Sydney FC Steal Last Parramatta Derby

Anyone know why Pio was dropped to the bench?

Anyone know why Pio was dropped to the bench?

He's crap

Sorry couldn't resist

 

 

So do we have an answer to the question raised a few weeks back? Is the RBB section undersold? I'm in the white and black section, left of RBB, it was more packed than usual (flogs minding a dozen seats so we get penalised for being on the march and have to shuffle further and further north, but whatevs). The RBB bays adjacent were empty, not because of bunching, just empty. What gives? Felt like jumping the fence and joining in with Redwog juniors.

I still think it's undersold. Why though, well theories abound.

Do you have any thoughts?

My favourite part of this thread, has been the reference to "North Rocks McDonalds".

Hahahahaha. 

Oh JayZko, geographically challenged JayZko, never change.

Haven't heard anyone talk about the goal from Vidosic. Mad class. Silky smooth. Calm and collected. Crisp curl.

His goal reminded me of one of Ruka's last season, as has some of his misses. Wish he had have been as classy, silky smooth and calm and collected with his big chance in the first half. It's also a bit weird (embarrassing?) that he's our Australian marquee and playing a forward role, yet it's Jamo the guy, supposedly behind him, who's forward thinking with passes, taking on players, penetrating into the opposition box etc 

So i just watched the game again and have come to the conclusion that ESFC didn't beat us... we beat ourselves with two absolute defensive blunders.

The amount of freaking chances we had, It's comical. Then you have ESFC over there celebrating like they won the league.

I walked out of the stadium in absolute awe of what had just occurred. Another last minute **** up, AND we have to play them again in a months time. 

It's clearly a psychological thing now. What the hell are we going to do come next derby ?

 

It's clearly a psychological thing now. What the hell are we going to do come next derby ?

Pull our collective fingers out and take our chances while concentrating during set pieces. 

The amount we dominate possession against them and will do again in a month, it's a really really low percentage change for them to win the game. Unfortunately we've ****ed up twice and let them do it. 

It would be good to go in to the next one on the back of a win and a clean sheet. Also, to resurrect one of our favourite themes, I think we need to shoot ***** constantly against them. We have the ball consistently around their box...unless there's an obvious pass to be made into it, keep shooting and getting deflections, corners, clearances etc...they only ever get the ball when we pass it to them. Oh yeah, that's another thing, stop doing that. Especially across goal. 

Just a few random thoughts from Bay 24

We're still playing decent football but can't find that consistency in the final third. Give Pio one more chance on Saturday but if he can't perform against the Mariners he should be on his bike.

I'm losing confidence in Redmayne. He doesn't command his area and is not alert enough to assess quick options when in possession of the ball which can be a real 'transition killer'. See how Thorensen quickly released the ball for Fornaroli's goal last week; I want to see more of that from us !!

NTS is becoming a liability.

Despite all the finger-pointing/passengers etc etc in the RBB they still sounded awesome. Beats me why it has been so sparesely populated in most games this season.

One thing I forgot....sorry folks but Glorious really isn't working as a walkout song.

My feeling is that Glorious might work but is repeated way too many times.  The average members are not going to sing it for ten minutes.  Once through.  One repeat.  The end.  That way it doesn't lose its punch by the fifth repeat and the stands don't bore of it like I suspect they are doing.

He was using the mega as we were passing the church on the corner, maybe he didn't want it or the batteries died.

He was using the mega as we were passing the church on the corner, maybe he didn't want it or the batteries died.

i dont think he needed it, for the first time in ...well ever there was hardly anyone on seats i was back of 56/57 and i could hear and see him the whole game 

Had the mega at the very beginning. Just assumed it died. It's most useful function is to end a chant, was a bit sloppy without that.

Anyway...

Hektor got some footage of the tifo with a look at the Cove on oconnell street, it's up on youtube.

 

 

He was using the mega as we were passing the church on the corner, maybe he didn't want it or the batteries died.

i dont think he needed it, for the first time in ...well ever there was hardly anyone on seats i was back of 56/57 and i could hear and see him the whole game

It would have been useful for the diss chant, things on the edges of 57/58 were a bit disjointed and out of time as it was impossible to hear him out there.

