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A-League Mens 25/26 - Round 15

Frigging stupidly conceded penalty.

I hate that we are prone to dumb moments that hurt us.

Well taken by Rose.
 
Great win by the Jets, great crowd too. Top of the table. Missed the 1st half of the game lets hope the derby can live up to its name and get a good crowd.
 
We have lost the ability to play competitive football - but on top of that I think Bouzanis's two stuff ups cost us the game today outright. I would be interested in the results if someone checked either his bank account or his betting slips for today.

We have a chance to hold teams down to a single goal with pressure and close marking when needed. Add in a Herrington at the back to prevent one clear goal every game and stifle others and you see the difference between a winning team and us now.

Gift our opponents two goals and add the one they get through their own endeavours and we are stuffed.

For some reason, when we go a goal down I have a feeling that we lack the ability to get out of it. I guess I have no faith in our attacking system once we do go behind.

D'Agostino has not been given much of a chance to do anything in the two matches he has taken part in. I don't know how we are meant to be playing him but he is invisible. And it is not his fault. We did it with Long earlier in the season when we had him isolated and just put balls in his general direction in hope. We are doing the same now, but since we lack the accuracy to put a ball where it needs to be he cannot produce anything.

Lauton substituted on for the injured O'Shea was a bit baffling. A pretty random experiment by Valkanis I think given he then substituted Lauton later for MacNicol - who it has to be said did not lift the game in any way himself.

We are just a scrappy football side now and have been for a month. Up to Valkanis to turn it around since I still believe we have the players we need to perform competitively. Defensively we are not contenders like we were at the start of the season and I doubt we will get that rock solid resilience we had with Herrington. So be it. Just get us playing decent attacking football with some midfield presence all game and we can feed our forwards. Win games 3-2 instead of losing.

At this stage we are not top 6 potential (funny that - we are not top 6 anymore) and if we can't sort ourselves out we will be playing off for Australia Cup positions again. The league is tight, but we should be playing better than we are. We are better than this.

Really good play by the Jets and deserved winners. Congratulations on 5 in a row and top spot for now.

So many players who have both the ability and the composure to finish.

Much of that has to be Milligan and the coaching team to refine the skills and sharpen the mindset to convert the potential that many players have across the league but lack the consistency and reliability.
 
RIMB said:
We have lost the ability to play competitive football - but on top of that I think Bouzanis's two stuff ups cost us the game today outright. I would be interested in the results if someone checked either his bank account or his betting slips for today.

We have a chance to hold teams down to a single goal with pressure and close marking when needed. Add in a Herrington at the back to prevent one clear goal every game and stifle others and you see the difference between a winning team and us now.

Gift our opponents two goals and add the one they get through their own endeavours and we are stuffed.

For some reason, when we go a goal down I have a feeling that we lack the ability to get out of it. I guess I have no faith in our attacking system once we do go behind.

D'Agostino has not been given much of a chance to do anything in the two matches he has taken part in. I don't know how we are meant to be playing him but he is invisible. And it is not his fault. We did it with Long earlier in the season when we had him isolated and just put balls in his general direction in hope. We are doing the same now, but since we lack the accuracy to put a ball where it needs to be he cannot produce anything.

Lauton substituted on for the injured O'Shea was a bit baffling. A pretty random experiment by Valkanis I think given he then substituted Lauton later for MacNicol - who it has to be said did not lift the game in any way himself.

We are just a scrappy football side now and have been for a month. Up to Valkanis to turn it around since I still believe we have the players we need to perform competitively. Defensively we are not contenders like we were at the start of the season and I doubt we will get that rock solid resilience we had with Herrington. So be it. Just get us playing decent attacking football with some midfield presence all game and we can feed our forwards. Win games 3-2 instead of losing.

At this stage we are not top 6 potential (funny that - we are not top 6 anymore) and if we can't sort ourselves out we will be playing off for Australia Cup positions again. The league is tight, but we should be playing better than we are. We are better than this.

Really good play by the Jets and deserved winners. Congratulations on 5 in a row and top spot for now.

So many players who have both the ability and the composure to finish.

Much of that has to be Milligan and the coaching team to refine the skills and sharpen the mindset to convert the potential that many players have across the league but lack the consistency and reliability.
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do you think the loss of herrington broke us?
 
Akon (2009) starting in the derby

enough to make me skyblue tonight

okon vs scicluna looks tasty, two best defensive minded mids in the league going head to head
 
Dismal showing by Roar- Newcastle just too good.

Roar will have to get rid of that big lump of a pommy centre forward. He seems to argue with Valkanis quite a bit.
 
grazorblade said:
do you think the loss of herrington broke us?
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I do.

He made several goalline clearances that would have been goals.

He shutdown promising attacks and could time a perfect desperation tackle (except against Perias).

His direct impact allowed us wins we would not have deserved otherwise.

Without confidence in the defenders our midfield cannot look forward and we have to play too much looking backwards in fear. We are scoring less and I do not feel like goals will come when we need them.

I am not saying that Ludwik and Valkanis cannot improve and become effective but we are far from where we were with Herrington - both offensively and defensively.
 
grazorblade said:
been a real boom in crowds the last month for some reason
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Funnily enough I remember seeing an A-League ad on New Year's Day and wondered if it was the start of a new advertising campaign. Also coincided with the new boss starting. Since then I've seen ads, FTA news, newspapers, all seem to have covered some A-League, which was previously rare. Maybe someone is looking to make a play for the rights in two years? Maybe the new boss is impacting already?
 
ashtongate said:
Dismal showing by Roar- Newcastle just too good.

Roar will have to get rid of that big lump of a pommy centre forward. He seems to argue with Valkanis quite a bit.
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I don't agree we have to get rid of Long - we have to use him and his skills better.

We do the same with all our forwards now - hang them high to dry and send aimless balls forward that don't go to them or into space they can get to, catch them flatfooted or offside, or simply get intercepted.

He is not one of the great aleague finds but he can produce.

Arguing with Valkanis is probably a key factor in his selection based on the grit and aggression Valkanis fosters if I am being a little tongue in cheek.

I agree with your summary of the game though.
 
ryan fraser with one heck of a start to his a league career
 
Ryan Fraser probably rivals Castro as the player with the best resume and age to come to the a league, still quite young
 
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