R16: Mighty Mariners V SCUM

[sydmariner]

Onto the football.....great win. The first half was brilliant and we mashed them up.

I'll do 321 after watching the game on telly.

My immediate thoughts were Rose was back to form.
Storm looks like weemac when he dribbles.
Fitzgerald looks like a starting 11 player now
Matty Simon was brilliant and we lost our shape when he went off.
Bernie should be starting.
Heskey is still such a Donkey.
Crowd was great and hats off to the yellow army.

Yeah & the best part was seeing all the scummers leaving with 10 to go

 

[sydmariner]

Thoroughly enjoyable!!
The first half was as good as we`ve played all season.
I was really surprised to see Hutcho on the benchbut full marks to Phil Moss for sticking to his winning side & showing some balls.
The second half though,we really should have put them to the sword.
Another 3-4 goals would have been nice but I think we just coasted home & thankfully Newcastle were shit enough not to score.
I loved the fireworks but what the hell was wrong with the cannon! Mr. Charlesworth, you owe us 3 shots!!!

Bay 16 was awesome!! their support was worth an extra man tonight

Kudos also to Reuben Zadkovic (Mr. consistant) he can play just about every position for the Jets & is shit in every one of them...

3 points - Fitzy
2 points - Matty
1 point - Reddy some great saves

That's probebly why they had the fireworks also shame that douchebag sackwack wasn't playing

 

[MagpieMariner]

Whatabout the drivebys

They're third.

 

[midfielder]

Best we have played all season

 

[Gratis]

oh I enjoyed that

 

[sydmariner]

They're third.

I thought that they were just all rioting flare throwing bogans

 

[MagpieMariner]

If we can repeat that first half (and keep it going for the whole 90), we are going to be very hard to stop.

 

[Ancient Mariner]

Great result, I will decide mom points after watching replay, too many good performances mixed in with many mistakes, but first impressions:

Loved Caceras' goal, great lead up and strike, brilliant individual effort.
I was disappointed when Moss subbed Monty at the time I thought he had more in him, while Caceras appeared to be fading. Maybe he wanted to give Caceras 90 mins. I liked Monty and Caceras going forward.

I like the new attacking formation with two up front. It appears to me to be some sort of 4222 with fullbacks and DMs attacking more, maybe the more technically minded can correct me if I am wrong.

I wish Reddy would take more charge of his area, maybe just his style, but after Matty and (definitely) Danny ruling the penalty area it is taking some getting used to. Great save with the falcon.

Concerned with the team appearing to run out of steam. Is there different preparation with Clarky gone?

Wonderful to do SFC and then the Scum. We are 2nd.

 

[Atomic]

I love having Monty as captain. Hard as f**king nails and the ideal man to lead our team in the derby. The difference between him and Hutch is that Hutch can be prone to brain explosions and moments of petulance (in my opinion).

Like most, I was bewildered with Monty's sub in the 2nd half. Agree with AM in that Caceras looked a bit gassed, but in fairness to Mossy, nothing beats having the minutes in the legs, hence it will do him good to have a 90 min hit out.

Bernie... I may be alone here, but I'm not a fan. Yes, he got in good positions and made some fantastic runs, but he has this annoying habit of slowing down when he has the ball and seems to run out of options and ideas. I felt he stalled a number of decent attacking moments there in the second half.

I was impressed by Simon's ball control. I thought he had a great game. Did you see that beautiful curling pass from the outside of his right foot he made in the first half to Fitzy (or Rosey), magic! More of that please Matty.

I just want to acknowledge McBreen's engine. Put in a big shift tonight. Love his passion.

Looking forward to watching the replay.

 

[rbakersmith]

I was impressed by Simon's ball control. I thought he had a great game. Did you see that beautiful curling pass from the outside of his right foot he made in the first half to Fitzy (or Rosey), magic! More of that please Matty.

More of that, and less of that horrendous back pass to Reddy that went straight past Heskey - if he was paying attention he could have had another shot a launching a ball into space...

 

[Wombat]

The problem is Bernie has no options.....no one is in the box to receive the ball.

Poor support play rather than poor play by Ibini.

 

[ballantyne]

Last week we were third with a negative goal difference. Today we are second with the second best goal difference in the league.

 

[Roy Law]

