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Duke misses a sitter
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Taking on the Nux, over the dutch! R12 HAL 8
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midfielder
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Farrrrrrrrrrrkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk out of nothing ...........
Wombat
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I didn't think we were shite. It was a reasonable performance against a dogged opponent.
If Matty hadn't lost the plot we would have taken the 3pts. I'm not sure who challenged for the header but that was a piss poor effort as well.
At times we played some nice controlled Football.
Ryan 5. WTF.
Pedj 7. Good in patches but still bumbling at times.
Dutchy 8. Excellent.
Tesco 8 excellent and very cool under pressure
Rose 7. Worked very hard.
Hutcho 7. Decent game. I particularly liked seeing I'm run 50 yds to put pressure on a Nix attacker and then snuff out the threat.
Monty 7.5 made some very important defensive challenges and a couple of great passes but also a few mistakes.
WeeMac 7. Tried hard and a decent game.
Rogic 7.5. Great when running with the ball but sloppy at times.
Bernie 7. Worked hard and one superb reverse pass in first half. Starting to tackle well.
McBreen 7.5 Good game.
If Matty hadn't lost the plot we would have taken the 3pts. I'm not sure who challenged for the header but that was a piss poor effort as well.
At times we played some nice controlled Football.
Ryan 5. WTF.
Pedj 7. Good in patches but still bumbling at times.
Dutchy 8. Excellent.
Tesco 8 excellent and very cool under pressure
Rose 7. Worked very hard.
Hutcho 7. Decent game. I particularly liked seeing I'm run 50 yds to put pressure on a Nix attacker and then snuff out the threat.
Monty 7.5 made some very important defensive challenges and a couple of great passes but also a few mistakes.
WeeMac 7. Tried hard and a decent game.
Rogic 7.5. Great when running with the ball but sloppy at times.
Bernie 7. Worked hard and one superb reverse pass in first half. Starting to tackle well.
McBreen 7.5 Good game.
MrCelery
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I would have taken ugly for a win. Two points surrendered. Very soft goal. Rose\Ryan below par today.
Trent Sainsbury my MOM by a country mile.
Forum Phoenix
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Agree with all that's been said. We dominated by and large and only the Kiwis physicality kept them in it. It was two points dropped. We still played plenty of good football, but we should have put this game beyond any doubt and looked a little lethargic in the sun compared to our usual high standards. But again, we are still moving the ball better than anyone else and apart from the defensive blip looking very hard to break down.
Ancient Mariner
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The pitch seemed slow from the start. This did not suit our game.
I don't think it was caused by the grass being too long but it was lush and I suspect soft underfoot, which in turn probably contributed to the apparent lethargy and soft passes.
However a trip across the dutch is no easy matter and a point from there is usually considered a good result. This season we are rightly expecting better but it is not a disastrous result.
MOM, Sainsbury, hon mentions to everyone else.
I don't think it was caused by the grass being too long but it was lush and I suspect soft underfoot, which in turn probably contributed to the apparent lethargy and soft passes.
However a trip across the dutch is no easy matter and a point from there is usually considered a good result. This season we are rightly expecting better but it is not a disastrous result.
MOM, Sainsbury, hon mentions to everyone else.
Roy Law
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Not happy; two points lost. The underlying criticism that the Mariners don’t convert superiority into goals came back to bite us at the end of the game.
Wellington Phoenix are not the force they were; the Kiwis have lost their shine. They have won only three games this season. The Mariners are on the crest of the wave: supremely confident in their structure and unbeaten in eight games. It all pointed to an easy three points. But the away trip to Windy Welly must always be approached with caution: the feisty Kiwi with his chip on his shoulder about the brash cousins from Australia is always a force to be reckoned with.
Wellington played without Paul Ifill; the Mariners were without David Beckham and Alessandro del Piero. Wellington took the game to the Mariners right from the start with bright enterprising positive football, Daniel testing Ryan early; the Mariners countered with excellent football of their own and won a series of corners. It made for an entertaining although not thrilling first half.
Ryan was the busier of the two goal keepers although never troubled. He showed us his repertoire of distribution skills – lightning quick with his hands and one laser-like forty yard kick straight to Bernie Ibini. Bernie had a good first half, closing down intelligently, calm on the ball and willing to run at all times. Tommy Rogic showed that he is human after all: intercepting an errant Phoenix pass in that key high defensive position that Mustafa Amini used to exploit so well he had a golden chance to open the scoring but his chip shot curved away to the left and past the post with Paston stranded. You know Musti would have buried that; you reasonably would have expected the same of Rogic.
