Sydney FC Steal Last Parramatta Derby

**** me I hate them. I'm copping **** from people who most of them won't give a **** about the club until the next derby rolls around. Mind you not one of these people I'm copping it from has tried to say that they were the better team so it shows you how important it is to take your chances...

Poor Andreu had an absolute shocker tonight, not sure what it was but he seemed rattled, wasn't composed at all and after a while he was starting to resort to kick and chase. Unfortunately his first bad game was tonight.

Romeo is frustrating me with his one touch too many every bloody time, his speed and power is all in vein when he keeps giving it away. For the past few weeks now I've been starting to think that he looks a lot better than he is cause he does everything at a million miles an hour.

I don't blame Topor for the penalty he gave away, that was a team foul, one of those ones that you've just gotta do for everyone to provide some relief.

Same as last week, I don't understand why there's hardly any overlapping going on with the fullbacks around the wingers. When we do do it, it stretches the defence and counters this high press that everyone seems to be using against us, to get in behind.

Perhaps the answer to becoming more clinical is a striker coach? I know this sounds very obvious but seriously if we were tucking away even half of our missed chances we'd be cruising out in front.

Eight hours sleep and the pain remains. I have a Derby home loss hangover with the only substance in my system pyro ploums that ate 56 like a London fog. I dreamt of Bulut and Maccas and smug smurfs who suffered a bad ending. Love hurts.

Castelan near post has a metre spare hits side netting.

Baccus one v one

Nichols one v one

Etc etc

Burning.

Ps. Someone ask the police helicopter for their footage, an overhead shot of when we were marching across the bridge right next to the cove on the other bridge would've looked pretty sick. That **** is what wins awards.

Ps. Someone ask the police helicopter for their footage, an overhead shot of when we were marching across the bridge right next to the cove on the other bridge would've looked pretty sick. That **** is what wins awards.

That was magical. Was it me or was there zero chanting on their march?

Hurting, nothing to say but this, isn't it great we are all talking about the game and not the referee, Strebre put in a blinder.

Possession          65% - 35%

Shots on target     4 -4

Shots off target     4 - 1

Big chances          3 - 0

Passing accuracy 84% - 70%

Crosses                27 - 11

Corners                 9 - 3

Long balls            49 - 68

Looks like SFC's long ball game won it again.

I'm getting frustrated when our defenders look more dangerous in front of goal than our forwards.

They played a typical graham Arnold team game. Well organised in defence, hit the ball long to a big bloke look for knock downs and set peices. Can't blame them for that we didn't defend two set peices.

For all the ball we had we didn't create that much. I can only think of the Castelan shot early and the Bacchus shot

Bellends on Facebook blaming substitutions. Don't think that anything to do with it, not defending set peices probably has more to do with it.

We need a functioning striker

Perhaps the answer to becoming more clinical is a striker coach? I know this sounds very obvious but seriously if we were tucking away even half of our missed chances we'd be cruising out in front.

We look static up front, can't find each other, deliver dreadful set pieces, don't take chances and can't finish chances when we do.

And it's been that way for most of the last couple of years.

To be honest they get a lot of luck in these games. When they headed that cross down from the free kick in the dying minutes you could immediately sense there was some kind of danger. Our defenders are also terrible at blocking attackers inside the box, add to that Redmayne really lacks a presence in there. We seem to tense up and add unwanted pressure when we should be putting them to the sword in the first 30 mins and leading from the front.

A lot of this is mental and our loss of form recently also played a role. I think we need to be less tense/cautious in these matches against bigger teams and play without fear. It would probably make us s lot more dangerous. We seem lethargic right now.

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

Agree based on what has happened so far over the season, but cannot be blamed for last night in anyway. Never seen him as an impact sub, it usually takes him 60 mins to get in to a game anyway lol

Imagine being the club with the 2nd highest wage budget in the competition & playing the way ESFC did? I would rather lose all 3 derbies than play that way

Interesting question.....

In the UK you have managers like Fat Sam Allardyce, Tony Pulis and Neil Warnock, all fans dread them being in the running for a vacant managerial post because of the style they play, but they often save relegation threatened clubs. Arnie is a poor mans one of these types I guess. He will win silverware of some kind at ESFC eventually.

Anyway I would never rather lose 3 derby games for anything so cannot like your post. I am not a fan of the long ball hoof, but at the same time results are all that matter. I would have taken a god awful scrappy niggly game with an own goal deflected off someones arse and the media calling it a crime against modern football so long as we beat the ****ers last night. I don't care if we passed it around like Madrid or hoofed it around like Wimbledon circa 1990 so long as we ******* beat them. 

I would compromise this so called passing Spanish renaissance style in a heart beat and play the filthiest game imaginable if it meant we beat them next month.

@WSWBoro

We won't beat Easts next month.

We'll remain at the top end of the table and look to make a genuine contest for the title.

As fans we'll watch them fall apart as they juggle their ACL requirements. We'll sniff blood; the stadium will become even more toxic, their tifo and band equipment stolen, even wrecking the electrical circuit to their big screen so they can't read the lyrics to 'We are Sydney'

But we will not win.

Their existence as a club relies on it.

@WSWBoro

We won't beat Easts next month.

We'll remain at the top end of the table and look to make a genuine contest for the title.

As fans we'll watch them fall apart as they juggle their ACL requirements. We'll sniff blood; the stadium will become even more toxic, their tifo and band equipment stolen, even wrecking the electrical circuit to their big screen so they can't read the lyrics to 'We are Sydney'

But we will not win.

Their existence as a club relies on it.

Haha. So true.

