Bridge Blasts Wanderers To Summit Of A-League

Spiranovic is very good but I don't know if he's better than Beauchamp.

 

MUCH better than Beauchamp actually.

I think Spiranovic is going to be extremely hard to keep out in the future.

 

He is a class act, how long is he signed up for ?

 

You can see the respect he gets from the other players too, how many times they just kept giving him the ball.

 

We have him for 1 season then back to Europe is his plan. Too good for this league.

 

 

 

 

Excellent. Just like your SFCU trolling has made me laugh hahahahaha

I perhaps spend too much time trolling their forums, bit of a guilty pleasure.

Spiranovic is very good but I don't know if he's better than Beauchamp.

He has to be injured or something right? I cant understand why he wouldnt have started this if he was fit.

Popa mentioned in the press conference that he isn't injured at all and that he wanted the same lineup from last week.

I heard some rumours on the terraces that Popa and Beauchamp had a massive blow up before the heart game so that is why he is dropped.

 

 

 

Excellent. Just like your SFCU trolling has made me laugh hahahahaha

I perhaps spend too much time trolling their forums, bit of a guilty pleasure.

Spiranovic is very good but I don't know if he's better than Beauchamp.

He has to be injured or something right? I cant understand why he wouldnt have started this if he was fit.

Popa mentioned in the press conference that he isn't injured at all and that he wanted the same lineup from last week.

I heard some rumours on the terraces that Popa and Beauchamp had a massive blow up before the heart game so that is why he is dropped.

 

doubt any truth to that rumour. No many people would know the inner workings of the team.

Honestly Sprianovic is a class player and just keeping beauchamp out. 

I thought the story with Beauchamp was that his missus is due to have a baby any moment now so he didn't travel to Melbourne last week. Maybe she still hasn't had it?

 

 

 

 

 

Excellent. Just like your SFCU trolling has made me laugh hahahahaha

I perhaps spend too much time trolling their forums, bit of a guilty pleasure.

Spiranovic is very good but I don't know if he's better than Beauchamp.

He has to be injured or something right? I cant understand why he wouldnt have started this if he was fit.

Popa mentioned in the press conference that he isn't injured at all and that he wanted the same lineup from last week.

I heard some rumours on the terraces that Popa and Beauchamp had a massive blow up before the heart game so that is why he is dropped.

doubt any truth to that rumour. No many people would know the inner workings of the team.

 

Honestly Sprianovic is a class player and just keeping beauchamp out.

2 different people told me this but yeah who knows.

Spira has slotted in like his playing since Day 1.

Dont forget too guys. No Hersi or Juric last night.

Adds an extra shine to the night IMO.

Dont forget too guys. No Hersi or Juric last night.

 

Adds an extra shine to the night IMO.

Actually for me you can add Poljak to those 2. He hasn't been able to get back into the side since his injury because we have been winning, but he adds stability to the midfield. La Rocca won praise last night but for me he is too cumbersome when in possession, and much of our games our style is based on rapid transition.

Cole and Å antalab were absolutely woeful tonight, actually thought we played some real piss poor football, the hit n hope hoofing long ball game, and short corners.    

Still a result is a result.

Anyone else hear the fox sports boys going on about Topor-Stanley possibly being cited by the MRP for raising an elbow to Nichols? They must be kidding. Talk about soft, Rudan couldn't believe it.

