I was accused yesterday, while watching the match, that i'm overly negative (check my tweets, their rank apparently)...BUT...I cant help it, if I see them playin g shitty, I'm gonna say their playing shitty...although within the parameters of this game, our defence did pretty good, except for stopping Cunningham's goal that is.....AND... there is something about the Nix often brings out the worst in us, and it's often a shit boring spectacle.
....lets talk team leadership for a moment...
It`s not about vision or hindsight it`s about a captain, who has a job to do in making decisions on the feild to attain the best possible outcome for the team....Hutcho,did not do that!
Instead he let an out of form,tired player,who hasn`t had an off season walk up & have a try to get an easy goal.....Thats not captainsy that`s piss weak leadership!...He let McBreen take the reins when he should have given the nod to someone else. ....It`s that simple "blind freddy" could have seen it...Why, in the swirly windy Cake Tin, would give your penalty kick air and aim for the top corner? That's was just friggin stupid
Now I've said it before, but the boys, and in particular Macca looked knackered by half time...is the new fitness guy running 'em too hard or something ?...speaking of Macca, he appears to be the living example of too much football is too much football....he should be subbing on with 20 to go not walking on from the off...Macca really needs a spell, his touch, his pace, his finish and confidence is all but gone.
AND then there is Rosey...what the hell is going on there ?..Can he remember how to do anything except sprint stop and pass back?....one week on, the next week off...and in NZ he was off...at one point he made 3 passes in a row and they were all BACKWARDS...whatever friggin Hutcho's got ..ITS CATCHING
OH and why the hell would you give McBreen, who's completely forgotten what a net looks like, a penalty kick....I mean that ball was on its way to Auckland, by the time he was done with it....and speaking of strikers...poor Dukey's head isn't in it at the moment, mind you, the powers that be are playing him out of position...he should be in the middle with Macca sitting next to Sully...but, what do I know....
A person with minimal visual accuity can see Duke doesn't like being played on the wing. His style suits a target man striker, put him in front of the goal and he'll slot them away. The mind boggles at what could have been with the Duke/Flores combo given the chance and time.., ...I thought for sure with 3 "ahem" strikers on the park, we would have cleaned them up...but...NUP !....
I hate to say it, BUT, it was probably one of our worst games this year..hardly any 50/50 ball win, toothless in front of goal..it was like watching really bad 3rd grade stuff.....
by the way in my humble opinion, Matty had his best game since his return and was my( and just about the whole coasts) MoM...
NOW..a special guest Sportsfans..may I present a long time, close, personal freind..THE BRIS MARINER ....
Our boys seem to create opportunities for other teams by making the oppositions territory gains for them ... Back passes whilst appropriate at times can be a teams undoing and can set a negative posture for a team as a whole... Not to mention they create fan anxiety ( mine in particular anyway)....Better to do your defending in the front third...
The other point that raises my blood pressure is lazy feet... To explain this you can increase your teams percentage of pass completions if you make an effort to get to the ball first! Too many times mid fielders or strikers will let the ball run past them to a waiting defender because the pass wasn't directly at their feet.. Stop being princes and work harder to make your mates pass look good!.....And for f"@& sake just get to the ball first and win the 50/50s ... Do this and you take all wind out of the opposition sails..(anything else is LAZY)
Just sayin!....For mine we are lucky to be where we are on the table... CCM must get back to basics and play percentage football! Stop (seemingly) dwelling on last hoorahs! get back to doing what they are good at and that is being hungry and believing!
Brismariner.. COYY!!!
Firstly I would like to say Gillett is probably the worst ref in HAL. Clueless both ways.
How weird is it...we have minus goal difference and are 3rd in the league....WTF.
Hutchinson was better but no where near good.....sterj is best coming of the bench....Monty wasn't quality.....Agree that Simon was fantastic.....Terrible finish by Caceras but made up for it with a top quality roundhouse kick!...The Nix are a physical side and got away with a lot of hacking but they are an ugly fotball side. and we are shit but at least there was some effort tonight.
The positives for us were we at least put in some effort....We defended quite well....Matty was brilliant and might just go on to save our season.....great to see Bernie back...Sterj did well when he came on and Ibini showed some quality.
We really need to get back to basics like passing the ball to feet.
3pts Simon
2pts Tesco
1pt Reddy and Fitzgerald.
Roux 6. Good going forward but still dodgy defensively. Will be brilliant in 2 years time.
Rose 5.5. Had a dig but decision making and passing poor tonight.
Ando. 6.5. Decent but still making a few errors.
Tesco 7. Good game but could have cut out their goal.
Fitz 7. Quite good.
Monty.6.5 Great work rate and fouled 100 times but passing to feet is still a problem.
Hutch 6. Better than in recent weeks but still created next to nothing BUT at least tried to be more positive.
Duke 6. An off night.
Macca 4. Absolutely terrible. Please Mossy put us and him out of this misery and give him a spell.
Simon 8. Easily MOM.
Thanks to Wombat and The Bris-Mariner
SO...there you go, Got the Roar next week...and I shudder to think was Berisha could do to us given our current mindset....Poor old Mossy must be busting, awaiting permission to go shopping for some fresh blood...C'MON CHARLESWORTH GET ON WITH IT !.
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