mack Posted April 17, 2017 Share Posted April 17, 2017 Opponent: Brisbane Roar Brisbane Roar vs Western Sydney Wanderers VS Date and Local Kick-Off Time at Stadium: 04/21/2017 Sydney Kick-Off Time: 7:50PM EST Elimination Final: Elimination Final A-League Final Series: A-League Final Series Location: Brisbane, Queensland Stadium: Suncorp Stadium View full record Link to comment
WestSyd Posted April 17, 2017 Share Posted April 17, 2017 The positive if we lose is we don't give the FFA what they want. It will only band aid over all the cracks of the league and the way it is run if they get their big 60,000 preliminary final crowd (there is no way it will be at Allianz). Sithslayer1991 and mack 2 Link to comment
DamnedUnited Posted April 17, 2017 Share Posted April 17, 2017 Drip drip drip..... This gig ain't what it used to be. Thanks David. Thanks Ben. Got that souless fuzzy family atmosphere thing you've been working toward finally happening. Link to comment
Howie Posted April 17, 2017 Share Posted April 17, 2017 Flights booked , ticket bought , thanks to my brother for allowing me to share accommodation with him . COYW . That was the easy bit, just got to ask the wife if i can go! Cheers Howie. StringerBellend, wendybr, Edinburgh and 1 other 4 Link to comment
beatsurrender Posted April 17, 2017 Share Posted April 17, 2017 (edited) This is our season. Out of the ACL. Disappointing in the FFA Cup. Horrendous displacement to the hell hole that is SOP. ESFC have been brilliant. No question. We beat Brisbane and we get the chance to beat the best team statistically in A League history. We get another crack at the Holy Grail in domestic football. Lose in Suncorp and this season is a disaster. Win and like the Phoenix we rise. The Smurfs will be filling their pants. Our season. This Friday. Right here. Right now. This is football. We are Western Sydney Edited April 17, 2017 by beatsurrender btron3000, DamnedUnited, FegyverTimot and 9 others 12 Link to comment
wendybr Posted April 17, 2017 Share Posted April 17, 2017 Flights booked , ticket bought , thanks to my brother for allowing me to share accommodation with him . COYW . That was the easy bit, just got to ask the wife if i can go! Cheers Howie. Hahaha Good Luck Howie!! PS Are you related to HAPPY? TheSweeper 1 Link to comment
theguyyouwishyouwere Posted April 17, 2017 Share Posted April 17, 2017 out cos japan. DCWSW 1 Link to comment
btron3000 Posted April 17, 2017 Share Posted April 17, 2017 out cos japan.Pfft theguyyouwishyouwere 1 Link to comment
luisenrique Posted April 17, 2017 Share Posted April 17, 2017 Horus, Tranquilo, TheSweeper and 1 other 4 Link to comment
Zelinsky Posted April 17, 2017 Share Posted April 17, 2017 This is our season. Out of the ACL. Disappointing in the FFA Cup. Horrendous displacement to the hell hole that is SOP. ESFC have been brilliant. No question. We beat Brisbane and we get the chance to beat the best team statistically in A League history. We get another crack at the Holy Grail in domestic football. Lose in Suncorp and this season is a disaster. Win and like the Phoenix we rise. The Smurfs will be filling their pants. Our season. This Friday. Right here. Right now. This is football. We are Western Sydney Doing well in the post season cup would give the notion of a good season undeserved oxygen. 36 points. 23 points won against the four teams behind us. Beaten the five teams ahead of us only twice in 15 games. Horrid. This has been a p1ss weak WSW side. At least the official talk about being a "big and ambitious club" that is in the business of "winning titles" has stopped, and thank goodness for that. DCWSW, StringerBellend and leslie 3 Link to comment
lloydy136 Posted April 17, 2017 Share Posted April 17, 2017 (edited) This is our season. Out of the ACL. Disappointing in the FFA Cup. Horrendous displacement to the hell hole that is SOP. ESFC have been brilliant. No question. We beat Brisbane and we get the chance to beat the best team statistically in A League history. We get another crack at the Holy Grail in domestic football. Lose in Suncorp and this season is a disaster. Win and like the Phoenix we rise. The Smurfs will be filling their pants. Our season. This Friday. Right here. Right now. This is football. We are Western Sydney Doing well in the post season cup would give the notion of a good season undeserved oxygen. 36 points. 23 points won against the four teams behind us. Beaten the five teams ahead of us only twice in 15 games. Horrid. This has been a p1ss weak WSW side. At least the official talk about being a "big and ambitious club" that is in the business of "winning titles" has stopped, and thank goodness for that. true but since we punted borda after the city red card debacle we have taken 22 points from 13 games including 8 points from the teams above us. That form throughout the season would have put us 3rd - less than a win behind victory. the team during those games has featured corny, antonis, baccus and (yes reluctantly I will acknowledge his contribution) the keeper. we are not a free flowing team by any means but we are a MUCH, MUCH harder to break down and beat. also - welcome back fcb! Edited April 17, 2017 by lloydy136 Horus, StringerBellend, wswtragic and 4 others 7 Link to comment