People don't know or don't realize there's a pause in between each line

People don't know or don't realize there's a pause in between each line

yeah but i enjoyed the comedy...each side racing each other to see who could chant faster by the end of the chant instead of "the rbb"... "runs this city' it was more like therbruthcity

 

NTS is becoming a liability.

 

One thing I forgot....sorry folks but Glorious really isn't working as a walkout song.

 

I turned to my son just before NTS fouled for the free kick that sunk us, and said that NTS was likely to do something careless or dopey - call it deja vu, or just that he has started to lose his rag lately (look at the pen that should have been given a couple of weeks ago - schoolboy stuff). Not sure what's happening there, but he and Redmayne are affecting my heart regularly.

As a fan of glorious, the chant just doesn't work as a walk out chant.

It worked ok for the first 2 lines and then piss poor from both RBB and the stands, who don't the words.

Could hear the cove over the walkout song, alarm bells that its not working.

As a fan of glorious, the chant just doesn't work as a walk out chant.

 

It worked ok for the first 2 lines and then piss poor from both RBB and the stands, who don't the words.

 

Could hear the cove over the walkout song, alarm bells that its not working.

Yeah, I'll 2nd that.

Can't hear the dialogue... crowd only gets into it once the clapping kicks in.

The clubs not doing it right if you ask me.

Glorious needs to be re-recorded and as much as it makes me cringe we may have to get the lyrics up on the screen like karaoke for a few times

I've belted out a few terrace songs in my time such that I was diagnosed with "singer's nodules" a few years back so I have to be more measured these days. Whilst Glorious is a firm favourite it does not have that 'oomph' which will encourage the majority of the non-active support to joining in and give it their all. We really do need something that gets close to 100% participation and doesn't linger too long.

Part of the issue is that the tempo changes so much every week. At the Derby when the trumpet started over the loud speaker, the tempo was set, then when the RBB started it took all of 15 seconds for the tempo to speed up. Suddenly you were faster than what came over the loud speaker, you lost the stands and once again, it was about the RBB..

I doubt having lyrics on the big screen would make a difference. This chant doesn't deserve to be a walk out song as it's just not good enough and we really need to stop flogging a dead horse. Let's just move on, not worry about a walkout song and you never know, something might just happen out of the blue.

The clubs not doing it right if you ask me.

 

Glorious needs to be re-recorded and as much as it makes me cringe we may have to get the lyrics up on the screen like karaoke for a few times

 

Part of the issue is that the tempo changes so much every week. At the Derby when the trumpet started over the loud speaker, the tempo was set, then when the RBB started it took all of 15 seconds for the tempo to speed up. Suddenly you were faster than what came over the loud speaker, you lost the stands and once again, it was about the RBB..

 

I doubt having lyrics on the big screen would make a difference. This chant doesn't deserve to be a walk out song as it's just not good enough and we really need to stop flogging a dead horse. Let's just move on, not worry about a walkout song and you never know, something might just happen out of the blue.

 

 

The clubs not doing it right if you ask me.

 

Glorious needs to be re-recorded and as much as it makes me cringe we may have to get the lyrics up on the screen like karaoke for a few times

 

this guy

Rbb's fault glorious is **** 

Glorious is a dead horse and doesn't deserve to be a walk out chant

iv got it maybe we should listen to every one else and not even have a chant crew... i mean **** getting a chant right and working with it lets just scrap the whole chant thing and let the side stands decide what we do.

 

 

Part of the issue is that the tempo changes so much every week. At the Derby when the trumpet started over the loud speaker, the tempo was set, then when the RBB started it took all of 15 seconds for the tempo to speed up. Suddenly you were faster than what came over the loud speaker, you lost the stands and once again, it was about the RBB..

 

I doubt having lyrics on the big screen would make a difference. This chant doesn't deserve to be a walk out song as it's just not good enough and we really need to stop flogging a dead horse. Let's just move on, not worry about a walkout song and you never know, something might just happen out of the blue.