 

Desperately wanted to cheer the boys home and get the whole stadium rocking with a WDWSF cause it was buzzing after that goal except got stuck singing a f*cking your mum joke the whole time.

follow the capo dont like it piss off

What a night sitting next to the victory fans..... That last 10 mins , in the rain , goes down as one of the best momens at wanderland

 

3 points, clean sheet, thanks for coming

message me what happend at the start

 

RBB is great Borris was great, but don;t forget that the people team WSW just like the RBB is nothing without the people

right now I would say only 20% of people in the RBB actually sing which annoys the me cause Im singing like crazy non stop and there are way too many passengers but what you gotta understand is without those passengers the RBB would be empty and thus would not be making impact it is doing if it wasn;t for them

the peoples team just like the people make RBB!!! the capos doesnt not own the RBB and neither do the legends that started it! You could move with the people and if the people ain't liking some **** you doin that you gotta move with them

we have some of the best chants in the a-league and we didnt even get the WDWSF chant right (how the fk do u fk that one up) and also we didnt do it in the second half

the poznan is a moment of respect and we spat all over our tradition by singing about the victory

Still to watch the replay after going last night, so my thoughts are yet to be fully formed on the performance. Overall however I thought it was a gutsy win in crap conditions, with some players not firing (i.e. Cole, Santalab, D'Apuzzo), some still to get a handle on their pozzie (i.e. Spira) and some coming back into form (Bridgey). The opposition was quality, particularly in the first 20 minutes but aside from Thompson's miss near the left post in that opening phase there wasn't a real 'ohmyfarkenGod' moment of panic. Shinji had a great game and again Labi and Tahj came off the bench with great effect. Jerome was okay with some good crosses and decent runs, though again without Hersi to combine with he was not as good as he is when Youssouf is there. Mooy seemed a little disconnected but was okay, and I wonder what is happening with Poljak and La Rocca...is Iaccopo playing that well that Matteo can't get back in?

What is most important about last night's game is the character the club has shown. Remember last season when we went down to them 0-2 at home even though we were a man up? I recall the 2nd half of that game being probably the worst the team ever played at home before or since. To be where we are at now, undefeated at home since January 6th, undefeated in regular season games since that date over 20 matches, knocking off Victory 3 times on the trot, regularly winning even with main players out due to injury...FFS how good is that.

Still to watch the replay after going last night, so my thoughts are yet to be fully formed on the performance. Overall however I thought it was a gutsy win in crap conditions, with some players not firing (i.e. Cole, Santalab, D'Apuzzo), some still to get a handle on their pozzie (i.e. Spira) and some coming back into form (Bridgey). The opposition was quality, particularly in the first 20 minutes but aside from Thompson's miss near the left post in that opening phase there wasn't a real 'ohmyfarkenGod' moment of panic. Shinji had a great game and again Labi and Tahj came off the bench with great effect. Jerome was okay with some good crosses and decent runs, though again without Hersi to combine with he was not as good as he is when Youssouf is there. Mooy seemed a little disconnected but was okay, and I wonder what is happening with Poljak and La Rocca...is Iaccopo playing that well that Matteo can't get back in? What is most important about last night's game is the character the club has shown. Remember last season when we went down to them 0-2 at home even though we were a man up? I recall the 2nd half of that game being probably the worst the team ever played at home before or since. To be where we are at now, undefeated at home since January 6th, undefeated in regular season games since that date over 20 matches, knocking off Victory 3 times on the trot, regularly winning even with main players out due to injury...FFS how good is that.

Melbourne Victory didn't have any clear cut chances. A lot of their chances were half chances, and the majority were shots from the edge of the box. I agree that they can pass the ball around nicely and will be a danger if everything clicks for them. But I thought our defence mostly had them covered last night.

We should be worried about our inability to build up from the back. I thought as the game wore on we got a lot better at it. But we need to do it from the opening whistle.

 

