R8 Mariners v Victory, Mossy v Muskrat

[midfielder]

We have played better...

 

[true believer]

I thought hutch went alright . he was my MoM in front of reddy. was screaming at players to wake up.
Griffiths look rattled after and early yellow for a poor foul. lost passion multiple times .got his shit together later in the game.
marco got hacked all night and griffith-jones saw nothing , very poor
mickey wasn't there

I couldn't understand why we kept goning down their left. where conceras and traore had us for dinner.

 

[bikinigirl]

I couldn't understand why we kept goning down their left. where conceras and traore had us of dinner.

. mr percival wore himself out running up and down the right-hand side unsighted ... almost cost us late in the game - he appeared knackered

 

[kevrenor]

Guy's, in all seriousness, couldn't you have chanted something different than what every other club is chanting. To hear "we sing for yellow" was bad enough but then to bust out tetris! Surely you can be more original. And go on, claim you started 'who do we sing for' even though no one has heard you sing it for years.
Don't wanna start a furore but I'm quite sure you have enough talented people to come up with some original chants. FWIW though, I loved hearing the trumpet and drums. Much better.

No one gives a rats what you think!

My goodness, I also just liked a True Believer post - that game did do my head in.

 

[adz]

No one gives a rats what you think!

My goodness, I also just liked a True Believer post - that game did do my head in.

Been a tough week, have a lie down... haha

 

[Gratis]

couldn't get tothe game last night so watched on fox - I forgot to mention the active support sounded brilliant on TV, great work again folks

 

[Benched]

Well, the positive you can take out of the game is you played like crap, again'st a team who was carving you up, and you didn't lose.

And Kev, just adding some constructive criticism mate. Band good, chants bad!

 

[pjennings]

Really seemed to be a game between the insipid and the inept.

I can't imagine that Monty or McBreen will not start next week. Matty seems to be a shadow of the player that left. Maybe Fitz into the squad for him.

 

[nero]

Matty looks terrible out there at the moment. It looks like the only thing he has remembered since leaving the AL was how to hack the defenders, heading the ball and intimidate them.
Before he left, his skill level was increasing every game and he looked a real goal threat. He still had the hacking and intimidating features. But since returning all he has is the shite part of his game. It was great to see when he was a goal threat, but now it just is embarrassing for the team.

Note: Still love the guy as a CCM player and he will get better hopefully. China f..ed him up.


Socceroos

 

[neverwozza]

That's probably the worst I've seen us play for a very long while. I will be interested to see Moss's reaction when they announce next weeks team - we had so many poor performers. Who do you drop?

 

[midfielder]

My points were ...

3 pts Sainsbury
2 pts Flores
1 pt Reddy

No point repeating what everyone else has said ... suffice to say we are currently a shadow of the team we have been in the three previous years .. with only four players in the starting 11 that who started in the GF maybe its to be expected... in the past two games we seem stuffed and out of puff in the last 20 minutes ... Lets all hope things get better...

 

[midfielder]

I liked Caceras last night ... and in time he could become a first team player...

 

[morrijo]

Where has Fitzy been last few weeks
Should be on instead of simons

 

[eenfish]

How bloody good was Sainsbury, though?

 

[BrisRecky]

i got a migraine at half time and pulled the pin...BUT...for what i saw...tesco, Stormy and Reddy were moms...nobody else could string passes together....having said that, musc**ts mexicans didnt score, also the fkn idiot ref was his usual scatterbrain self

 

[sydmariner]

Matty looks terrible out there at the moment. It looks like the only thing he has remembered since leaving the AL was how to hack the defenders, heading the ball and intimidate them.
Before he left, his skill level was increasing every game and he looked a real goal threat. He still had the hacking and intimidating features. But since returning all he has is the shite part of his game. It was great to see when he was a goal threat, but now it just is embarrassing for the team.

Note: Still love the guy as a CCM player and he will get better hopefully. China f..ed him up.


Socceroos

It was South Korea not china that he played in

 

[eenfish]

i got a migraine at half time and pulled the pin...BUT...for what i saw...tesco, Stormy and Reddy were moms...nobody else could string passes together....having said that, musc**ts mexicans didnt score, also the fkn idiot ref was his usual scatterbrain self

I thought the ref was alright, but the line judges made a series of bad decisions both ways.

