who were all over them ( Wilko still a classy CB and Warland better than that donkey Donachie).Nisbet was bullied off the ball quite a few times in the first half but worked hard in the second half to get things going but with Urena and Cummings well contained his efforts were wasted.

Beni did lots of good things-pity his shot in the first half was saved by the post.He is so unpredictable and backs himself against defenders .The best player on the field was Miller( and that includes all the Sydney players).He terrorised the Sydney LB Talbot beating him pointlessly almost every time and showed little respect for Ninkovic.

Heward-Belle was very good in goals for them-another one of our products putting in a good performance against us.

 

[Huddo]

It's the arse serving that Monty could never deliver.

 

[Huddo]

How we never prepared for the counter I'll never understand

 

[pjennings]

Not a great performance. We looked pretty toothless most of the time in attack.

Their goals. TBT offside and interfering with play for the first. He then takes Nizz out (I wish that had gone direct to VAR instead of a yellow called - could well have been a straight red). Straight after that as Nizz is recovering they score 2 quickly.

We got spanked - but 5-0 maybe a bit generous to Sydney.

 

[Huddo]

Not a great performance. We looked pretty toothless most of the time in attack.

Their goals. TBT offside and interfering with play for the first. He then takes Nizz out (I wish that had gone direct to VAR instead of a yellow called - could well have been a straight red). Straight after that as Nizz is recovering they score 2 quickly.

We got spanked - but 5-0 maybe a bit generous to Sydney.

How the first wasn't offside I'll never understand, we lost and lost sweetly, but how the f**k can you lead a player in to the box I'll never understand that one.

 

[FFC Mariner]

Shit happens
Move on

 

[Huddo]

Here comes the hate WSW

 

[sydmariner]

 

[Tim]

Anyone know about the Ollie situation? I’m a Monty fan but that was an unconvincing answer to the questions put to him at interview re Ollie.

 

[Ancient Mariner]

Football is a shit game.

They took every one of their opportunities.
We took none of ours.
Shows the difference experience makes.
I did not think 5 goals was the difference between the teams, however I will say no more until I watch (if I can force myself) the replay.

Football is such a shit of a game.

 

[Ancient Mariner]

I cant go tonight as I have Covid. I'm trying to kill the Virus with Bushmills as we type.

What channel is the game on.....it doesnt appear to be Parawank?

Take it easy and get well soon. Hope you get an easy run with it.
We can't afford to have too many out at this stage of the season.

 

[marinermick]

The subbing on of Moresche and Muller threw our whole shape out of place and was exacerbated by Muller continuously coughing up the ball. The team lost control when they came on.

Those two subs were probably a catalyst for the downward spiral and we had no one who would wrestle the game back after leaking such a soft goal. We were okay in the second half up to that point.

Coaching is a mugs game. There is no way that Monty could have known that those subs would lead to disaster.

 

[Ancient Mariner]

The subbing on of Moresche and Muller threw our whole shape out of place and was exacerbated by Muller continuously coughing up the ball. The team lost control when they came on.

Those two subs were probably a catalyst for the downward spiral and we had no one who would wrestle the game back after leaking such a soft goal. We were okay in the second half up to that point.

Coaching is a mugs game. There is no way that Monty could have known that those subs would lead to disaster.

We were gone before those subs were made.

 

[Insertnamehere]

The subbing on of Moresche and Muller threw our whole shape out of place and was exacerbated by Muller continuously coughing up the ball. The team lost control when they came on.

Those two subs were probably a catalyst for the downward spiral and we had no one who would wrestle the game back after leaking such a soft goal. We were okay in the second half up to that point.

Coaching is a mugs game. There is no way that Monty could have known that those subs would lead to disaster.

Those are 2 players you don't put on when you're chasing the game.

 

[Ancient Mariner]

Some pre game observations that may be of interest.

Shooting practice:
Cummings is clearly the most skilful.
Beni is very good.
Urena is only 50%.
Hatch was embarrassing.
Nizz again showed competent for the couple of chances he had.

Bench players:
While the other 4 were kicking a ball among themselves, Muller stayed distant and did not seem at all interested in being part of the group. He only joined them briefly at the end in the NE corner for a quick game of "piggy in the middle.
I do not know if anything is to be concluded, maybe not interested, maybe carrying an injury. Interesting.

 

[PatientMariner]

As Paul Keating once said the recession we had to have.

This is the loss we had to have. Every year we have a game where we get spanked (4-0 v roar last year) and this year...

Couldn't hold the ball and defend the counter. A 10 min period of complete ? killed us.

Positives:
-Nizzy! Machine!
- Yellow Army. Loved the flags! Not sure who brought them but it added to the atmosphere (not sure if we need the megaphone to chant while the bay is chanting, I think it should be used to only start chants, but what do I know?)

Dust off, learn lessons, move on.
Surely Oli comes in on Wednesday ???

 

[Ironbark]

https://www.ftbl.com.au/news/montgomery-in-no-rush-to-recall-bozanic-578545

If Monty's reasoning here about Boz is true...
Why is it that every game there are players on the bench who are not better than Boz? Muller included.

This just throws fuel on the fire for me. You don't hurt a players rep like that willy nilly

 

[Capn Gus Bloodbeard]

How the first wasn't offside I'll never understand, we lost and lost sweetly, but how the f**k can you lead a player in to the box I'll never understand that one.

Always been the case. FIFA have said that's on the defender for their decision making. They need to be blocking the view of making a significant action preventing the opponent from playing the ball - drawing a defender out of position has always been legal (and probably for the best - you'd introduce a stack more highly subjective decisions if referees were trying to make that judgement)


Crowd and YA makingg some great noise.

 

[Wombat]

and Niz did some superb work more than once

Yes Niz got 1pt from me.

3pts Miller
2pts Beni.