Caceres. Boom!​

Football, so the saying goes, is a game of two halves, but that wasn’t the case today as the Mariners only needed the first 45 minutes to shoot down the low-flying Jets. Splendid goals from Caceres and McBreen, and a towering header from Simon, had the game locked up by the time the sides trooped off to the sheds for the break.
The second half can be summed up in one paragraph: the Mariners allowed the Jets more possession but for all their huffing and puffing they could not blow the Mariners defence down; the Jets tapped on the door, they never looked like hammering it down. When they got close Reddy stood in the way with a ‘Falcon’ save (well, he does come from a rugby league family). Emile Heskey got a yellow for failing to understand the difference between hand-to-ball and ball-to-hand; Ibini gave a nice cameo of his potential with trademark tricks, flicks and pace. Moss paid Caceres a meaningful compliment when he brought on Hutchinson for Montgomery. The Jets hit the post; The Mariners came close to getting a fourth a couple of times. Anderson went off with what looked like a groin strain; the Mariners ended with ten men.
Phil Moss had already given Anthony Caceres a huge vote of confidence after his good play last week by including him in the starting line-up instead of skipper John Hutchinson. Hutch was joined on the bench by Ibini and Duke; Griffiths got the nod over Seip. Caceres rewarded Moss when he scored a quite brilliant goal on 12 minutes. Play to that point had been low key and conservative and then Caceres intercepted the ball, held off the attentions of one defender, sidestepped another and shaped to play to the left before turning inside and unleashing a shot from 25 metres that any cannon would have been proud of. It crashed into the top corner of the net with Birghitti nowhere near it. Too much power! The crown leapt to its feet, Caceres was hoisted aloft by his team mates and the Worldwide Printing Solutions cannon announced its approval. Boom!
The Mariners have not won by more than two goals all season but were well on track when McBreen doubled the advantage with another splendid strike. It was well timed as the Mariners had been unconvincing at the back, Sainsbury in particular casually giving the ball away a couple of times, and Newcastle had floated in some crosses that were too close for comfort. The ball was being given away and then Matt Simon, leading the line superbly, brought order to the proceedings; the ball went to the left, then wide right to Sterjovski, on into the middle where it seemed McBreen and Fitzgerald were getting in each other’s way, but McBreen was calmness itself as he placed a powerful curling shot high into the corner of the net with Birghitti again helpless. Old Golden Boot was back! The cannon agreed. Boom!
A couple of minutes later a marvellous pass from Sterjovski, playing with real quality, set Fitzgerald, playing with confident directness, free but Simon couldn’t quite get purchase on the cross and then Simon, with a delightful curving pass sent Rose away but the opportunity came to nothing.
We were then treated to a moment of high comedy when Anderson got his defending all wrong to allow marquee player Emile Heskey the chance to get it even more wrong; Heskey completely miscuing his shot as an open goal beckoned. Oh, the crowd laughed to see such fun! And they were on their feet again as Matt Simon outjumped everyone to meet Sterjovski’s corner, gained after a scintillating run by Fitzgerald, with a powerful header across the keeper into the far corner of the net. It was Simon’s 38th A League goal, placing him in the all-time top ten of the competition. What a legend! Boom!
As the teams left the field at the 45 I thought Montgomery, another real captain’s knock, and the young Caceres had been outstanding in midfield; Sterjovski’s class and Fitzgerald’s direct play stood out on the flanks; and Simon and McBreen had been a willing and physical handful up front.
This was another game where the still in transition Mariners took another step forward; they were good value for this win, The Jets were well-beaten; the F3 points were never in doubt. For Man of the Match my heart went to Caceres, my head to Fitzgerald, with my heart winning out for that explosive goal. Caceres is my MoM.

 

[Roy Law]

This, on Twitter: "Newcastle Police have placed an APB on the Jet's midfield. Last known location was Caceres' and Fitzgerald's back pockets"

 

[gull]

Great win.
Thoroughly enjoyable night.
What was with those 12-15 hogans desperate to start trouble?
No wonder one of them ended up with a smashed mouth....then as I'm heading towards North Gosford in the car the same little group are doubling back from the station back into Gosford all excited looking for a row.
Pretty soft looking bunch so it wasn't going to end well.

Yeah I walked past them heading back to the stadium in the opposite direction to everyone else. They were hardly scary.

One of them looked like he was going to walk straight into my 8yo son until he saw me watching and calmly stepped out of the way. How tough!

 

[gull]

Surely one of the best Mariners nights ever? 3-0 at half time was unbelievable! Shame we didn't make it six or seven.

Caceres' goal also looked like one of our best ever, although I'm yet to watch the replay. Great to see McBreen get a confidence building cracker of a goal as well.

Crowd was very into it and made great noise, and the YA were incredibly loud - well done!

Walked out with a huge buzz, and it wasn't from the beer .

 

[VicMariner]

Wow! A team we know is not playing to their full potential have taken themselves to second place on the ladder.
If we hit some good form at the right time we could win some silverware this season.

 

[Gratis]

it's like up side down season. usually we're flying along then January comes and we hobble over the finish line this season we hobble up to January (yet still collect points and the get losses somehow) and then get some high potential lift

 

[nebakke]

Fitzie definitely MotM for mine, generally I agree though,
Fitz
Matty
Reddy

But I think the whole team did well I must say. Can't help but feel sorry for Fitz, if anyone deserved to bury it last night, it was him. More than made up for though, by getting to watch the gall from the Jester fans when both Matty and Macca scored :-D gotta love that!!!
Matty in even a semi-decent state brings so much to the team in terms of fighting spirit... I swear the man beams blue and yellow (and green and white! ;-) ) - nice to have a forward who doesn't mind having to track back and win the ball on our own half.
On Bernie btw, I thought he did well on and off the ball, he does a decent job defending too.
Looking at how the home games have been going, I gotta say, I think everyone's a bit hard on Rosie - the boys seem to not use that side as much as they could. At one point, I remember seeing Chesty, with both arms in the air, almost jumping up and down before he was noticed - he and Rosey were entirely unmarked!
That happens quite a bit and, I think, is the cause of some frustration for them.
We were better at using them yesterday though...

All in all, it was great! Had hoped for more though ;-)

 

[LFCMariners]

An awesome night on and off the pitch. There could have been at least another 2 goals from the Mariners in that game but to get the biggest win of our season so far, with two highlights reel goal efforts to open the scoring, showed well and truly what this team could be capable of from here on. The Yellow Army led the best home atmosphere I've heard in a long time as well. A bigger/ more match specific tifo highlighting our recent silverware haul (compared to theirs) would have been nice, but you can't have everything.

I couldn't believe the crowd was listed as 11k. Looking at the Eastern and Western stands, it looked as if there were at least 14 or 15k there.