Paul01 Posted April 17, 2017 Share Posted April 17, 2017 Vs Roar in regular HAL R8 team (1-1) spotless Tyson, Neville, Aspro, Borda, Clisby, Dimas, Piñatares, Jumpei (G), Nichols, Nico, Bulut subs Baccus, Santa, Lustica R12 team (1-1) Suncorp Tyson, Neville, Borda, Aspro, Clisby, Dimas (G), Piñatares, Jumpei, Nichols, Sotirio, Scott, subs Baccus, Santa (red), Nico R17 team (1-2) Suncorp Vedran, Neville (red), Cornthwaite, Aspro, Clisby, Dimas, Baccus, Jumpei (G), Nichols, Sotirio, Scott subs Antonis, Santa, Nico Expect our round 26 team starting line up with bench of Lustica or Dimas, Sotirio, Scott, Tyson, Hamill Link to comment
nmh94 Posted April 17, 2017 Share Posted April 17, 2017 This is our season. Out of the ACL. Disappointing in the FFA Cup. Horrendous displacement to the hell hole that is SOP. ESFC have been brilliant. No question. We beat Brisbane and we get the chance to beat the best team statistically in A League history. We get another crack at the Holy Grail in domestic football. Lose in Suncorp and this season is a disaster. Win and like the Phoenix we rise. The Smurfs will be filling their pants. Our season. This Friday. Right here. Right now. This is football. We are Western Sydney Doing well in the post season cup would give the notion of a good season undeserved oxygen. 36 points. 23 points won against the four teams behind us. Beaten the five teams ahead of us only twice in 15 games. Horrid. This has been a p1ss weak WSW side. At least the official talk about being a "big and ambitious club" that is in the business of "winning titles" has stopped, and thank goodness for that. true but since we punted borda after the city red card debacle we have taken 22 points from 13 games including 8 points from the teams above us. That form throughout the season would have put us 3rd - less than a win behind victory. the team during those games has featured corny, antonis, baccus and (yes reluctantly I will acknowledge his contribution) the keeper. we are not a free flowing team by any means but we are a MUCH, MUCH harder to break down and beat. also - welcome back fcb! Yep, good analysis. The second derby was when we turned a corner, going to the home of the competitions stand out side and not conceding. Since then we have really only put in one bad performance in the league, the home loss to CCM. Yeah the attack is still mediocre, but our defensive improvement means we are every chance of edging out results in knockout matches. theguyyouwishyouwere 1 Link to comment
Zelinsky Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 Lloydy No arguments from me. We've been sold the longest pre season ever, it feels like the club p1ssed the first half of the season in the wind. That's why we are now facing an away elimination game in Brisbane. Not good enough for me. Edinburgh 1 Link to comment
btron3000 Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 Vs Roar in regular HAL R8 team (1-1) spotless Tyson, Neville, Aspro, Borda, Clisby, Dimas, Piñatares, Jumpei (G), Nichols, Nico, Bulut subs Baccus, Santa, Lustica R12 team (1-1) Suncorp Tyson, Neville, Borda, Aspro, Clisby, Dimas (G), Piñatares, Jumpei, Nichols, Sotirio, Scott, subs Baccus, Santa (red), Nico R17 team (1-2) Suncorp Vedran, Neville (red), Cornthwaite, Aspro, Clisby, Dimas, Baccus, Jumpei (G), Nichols, Sotirio, Scott subs Antonis, Santa, Nico Expect our round 26 team starting line up with bench of Lustica or Dimas, Sotirio, Scott, Tyson, Hamill Shows how close this will be. And we haven't fielded our best side against them yet. Put Antonis, Santa and Nico in that last starting lineup and it's a different story. The thing that concerns me is that, if we manage to get a lead, at home they never think they are beaten. They will keep coming and coming, and while our defence is much better than earlier in the season, there still hasn't been many times we've really held on under sustained pressure. Even when we beat the smurfs, they should have had a penalty. Struggling to think of any other time we've faced real pressure. If we do get through it though, will be a good warm up for the smurfs. Edinburgh 1 Link to comment
Erebus Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 usually its the top 4 competing in the semis. We can break that trend. Brisbane away will be tough though. They are never easy up there. But anything can happen in a KO game Paul01 and Edinburgh 2 Link to comment
