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Negative buggers on here. Third match in 8 days, travelling around 8,000 km. Away from home, down to 10 men for two-thirds of the match, grab a point after twice being behind. Take it and move on.

Fox Sports voting is rubbish, ccm central defenders best 2 on the park. They conceded twice against 10 men

Bring back Kew Jaliens.

Didn't know he was there until he scored

Always thought the expectations of an easy win were too optimistic. Mariners have a great manager, play neat football, and have some excellent young players. And they were at home. In the circumstances, having been one down so early on, we've salvaged something.

CCM are interdimentional Pedophiles funded by the Clinton Foundation

I agree it was a red, but it was far from 3 weeks. Watching the replay it doesn't look malicious at all and merely a lunge out of desperation after losing the ball and trying to spread as much as possible to block a pass. Definitely not a Muscat tackle as some on here are sugessting as he purposely goes out of his way to injure players.

You know youre being unreasonable when @jw1739 calls you out for being too negative...

Selfishly I hate this. Imagine having to say Bouzanis and Bozanic on talking city. I'm brain dead enough as it is already without having to contend with this.

I would like to see Mitch Austin slam into him. He would never get up again .

Am i the only one that thinks Dean's culpability in either of those goals yesterday is minimal, like 10%, at best?

Didn't watch the game, but.... Malik.

Mariners have a fraction of our resources, had a heap of senior players out, and still played good football against us. For all their limited resources they look like a team, and they are good to watch. There's a lot to like about them, and a lot of that has to do with their coach. I'd be delighted if he rocked up at City.

Changed the game, opened up play and quality everywhere. Needs to start.

Good goal Malik

Gosford is a shithole

We just need David Williams to come on and repeat the same heroics he did against Sydney when we had 10 men that one time.

I'm sure somehow this is still Malik and bouzanis fault for some people

IMO loss for us means we can say tartar to top two while a loss for the Mariners means they can say tartar to finals: very saucy indeed 🤔👍

Will we squeeze a win out of this game? 3 points would allow us to Ketchup to Newcastle. Hopefully Heinz Sight will allow Wazza to make necessary choices to get us the win. Good to see Melling on the pitch for CCM. Has been ages since I have seen him play. Hope to see him 'give a good account of himself'.

Just adopt a team of Chinese kids and train them up. Government will probaly pay you if you say youre fostering them.

Bouzanis ends up in no man's land a lot of the time due to bad decision making and my gripe is that he has not improved over time. Opposition set pieces need to be attacked and Galekovic does it well even though his howlers were due to not punching the ball clear rather than poor positioning. It's a matter of Bouzanis not having the smarts to take control of his area, which is one of the worse deficiencies a goal keeper can have, because around the 6 yard box he should always be contesting the ariel ball. I admit it was difficult conditions, but the correct play was to contest the ball.

Goal keeping is not really my strength but I think: 1. Great ball in, Delbridge tries to deal but doesn’t. dean culpability 0% 2. Decent corner but Dean needed to come for it (wasn’t that far out) and then it never gets to the crossbar, I know that wind would have made judging it a nightmare but I thought he could have done better there.

Watching his highlights from Cincinnati he loves to make big tackles. Joyce said a few week back that he had kicked just about everyone in training. Clearly a pretty aggressive and uncompromising player. Got this one wrong and deserves a few weeks. Hopefully he learns to read the game a little better and stands off when appropriate.

It always amuses me that fans get disgruntled when they establish that the new signing is not as good as Lionel Messi.

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I think the number one thing we can take from this game, is that Paul Okon is a whiny little bitch who doesn't stfu when things go his way.

Amazing how this bloke is having a far, far superior season to last year but seems to be getting far fewer plaudits from the 'experts'. Goes to show how good the Aussie pundits are i spose.

From the past three matches: Sydney: 5 pts. Newcastle: 7 pts. City: 7 pts. Victory: 4 pts. Adelaide: 5 pts. WSW: 5 pts. Perth: 0 pts. CCM: 2 pts. Brisbane: 0 pts. Phoenix: 4 pts. A bit selective I know, but we've actually kept pace with Newcastle over the past three matches, and improved our relative positions against all the other clubs.

Ye I'm praising him too, he's been huge... pun intended.

Qualification on the above - fastest to 13 goals in his first A-League season.

He was invisible prior wasn’t t he? Once he scored he got going though. It’s easy to imagine that his confidence was low and perhaps he’s the type who needs it more than others? Or maybe he’s just normally a lazy fucker? I’m not sure which one it is.

If we're predictable in attack then I'd like to hear how you'd describe the Mariners. What was it before today, 1 goal in 6? String a couple of passes together on the deck and all of a sudden a guy's a great manager, the Mariners have been poor most of the season.

Great result. 8k kms traveled in a week btw

Geez Golec is a flog

I'll take the point considering we're shit.

Malik with the goal then?

Wtf buds with the goods and quality strike.

@playmaker heres your man's chance

Fitzy is a hog

Surely Malik has been one of our best.

Brattan looks really good, chasing players, chasing balls, putting pressure on and a few nice passes. Arzani should play 90mins with Rosco today.

Jamieson has the touch of Weinstein

Fucking wow. Worst start anyone could ever have. Probably wont get a game for the club again

Delbridge good pickup

We'll find out whether we have enough bottle.

He'd send Maccas broke every time we won

Words I didn't think I'd ever say I just won $50 on Jason Hoffman scoring the first goal in a game