R18 v Adelaide

[midfielder]

KOZZI QUITS

Beat you by six minutes .... http://ccmfans.net/community/index.php?threads/kossie-quits.5083/

 

[Bex]

Yes, there's another thread on that. You'd have to say the Adelaide performance just lacked pretty much everything, except perhaps for about 10 minutes of the game.

http://ccmfans.net/community/index.php?threads/kossie-quits.5083/#post-173718

 

[promdi442]

Not surprised by the news of Kossie quitting. In fact if you watched the body language of Kossie on Friday night I think he had already made up his mind before the game. He sat impassively in his chair for the whole first half as he watched his team being torn to shreds. Even when Adelaide scored against the absolute run of play he never moved. In between sucking on his coffee and chewing his fingers up to their knuckles in the first half he didnt display any coaching qualities in trying to enthuse his team or change his tactics and lineup to counter the Mariners. After going 1up he should have thought he won the lotto. Instead he went to the sheds scowling. In hindsight a dead man walking.
I was near the Adelaide bus as the players came out from the dressing room and the foreboding doom and gloom of the players was not what you would expect from a team that at that stage was sitting 2nd on the table. Maybe the grey clouds hovering over the club might lift with Kossie's leaving. Time will tell

 

[Roy Law]

Would prefer that the Reds are fired up to host MV and WSW in coming weeks. Hope this resignation lifts then rather than sends them backwards.

 

[ballantyne]

Good game in the end and, all things considered also another good effort by Bay16 as well!
I noted a couple of kids start up chants around bay27 where I was sitting. Does anyone know if they were plants? I'm suspecting that they were just kids who thought it was cool (which it was). If they weren't plants, I'd suggest that it'd probably be worth trying - if it's not already done.
They had quite a bit of luck getting people started a couple of times. It seems like, once a small group starts and persists, without looking embarrassed about it, the crowd picks up the chant much faster.
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I agree with these comments. I got in the thick of 16 with a my big new drum, and the results were there to hear on the telly highlights. What I can see from there is that there are still plenty of people in the near vicinity of 16 not joining in. If we are going to do some seeding of other bays, I think we need to do it in Bays 15, 16 and 17 first before going further afield.
That said, the frat-house atmosphere of 16 is not for everyone, maybe they'd join in more if they could do like movements with their arms and stuff, rather than bellowing inane songs?
Sorry, a bit OT in this thread.

 

[FFC Mariner]

Good idea about "seeding" 15 & 17

 

[T]

Managed to get a few of 15 going briefly.... but they are loath too really get into it

 

[nebakke]

I suspect that the people in 15 and 17 are probably those least susceptible to being seeded as they would probably already be singing along if they weren't...
My thinking is that they're probably of a mindset that they'll be lobbed in with the "shock-horror-active-supporters" if they start, as they sit so close, that they'll happily just ignore it.
Whereas further around, it's more of a surprise so people get dragged along easier... I don't really know, obviously, just a theory
I'm thinking though, that if some of the "mums-and-dads" bays can be dragged along, then the rest will follow, tumbling like dominos, so-to-speak
Oh and, good work indeed Ballantyne, the drum could definitely be heard