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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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    Macak

    wow. no words can explain how I felt about that game on Friday. I am not even  going to try....

     

    It is however soooooooooo damn frustrating to watch us do all the good work only for the final third to keep on letting us down, week after week. It must be hard for our midfielders and wingers to keep on working tirelessly only for the front third to misfire, one after another.  

     

    Popa must realise that we are not likely to be a real threat in the finals if we can't score and keep doing same old. 

     

    There is indeed a real lack of killer instinct upfront in our squad (excluding Santa perhaps). Watching some of the other strikers in the league, you can see they are hungry and want more. Our guys are almost too scared to be mongrels. I say bring back BULUT. That guy was a ***** animal. We need him!

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    btron3000

    Greatly enjoyed the free walking tour of Melbourne provided to us by VicPolice. 

     

    All downhill from there.

     

    My favourite part was the Asian woman who took over some of the capo responsibilities on the walking tour. Just banging it out with passion. What a legend.

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    bombagol

    Not sure if it has been said before, but my worry for the next 2 rounds and then the finals is that we were able to get only 1 point from 3 games against a team that sits 6 points outside of the top 6. :sorry:

     

    However, if I look for the bright side coming out of this round, it is that by letting MV beat us, we effectively confined ESFC to 7th heaven for yet another year. :good:

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    luisenrique

     

    Greatly enjoyed the free walking tour of Melbourne provided to us by VicPolice. 

     

    All downhill from there.

     

    My favourite part was the Asian woman who took over some of the capo responsibilities on the walking tour. Just banging it out with passion. What a legend.

     

     

    Should be alongside Boris every week.

     

     

     

     

    However, if I look for the bright side coming out of this round, it is that by letting MV beat us, we effectively confined ESFC to 7th heaven for yet another year. :good:

     

    That certainly helps. No matter what happens, we finished higher than them again, and they'll have to watch the finals from their mansions.

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    leslie

    Mclaren is the Roars man of the moment but lets be honest if we had signed him in stead of , say Pio, we would have had a whinge fest for 10 pages before seasons start. What we can say is that Aloisi has done a good job with him, a bit like popa and defenders.

     

    I think what has happened is what we all secretly knew in recent weeks, we really aren't title contenders and haven't looked like it since the vic game at home.

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    tardotz

    Mclaren is the Roars man of the moment but lets be honest if we had signed him in stead of , say Pio, we would have had a whinge fest for 10 pages before seasons start. What we can say is that Aloisi has done a good job with him, a bit like popa and defenders.

     

    I think what has happened is what we all secretly knew in recent weeks, we really aren't title contenders and haven't looked like it since the vic game at home.

    I said the same thing to my friend. Since the home game against the vics we haven't looked like we had the hunger anymore. That's pretty much when Bridge and Nicolls lost their form.

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    hawks2767

     

    Greatly enjoyed the free walking tour of Melbourne provided to us by VicPolice. 

     

    All downhill from there.

     

    My favourite part was the Asian woman who took over some of the capo responsibilities on the walking tour. Just banging it out with passion. What a legend.

     

     

    RBB member who wears that Vietnamese hat with RBB scarf tied over the top of it ?

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    Erebus

     

     

    Greatly enjoyed the free walking tour of Melbourne provided to us by VicPolice. 

     

    All downhill from there.

     

    My favourite part was the Asian woman who took over some of the capo responsibilities on the walking tour. Just banging it out with passion. What a legend.

     

     

    RBB member who wears that Vietnamese hat with RBB scarf tied over the top of it ?

     

    I doubt it. She was cooking me dinner at the time lol ;)

     

     

    No one has won the toilet seat from outside the top 2. First time for everything...

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    Stokz

    We hit our form run too early in the season, teams have truly worked us out and the poor finishing hasn't helped.

     

    Our set pieces have got to the be the worst in the league, even if we were in NPL, we would not score from them.

     

    More worryingly for me is that heart/passion is not there especially from the new players. The players of S1/S2 had that in abundance, you can see it when they do WDYSF.

     

    It's the extra 10% needed that truly changes games, and can make ok players compete with the best.

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    Johnno

    Just as long as you get it

    No the whole

    Problem

    Is club mentality popa isn't Jesus he can't turn water into wine so why do we keep signing leftovers

     

     

    yeah, signing leftovers and rejects really failed in season 1 and most of season 2 didn't it.  FFS  the facepalm is strong in this one.

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    hawks2767

     

     

     

    Greatly enjoyed the free walking tour of Melbourne provided to us by VicPolice. 

     

    All downhill from there.

     

    My favourite part was the Asian woman who took over some of the capo responsibilities on the walking tour. Just banging it out with passion. What a legend.

     

     

    RBB member who wears that Vietnamese hat with RBB scarf tied over the top of it ?

     

    I doubt it. She was cooking me dinner at the time lol ;)

     

     

    No one has won the toilet seat from outside the top 2. First time for everything...

     

     

    Ha well there you go - she's a legend too, always see her helping out on the marches and firing up during the match.

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    MadKaw

    and it only gets worse....

     

    My fantasy team results just came in...

    My rank dropped 2291 places.... 

    Topor - 0

    Jamo - 1

    Castelen - 1

    Andreu - 2

    Nichols - 2

     

    How inconsiderate of them....

     

    Lucky I had Petratos - 12...

     

    :-)

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    mack

     

     

     

    Greatly enjoyed the free walking tour of Melbourne provided to us by VicPolice. 

     

    All downhill from there.

     

    My favourite part was the Asian woman who took over some of the capo responsibilities on the walking tour. Just banging it out with passion. What a legend.

     

     

    RBB member who wears that Vietnamese hat with RBB scarf tied over the top of it ?

     

    I doubt it. She was cooking me dinner at the time lol ;)

     

     

    No one has won the toilet seat from outside the top 2. First time for everything...

     

    Pretty sure it was Anna P.

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    luisenrique

     

     

    Our set pieces have got to the be the worst in the league

     

    What happened to the innovation of the corner @ Perth? We have to work on **** like that...traditional cross into the box corners are a total waste of time for us.

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