Still to watch the replay after going last night, so my thoughts are yet to be fully formed on the performance. Overall however I thought it was a gutsy win in crap conditions, with some players not firing (i.e. Cole, Santalab, D'Apuzzo), some still to get a handle on their pozzie (i.e. Spira) and some coming back into form (Bridgey). The opposition was quality, particularly in the first 20 minutes but aside from Thompson's miss near the left post in that opening phase there wasn't a real 'ohmyfarkenGod' moment of panic. Shinji had a great game and again Labi and Tahj came off the bench with great effect. Jerome was okay with some good crosses and decent runs, though again without Hersi to combine with he was not as good as he is when Youssouf is there. Mooy seemed a little disconnected but was okay, and I wonder what is happening with Poljak and La Rocca...is Iaccopo playing that well that Matteo can't get back in? What is most important about last night's game is the character the club has shown. Remember last season when we went down to them 0-2 at home even though we were a man up? I recall the 2nd half of that game being probably the worst the team ever played at home before or since. To be where we are at now, undefeated at home since January 6th, undefeated in regular season games since that date over 20 matches, knocking off Victory 3 times on the trot, regularly winning even with main players out due to injury...FFS how good is that.

Melbourne Victory didn't have any clear cut chances. A lot of their chances were half chances, and the majority were shots from the edge of the box. I agree that they can pass the ball around nicely and will be a danger if everything clicks for them. But I thought our defence mostly had them covered last night.

 

We should be worried about our inability to build up from the back. I thought as the game wore on we got a lot better at it. But we need to do it from the opening whistle.

Is a work in progress Montalbano. Popa says as much. Compared to pre season we're doing well.

Since the RBB thread got locked:

Did I see a Norwegian flag in the RBB last night?

I thought NTS was clear MOM tonight - was everywhere covering up others mistakes in the wet. la rocca was also very good and covic's handling of crosses and corners in difficult conditions was first class. we couldn't string 2 passes together in the first 15 but still solid defensively. either side of half time i thought we bossed it and pinned them back and created a number of good chances. was thrilled to see bridge score. I think he has been playing well and busting himself for the cause the last couple of weeks so was great to see him pop up and win it.

I liked how natural Spiranovic looks with the ball at his feet. Casually just faking and turning to shake off the pressing MV players. He was very good.

I liked how natural Spiranovic looks with the ball at his feet. Casually just faking and turning to shake off the pressing MV players. He was very good.

Spiranovic is all class.

anyone noticed how victory were playing 4-2-4 when defending? It kept our wingers quite. Interesting tactic. 

 

I liked how natural Spiranovic looks with the ball at his feet. Casually just faking and turning to shake off the pressing MV players. He was very good.

Spiranovic is all class.

+1

They way chested the ball straight to his feet time and again was noteworthy.

He looked so comfortable on the ball.

anyone noticed how victory were playing 4-2-4 when defending? It kept our wingers quite. Interesting tactic.

 

It's interesting you say that. I noticed that a lot of times our right winger whether it was Cole, Haliti or Minniecon, were free all by themselves on the right and we didn't exploit that enough. Our two best chances to Santalab and Cole came from long balls which put them into open space. When a team uses 4-2-4 on you there is nothing wrong with going over the top. As long a your passes are hitting the man. I think that's when we were at our best. Hitting long balls to our wingers who were running onto it.

Since the RBB thread got locked:

 

Did I see a Norwegian flag in the RBB last night?

lol yes, red a black version though.

sure spira looked good but **** me NTS was a rock all night.

 

anyone noticed how victory were playing 4-2-4 when defending? It kept our wingers quite. Interesting tactic.

It's interesting you say that. I noticed that a lot of times our right winger whether it was Cole, Haliti or Minniecon, were free all by themselves on the right and we didn't exploit that enough. Our two best chances to Santalab and Cole came from long balls which put them into open space. When a team uses 4-2-4 on you there is nothing wrong with going over the top. As long a your passes are hitting the man. I think that's when we were at our best. Hitting long balls to our wingers who were running onto it.

 

yeah agreed, we had wingers free so many times. 

The old man infront of me was going "WING WING WING" (in thick wog accent). It was kinda funny. 

Dunno why we didnt play the lng ball. 

Yeah I thought there was actually a lot of space in the wings last night that wasn't being taken advantage of.

I thought we really got dominated in the middle fog the park last night. They seemed to win 90% of challenges in that area. I think we missed poljak in this area. He might not be flashy but he win the challenges where it counts.

