Strikers Fire In Brisbane

17 minutes ago, wendybr said:

That's what I'd heard tonight, but found hard to believe!

How utterly absurd not to have ironed out "how, who and what instigates a review"   

Thanks Hughsey!  

 

PS  Since when is there any sort of guarantee that merely because the ref is standing 10 metres away and staring at an incident that the incident will be treated the right way??  

 

 

Evans might need to go to Spec Savers. He also watched the Bobo rack in the game against Heartless

Herd needs to smarten up and just play football, his aggression is a bit to much and needs spoken to, but happy to see him start and hopefully play every week.

Oreo showed his class and should not of been doubted. Bridge was good and Santa as well.

The var is a joke and needs to be fixed, seriously how could they not look at it with Santa bleeding with a break in play.

Still wasn't a quality performance especially the first half,but a couple of goals might turn things around and bring in some much need confidence.

Hopefully Gombau can bring in a creative winger or true 10 to give more service to Oreo and make a real run for the finals.

8 minutes ago, Burgerman said:

Herd needs to smarten up and just play football, his aggression is a bit to much and needs spoken to, but happy to see him start and hopefully play every week.

Oreo showed his class and should not of been doubted. Bridge was good and Santa as well.

The var is a joke and needs to be fixed, seriously how could they not look at it with Santa bleeding with a break in play.

Still wasn't a quality performance especially the first half,but a couple of goals might turn things around and bring in some much need confidence.

Hopefully Gombau can bring in a creative winger or true 10 to give more service to Oreo and make a real run for the finals.

I think that is why he was willing to say "sayonara" toJumpei. Didn't have the quality finishing required.

Couple of things re. the VAR

The VAR ref decides to check incidents independently 

The Santa clash was not checked by VAR. The VAR ref didn't deem it a significant error 

Macaronne can be reviewed by the panel and given a retrospective ban as dealing with it on the field means getting a yellow or red and the ref did neither 

The Roar had too many shots on goal for my liking, but they are always a handful, and difficult to play in these humid Brisbane nights.

Maccarone - WTF?

Gombau and the experienced players seem to have found common ground. Four above 30 players starting at the back, three up front, with three "youngsters" running midfield - it worked well. Clisby seemed the weak link, especially first half. 

Good to see Gameiro back on the pitch. How many ACLs has he had? Two? Three? Good to see him losing in a game against the wsw. 

JayZKo's favourite player scored another goal, had an assist, and worked his arse off for 95 mins. I hope he stays injury free and keeps producing this kind of football. 

So nice to lose the possession stats in first half and yet go into the sheds 2-0 up.....Looking forward to statues of Santa and Bridge and The Snake at Parra Mk. 2. The Passionate Trio!! Kudos to the travelling grubs on tour in the away bay. Sure not the greatest display with defensive issues and giving the ball away too easily but great to see the fight and emotion back. 

Gareth Bale is the left footed Lachlan Scott 

Just watched the replay again and everyone agrees that Maccarone should have had a straight red for the elbow on Santa. On the 85th min he got a yellow for a foul on Clisby.i would say even that was borderline straight red. No intention to play the ball and had a lunge at Clisby.

1 hour ago, FCB said:

 

JayZKo's favourite player scored another goal, had an assist, and worked his arse off for 95 mins. I hope he stays injury free and keeps producing this kind of football. 

He was clearly best on field. We couldn’t complain if drew or lost that game we were not that great 

the first goal he strategically position himself away from the play awaiting any spillage and mopped it up

his ball for bridge on the 2nd - all class 

hes general play was great again 

like u said jayzko for some reason is anti Reira with little reason why 

Reira doesn’t play last night we don’t get the points - probably same against city 

with hopefully a quality import to come signs are good 

solid away support and noise last night well down all 

Loved the strikers up front. Looked way threating when santa, reira and scott held up the ball to pass it off.

I prefer scott over jumpei on the wings any day. Showed heart and bullied the defense instead falling over like a numpty

3 hours ago, pseudonym said:

Very happy with the win. A good effort by all of the team. 

Only one security guard annoyed WSW fans telling people to stop leaning on the fence. All other staff were fine.

Since most people in the away bay were not RBB members, we took breaks between chants to cope with the humidity. This prompted a "Who Are Ya" chant from the Den ... when they were already 2-0 down 

My first win from 8 interstate trips (3rd Roar trip).

The Den should really learn to stfu against us. They just continue to embarrass themselves.

Btw on the broadcast, couldn't even hear them. They are a shadow of their former selves, which wasn't that great to begin with.

3 hours ago, FCB said:

Good to see Gameiro back on the pitch. How many ACLs has he had? Two? Three? Good to see him losing in a game against the wsw.

Gameiro has done his ACL(s) 3 times. Twice on one knee and once on the other.

2 hours ago, bombagol said:

BTW, if you decide to drop your team colours for stupid NRL State of Origin maroon jerseys, you deserve to lose 2:0 in front of your own fans!!!

Apparently the maroon jersey is one of their most popular and best sellers every year (parochial Queenslanders).

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Great to see a (relatively) solid performance, another win (in a row!) and cleansheet. Hoping we can build some momentum and continue to accumulate points. I did not expect Santa to last the full game, and wonder if he and some of the others can back it up on Wednesday. If not, very curious which youngsters will get their chance.

I was pleased to see the team play with passion and cohesion, maybe the "motivational" talk from the RBB has had an impact?

