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[true believer]

come'on you yellows
brooke nunn starts in front of shedeene evens

 

[sydmariner]

 

[Meerkat]

Very ordinary first half and a bit lucky to have escaped any ramifications.

 

[marinermick]

Not enough attacking intent. Too many passes going back because we are too timid to have a go. Getting Okon PTSD. The only difference from the Okon era is that we are passing out from the back and Taylor Ray quite reasonably. From there we stalling.

 

[true believer]

ash erwin injuried .we still looking clunkey

 

[true believer]

trimmis looking good

 

[true believer]

pennock needs to do alot more

 

[sydmariner]

pennock needs to do alot more

 

[true believer]

gold

 

[marinermick]

Better second half with more attacking purpose. Moving Trimmis to ten gave us early momentum. Still impotent in front of goal and a bit of luck gave us the win.

 

[Meerkat]

Really lacklustre to be honest, compared to our first few games. Definitely lucky with that goal and not to have conceded a penalty.

Hoping this kicks us back into gear at least.

 

[true believer]

Really lacklustre to be honest, compared to our first few games. Definitely lucky with that goal and not to have conceded a penalty.

Hoping this kicks us back into gear at least.

we had two shouts for penalties .the one on trimmis is a "please explain" in the match report.
they had an extraordinary amount of largest from the ref .
the commentator was complete dog shit .
we weren't great but deserved the 3 points

3 taylor
2 langman
1 the very very good puxity

 

[bikinigirl]

... and who said the Mariners didn't have an identifiable playing style ???
... lack of attacking intent seems to be a common trait between the men and women at the moment (Trimis is probably the exception)

. how much of the problem is down to the midfield i'll leave to the more knowledgeable to discuss ... it seems that the girls are about 6 months or so behind the boys:

• take Iz (Niz) out of the midfield and it weakens B (Max)
• reinforce with T-Ray (Tappy) and we aren't looking too bad
• move T-Ray (Tappy) to CB and we are considerably weakened

. I thought Taylor was good at fill-in-CB (with the exception of the push ... lucky, lucky) and Puxty seemed better defensively than last week

. the pommie girls still aren't doing enough for me (kinda like the imports in the blokes team)

. Trimis is far less timid than last year (expected with age and experience) ... and Quilligan needs to follow the same path, particularly in her position

 

[Ozhammer]

This

I was somewhat surprised that Ray was deployed at CB after Irwin was forced off, as I thought Gallic would have been the more obvious choice but she did really well there. I was a bit concerned that dropping her back might cost us some control of the midfield but Quilligan did really well there for mine, much as she did when she came on against WU last time out.

Pennock and Nunn really need to be delivering more as import players imho and whilst Pennock did score the winner, she was very lucky it was served up for her on a plate.

Puxty impressed me again this week, after her solid display last game and should hold that LB spot going forward if she maintains some consistency.

Our play going forward is often clunky, although when the girls do work their combinations properly, we are capable of taking it to our opponents but the default seems to be to recycle the ball to death more often than not.

We are really missing Izzy’s determination and drive in the middle but we looked better with Trimmis central than when she was playing wider. The subs did make a positive impact and the squad is definitely deeper and more balanced than it was last season.

Also, how good is it to see the Smurfettes having a shit season btw?