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1 hour ago, MHFC-FAN said:

Those subs were atrocious. We nearly had a team of all defenders after Nabbout and Tilio came off

Did we have anything more exiting on the bench?

I understand why Reis came on, to close shop.

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Bench was Berenguer who Rado said is still suffering the effects of his hamstring, Galloway, Reis who had a headknock from last week, Hall, Hogan who is a NPL forward but I don't think is a start up and Period who is a NPL midfielder. Flo and Scotty came on then Reis. Hall's a defender so there's only the two kids.

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1 hour ago, heart1011 said:

There wasn't too many other options to bring on. We should get a few of the younger boys back this week now that they unfortunately got knocked out. 

We were definitely depleted with the recent injuries and under the 20s national duty. Should be a few more options for the bench against Macarthur... 

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18 minutes ago, Tommykins said:

I'd love to know the rush to sign Rado. 

Yeah I said the same thing when it happened. He inherited a ripper squad who was on a good run of form. When Rado first took over we continued to play the way we were playing under PK. Fast flowing high possession, high pressure football. The only difference the first few games was Rado would actually make subs! The last 4 games or so we have honestly started to play exactly how we played under Joyce. Come out the blocks firing the first 10-15 mins but fail to capitalise. Then we go a goal down and struggle to peg one back.. I really hope we can turn this run of form around and bounce back after the break!

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9 hours ago, heart1011 said:

Yeah I said the same thing when it happened. He inherited a ripper squad who was on a good run of form. When Rado first took over we continued to play the way we were playing under PK. Fast flowing high possession, high pressure football. The only difference the first few games was Rado would actually make subs! The last 4 games or so we have honestly started to play exactly how we played under Joyce. Come out the blocks firing the first 10-15 mins but fail to capitalise. Then we go a goal down and struggle to peg one back.. I really hope we can turn this run of form around and bounce back after the break!

To be fair, Leckie, VdV have sustained injuries and Nabbout, JMac, Berenguer, Good have all had injuries or are playing with injuries.

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But we've got an academy that's producing players. Rado is doing exactly the same as PK - has young players on the bench but almost never do they get on the field. So when the shit hits the fan and we have injuries we do not have the replacements ready.

But on the subject of injuries, sometimes I do wonder. Berenguer has a "minor niggle." In my terminology "niggle" is minor in the first place, so "minor niggle" is minor-minor. Worth sacrificing a Premiership for?

Yeah, I only played village football. Half the team carried so much strapping they could barely walk onto the field.

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5 hours ago, jw1739 said:

But we've got an academy that's producing players. Rado is doing exactly the same as PK - has young players on the bench but almost never do they get on the field. So when the shit hits the fan and we have injuries we do not have the replacements ready.

But on the subject of injuries, sometimes I do wonder. Berenguer has a "minor niggle." In my terminology "niggle" is minor in the first place, so "minor niggle" is minor-minor. Worth sacrificing a Premiership for?

Yeah, I only played village football. Half the team carried so much strapping they could barely walk onto the field.

I tend to agree with you. As I have said, unless Rafa was not available for other reasons, I would have had him on the bench and most likely playing a good 20 minutes. In previous games he should have had at least 10. The mid-field maybe a little harder but in defence I would have had Stokes as well. Actually, instead of Reis, I would have moved Talbot to play alongside Good and Calloway on the right. Reis on the bench and to come on as a sub. Stokes may play 10 minutes or so.

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If we did away with our yips in front of goal we'd have won that game 3 times over ... especially if we scored first.

They parked the bus, and welded up shop like in Mad Max 2.  

Our issue at the moment is not tactics.  Its squad depth and player availability through injury, and like i said ... the yips in front of goals!!  The big problem is that these problems could cost us the plate as Adelaide and WSW look to be on a hot streak ... the tards are also on the mend, so our catch up game against them could be difference (so it becomes the only thing they have to play for ... gonna be huge).

Be great is we grabbed a proven striker on an injury loan ... 

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4 hours ago, Torn Asunder said:

If we did away with our yips in front of goal we'd have won that game 3 times over ... especially if we scored first.

They parked the bus, and welded up shop like in Mad Max 2.  

Our issue at the moment is not tactics.  Its squad depth and player availability through injury, and like i said ... the yips in front of goals!!  The big problem is that these problems could cost us the plate as Adelaide and WSW look to be on a hot streak ... the tards are also on the mend, so our catch up game against them could be difference (so it becomes the only thing they have to play for ... gonna be huge).

Be great is we grabbed a proven striker on an injury loan ... 

The problem, at the moment, is that Leckie, Berengeur and Van der Venne are out; that's quite some loss of attacking power and experience. Florin is struggling to stay fit long enough to regain his form of last season. JMac is carrying an injury and is down on pace and accuracy so just isn't scoring regularly. 

The coaching issue though is that the balance of the team has shifted; we are now committing more players forward so are vulnerable to counter-attacking teams. We seem particularly vulnerable on the second ball in attacking transition, this is always when good opponents counter-press and force a turnover, and by this stage, our backline is easy to overload. This also is a problem defending set pieces, again, the second pass is often when we lose possession.

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