clarence
Well-Known Member
Uroda said:
Oh beauty we have someone who claims to be very close to the players!
Mate, could you do us all a big favour and print out this thread, and ALL the comments that have been made here, and show it to Heff, so he can pass it around at training.
They had Victory by the balls last night, Victory were starting to get frustrated at not having any goals and looking down the barrel of a scoreless draw at best or a loss, and the PLAYERS BLEW IT!
1) Strikers are supposed to realise that to score a goal, they have to slot the ball BETWEEN the posts into the net. Not over the crossbar, not into the stand behind - IN THE f**kING NET. That is what Simon, Maccallister and Mrdja are paid for, so do it ffs.
2) Your mate Heff, got sucked in big time by one of the more slimier pieces of shit in the A-League. But I'm not dirty that Kev brought on the hit by Heff's elbow, I'm more dirty of the fact that Heff got involved in it - off the ball - and like the pretty boy kid in the school yard, got biffed by the school bully and got caught out retaliating.
3) Hernandez's goal should not have happened, and Danny bears the brunt of that fault. He is the one who sets the wall, and the ball skidded through the wall and straight past Danny. If Danny had no sight of the ball's impact, then I'd suggest he set the wall too front on to the place where the free kick was being taken, instead of setting the wall up to close down the angles.
4) Archie's tearaway run to score the final goal was plain awful defending. TBF, they had held him up to about 60 minutes or so of the game, but he found the gap, he found a squirt of speed and he was away.
I agree with comments made by Kevrenor above about the makeup of folks on this forum. I guess I'm from the 'know a little about the game, paying customer who demands a better quality of product, and cannot see why the club & it's supporters should have to endure players with no ticker or unable to meet the improving standards of the League' category.
Keep in mind, too, Uroda, that there are a number of players who have not even made the seniors' bench this season despite supposedly being fit to play, and seem content sitting in the Youth squad playing the 'big brother' routine to the kiddies.
Your mate , Heff, while I have a heap of respect for his tenacity and yearning for hard work on the field, is being shown up with either some rusty playing style or a lack of technique.
What may have worked in v1 with a fast run up the sideline, is now being found out by a calmer and more methodical approach by the opposition's defence to these runs, and one good counter tackle by the opposition's midfield renders him without the ball, up the wrong end of the field, with a counter attack marauding through our empty left side defence. Wilko saved your mate's arse a few times last night.
If he makes a decision to make a run, he had better learn to keep the ball in his possession and make damn sure the pass or cross he delivers is not going to go straight to the opposition's centre midfielder who can then mount a very quick counter attack.
It might be OK for you Uroda, to wander into the club and, using the "I'm a mate of Heff" line to get you access to good seats for free or the good info from the inside.
But the vast majority of us here have to pay to sit there and see a team give up the ghost, have to cop a bagging at work and from friends after such a shithouse 30 minutes from them at the close of the game, and put up with having to explain time and time again, that Dean got sucked in by a professional thug who niggled him to the point that Dean lost his professional cool and just engaged in thumping the c**t while off the ball.
Once in a while, many of us here would love to be able to go back to work after a weekend's game and regale at the 5-0 thumping we gave some team, instead of having to diplomatically explain how we held a team for 60/90 minutes and then pissed it all away to lose 0-3.
As I have said, I have respect for the tenacity for the way Heff plays the game. But maybe, just maybe, he isn't at his best at the moment and needs a few more weeks in the Youth League to sharpen up his attacking moves and strengthen his defense. Taking to the field with a flu or staying on when you cannot see properly is not an excuse if it costs you the match with a less than average performance, and being all macho and saying you are fit to play when you are NOT is just weakening the team as a whole. You take the field, you are deemed fit and if you play shithouse, you can expect to cop some stick. The post game excuse of previously undisclosed injury or illness is a cop out for a bad performance, and one that is deceiving of fans.
Please, by all means, Uroda, show this Thread to Heff. I bet he'll be quite incensed by the way we lay the boot into one and all, but what does he expect when we sometimes feel we are being taken for mugs!