Also I think without the tall strong presence make list jobs applied

of juric upfront we suffered as out santalab couldn't win the headers or hold up the hall vs the bigger victory defenders. With juric out for the next few weeks we probably have to alter this tactic a bit otherwise we will end up giving up too much of the ball. If Melbourne had been better at finishing it could have been a really bad result.

Highlights:

 

 

Desperately wanted to cheer the boys home and get the whole stadium rocking with a WDWSF cause it was buzzing after that goal except got stuck singing a f*cking your mum joke the whole time.

follow the capo dont like it piss off

 

What a night sitting next to the victory fans..... That last 10 mins , in the rain , goes down as one of the best momens at wanderland

 

3 points, clean sheet, thanks for coming

message me what happend at the start

 

 

RBB is great Borris was great, but don;t forget that the people team WSW just like the RBB is nothing without the people

right now I would say only 20% of people in the RBB actually sing which annoys the me cause Im singing like crazy non stop and there are way too many passengers but what you gotta understand is without those passengers the RBB would be empty and thus would not be making impact it is doing if it wasn;t for them

 

the peoples team just like the people make RBB!!! the capos doesnt not own the RBB and neither do the legends that started it! You could move with the people and if the people ain't liking some **** you doin that you gotta move with them

 

 

we have some of the best chants in the a-league and we didnt even get the WDWSF chant right (how the fk do u fk that one up) and also we didnt do it in the second half

the poznan is a moment of respect and we spat all over our tradition by singing about the victory[/

 

The 'Who do you sing for' was not good!

The Poznan was worse!

 

 

 

 

Desperately wanted to cheer the boys home and get the whole stadium rocking with a WDWSF cause it was buzzing after that goal except got stuck singing a f*cking your mum joke the whole time.

follow the capo dont like it piss off

 

What a night sitting next to the victory fans..... That last 10 mins , in the rain , goes down as one of the best momens at wanderland

 

3 points, clean sheet, thanks for coming

message me what happend at the start

 

 

RBB is great Borris was great, but don;t forget that the people team WSW just like the RBB is nothing without the people

right now I would say only 20% of people in the RBB actually sing which annoys the me cause Im singing like crazy non stop and there are way too many passengers but what you gotta understand is without those passengers the RBB would be empty and thus would not be making impact it is doing if it wasn;t for them

 

the peoples team just like the people make RBB!!! the capos doesnt not own the RBB and neither do the legends that started it! You could move with the people and if the people ain't liking some **** you doin that you gotta move with them

 

 

we have some of the best chants in the a-league and we didnt even get the WDWSF chant right (how the fk do u fk that one up) and also we didnt do it in the second half

the poznan is a moment of respect and we spat all over our tradition by singing about the victory[/

 

The 'Who do you sing for' was not good!

The Poznan was worse!

 

Lets leave off field discussion in its proper atmosphere thread and talk about the game here.

I think Spiranovic is going to be extremely hard to keep out in the future.

 

He is a class act, how long is he signed up for ?

 

You can see the respect he gets from the other players too, how many times they just kept giving him the ball.

 

We have him for 1 season then back to Europe is his plan. Too good for this league.

 

Thanks for that.

 

That's a shame, was camped right in front of me for most of the first half and he really did seem a class above up close.

Must say if the nets were any shallower, the Bridge goal would not have been anywhere near as spectacular as it hit the roof of the net itself.  Just sayin'.. 

I think we are being a bit harsh on both santa and cole, yeah they shanked a clear chance each, but both are not playing in their preferred usual positions in pretty ordinary conditions and had they landed those chances we would have been saying completely different things about them.

Santalab needs to just bag one for a bit of confidence just like our boy bridgey last year.

Haliti is good, but just like tahj, with devastating effect on a tiring opposition back line. They are great utility players but i can't see them as starters for a lack of technical ability. 

Poppas tactics are brilliant and melbourne are very lucky we didn't bag 3 goals at least.