luisenrique Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 Hope Mitch gives them an updated version of this at the end of the game so I can update my avatar WSW27, Sithslayer1991, dodson and 6 others 9 Link to comment
Gazmon Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 So, third time meeting Brisbane in a finals series match... oh boy. Link to comment
Paul01 Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 So, third time meeting Brisbane in a finals series match... oh boy.And with 7 or 8 referees:1 central referee, 2 assistant referees, one fourth official, 2 additional assistant referees and 1 or 2 VARs. Link to comment
Beer Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 4th Gazmon, Erebus and WSW27 3 Link to comment
Erebus Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 (edited) 4th This. Played them in every finals series we've been in. We truly are the Arsenal of the A-League. But we have a better record than Arsenal do over Bayern Edited April 18, 2017 by Erebus Link to comment
Johnno Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 season starts friday wendybr 1 Link to comment
Gazmon Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 So, third time meeting Brisbane in a finals series match... oh boy. 4th argh! Yes... forgive me... Erm... I meant to say... third, thus far... until after Friday that is Link to comment
marron Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 They've all been pretty bloody memorable. Alexander, theguyyouwishyouwere, SomeGuy1977 and 1 other 4 Link to comment
theguyyouwishyouwere Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 They've all been pretty bloody memorable. i agree, they both were. marron 1 Link to comment
beatsurrender Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 We should always be a top 4 club. We should always have at least one home final every season, minimum. Link to comment
WestSyd Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 We should always be a top 4 club. We should always have at least one home final every season, minimum. Think we've had this discussion before. Pretty hard to achieve. MV and Brisbane Roar would be the most consistent clubs in the history of the league, and tend to do it more often than not. Now we have SFC and Melbourne City to contend with. The way things are, I don't think the club is capable of doing this. We would need more funds coming from elsewhere as the other bigger clubs tend to spend more than us. In the long run it will be hard to compete with this. Link to comment
StringerBellend Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 We should always be a top 4 club. We should always have at least one home final every season, minimum.Think we've had this discussion before. Pretty hard to achieve. MV and Brisbane Roar would be the most consistent clubs in the history of the league, and tend to do it more often than not. Now we have SFC and Melbourne City to contend with. The way things are, I don't think the club is capable of doing this. We would need more funds coming from elsewhere as the other bigger clubs tend to spend more than us. In the long run it will be hard to compete with this. What bigger clubs? We have 20k members the largest (and best) juniors area. Only victory can mount a case to be bigger. Don't confuse bigger with people pumping silly money into club (City) This clubs ambition should be at least top 4 every year nmh94 1 Link to comment
WestSyd Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 We should always be a top 4 club. We should always have at least one home final every season, minimum.Think we've had this discussion before. Pretty hard to achieve. MV and Brisbane Roar would be the most consistent clubs in the history of the league, and tend to do it more often than not. Now we have SFC and Melbourne City to contend with.The way things are, I don't think the club is capable of doing this. We would need more funds coming from elsewhere as the other bigger clubs tend to spend more than us. In the long run it will be hard to compete with this. What bigger clubs? We have 20k members the largest (and best) juniors area. Only victory can mount a case to be bigger. Don't confuse bigger with people pumping silly money into club (City) This clubs ambition should be at least top 4 every year I suppose I am talking in financial terms. Victory, SFC and City all spend more than us. Brisbane are a very dogged competitor. Will be hard to compete with this. Sure we are big membership wise, but as we saw in the crowds this season, it means nothing if you don't do well. We have to attract good players with money. This will keep the team near the top and the turnstiles clicking. It will be very easy for us to fall behind if we get complacent. Remember Perth Glory were a huge club back 15-20 years ago in the NSL days. Look at them now. The club has to work hard to remain big. Not just believe in our own destiny. Link to comment
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