 

[Ancient Mariner]

I took a couple of friends, who have moved to the Coast, but not had a great interest in football with the hope that they will become future members. They had their doubts about the standard of the A-League, but I kept telling them how it has improved over the last couple of years.

 

[Roy Law]

Mr Rizla the Referee’s Assistant

This was a tough night at Bluetongue; tough on the fans who have had a tough week, and tough on the players backing up on a Friday from the trip to Perth. In muscle sapping conditions, wet and slippery, against the competition favourites, they had to dig very deep to get a result. Both sets of players were exhausted at the finish but it is the Mariners who have my sympathy.
John Hutchinson said that the travelling home from Perth is such that even the bus trip to the Coast from Sydney Airport takes its toll. Thank goodness they weren’t using Kings and Queens!
Brent Griffiths and Anthony Caceres were both given the opportunity to build their claims for first team football; Nick Montgomery was deemed fit enough for the bench and was joined, again, by Daniel McBreen.
Griffiths immediately collected a yellow card for a clumsy challenge, it wasn’t a good way to start, but a better referee may just have made do with a strong word.
Defences were on top in the early stages, covering all threats very well, but you would have liked the Mariners to move the ball more quickly. It was James Triosi who first threatened, breaking the flat defensive line of the Mariners, but he didn’t trust his right foot in the wet and with Reddy closing the angle the chance came to nothing. It was the first of many let-offs for the Mariners.
In the 13th minute Mitch Nicholls scored; again the defenders were caught square but the referee’s assistant called offside. Replays showed that there was no more than the width of a Rizla cigarette paper in it and Melbourne had just cause to feel aggrieved.
Five minutes later Nathan Coe had to go full length to push the ball to safety as a free kick deflected off a defenders head. It was the nearest the Mariners would come to scoring in the first half.
Defences were on top; both teams pressed, denying time and space; both cut off the passing lanes and doubled up the man on the ball. Play swung from end to end but both goalkeepers were quite comfortable and when the Mariners needed help, Sainsbury, in particular, and Griffiths were there to deny opportunities.
The Mariners passing was poor and Melbourne was dominating, looking for the opening goal. The Mariners were being outplayed and were all at sea but Milligan hit his shot from the edge of the area well wide. And then in the dying moments they hit the bar from the edge of the area, the Mariners really hanging on by their collective finger tips.
It was still all too slow in the second half but the Mariners were trying to lift; Rose got free but Coe took his cross. A Griffiths slip let in Thomson but he took too long and then Reddy swept superbly after Josh Rose took the wrong option in attack.
McBreen came on in the 60th minute and the Mariners lifted, Rose was beginning to claim his usual space on the left; Roux, giving a more than passable impression of the energetic Bojic, was working hard on the right. A well worked interplay between him and McBreen gave McGlinchey a chance but desperate defending blocked his volleyed attempt.
The Mariners were tiring noticeably, giving away simple possession; this game was Melbourne Victory’s for the taking. Caceres, who had a pretty decent game, departed for Montgomery in an effort to stem the tide but it was Reddy who produced the save of the game from Finckler’s intelligent shot after Sainsbury had been too easily beaten by Pain.
The Mariners may have been on the rack, defending desperately but also intelligently, but they are a team that never gives in and they lifted again, and McBreen broke clear to run onto Sterjovski’s pass to beat the helpless Coe, but the assistant again called offside. Again, there wasn’t so much as a Rizla rolly in it.
Like a punch drunk fighter making one last effort to get off the ropes the Mariners launched a barrage of shots at the Victory goal but just could not score and at the death a cross from Victory somehow eluded everyone. How they didn’t score I just don’t know.
As I said, I have sympathy for the gutsy Mariners who were out on their feet but just would not quit. Victory could have won this and should have won this, they were the better side on the day, but the Mariners rode their luck and in the second half Reddy only had one real save to make.
Six months ago I never imagined that the starting line-up would include Storm Roux, Anthony Caceres and Brent Griffiths; they stood up well. Roux is a real find, Caceres didn’t look out of place and showed great skills and Griffiths settled after the early yellow.
I hope Phil Moss can bring a more positive mentality to the side for the clash with Sydney FC; as against Brisbane, we seemed content to concede position and possession for too long.
I thought our best were Roux, a great replacement for Bojic; Rose, who still had the energy to get up and down for ninety minutes; and Sainsbury who, despite being beaten by Pain on the one occasion, was like a human tube of Selley’s No Gaps with brilliant interceptions and timing of tackles. He is my MoM.