Danny McBreen opened the scoring; Mat Ryan started the move. He dealt with a half dangerous shot from Fenlon at the near post and the ball was quickly moved to Ibini on the left. He laid the ball back to McBreen whose shot was blocked; the ball fell to McGlinchey who calmly laid the ball to Rogic whose shot was parried by Paston but only to the feet of the grateful McBreen who sealed his contract for next season with his tenth goal. It was superb football in transition: there were five Mariners players in the Phoenix penalty area within seconds of Ryan’s save – a basketball fast break.
The football played by the Mariners had been top quality and continued to be so in the second half. Great inter passing, possession play, playing out from the back calmly and breaking quickly. Football is all about goals and despite opportunity the Mariners failed to extend their advantage and paid the price. Rogic was put through but only hit Paston, credit to the goalkeeper but on another day Tommy would have scored. McGlinchey ran through and tried a shot, feeble in execution, from distance. Rogic weaved his way past defenders but his right foot shot was blocked, minutes later he tried again but over did it when Bernie was begging for the ball to his left. Bernie missed out again when McGlinchey jinked to the right when he could have passed to his left. McBreen barged a defender off the ball but his shot on the turn was well wide.
At the other end Ryan was showing his vulnerability to crosses, punching the ball up in the air and then spilling it before it was scrambled away. Mile Sterjovski came on for Bernie but didn’t lift the tempo unlike the energetic Mitchell Duke who later replaced the tired Rogic. Duke’s perfect lay-off to the advancing Bojic begged for a first time return pass but Bojic delayed and then under hit the pass and Duke couldn’t get enough purchase to beat Paston.
And then Wellington scored. A simple cross, Ryan thought it was going to the far post but Daniel won the header under pressure from Rose and Ryan was left stranded as the ball gently sailed into the net. It was so frustrating. When McBreen was replaced in the last minutes by Zac Anderson the disappointment was written all over his face.
I was disappointed too but In the final analysis the team sits with a two point break at the top of the ladder unbeaten in nine games and with a vastly superior goal difference; you can’t win them all so a draw now and again is not the end of the world. The Mariners played very well today but Arnie will be fretting about turning superiority into goals – it is the team’s only real weakness. McBreen scored, Rogic could have and should have, but Bernie and Sterjovski didn’t get a shot between them – the system needs some fine tuning.
My MoM was Trent Sainsbury – immaculate reading of play and elegant work on the ball reminiscent of a younger Lucas Neil.
2 points – Patrick – powerful presence at the back
1 pt – Hutchinson – he controlled the midfield
Wellington Phoenix are not the force they were; the Kiwis have lost their shine. They have won only three games this season. The Mariners are on the crest of the wave: supremely confident in their structure and unbeaten in eight games. It all pointed to an easy three points. But the away trip to Windy Welly must always be approached with caution: the feisty Kiwi with his chip on his shoulder about the brash cousins from Australia is always a force to be reckoned with.
Wellington played without Paul Ifill; the Mariners were without David Beckham and Alessandro del Piero. Wellington took the game to the Mariners right from the start with bright enterprising positive football, Daniel testing Ryan early; the Mariners countered with excellent football of their own and won a series of corners. It made for an entertaining although not thrilling first half.
Ryan was the busier of the two goal keepers although never troubled. He showed us his repertoire of distribution skills – lightning quick with his hands and one laser-like forty yard kick straight to Bernie Ibini. Bernie had a good first half, closing down intelligently, calm on the ball and willing to run at all times. Tommy Rogic showed that he is human after all: intercepting an errant Phoenix pass in that key high defensive position that Mustafa Amini used to exploit so well he had a golden chance to open the scoring but his chip shot curved away to the left and past the post with Paston stranded. You know Musti would have buried that; you reasonably would have expected the same of Rogic.
Danny McBreen opened the scoring; Mat Ryan started the move. He dealt with a half dangerous shot from Fenlon at the near post and the ball was quickly moved to Ibini on the left. He laid the ball back to McBreen whose shot was blocked; the ball fell to McGlinchey who calmly laid the ball to Rogic whose shot was parried by Paston but only to the feet of the grateful McBreen who sealed his contract for next season with his tenth goal. It was superb football in transition: there were five Mariners players in the Phoenix penalty area within seconds of Ryan’s save – a basketball fast break.
The football played by the Mariners had been top quality and continued to be so in the second half. Great inter passing, possession play, playing out from the back calmly and breaking quickly. Football is all about goals and despite opportunity the Mariners failed to extend their advantage and paid the price. Rogic was put through but only hit Paston, credit to the goalkeeper but on another day Tommy would have scored. McGlinchey ran through and tried a shot, feeble in execution, from distance. Rogic weaved his way past defenders but his right foot shot was blocked, minutes later he tried again but over did it when Bernie was begging for the ball to his left. Bernie missed out again when McGlinchey jinked to the right when he could have passed to his left. McBreen barged a defender off the ball but his shot on the turn was well wide.
