I’d honestly rather give the opportunity to one of the NPL lads who are coming back from the tournament in Germany.
Rodwell will probably throw his back out from the hour and a half sitting down on the bus up the F3.
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I thought I’d done an update more recently than 4 weeks ago, but, much like test cricket, this is a game rewarding the patient. And our rewards were those 18 minutes a couple of games ago, and a new injury to ponder.
TBH we have two home grown kids killing it at the back, and despite their rough edges, this is our best looking CB combo since the Gowser-Wilko pairing was broken up by the former’s exit, and for that reason, I don’t think we’re really caring anymore. But the gods of the numbers demand a conclusion, so let’s have a look…
| Round | Minutes this week | Cumulative Minutes | 2022-23 Comparison | Minutes per game | To 828 | 828 - Regular Season | To 946 | 946 - Regular Season | 946 - 1 Final | 946 - 2 finals | 946 - 3 Finals | 946 - 4 Finals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Before Season | NA | 0 | 0 | 0 | 828 | 31 | 946 | 35 | 34 | 33 | 32 | 31 |
| 20 | 0 | 271 | 244 | 14 | 557 | 80 | 675 | 96 | 84 | 75 | 68 | 61 |
| 21 | 18 | 289 | 316 | 14 | 539 | 90 | 657 | 110 | 94 | 82 | 73 | 66 |
| 22 | 0 | 289 | 406 | 13 | 539 | 108 | 657 | 131 | 110 | 94 | 82 | 73 |
Despite the mere trickle of minutes played, we’re hurdling through the tipping points (or more accurately crashing through these tipping point hurdles) at a great rate.
Leading into tonight’s game,
- we have 289 minutes played (savour them! Drink them in!)
- We are 657 minutes from the 946
- 5 matches remain in the H&A season
Target 1 (946 in regular season): FAILED
Target 2 (828 in regular season): FAILED
Target 3: 946 in 1 final): FAILED
Target 4 (946 in 2 finals): FAILED
Target 5: (946 in 3 finals): ALIVE with 82 minutes per game. If JR is out for tonight, then we can just write failed here too
Target 6: (946 in 4 finals): ALIVE with 73 minutes per game
In other news, my value-o-meter is proving to be pretty poor value as there is some corrosion in the battery bay meaning it’s still not working despite the new set of AAAs. I’m pretty confident I can get it sorted with some patience and sandpaper, and it will come good for an assessment on JR before the season ends, so we can work out whether the club made a wise decision with this signing, or if they jumped naively and incredibly stupidly into a clearly signposted massive fucking hole with a guaranteed outcome of miserable failure. Only time will tell.
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I only just remembered about this guys the other day.
He’s surely basically completely frozen out at this point.
Surely the worst signing in our history. In the running for worst in the history of the league.
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How quick we are to forget the pride of American football, Alejandro Salazar, who played… absolutely no minutes whatsoever.
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Now this is a statement I can get behind, never mind Fabio Gomes.
Absoloute waste of time, effort and money on him. I’m sure he’s a nice enough bloke, but it is by far Corica’s worst signing. He does have the quality of a good player, but the gamble Corica and the club took when signing him from Wanderers, well, you may have taken his salary headed to the Casino and placed it all on the roulette table and gone all out on black. Better odds of success.
Unfortunately it’s further tarnished his career as a player. I doubt he’ll play on after this season - and if there’s a club mad enough to take him, good riddance to them. Perhaps he needs to start working on his coaching badges. I wonder what he’s like with punditry.
Further, it’s also unfortunately tarnished Corica’s reputation somewhat further as a Sydney manager. Signing JR, and the N******c drama, are the two lowest points in his otherwise stellar career as a Sydney FC hero.
Yeah but he didn’t cost more than Dwight Yorke…
Being the worst signing doesn’t just mean how few minutes you played.
Enfield and Salazar cost us nothing. As for Rodwell, we really could have used a designated player/ marquee foreign defender over the last couple of seasons.
Michael Enfield is a close runner up as well. Played all of what, 1 half of football either side of two ACLs.
I assumed this as well, especially around the Covid / illness absence when finally fit, but Uffy has just clearly stated they’ll slot him back in and use him when Olyroo call-ups hit us.
A grifter like Rodwell doesn’t deserve to ever get a contract again in professional football. The bloke’s a compo bludger. No doubt after this season, he’ll move on to a job with transport nsw where he’ll see his days out on strike.
Nah, he’ll be a construction worker lollypop man.
He’ll get an infected splinter wound holding the sign, and then be out for years on compo.
He hasn’t travelled to Perth according to this
Also, this is desperate straw-clutching but was wondering if your finals calculations include the possibility of extra time in up to 3 of them?
No, that will be adjusted as we go, otherwise you need to multiply every possible finals game (except for the first leg of the semis) by 2 possibilities which blows the number of columns out.
Yeah right, I just meant the bolding to indicate impossibility vs targets. E.g. if he were to play 90 minutes tonight and for the remaining 4 games ( 
) , and we somehow finished top 2, he could play 210 minutes in those first two finals games to just average > 94 per game and eclipse the 946.
If/when he doesn’t play tonight, I think he could still make it in 3 finals games with at least 1 of them going to ET. In theory 
We can make the assumption we’ll play the maximum possible minutes of ET (3x30=90 minutes) and all that does is add one more game. or put things back a week.
So assuming that, after tonight, that bottom line in my table can just be re-posted.
Sure. I guess I’ll believe it when I see it?
If he hasn’t even travelled to Perth, I reckon it seems unlikely.
That’s literally the reason given for not going to Perth. Click the link above in Rowdy’s post.
The reason he’s not going to Perth is that he’s fit and raring to go when the young boys are away?
Sure.
Or maybe he needs a rest, so he’s ready for next weekend?
I don’t think we can rely on Rodwell for a single game.
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Correct. Given we got 828 minutes out of him (out of 2610) last season, and 289 this season (out of 2070 including tonight), that’s 1117 out of 4680 minutes played, or just under 25% of available minutes.
So sure, he will fill in for the kids when they go on Olyroos duty, provided Olyroos duty aligns with that lucky 1/4 weeks when we get Rodwell fit. Sigh.
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Well, we can probably all agree that playing him when the kids are still here does infinitely increase the chances of him being unavailable when they’re not. I mean, imagine the strain on his core caused by having to check his bag onto that flight for starters.
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Probably comes down with chronic anxieety just looking at the choices in the Qantas lounge
Qantas employee: “Hello sir, complimentary orange juice?”
Rodwell: (Home Simpson scream, jumps up, pulls a hamstring)