 

[Wombat]

Mr Rizla the Referee’s Assistant

This was a tough night at Bluetongue; tough on the fans who have had a tough week, and tough on the players backing up on a Friday from the trip to Perth. In muscle sapping conditions, wet and slippery, against the competition favourites, they had to dig very deep to get a result. Both sets of players were exhausted at the finish but it is the Mariners who have my sympathy.
John Hutchinson said that the travelling home from Perth is such that even the bus trip to the Coast from Sydney Airport takes its toll. Thank goodness they weren’t using Kings and Queens!
Brent Griffiths and Anthony Caceres were both given the opportunity to build their claims for first team football; Nick Montgomery was deemed fit enough for the bench and was joined, again, by Daniel McBreen.
Griffiths immediately collected a yellow card for a clumsy challenge, it wasn’t a good way to start, but a better referee may just have made do with a strong word.
Defences were on top in the early stages, covering all threats very well, but you would have liked the Mariners to move the ball more quickly. It was James Triosi who first threatened, breaking the flat defensive line of the Mariners, but he didn’t trust his right foot in the wet and with Reddy closing the angle the chance came to nothing. It was the first of many let-offs for the Mariners.
In the 13th minute Mitch Nicholls scored; again the defenders were caught square but the referee’s assistant called offside. Replays showed that there was no more than the width of a Rizla cigarette paper in it and Melbourne had just cause to feel aggrieved.
Five minutes later Nathan Coe had to go full length to push the ball to safety as a free kick deflected off a defenders head. It was the nearest the Mariners would come to scoring in the first half.
Defences were on top; both teams pressed, denying time and space; both cut off the passing lanes and doubled up the man on the ball. Play swung from end to end but both goalkeepers were quite comfortable and when the Mariners needed help, Sainsbury, in particular, and Griffiths were there to deny opportunities.
The Mariners passing was poor and Melbourne was dominating, looking for the opening goal. The Mariners were being outplayed and were all at sea but Milligan hit his shot from the edge of the area well wide. And then in the dying moments they hit the bar from the edge of the area, the Mariners really hanging on by their collective finger tips.
It was still all too slow in the second half but the Mariners were trying to lift; Rose got free but Coe took his cross. A Griffiths slip let in Thomson but he took too long and then Reddy swept superbly after Josh Rose took the wrong option in attack.
McBreen came on in the 60th minute and the Mariners lifted, Rose was beginning to claim his usual space on the left; Roux, giving a more than passable impression of the energetic Bojic, was working hard on the right. A well worked interplay between him and McBreen gave McGlinchey a chance but desperate defending blocked his volleyed attempt.
The Mariners were tiring noticeably, giving away simple possession; this game was Melbourne Victory’s for the taking. Caceres, who had a pretty decent game, departed for Montgomery in an effort to stem the tide but it was Reddy who produced the save of the game from Finckler’s intelligent shot after Sainsbury had been too easily beaten by Pain.
The Mariners may have been on the rack, defending desperately but also intelligently, but they are a team that never gives in and they lifted again, and McBreen broke clear to run onto Sterjovski’s pass to beat the helpless Coe, but the assistant again called offside. Again, there wasn’t so much as a Rizla rolly in it.
Like a punch drunk fighter making one last effort to get off the ropes the Mariners launched a barrage of shots at the Victory goal but just could not score and at the death a cross from Victory somehow eluded everyone. How they didn’t score I just don’t know.
As I said, I have sympathy for the gutsy Mariners who were out on their feet but just would not quit. Victory could have won this and should have won this, they were the better side on the day, but the Mariners rode their luck and in the second half Reddy only had one real save to make.
Six months ago I never imagined that the starting line-up would include Storm Roux, Anthony Caceres and Brent Griffiths; they stood up well. Roux is a real find, Caceres didn’t look out of place and showed great skills and Griffiths settled after the early yellow.
I hope Phil Moss can bring a more positive mentality to the side for the clash with Sydney FC; as against Brisbane, we seemed content to concede position and possession for too long.
I thought our best were Roux, a great replacement for Bojic; Rose, who still had the energy to get up and down for ninety minutes; and Sainsbury who, despite being beaten by Pain on the one occasion, was like a human tube of Selley’s No Gaps with brilliant interceptions and timing of tackles. He is my MoM.

Great review Roy but I thought Rose was rubbish last night. Apart from that it was good reading.