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  • Inept Wanderers Throw Away Premiership Advantage

    mack

    By mack

    A glacial and inept display on both sides of the ball has consigned Western Sydney to a potential title destroying 2-0 loss against Melbourne Victory.

     

    Oliver Bozanic tore the Wanderers to shreds, picking up a brace in the Victory's demolition of the erstwhile league leaders. With the Wanderers wanting to put one hand on the Premiership, they turned up looking more like the wooden spooners. Just three minutes into the game and Melbourne Victory were in front. A trio of Wanderers defenders let Kosta Barbarouses skip around inside the penalty box, he attempted a lob that bounced off a defender, he regained then laid the ball into the path of Bozanic. Despite having to recover the ball from behind him, no-one bothered closing down the midfielder and he blasted a shot that went under an atrocious attempt at a save from Liam Reddy.

     

    Western Sydney should have gone a man up in the 43rd minute when Daniel Georgievski went in with a studs up lunge that collected Mitch Nichols in the knee, a red card anywhere in the world, except of course for Strebre Delovski while officiating a Melbourne Victory home game, he received a yellow card.

     

    The game was over in the 66th minute. Barbarouses & Finkler made a joke of the Wanderers defence, as they failed to clear after several mishits, a backheel and one shot that rebounded to Bozanic. Nichols decided to fall over instead of trying to challenge for the ball, and three other Wanderers defenders stood and watched as Bozanic fired at the far post. Reddy again made a hash out of a potential save, getting a weak hand to the ball but doing nothing to stop it going into the back of the net.

     

    It was a technically inept performance both with and without the ball, and pathetically heartless after going behind early. Instead of reacting like a potential Premiership winning team, they folded like a cardbox box soaked by the rain. There were no positives, the red card being given would not have made a difference to the end result, combining this result with the draw against Adelaide and the gifting of three points to Brisbane, it will take a miracle for the Wanderers to come back to the top of the league by the end of the season.

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    lloydy136

    There is no big secret about pio imo. He played and was shown to be not good enough Nor was he a good fit for the style of play.

     

    Even the very best managers get transfers wrong - the quality of the 3 Spaniards + Nichols + jamo + Neville still puts popa's recruitment way into the positive for mine.

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    Unlimited

    There is no big secret about pio imo. He played and was shown to be not good enough Nor was he a good fit for the style of play.

     

    Even the very best managers get transfers wrong - the quality of the 3 Spaniards + Nichols + jamo + Neville still puts popa's recruitment way into the positive for mine.

     

    After the absolute crap our strikers have dished out the last several games, he is worth a shot

     

    Dino started the first few games, got ditched for Joey Gibbs, and then he had a glorious return and eventually scored the great back heel

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    Corcaigh

    There is no big secret about pio imo. He played and was shown to be not good enough Nor was he a good fit for the style of play.

    Even the very best managers get transfers wrong - the quality of the 3 Spaniards + Nichols + jamo + Neville still puts popa's recruitment way into the positive for mine.

    Yeah. But shame it is thst crucial striker roll that is killing us and has been for months.

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    Alexander

    Not our best performance tonight against a rested, hungry, and vastly improved Victory. Victory away was always going to be difficult.

     

    If we don't win the plate, it's not because we lost this game. It was games such as Adelaide away 1-1, last week v Adelaide, the derbies, Brisbane away, etc.

     

    Regarding Pio, the only people that Popa should explain it to is Lederer, JT, & Pio. For which I'm sure he has. Thinking that Popa is gong to discuss it in public is ludicrous

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    Unlimited

     

    #PioIn

    What do we have to loose?

    1st place on the ladder??

     

    oh, 

     

     

    I'd rather Pio in than watch Bridge, Nichols and Santalab continue their run of toothless mediocrity

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    JayZko

    Why can't we turn around and have a press conference and announce a big marquee signing like victards did with berisha no because we have to see the free agent bin , prove me wrong Popa be a man sign something like Jamie mc , spend a million be a ***** man

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    Guest Melvin

    Guest Melvin

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    It's frustrating because on the back of last season I would of liked a simple change up (which I got) with a solid team making a top 6 spot on which to build upon for 2016/17 season.

