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Bunch of guys who were in row Z are absolute flogs. Every time anyone tried to start a chant down the front they shut them down. Trumpet song started. They shut it down. Not really sure what your problem is guys. When the megaphone came up you said no and told whoever had it to fuck off. If you can do a better job do it. Don't sit back and hassle the people trying to bring some atmosphere to the game. Killed any fun down the active end. Also, the main wanker of the bunch stood for 45 minutes and didn't take a single sip of his beer and it annoyed the absolute shit out of me.

What! You never got a blowjob at a game?

Didn't hear booing, but that is poor form. Not only did he always work his hardest, the choice to leave was hardly his and he didn't bad mouth the club on the way out.

So we should have last night too ; Llorente is a bloody spud and Wales was running rings around him.

Thought Wales was one of our best. Actually ran at defenders and created chances (2 for Bruno). Poor game by Vidosic's standards, pretty anonymous (O'Halloran was good). Atkinson had a poor game. Yes, he was up against quality opposition (and i normally back him) but he couldn't step up. His place should definitely in doubt. For me, the issue continues to be the lack of movement and creativity. Brattan and Griffiths are both great players on their day but they play a similar role. Delbridge can't pass effectively out from the back (like Bart can) and Jamison doesn't have the ability to take players on or bring the ball forward. This all leads to too much stationary play, slow ball movement and sideways passing. I thought McGree did about as well as he could given the options he had. Bruno actually players more like a target man than anything else so doesn't actually create space and movement for those around him (also could be that every team man-marks him). I want to see De Laet and Bart at CB as i think this will help build play. One of Brattan or Griffiths and then a working mid (McGree) and a creative player. Or as an alternative, play Vidosic behind Bruno to allow link-up play, Brattan/Griffiths and McGree and then get wingers who run at their men (O'Halloran and Wales).

Can't wait to see Ross warming the pine in Gosford, listening to Party Rock Anthem by LMFAO blasting through the speakers whilst the referee sets the wall as Usain Bolt lines up one of his trademark curling free kicks.

Fuck there is some dumb shit in this thread today. I knew that logging onto the forum today would be bad, but I've opened 1 thread and it's already pissing me off. Alright cool. What do you do for a living mate? I'm guessing if some random who clearly is not a professional in that field comes into your place of work and tells you that you are doing your job wrong and you need to change what you're doing you're not exactly going to be stoked about it either... Based on what? The fact he missed a penalty in a cup game last night? Are you serious? Fuck me dead yeah it was a shit penalty, but that doesn't mean we should get rid of him. Bruno is the best player in the league bar none. He single handedly dragged us to the quarter finals, and is going to spend the entire A League season making every keeper in the country piss their pants whenever he has the ball at his feet. Bruno is well on his way to being a club legend, and an A League legend for that matter. He's missed a few penalties now and it's clearly troubling him a bit mentally. But you know what, props to him for actually stepping up and having the guts to keep persisting. Anyone saying we should let him go or he's shite needs to pull their head in ffs.

Wouldn't of even been playing in that round last night if it wasn't for bruno. He's still a damm good striker, just had a bad game last night. Feel free if you're jumping off the bruno bandwagon, to jump off the city bandwagon entirely. The amount of people who turn on him after one bad game is ridiculous.

Bruno should and probably will continue to take pens. A pen in his first or second game got the ball rolling and he has proved to be the best striker in the League. I'd be more worried if he himself didn't want to take them. All of the greatest forwards in history have missed pens and will continue. His overall record is poor but what must be taken into account is his overall goal/match ratio which is intertwined in taking pens. Every now and then he looks a little off but snagging a pen has kickstarted himself again. You cant just all of sudden drag him from pens because he has missed a few and then expect the rest of his game to be uneffected. Penalties are basically a mental battle and so to is instinctive goal scoring. Bruno should continue to take pens and we should just accept he is going to miss. We wouldn't have been playing last night had Bruno not scored the round before. Making selective statements are pointless the big picture needs to be looked at. Bruno must continue taking pens!!!!

Lol anyone that thinks Wales was shit last night is retarded. He was easily our man of the match. Does he have the best cross? No, but he still put two on a plate for Bruno and repeatedly beat his man and got into the box. Clearly he's this seasons Malik to a few; 'experts' that have made an early call and will stick to it irrespective of the evidence. End of the day i dont think we played too badly, but Bruno missing a hattrick of sitters in the first 20 min is always going to come back to bite you. WSW only had 3 chances and took two of them, we had a plethora and took one. I actually didnt mind the De Laet sub; by that stage WSW had all but parked the bus and our best chance of equalising was to try to pin point a few crosses into the area. Ritchie has a bloody good cross on him, unfortunately we just didnt put it away. Agree with @rass though, Atkinson's days at RB are numbered imo. Delbridge was pretty good defensively, but he can't pass at all and the other teams know it. They played to it a bit, even if we didnt cough up a goal last night directly because of it.

Not totally dissapointed to be out of the cup but still hate losing. Overall we performed better but couldn't finish. A solution needs to be found for when we have a penalty. Either Bruno stops taking them or someone else stands up and demands the ball from him. His record simply isn't good enough. Our line up was as expected for a game at this time of season. Where I think we did fuck up was with our subs. Putting Da Laet further forward instead of Caceras was a mistake. Maybe Joyce simply wanted to give him game time. Anywhere on the pitch. Did Wales play that poorly? He seemed to be our only threat besides Bruno and made a number of decent forays into the box with one where he picked out Bruno beautifully. I thought he was one of our better players going forward. Fwiw there's certainly not enough criticism of Brattan on here.

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