ACL : Mariners v Beijing Guaon at Fortress Mariner

WELL..how about that, I'm always quietly confident we will give the ACL a shake, but top of the group stuns even me....Man of the Mmatch, goes without saying, Reddy the Monolith of the Mariners..what a HUGE game....

  

CernaK, got him till May, can we shift him sooner?Seeya, Fitzy was a bit quiet, ...Monty had a shocker, there has been rumours that he has been getting interest from a korean club, my theory on players being distracted by the shop window being opened could apply here I think, every time he got the ball you could feel the Ancient Mariners in Bay 17 tense up, Wombat, Oz Baggie and moi were very relieved when Storm came on......

Rostyns brother was o.k BUT he should give back Zwaanjes shirt, he hasn't near earned the #6...Zac could of done better, but I seem to be saying that a lot....Rosey, who quite frankly is on fire again, his presence of mind to head the ball over the line near our goal was brilliant....

Hutcho, Stormy, Bernie and Kim were giving it some..Dooks tried hard....and as for Marcel the Dutch farmer, to quote the boss, Mr Moss, "The technique involved in that volley was fantastic."

 My cousin in Maastricht twitted me after the game and sang Marcel's praises...not something I thought I'd hear from that Venlo hating rellie of mine...someone said Seip needs a challenge, I agree, with 2 games to go, give him 20 minutes next to Monty or Kim and see what happens..

.The Leferlee was a knob, the liney on the western side had a firm grasp of the offside rule....Beijing done nothing for me, their fans did get a bit rowdy, it was good to see more than a couple of dozen away fans ...as for our fans, who knew 3000 people could make that much racket...methinks the over hanging roof made the Army and The Brasstards a couple of notches louder for certain...

The atmosphere at games these days is FRIGGIN AWESOME. pats on the back all 'round to PeterPrior on megeaphone, The Brasstards And the Yellow Army in general

NOW...for the rest of the tournament and the remaining HAL, all I ask is that the team need to stop second guessing themselves and SHOOT

The Ref looked as bent as a Banana.....Great fun tonight.....Great atmosphere.....Cracked up when I saw yellow army had taken over a couple of corporate boxes

We were the better side....Cernak is not much chop....Griff2 is not a patch on his brother.....Siep was good and the goal was lovely.....Reddy is a brilliant keeper.

Bernie must be re-signed....Fitz was gash....where has his confidence gone all of a sudden?

 I read an interesting quote:

This season saw the equivalent of the team copping a shotgun wound to the thigh that would cripple most. What do the Mariners do? Stumble a little then run even faster.

Couldnt agree more, I thought for sure just after Arnie split, that our season was done for all money...now, I'll be the first to admit that I was wrong, and Mossie has done an ridiculously great job of keeping the boys on target and playing almost like the champion squad of last year...here's to a sterling finish and domination of the semi's...Look out Malvey..Here come Mossie's Mariners