     

    Instead what we got was a well oiled machine that made a genuine grab at the number 1 spot.

     

    If we had Reddy in since the start and bought say... Jamie Maclaren (or some other simple no-frills striker). We would of wrapped up the league with 70 points.

     

    Ahhhhh life goes on... I'm still happy if we can get that number 2 spot.

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    lloydy136

     

    There is no big secret about pio imo. He played and was shown to be not good enough Nor was he a good fit for the style of play.

    Even the very best managers get transfers wrong - the quality of the 3 Spaniards + Nichols + jamo + Neville still puts popa's recruitment way into the positive for mine.

    Yeah. But shame it is thst crucial striker roll that is killing us and has been for months.

    Keeper error and inability to clear our lines a couple of times when under pressure is what cost us this game.

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    beatsurrender

    There is no big secret about pio imo. He played and was shown to be not good enough Nor was he a good fit for the style of play.

     

    Even the very best managers get transfers wrong - the quality of the 3 Spaniards + Nichols + jamo + Neville still puts popa's recruitment way into the positive for mine.

    No issue with this. If Pio isn't good enough then tell us.

    .Agree with all the names you mention above and if Popa would come out and just say Pio wasn't upto what I wanted then he would put all this speculation to bed and we would never mention it again. (well I wouldn't!)

    Edited by beatsurrender
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    Nel

    Nevermind, it could have been worse, someone could have let off a flare and we'd have dropped down to fourth tonight and possibly fifth by the end of the round.... There's always an upside....   also, we'll still finish in front of the Smurfs!

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    magicwand

     

    There is no big secret about pio imo. He played and was shown to be not good enough Nor was he a good fit for the style of play.

    Even the very best managers get transfers wrong - the quality of the 3 Spaniards + Nichols + jamo + Neville still puts popa's recruitment way into the positive for mine.

    Yeah. But shame it is thst crucial striker roll that is killing us and has been for months.

     

    Unlike many games before this one, it wasn't striking that killed us tonight... it was simply a very poor performance from every single individual in the team and the team as a whole. With so much on the line, the million dollar question is why!? 

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    Corcaigh

    Not our best performance tonight against a rested, hungry, and vastly improved Victory. Victory away was always going to be difficult.

    If we don't win the plate, it's not because we lost this game. It was games such as Adelaide away 1-1, last week v Adelaide, the derbies, Brisbane away, etc.

    Regarding Pio, the only people that Popa should explain it to is Lederer, JT, & Pio. For which I'm sure he has. Thinking that Popa is gong to discuss it in public is ludicrous

    Yeah because we are only fans who stump up money to follow the club and amazing away fans like tonight who shell out a **** load of cash following them. And we dont deserve more info about a marquee that is shithouse. Have a ******* word with yourself. Edited by Corcaigh
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    JayZko

    Popa has to stop sorting other teams rubish for us to win **** tight arses win fa in football

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    JayZko

    Big questions need to ask about your marquees.

     

    Reckon that's the only reason did you don't win the title imo.

    did victory get to where they are now by being tight arses
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    Wanderboy

    Prove

    Me wrong why mofo hardcore ***** why do we keep signing **** out of formers??

    Bridgey fc reject Mitch glory reject castelen injury prone reject reddy reject

     

    Now, I think this has the potential to be the post of the year.

    I just need someone to explain it to me.

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    Guest Melvin

    Guest Melvin

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    Big questions need to ask about your marquees.

     

    Reckon that's the only reason did you don't win the title imo.

    did victory get to where they are now by being tight arses

    They won last season by going so obviously over the salary cap though LOL

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    WestSyd

    Was always hard to see us winning the plate with the way we were playing. Can see Melb City or Adelaide taking that title now. We have just ran out of steam and don't have that real threat to be able to damage other teams. Still have goalkeeping and goal scoring issues to resolve.

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