Round 3: Sydney FC - 7:50pm AEST - AAMI Park

[HeartOfCity]

This season is a bust!!! #WJOUT #CFGOUT as if i need this at the start of the weekend!!!! 

[mus-28]

Is Bruce Djite still available? At least we could play long ball to him because we've got no fucking idea how to open up a defence.

[illeatyourheart]

Was Fornaroli more creative during his debut season, or was it that he had Mooy and Novillo creating for him? It's been a while since Bruno has looked like threatening the goal.

 

Edit: I'll never forget those goals he created from next to nothing cutting way in from the left wing

Edited November 2, 2018 by illeatyourheart

[Shahanga]

Couldn’t score in a brothel

[haz]

2 minutes ago, illeatyourheart said:

Was Fornaroli more creative during his debut season, or was it that he had Mooy and Novillo creating for him? It's been a while since Bruno has looked like threatening the goal.

 

Edit: I'll never forget those goals he created from next to nothing cutting way in from the left wing

More so because now he is having to collect the balls from the wing. Rarely he gets passed the ball now facing the goal in the centre

Quality marquee player we have right there

[Inchcolm]

Caught in possession again this time DeLaet

[Shahanga]

Lol at our defending. It’s that or cry.

[CityHeart]

we seemingly have spent so much on defense, no creativity at all...and cant defend!

Alarm bells should be going off left, right and center at sleepy hollow, Bundoora. Watch em do nothing.

[haz]

At the start of the season I was thinking our defense was best in the league. Boy was I wrong! About 75% of goals scored against us have been due to turnovers in or near our own box

No one played exceptionally bad. Just the whole team went out with no intensity. Its becoming a worrying pattern.

[recyclosaurusrex]

Fucking commentators being all 'desperation play there by Sydney' for that goal. Wasn't desperation you fuckwits it's just our defenders are a bunch of spudfucks and don't know how to get rid of a ball. Fuck me.

I am not having a good time this year.

[CityHeart]

Need a CEO - our culture must be utter mush inside the walls. 

Coaching seemingly a reflection - just meander through the season win some, lose some who cares etc.

Real issue is unlike last season, a lot of teams are actually decent for this level. Not only is it hard to see us making finals, it could get a lot worse! We are of no threat this season. No creativity, no goals.

[Inchcolm]

7 minutes ago, haz said:

At the start of the season I was thinking our defense was best in the league. Boy was I wrong! About 75% of goals scored against us have been due to turnovers in or near our own box

No one played exceptionally bad. Just the whole team went out with no intensity. Its becoming a worrying pattern.

I think our defense is good. We got punished for two mistakes. The formation was wrong. 4.2.3.1 worked in the preseason. Tonight he went for 4.3.3 McGree is not aware defensively to play right mid field he needs the 2 sitting players behind him. There was no need to change it. 

[belaguttman]

Positives:

I wasn't there

I haven't bought a season ticket yet

 

Negatives:

Where to start, no intensity and shapeless for much of the game

Predictable and ponderous when 'attacking'. No change of pace, no movement, no ideas, we lack a creative playmaker

Did Wazza have a game plan?

Did we have a front 3? Totally starved of opportunity but didn't help themselves by impersonating light blue traffic cones

The tragedy is that there were 12,000 there tonight, next week there'll be 8,000 and all momentum to build a crowd for another season has been lost, it'll be very hard to regain after than performance

The contrast to the totally professional performance from the women's team that dominated the smurfs without 3 of our star players was profound. We don't have a cultural problem in the organisation, we've had a succession of poor coaches, Wazza only being the latest

Edited November 2, 2018 by belaguttman

[rayv36]

De Laet to CB, Atkinson to RB and Delbridge can fuck off

[xXCiTyZeNXx]

We are utter shit. This management board should be sacked, Joyce should be sacked, French blokes gotta go, caceres is a has been, Mcgree is McShit, Wales should be for sale, Bruno should piss off and JVS is better than WJ

 

This club are a bunch of retards for actually not trying to sign a class player and this reflects our game and on top of that WJ has a shittest tactics I have ever seen in football

Edited November 2, 2018 by xXCiTyZeNXx

[moops]

1 minute ago, rayv36 said:

De Laet to CB, Atkinson to RB and Delbridge can fuck off

This and Pierias to LB.

[playmaker]

I was being entertain by this gif all night and what a night it was.

Was there a game on or something.

[belaguttman]

Just now, playmaker said:

I was being entertain by this gif all night and what a night it was.

Was there a game on or something.

No, the smurfs had a training session

[moops]

Just now, playmaker said:

I was being entertain by this gif all night and what a night it was.

Was there a game on or something.

Are we trialing a new striker?

[SF33]

I wouldn't be surprised if Redmayne now has more clean sheets playing against City for Sydney FC than he did in two years as the 'shot stopper' (as Brenton Speed put it, I assume an ironic reference) for Heart/City.

Will there ever be a line in the sand moment with these fuckwits? Jamieson sums it up in his post-match "It's only the third game, if Dario's chance had gone in it would have been a different game...blah...blah...blah," it's the same old crap and it's embarrassing. Outcoached and outworked by a team who wanted it more, even though they were banged up, and playing their third game in a week, their second in three days on the road.

