In that case #SydneyIsRedandBlack is highly offensive.
In that case #SydneyIsRedandBlack is highly offensive.
This is the reason I missed last night. Had the office shindig to go to.
Despite the free food & piss, I would have much preferred to be at Kogarah paying for my own overpriced shit beer.
Did no-one else notice this?
Thatās a new level of stupid, even for twitter.
Vic did.
Yeah, I did. I was pissing myself laughing!
I did indeed, Iām amazed that the internet is not filled with gifs of this.
I need to watch a full replay this week, but our 3rd was probably the pick of the bunch and some of the best linkup yet between ALF and Kosta.
ALF makes an early forward run thatās ignored by Brattan, but the fact heās now offside totally disrupts their line and is what allows Kosta to run in behind from deeper. The ball from Grant is inch perfect and ALF absolutely destroys Courtney-Perkins in pure effort and desire (this has been evident the last few weeks and again on our 2nd goal where Neville showed no interest in getting closer to Milosā¦ itās been pointed out by other posters here but Brisbaneās wide players have been consistently ordinary in a system designed to utilise them. Really glad King got a hit out against that rabble).
Then the vision and/or communication is top notch, not enough love for that reverse ball from Kosta, and the finish from ALF is just ridiculous. For all his faults Jamie Young is still a good shot stopper, itās not often heās left rooted to the spot and doesnāt even flinch.
Fair play guys. We got absolutely spankedā¦ I feel Robbie has underestimated the standard of play the top sides are capable of in the A-League and therefore his recruitment and tactics are not up to scratchā¦ Not sure if weāll get near the top 6 this seasonā¦
Has the league moved on that much since he played here? Surely heād have had some idea of the standard of player that was making a living out here
Was thinking the same. Fowler seems to have gone for lower-level Brit leagues journeymen (including Inman) of a good age rather than much better/classier but maybe older players - the main pattern in the HAL visa players. Alf is somewhere in between - much, much better but not much older than the BR guys. Maybe Fowlerās experience playing in the heat in Townsville and Perth convinced him that what he needed in steamy Brisbane were guys who could run all day and tackle rather than good and smart ball players. At that point he should have tried to get some more good Australian players - and I would say Queenslanders. The new Steffanuto, de Vere etc. Players with passion and energy for the shirt.
Maybe BR has also not provided enough money to get decent marquee talent. I thought we were a 5 goal better team than BR in the FA cup match we lost but were rusty in front of goals and Jamie Young had one of those games. This confirmed it. Canāt see us missing so many chances again now that Kosta knows it is OK to cut the pass back inside rather than try to drill goals from a 25 degree angle.
@Finsta not a dig at you at all mate (you seem like a sensible guy) butā¦
Fuck Iām glad theyre struggling. Told you so, etc. How many of these guys are on multi year deals? Could be a bitch to unpick that squad and start again - competing with Mac and WU as well.
You should also question his fashion sense.
Embarrassing both on and off the field.
Absolutely. From a purely financial perspective weāve gone from $2.25m cap to $3.2m, 1 marquee to 2, added 4 U23s outside the cap and loyalty player allowances.
Then clubs have also gotten a bit better at managing the cap (in particular, top-heavy squads have proven to be the dominant strategy rather than spending cap on depth in each position) and much, much better at recruiting foreign players.
And to cap it all off, the level of football as Fowler experienced it would have been less than representative of A-League standard even then, having played for two particularly poor A-League sides. Cumulatively between NQF and Perth he picked up 55 points in 57 games with a -44 GD.
I think weāre the poster boys in this regard. The one year we missed finals under Arnie was the one year we went for a bigger squad (ātwo players for each positionā), though we did get out of our ACL group. Since then weāve stacked the first XI and the trade off has been we lose some youth who canāt get enough minutes.
Semi related I saw some classic match highlights up on Kayo over the weekend, featuring ADPās first home game (3-2 loss to Newy) and randomly a bog average 2-2 draw away to Adelaide where Scorey got a goal and I have no idea why itās deemed a classic. But man we had some absolutely HONKING players in those daysā¦ back 4 of Pedj, Jurman, Petkovic and Warren.
The stuff of nightmares.
Pedj, the only professional soccer player dumb enough to play with a body fat level below 10%.
Mine usually include Fabinho, McLenahan and Tiago as well.
Watched all of the Sydney-related āClassicā games. I was hoping that at least one of them would be the walk-out slash Carle-Thompson-swap game which was actually a significant moment in our history, but instead every Sydney/Adelaide āclassicā was completely unmemorable and inconsequential. Pretty sure they just picked matches at random.
How awesome would it be to be assigned āclassic match curatorā. I canāt think of some amazing Sydney FC games that Iād show, but also some other A League matches.