At the other end Ryan was showing his vulnerability to crosses, punching the ball up in the air and then spilling it before it was scrambled away. Mile Sterjovski came on for Bernie but didn’t lift the tempo unlike the energetic Mitchell Duke who later replaced the tired Rogic. Duke’s perfect lay-off to the advancing Bojic begged for a first time return pass but Bojic delayed and then under hit the pass and Duke couldn’t get enough purchase to beat Paston.
And then Wellington scored. A simple cross, Ryan thought it was going to the far post but Daniel won the header under pressure from Rose and Ryan was left stranded as the ball gently sailed into the net. It was so frustrating. When McBreen was replaced in the last minutes by Zac Anderson the disappointment was written all over his face.
I was disappointed too but In the final analysis the team sits with a two point break at the top of the ladder unbeaten in nine games and with a vastly superior goal difference; you can’t win them all so a draw now and again is not the end of the world. The Mariners played very well today but Arnie will be fretting about turning superiority into goals – it is the team’s only real weakness. McBreen scored, Rogic could have and should have, but Bernie and Sterjovski didn’t get a shot between them – the system needs some fine tuning.
My MoM was Trent Sainsbury – immaculate reading of play and elegant work on the ball reminiscent of a younger Lucas Neil.
2 points – Patrick – powerful presence at the back
1 pt – Hutchinson – he controlled the midfield
Forum Phoenix
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I think Olly should walk into LM against bling, and Bernie - who hasn't been bad, drops to the bench. I think we are a more concise and dangerous unit when Olly is in. And like Pedj works best with Weemac, Rosey definitely combines best when Olly is on.
Gratis
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It was one of those games where seeing balls that should have been goals (particularly Rogic's two) had me thinking 'I hope we don't rue that miss'.
It's a good sign that the team is at a stage where a draw feels like a loss...the result is fine in reality but is still 2 points dropped.
Overall happy with the performance and it'll spur the lads on to score aggressively in future games rather than assuming the next goal will go in methinks. Not that there was a lack of effort just the old cliched 'killer instinct'. Sydney could be in real trouble coming up against the boys again just as they switch the killer instinct back on (there's no way Arnie won't be working on it)!
I love this team - technically for CCM it was a poor game. As has been said afore the difference between a good game and a bad game for CCM this year is not much. A poor game for us is a game any other team would be happy with. Awww yeah
It's a good sign that the team is at a stage where a draw feels like a loss...the result is fine in reality but is still 2 points dropped.
Overall happy with the performance and it'll spur the lads on to score aggressively in future games rather than assuming the next goal will go in methinks. Not that there was a lack of effort just the old cliched 'killer instinct'. Sydney could be in real trouble coming up against the boys again just as they switch the killer instinct back on (there's no way Arnie won't be working on it)!
I love this team - technically for CCM it was a poor game. As has been said afore the difference between a good game and a bad game for CCM this year is not much. A poor game for us is a game any other team would be happy with. Awww yeah
FFC Mariner
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Tesco's into RB and Anderson in the middle I'd guess.
What's happened to Hearfield? Not on injured list, not playing for youth. Out of favour?
What's happened to Hearfield? Not on injured list, not playing for youth. Out of favour?
Yes, my thoughts exactly.....Tesco to RB and just move Zac into the middle. Not sure what other options there are? A slightly disappointing result is nota bad thing, will keep the boys focused for next week. One thing is for sure Sydney should be fired up for this one, if they are not they shouldn't be playing. Still think we will have too much for them.
style_cafe
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Arnie was worried about complacency & although he was able to lift them for the best part of the match they sort of faded in the last 20mins.
It`s a far cry from seasons 1-5 when a draw would be acceptable. Now however, a draw feels like your best friend just passed.
It`s a far cry from seasons 1-5 when a draw would be acceptable. Now however, a draw feels like your best friend just passed.
bikinigirl
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. must say i am impressed with the 'maturity' of the posts following our 'loss of 2 points' ... we have become hard markers, but not unreasonably so
. occasionally 'shit happens' even to matty, tomi & rosey ... but as others have already said, we weren't beaten and it should help moving on to sydney later this week
. occasionally 'shit happens' even to matty, tomi & rosey ... but as others have already said, we weren't beaten and it should help moving on to sydney later this week
elevated position
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true believer
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well atleast we didn't come to a street fight in a dinner suit like the reds
style_cafe
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don`t include me in past Sainsbury knockers 
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