Brisbane Roar vs Western Sydney Wanderers 5/01/2018 6:50PM

 I just looked at the last starting line ups 

Roar had the following

Gk Young

Df Hingert, Pepper, Bowles, O'Toole

DMs Caletti, McKay

Mf Skapetis, D'Agostino, Bautheuc

St Maccarone

Subs on Franjic, Gamerio, Oxborrow

Bench White (GK), Corey Brown

We had the following

Gk Vedran

Df Risdon, Aspro, Thwaite, Llorente 

HM Baccus Snr

AMs Roly, Cejudo

Fwds Sotirio, Riera, Jumpei

Subs on Santalab, Clisby 

Bench Hall, Hamill, Baccus Jnr

This was the game that Raul was pushed up to LW when Clisby came on and confusion reigned. Plus the french guy wasn't marked tightly enough.

On 03/01/2018 at 6:31 PM, Edinburgh said:

In - road trip with one of my sons.

Pax today 9068

Bought tickets in away bay and strangely there aren't many available seats.

See you there Edinburgh. Give me a call when you work out where your going for a beer pre game. Cheers

I hope to see some youngsters getting a run to replace some outs. Guys like Majok bring plenty of enthusiasm and energy, something our veterans need at the moment

19 hours ago, FCB said:

This game will be Lustica's chance to justify his presence at the club. If he can't deliver then he may as well be released. The same is true for Herd who seems to have lost momentum since the birth of his child.

You’re having a laugh right? Herd has had 15 minutes back on the park and looked just fine. Now you are proverbially putting his head on the chopping block on the basis of 90 minutes. He’s easily one of the better defensive midfielders in the league. His replacement would be a far inferior specimen

Herd did really well when he came on. Hopefully he comes good now almost be like a new signing 

33 minutes ago, Upthehill said:

You’re having a laugh right? Herd has had 15 minutes back on the park and looked just fine. Now you are proverbially putting his head on the chopping block on the basis of 90 minutes. He’s easily one of the better defensive midfielders in the league. His replacement would be a far inferior specimen

The heat and humidity up in Bali are affecting FCB usual good judgment! 

22 minutes ago, StringerBellend said:

Herd did really well when he came on. Hopefully he comes good now almost be like a new signing 

He could be one of those players who we thought would leave, but starts to come good for us. I thought his early season performances helped the team quite a bit. 

44 minutes ago, Upthehill said:

You’re having a laugh right? Herd has had 15 minutes back on the park and looked just fine. Now you are proverbially putting his head on the chopping block on the basis of 90 minutes. He’s easily one of the better defensive midfielders in the league. His replacement would be a far inferior specimen

Melling had to go because the DMs in front of him are Baccus Jnr, Herd, Baccus Snr. Add to that Lustica and Bonevacia who can play DM as well. 

I'm hoping Herd has a MOTM performance and gets Ben Khalfallah angry. But he needs to not get a yellow which will be difficult.

1 hour ago, dmixtaaa said:

See you there Edinburgh. Give me a call when you work out where your going for a beer pre game. Cheers

Gday Dmix. We're almost at Grafton. Going to the Paddington Tavern. Pseuds is going there 2. Hoping to get to pub 3ish local time 

1 hour ago, Upthehill said:

You’re having a laugh right? Herd has had 15 minutes back on the park and looked just fine. Now you are proverbially putting his head on the chopping block on the basis of 90 minutes. He’s easily one of the better defensive midfielders in the league. His replacement would be a far inferior specimen

Woah!

Don't get me wrong: I am a fan of Herd. However, it looks to me that he's lost his spot to a 19yo youth player "in the process". With Baby Baccus being unavailable, Herd is going to be key in the next few games. If he is not going to perform as well as expected, there would be little reason to keep a player with his price tag in the squad. 

Melling, Lustica, Jumpei - they did very little in the last 18 months, and that cap money could or should have been spent more wisely. I'd hate to see Herd in the same category. 

49 minutes ago, wendybr said:

The heat and humidity up in Bali are affecting FCB usual good judgment! 

I am doing just fine here, Wendy. However, the Bintangs and cocktails tend to accumulate at times, and can do some damage. 

4 hours ago, FCB said:

I am doing just fine here, Wendy. However, the Bintangs andcocktails tend to accumulate at times, and can do some damage. 

Hahaha...I'm sure you're doing more than just fine!

Enjoy my friend! 

23 minutes ago, GrEmIoWaNdErEr said:

I reckon we can win this game But I think I'll have to miss it because I don't think they would stream the game here in Brazil but I'll be back in Australia tommorow night so As Arnold Schwarzenegger says in the terminator " I'll be back"

Hope things have settled a little for you and your family after your loss!  

**** me.

Seeing that Roar injury ward you'd think we should...should win but we'll end up with a scrap draw.

At the Paddo. Only a handful here so far.

My son and I Start chatting to another chap. I go to buy the next round, get back to the table and find out he and my son played together years ago and we lnow his father. So we've travelled 1000 km to meet someone who lives in the next suburb 

58 minutes ago, Edinburgh said:

At the Paddo. Only a handful here so far.

My son and I Start chatting to another chap. I go to buy the next round, get back to the table and find out he and my son played together years ago and we lnow his father. So we've travelled 1000 km to meet someone who lives in the next suburb 

One can only wonder what might happen if you were to travel 10,000 kms...

29 minutes ago, FCB said:

One can only wonder what might happen if you were to travel 10,000 kms...

Edinburgh might meet his real dad

1 hour ago, Edinburgh said:

At the Paddo. Only a handful here so far.

My son and I Start chatting to another chap. I go to buy the next round, get back to the table and find out he and my son played together years ago and we lnow his father. So we've travelled 1000 km to meet someone who lives in the next suburb 

All the best to you, your son, Pseuds and Dmix tonight, Ed!

And all others in the Away Bay!

We expect to hear you loud and clear on the TV - even if it's just you 4 singing!

No pressure! 

          COYW!!

Team:

Vedran, Clisby, Thwaite, Cornthwaite, Llorente, Herd, Kearyn Baccus, Lustica, Santalab, Reira, Bridge

Subs: Hall, Hamill, Scott, Kosta Grozos, Majok.

Santa playing on the wing, Lustica in the midfield.

33 minutes ago, wendybr said:

All the best to you, your son, Pseuds and Dmix tonight, Ed!

And all others in the Away Bay!

We expect to hear you loud and clear on the TV - even if it's just you 4 singing!

No pressure! 

 

 

          COYW!!

 

I understand there's about 200 of us tonight. But there has been a flight cancelled. Only a couple of RBB though.

Was meant to be at this game but travel plans fell apart

Reduced to listening on abc radio. Need some paul wade in my life aaarrrggghhh!

Pretty decent lineup considering who is out. If we can't score against a team with pepper at cb we deserve to be relegated!

I have no idea how this will go, but whatevs, coyw 

11 minutes ago, lloydy136 said:

Was meant to be at this game but travel plans fell apart

 

Reduced to listening on abc radio. Need some paul wade in my life aaarrrggghhh!

Pretty decent lineup considering who is out. If we can't score against a team with pepper at cb we deserve to be relegated!

Lol its not even wadey on the coverage some c-team muppet.

Check out the pull back on Santa with the arm over his shoulder and across his chest. If we’d tried that on Monday against City the whole team would have been booked...

19 mins lustica not touched ball once as far as I can see....

So far this game is 

What position does Grozos play? Winger yeah?

I guess I can collect my $1.01 odds on us getting the first card...

Would be to get out of our half

Just now, Davo said:

I guess I can collect my $1.01 odds on us getting the first card...

Number 5 from Herd ?