Don't they ever get sick of being made to look like amateurs against Sydney? Once again, they embarrass themselves and then it's laughs and hugs after the game. It's unacceptable.

 

[citypool]

I actually thought delbridge did alright 

[belaguttman]

Just now, moops said:

Are we trialing a new striker?

A goat would be good, much better than 11 sheep

[hakz7]

1 minute ago, belaguttman said:

A goat would be good, much better than 11 sheep

Mooy left, mate

[CityHeart]

1 minute ago, SF33 said:

Will there ever be a line in the sand moment with these fuckwits? Jamieson sums it up in his post-match "It's only the third game, if Dario's chance had gone in it would have been a different game...blah...blah...blah," it's the same old crap and it's embarrassing

 

laughed at that too.

One word. Culture.

The CEO position may be the one that needs changing first. 

[Rasputin]

Pathetic

[moops]

3 minutes ago, belaguttman said:

A goat would be good, much better than 11 sheep

Not sure about his jumping height.

[Inchcolm]

Our main goal threat is Vidosic. He takes him off. Fornaroli should have come off and Vidosic put through the middle. Then fire balls into the box it is far better doing something positive than all this pussy passing sideways and backwards.

Edited November 2, 2018 by Inchcolm

[marn11]

Waiting patiently for the forum's optimists to remind us how strong the squad is, how we are a shot at the title and how although the club's culture is rotten to the core, we can't possibly blame Scott Munn for this as he's a good bloke and his role has nothing to do with performance on field. 

[belaguttman]

Just now, marn11 said:

Waiting patiently for the forum's optimists to remind us how strong the squad is, how we are a shot at the title and how although the club's culture is rotten to the core, we can't possibly blame Scott Munn for this as he's a good bloke and his role has nothing to do with performance on field. 

The only problem I have with the 'club culture argument' is the 3 trophies won by the women and the 2 won by the youth team. If the problem was organisation-wide then I'd expect the same issues there too.

[marn11]

Just now, belaguttman said:

The only problem I have with the 'club culture argument' is the 3 trophies won by the women and the 2 won by the youth team. If the problem was organisation-wide then I'd expect the same issues there too.

Fair call.

[belaguttman]

7 minutes ago, Inchcolm said:

Our main goal threat is Vidosic. He takes him off. Fornaroli should have come off and Vidosic put through the middle. Then fire balls into the box it is far better doing something positive than all this pussy passing sideways and backwards.

Wazza usually brought on a defender when we were behind last season

[moops]

2 minutes ago, belaguttman said:

The only problem I have with the 'club culture argument' is the 3 trophies won by the women and the 2 won by the youth team. If the problem was organisation-wide then I'd expect the same issues there too.

It's a coaching problem, I agree.

[RedAndWhitePride]

This club is absolutely fucked. 

 

And to do that in front of 12,000 people. 

 

Happy to admit I wasn't there, not even those free tickets tempted me. This has been the first season I haven't had a season ticket either, just not worth the four hour round trip anymore. 

Its worse than mediocre, I struggle to care that much now considering the lack of investment in the squad. 

 

Oh well. 

Edited November 2, 2018 by RedAndWhitePride

[belaguttman]

3 minutes ago, marn11 said:

Waiting patiently for the forum's optimists to remind us how strong the squad is, how we are a shot at the title and how although the club's culture is rotten to the core, we can't possibly blame Scott Munn for this as he's a good bloke and his role has nothing to do with performance on field. 

It is only one game, however, the first home game is important in reassuring those who have gambled on a ticket that this season will be different. So far, same issues as every other season, it's a very unfortunate fixture to play so poorly. Many people won't return

[hakz7]

I don’t know what was worse. The team’s performance or the terrace.

[Dylan]

Jesus

[belaguttman]

1 minute ago, RedAndWhitePride said:

This club is absolutely fucked. 

 

And to do that in front of 12,000 people. 

 

Happy to admit I wasn't there, not even those free tickets got me to go. This has been the first season I haven't had a season ticket either, why bother when CFG can't even invest properly in a decent coach? 

Its worse than mediocre. 

 

fixed

[Mr MO]

26 minutes ago, Inchcolm said:

I think our defense is good. We got punished for two mistakes. The formation was wrong. 4.2.3.1 worked in the preseason. Tonight he went for 4.3.3 McGree is not aware defensively to play right mid field he needs the 2 sitting players behind him. There was no need to change it. 

We can only play 4-2-3-1 remember! There is only one striker in our squad and rest are midfielders, Wales and the working holiday Frenchman are technically midfielders.

I loved the substitutions when chasing the game - 2 midfielders off and 2 midfielders on! But hey we got no other options as that is how our squad is assembled by our PE teacher.

Boy we must be regretting now not having replaced Halloran.

Edited November 2, 2018 by Mr MO

[haz]

26 minutes ago, Inchcolm said:

I think our defense is good. We got punished for two mistakes. The formation was wrong. 4.2.3.1 worked in the preseason. Tonight he went for 4.3.3 McGree is not aware defensively to play right mid field he needs the 2 sitting players behind him. There was no need to change it. 

Can't say that after the way we seem to concede the last 3 games

[moops]

2 minutes ago, hakz7 said:

I don’t know what was worse. The team’s performance or the terrace.

Outsung by Sydney, the only peep (or parp) I heard from us was the trumpet.