Wellington is amateur hour. Everything about the club. They actually bring the level of the league down
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Coricaâs presser here:
Caceres was a tightness in his calf, but SDJ - apparently he heard a crack when he was tackled.
It was especially poor given the conjecture over their future. They shouldnât be giving FFA any more reasons if they want to stay.
Poor bloody Siem. You can literally hear him scream when he goes down.
And todayâs game should once and for all stop the FFA/VAR/SFC/Lizard Men conspiracy theories. Every club is needlessly copping some really poor decisions. I await Bozzaâs next commentsâŠ
VAR ignores an elbow in the face (red card offence) + dive in the box (yellow card offence) whilst inexpicably reaffirming an incorrect penalty. Even the kiwi commentators couldnât believe it.
I think the Grand Final screwup last season season plus all the howlers this season is more than enough reason to put VAR on hold until they sort their shit out.
VAR missed a pretty clear pen for Adelaide tonight as well.
Corica in.
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I am still drunk.
It is super windy here.
Yellow Fever lads are super nice.
The referee needs to quit and take up knitting
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Seems like youâre right, theyâve changed it to Brosque on the A-League website:
Big relief for this weekend
Some fabulous attacking play from us in the first half and good defending all game. Corica really got it right in setting us up to maximise player strengths and cover for our weaknesses (given the threat from Krishna et al). And, despite being a very makeshift back 4, they seemed to really synchronise well. Reddders and/or Wilko doing more talking? Good on Calver too, much improved positioning and much calmer on the ball. OâNeill was superb, Ninko and Josh B getting back to their best. Da Silva is really starting to bloom now and Alf and Brosquie do what they always do.
Brenton Speed mentioned on twitter that the usual VAR âBunkerâ isnât used for games in Wellington and is seemingly outsourced to some other unknown group. Makes it even more of a joke tbh.
Nixout.
Apparently things got a bit heated between Corica and Rudan post game:
Thatâs weak as piss from Rudes tbh. Corica handled it perfectly when asked about it in his presser.
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No surprises that Rudes is more of a hothead than Steve. Itâs just their personalities.
Corica was bang on the money about Wellyâs time wasting when they rolled us. It doesnât mean they didnât beat us fair and square, but they were pretty flagrant at this.
Careful Bimbi, heâs after your job!
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Interesting decision the ref came up with yesterdayâŠ
(https://mobile.twitter.com/SmithiesTele/status/1088310207363436544)
Might seem relatively small fish in wider context of this week but⊠Sydney FC would have had a penalty last night if the VAR had his way. Video ref told ref Daniel Elder decision on handball needed reviewing, Elder watched it on big screen (cos monitor wasnât working) and (1/2)
decided wind had blown ball into Fentonâs arm. Strange but true. A-League has confirmed decision was wrong. Suspect Elder will quietly be benched, though heâs already appted to be 4th official at Adelaide on SunâŠ
I canât even get my around at that even. Yeah it was windy, but pretty sure you donât volleyball it whenever it is windy? He clearly used his arm to control the ball.
Iâve put the match report up here:
It may have been inadvertent, but we now know how Gaelic football began.
The second decision was worse. Clear foul on Zullo, clear dive by Taylor. How the fuck did it stand?