12 hours ago, Paul01 said:

Despite Mack stating the formation as 4-4-1-1, multiple websites (including the A-League) stating we had a 4-2-3-1 formation.  All the players are familar with it so better result which is weird the men's team are now in outright 6th due to Adelaide's win.

And we play Adelaide at ANZ on Wednesday night. The have Absalonsen back but may have lost Adlung. We will be without Herd but get Roly back. We have Santalab and Cornthwaite on 4 yellows as well. 

Gombau said in the press conference it was a 4-4-2 then a 4-2-4 late in the game with the pressing high and subbing on Scott.

52 minutes ago, GrEmIoWaNdErEr said:

The den are pussies they set off flare at semi final parra three seasons back and they copped it hard especially when we got the third goal everyone just gave them the fingers and the hand waves one guy wanted to fight them it was hilarious still to this day the den run bunch of pussies also they copy chants from every club and that's why they are really hated by everyone 

Is there really much to hate about the Den? They are hardly of the Cold Blow Lane variety !!

On the way home, having lunch at Grafton. 

What a top night! Linked up with Pseuds and dmix and Tristan from many years ago, and met and chatted with other Wanderers.

Sang loud and proud, got a win, overdid the "refreshments".

Woohoo!

And helped the problem secco repeatedly by pointing out all the people bresking his rules in adjacent bays. But he didn't seem to understand!

Grinding results in true WSW fashion.

ATM we’re decent against lesser opponents.

Any top side would have punished us given the amount of space and time on the ball.

The constant turnovers also are a huge worry. 

Adelaide are going to be very difficult. 

Lachlan Scott may be a better right winger than a centre forward 

Any news on Cejudo and Risdon injuries  ??

1 hour ago, GrEmIoWaNdErEr said:

Just landed in Sydney airport and looking forward to celebrating the win with a milk carton full of alcohol that's how we do it at Grêmio and plus want to say thank you for your support for my passing of papa thx BTW here is a little chant that really sets the mood dale dale wandereerers 

 

Well.... that goes to show that even at a less than perfect venue for watching football  (like at ANZ and Spotless) - and a long way from the pitch, noise, energy and passion CAN certainly be generated.  

3 hours ago, MartinTyler said:

Is there really much to hate about the Den? They are hardly of the Cold Blow Lane variety !!

Exactly.  All this who is the 'hardest firm' tosh is childish. .

Scott really took me by surprise. Has always been largely uninspiring and off the pace up front, but looked much more comfortable on the wing!

be interested to see how he goes in a few more matches when needed.

I think someone mentioned it above.

but the commentry was aluding to the fact that the VAR did not check it as they sid not deem in a clear and big enough error from the ref.

so this is now how they are operating ever since our mariners clash.

Now i understand the concept and this is the right idea, but it just shows there has to be a few rules for different scenarios in place.

ie:

- only check if it is deemed to be a clear and big ref error during normal play.

- During the stopping of play due to a head or potential foul play injury off the ball, Use the farking time to check what happened with VAR! 

6 hours ago, GunnerWanderer said:

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3 hours ago, xxBrandonxx said:

Grinding results in true WSW fashion.

ATM we’re decent against lesser opponents.

Any top side would have punished us given the amount of space and time on the ball.

The constant turnovers also are a huge worry. 

Adelaide are going to be very difficult. 

 

8 hours ago, Burgerman said:

Herd needs to smarten up and just play football, his aggression is a bit to much and needs spoken to, but happy to see him start and hopefully play every ...................

...............Hopefully Gombau can bring in a creative winger or true 10 to give more service to Oreo and make a real run for the finals.

On Herd - yep i thought he might cost us the lead for a while there. Was relieved when he was subbed. He's a good player but you need to aim to win the ball at least some of the time, rather taking the player out. 

Re a creative winger. Not his usual position but I thought Lachie Scott was outstanding when he came on, playing down the right. I really would have liked to have seen more of him in that role as opposed to an out and out striker. (Idk positioning that well so i may have got this wrong)

7 minutes ago, GrEmIoWaNdErEr said:

That's my culture amico I don't come from a safe crime free country where you don't get raped bashed murdered. in Brazil you learn discipline and self respect I had to fight for survival that's the way of life in Brazil and all those things come into football so people put there anger into football and you end up with fights riots and **** so I'm not a firm because firms fight for their club that's what they do did I say I was a firm no I call myself a gang member because that's what we call ourselves in Brazil someone comes on our turf we fight for survival rights it teaches discipline for your master but here in Australia now one knows discipline or self respect like when you go out to the train stations in Sydney I've met blokes that call them selves a gang  I say what gang they say ahhhhhh we are dlashr or some **** I said you want to fight me because I'll kill you dogs and they laugh because I kicked their heads in so no one has respect or even self respect for that matter  these gangs in Australia will get destroyed by gangs in Brazil I know how to defend myself I had to defend myself for a way of life and that gets put into football if you don't understand than go to Brazil yourself and spend one night in the favelas of rio and you'll know what I mean

lol what

I read that the VAR ref doesn't pull up on any decisions made if the on-field referee is his mate

I think that article had a stat about how many times decisions were changed if it was a "newer" A-League referee (like Elder or Alms, whatever the names are) rather than the old firm like Evans, KGJ, Beath, etc.

2 minutes ago, GrEmIoWaNdErEr said:

See what I mean no one understands 

Understands what? Genuinely asking. What was your point?

Gremio's posts are the best 

Ah fair enough. Still not sure why you brought it up but it was a good insight into another culture.

Anyway 2 WINS lets keep it going!

https://www.a-league.com.au/news/cornthwaite-no-more-excuses-resurgent-wanderers