Think it's crap Micki, there is nothing saying we won't or can't beat Easts next month. This isn't a case them playing us off the park or every time we play them we never can play our game because the coach is in our head. If that was the case, then I'd be concerned.

I was positive we were gonna thump them last night and even after losing again - i'm positive we're gonna smash them next month.

How many people had an off game last night, or were just that yard behind when usually they're not? It can't happen and won't happen again. Roll on the 20th Feb.

I was positive we were gonna thump them last night and even after losing again - i'm positive we're gonna smash them next month.

 

How many people had an off game last night, or were just that yard behind when usually they're not? It can't happen and won't happen again. Roll on the 20th Feb.

That's the spirit, doesn't matter how many times we get beaten still roll up with optimism for the next one.  Deluded fools the lot of us 

Now..... how many tickets do I need for the next derby 

@WSWBoro

We won't beat Easts next month.

 

We'll remain at the top end of the table and look to make a genuine contest for the title.

 

As fans we'll watch them fall apart as they juggle their ACL requirements. We'll sniff blood; the stadium will become even more toxic, their tifo and band equipment stolen, even wrecking the electrical circuit to their big screen so they can't read the lyrics to 'We are Sydney'

 

But we will not win.

 

Their existence as a club relies on it.

This

Such a hollow shell of a club, no culture or integrity, and as you said the only thing the club thrives off is derby wins. The club has been going since what, 2004? Not until the mighty WSW were born did they they start to give a flying **** about their club. They only show up when they play us and they only care about beating us... the club basically worships us without even realizing it. They will still finish below us and will have still won nothing, but in the end IT'S MA CITY 1TRUE SYDNEY TEAM MA SYDNEY IS SKY BLUE.

So be it I guess

Many tendencies of the old Melbourne Heart about Sydney FC.

Pea-hearted, shit****s for players and only get up for derbies.

Many tendencies of the old Melbourne Heart about Sydney FC.

 

Pea-hearted, ********* for players and only get up for derbies.

Bang on.

Ive got no doubt that the quality teams will shine through at the end of the season. Parking the farking bus depot cant be rewarded overall.. surely!!!

 

Ps. Someone ask the police helicopter for their footage, an overhead shot of when we were marching across the bridge right next to the cove on the other bridge would've looked pretty sick. That **** is what wins awards.

That was magical. Was it me or was there zero chanting on their march?

 

 

Its a case of only singing to a crowd....they sang past the train station (the same single chant), and when they cleared westfields they went quiet, they only partially kicked off again near the RSL because the cars being held up by the cops started honking their horns, and a fair number of the occupants got out and started yelling and giving them the finger etc, but of course when they hit O'connel street proper they started up when nearing the bridge....

 

 

Ps. Someone ask the police helicopter for their footage, an overhead shot of when we were marching across the bridge right next to the cove on the other bridge would've looked pretty sick. That **** is what wins awards.

That was magical. Was it me or was there zero chanting on their march?

 

 

 

Its a case of only singing to a crowd....they sang past the train station (the same single chant), and when they cleared westfields they went quiet, they only partially kicked off again near the RSL because the cars being held up by the cops started honking their horns, and a fair number of the occupants got out and started yelling and giving them the finger etc, but of course when they hit O'connel street proper they started up when nearing the bridge....

 

When nearing the bridge. I wonder if they shut up much when they crossed it.

I still can't believe that. In the annals of fan groups, you can't get a much better story than that. Poetry.

^^ i hope someone got that on film and shares asap.

^^ i hope someone got that on film and shares asap.

There were plenty of people filming but I'm not sure a lot of them would have got the significance of the mob in skyblue on the O'Connell St bridge.

Think it's crap Micki, there is nothing saying we won't or can't beat Easts next month. This isn't a case them playing us off the park or every time we play them we never can play our game because the coach is in our head. If that was the case, then I'd be concerned.

There is nothing saying we wouldn't of beaten them last night.

We shine as a beacon for other clubs. New stadium coming up, $30mill sports development, ACL win, genuine theme to style of play etc etc etc

But Easts only have this. They got booted out of training in Macquarie ffs. They've been beaten by us at everything they've strive for.

As a club, we don't chase the derby win as much as they do.

Im just throwing random thoughts on here as they hit my mind.

We won an ACL title playing how they did last night in some key games.

Bitter pill to swallow, I'd resigned myself to a draw, but had a bad feeling before the free kick.

We are in a bit of bother up front. With Santa unavailable and Piovaccari struggling, we have a deficit. Bridge is not a striker and I think been overly relied upon because he has found the back of the net a few times this season. He was out-muscled all night. Piovaccari substitution puzzled me, he came on too late to impact, given his style of play, by that stage Gol Gol with quick feet might have been better upfront. Generally we moved the ball too slowly.

We need another striker in the squad. Could be a tall timber for headers or a young pacey poacher off the bench, but a remedy is required.

The most glaring stat for me is only 11% of crosses found a target, that's terrible. Sydney connected as many crosses as us with a third of the attempts. Yeah we got a few corners, but did nothing dangerous with them.

Anyway, we played well but not well enough, and didn't deserve 3 points.

Im just throwing random thoughts on here as they hit my mind.

We won an ACL title playing how they did last night in some key games.

When someone in the other thread shot a "good like playing in the ACL like that" comment at Parra, that was my first thought.

 

 

Im just throwing random thoughts on here as they hit my mind.

We won an ACL title playing how they did last night in some key games.

When someone in the other thread shot a "good like playing in the ACL like that" comment at Parra, that was my first thought.

Intense mind **** from all the Easts fans who were telling us to play more attacking based football in the ACL lol

 

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.