 

 

The clubs not doing it right if you ask me.

 

Glorious needs to be re-recorded and as much as it makes me cringe we may have to get the lyrics up on the screen like karaoke for a few times

 

this guy

Rbb's fault glorious is **** 

Glorious is a dead horse and doesn't deserve to be a walk out chant

 

iv got it maybe we should listen to every one else and not even have a chant crew... i mean **** getting a chant right and working with it lets just scrap the whole chant thing and let the side stands decide what we do.

 

Agreed - let them bust out something on the PA for walkout (maybe something really cranking, like a Disturbed number  ) and then have Glorious from kickoff.

If we want 100% crowd participation just do the WDWSF call and a response while the players walk out.

But in all honesty a walkout song is not needed, whatever the RBB decide to sing on the day is what we get.

 

Part of the issue is that the tempo changes so much every week. At the Derby when the trumpet started over the loud speaker, the tempo was set, then when the RBB started it took all of 15 seconds for the tempo to speed up. Suddenly you were faster than what came over the loud speaker, you lost the stands and once again, it was about the RBB..

 

I doubt having lyrics on the big screen would make a difference. This chant doesn't deserve to be a walk out song as it's just not good enough and we really need to stop flogging a dead horse. Let's just move on, not worry about a walkout song and you never know, something might just happen out of the blue.

 

 

The clubs not doing it right if you ask me.

 

Glorious needs to be re-recorded and as much as it makes me cringe we may have to get the lyrics up on the screen like karaoke for a few times

 

No, It's just shite. 

 

 

 

Pio gets 90 minutes against the Mariners. If he can't score, release him. Enough will be enough.

Good plan, let Popa know

If you have a plan for that useless donkey to actually score a goal when he's not unmarked from 5 yards out, let us all know.

Unfortunately Popa doesn't seem to be able to bring that goal scoring out of Piovaccari just yet but if he managed funds like you suggest, he wouldn't be around for long.

But again, good thinking.

All I'm saying is, It is being proven time and again that it just doesn't work as a walkout song..after 3 seasons you would think people would just let it go..

The reality is as you can see from when the Glorious thread was started and look at where we are with it. We seem to give less of a chance to our players (Pio) than this crap chant.

this guy

Rbb's fault glorious is **** 

Glorious is a dead horse and doesn't deserve to be a walk out chant

 

iv got it maybe we should listen to every one else and not even have a chant crew... i mean **** getting a chant right and working with it lets just scrap the whole chant thing and let the side stands decide what we do.

 

 

All I'm saying is, It is being proven time and again that it just doesn't work as a walkout song..after 3 seasons you would think people would just let it go..

 

The reality is as you can see from when the Glorious thread was started and look at where we are with it. We seem to give less of a chance to our players (Pio) than this crap chant.

 

Glorious

Started By mack, Dec 17 2012 03:32 PM

 

this guy

Rbb's fault glorious is **** 

Glorious is a dead horse and doesn't deserve to be a walk out chant

 

iv got it maybe we should listen to every one else and not even have a chant crew... i mean **** getting a chant right and working with it lets just scrap the whole chant thing and let the side stands decide what we do.

 

 

mate you are entitled  to your opinion and i get were you are coming from i am in the same boat as you i am sick of the walk out chants i just want to do what feels right on the day.

i am curious however what did you mean by again it is about the rbb?? do you mean the chant is about us?

No, I mean as the conductors of Active support it is partially a responsibility to get the rest of the stadium to get involved. The RBB wanted the song to go over the PA to get the crowd involved and when the trumpet started etc, were out of time and singing at their own tempo. What was heard then were three versions of the song. The PA, the side stands and the RBB.

Surely, if you have the song going over the PA, you guys should sing it to the tune and tempo so that everyone else can follow and not go off and do your own thing just because you are the 'RBB'

 

i am curious however what did you mean by again it is about the rbb?? do you mean the chant is about us?

 

It was proven last week what Wendy and a few others have said here, it is near impossible to have a stadium wide chant in total tune to the PA system on the side stands due to time lag.