Wanderers Hold On In Gosford

Fair assessment. Fluent passing 1st half...poor 2nd. We were the better side and a win is a win even if it was a bit ugly. Roly and Bridge looked cooked after 60 mins.

You have to question the conditioning it needs an overhaul.

Frustrating that they clock off in the second half and let the mariners back in the game. They need to keep their foot on the throat.

Second half was really poor, we played well first half though Carrusca is class 

Winners are grinners...but we desperately need to sort out our 2nd half performances.

Well done to all those that got cooked in the sun this afternoon It was not easy.. totally sunburnt  In a way I can understand the players fade but the opposition players faced the same conditions 

1 minute ago, StringerBellend said:

Second half was really poor, we played well first half though Carrusca is class 

Agreed...Carrusca has been a great pickup

Great 1st half...poor second...good first impression of Ikonomidis - he looked to always go forward which is great, and he's not Sortiro which is always an extra tick

Unfortunately Bridgey looks like he's always 2 steps behind, and Roly too flat footed

The Greek kid looked economical. Once a year Sotirio gets lucky. Otherwise he's a greyhound of a runner. Just has a problem when there's a football at his feet. Understandibly such occurrences trip him up but luckily he lays it off to the closest opposition player so he can return to running. This win only makes sense if we win next week. 

we won

8 minutes ago, tardotz said:

Winners are grinners...but we desperately need to sort out our 2nd half performances.

Well done to all those that got cooked in the sun this afternoon It was not easy.. totally sunburnt  In a way I can understand the players fade but the opposition players faced the same conditions 

Yes...it was hot.

We just kept moving upwards in the upper tier...and ended up hopping into the seating in one of the empty boxes up the back...and avoided the Sun!

Thoroughly recommend doing that. 

Really disappointing overall crowd, wasn't it?

No noise that I heard from the Mariners...not even a "We sing for Yellow"??. No action behind the goals from them. The brass band was there...but I hardly heard them...and they didn't seem to circulate through their members'stand. 

Anyone know why it was such a poor turnout from them?? I thought they'd done OK crowd wise this season...but their losing streak has probably taken its toll, I guess.

Any other team would have buried us in the second half. Thankfully mariners are a basket case and can’t score for ****. 

Played some great one touch football in the first half, Bridge for me looks half the player he used to be since coming back from Thailand. 

If only we could play football for 90 minutes instead of 45. 

Second halves have killed our season. 

Wins a win though. Gosford is ours. 

How the **** hasn’t Okon been sacked? 

Wendy was very disappointing crowd. 

Remeber the early seasons this fixture was always a 12k crowd minimum... well our **** turnout was a big reason for the crowd, our crowd crowds home and away are just woeful at the moment 

it was a nice day cooking in the sun as others have said, some interesting times in the rbb with the anti ffa chanting and cops taking banners 

carussca - yes he looks the good 

agree with bridge he should have been yanked and reira stay on - reira in the first half put in one of the best performances in a wsw shirt we have seen in a half he set bridge up twice and yeah Bridgey wasn’t able to convert 

hamill actually Had one of his better games 

and wtf is up with risdon? He is almost unfitter that bridge 

nice day out now beat the **** nix 

34 minutes ago, wendybr said:

Yes...it was hot.

We just kept moving upwards in the upper tier...and ended up hopping into the seating in one of the empty boxes up the back...and avoided the Sun!

Thoroughly recommend doing that. 

Really disappointing overall crowd, wasn't it?

No noise that I heard from the Mariners...not even a "We sing for Yellow"??. No action behind the goals from them. The brass band was there...but I hardly heard them...and they didn't seem to circulate through their members'stand. 

Anyone know why it was such a poor turnout from them?? I thought they'd done OK crowd wise this season...but their losing streak has probably taken its toll, I guess.

When I am there at Gosford (I wasn't today) I am always on the back row of the general admission bay in the upper tier and have hopped over in to the boxes twice before, I think the time I seen you there I did that. I remember being at Gosford when all the boxes at the back were full.

Great first half, should have been over the hill and out of sight at half time. second half same old story....now to back it up next week.

Key to victory - hoole's heroic commitment to not defend.

Have to admit i only saw first half - not bad at all. Although it sounds like it went south later on. What changed in second half?

Wendy, Crowd was bad. I guess when your team hasn't won for 2 months and is playing another underperforming team then people stay away. Our away support was also low. At  the Settlers 2hrs before the game it was half empty. Very different to the days when the tevern was full , peole overflowing in the street and the riot squad outside....even the cops stayed away.

The Mariners band in the corner next to the sauce bottles is strange....looks like even the Mariners fans don't want them near them.

2 minutes ago, lloydy136 said:

What changed in second half?

That's the question everyone has been asking all season.

2 minutes ago, tardotz said:

Wendy, Crowd was bad. I guess when your team hasn't won for 2 months and is playing another underperforming team then people stay away. Our away support was also low. At  the Settlers 2hrs before the game it was half empty. Very different to the days when the tevern was full , peole overflowing in the street and the riot squad outside....even the cops stayed away.

The Mariners band in the corner next to the sauce bottles is strange....looks like even the Mariners fans don't want them near them.

Sunday afternoons are always bad for me...worse for sure than anytime on a Saturday. The wife always wants certain stuff doing and certain routines on a Sunday, I always ******* groan when I see any game on a Sunday even if at home, hate them. I prefer  even Friday night games to Sunday games.

Who knows what changed, nothing that I could see in terms of tactics, we just seem completely incapable of lasting 90 minutes. It was an absolutely pathetic 2nd half, a good team would have beaten us.

The positives were Riera (again), Carrusca (again), Ikonimidis and Llorente.

The first two are our only hope of winning any games, when they're on the pitch they're a constant threat. They're already combining brilliantly. The way Carrusca already looks like our equal best player despite being here for 5 minutes shows his class. Ikonimidis was decent, the best thing about him was he didn't do anything stupid. Showed good touch and control. Llorente was great and I loved his post match interview, he was so pumped to have finally got a win. Check it out if you can find it, you can't question his commitment. Also interestingly said he doesn't like playing as a winger, prefers playing as a left back with space to run into.

Looks like we have definitely worked out how to win now.

Create enough chances for half a dozen goals in the first half. Take at least 2 of them. Hold on in the second half. Simples.

9 minutes ago, lloydy136 said:

Key to victory - hoole's heroic commitment to not defend.

Have to admit i only saw first half - not bad at all. Although it sounds like it went south later on. What changed in second half?

We just went into or usual listless second half performance. Guilty of playing backwards when we had a chance to push on and seemed to lack any sort of urgency.

2 minutes ago, btron3000 said:

Looks like we have definitely worked out how to win now.

Create enough chances for half a dozen goals in the first half. Take at least 2 of them. Hold on in the second half. Simples.

Worked when up against the team running second last. Not sure about the others. 😯

2 minutes ago, StringerBellend said:

We just went into or usual listless second half performance. Guilty of playing backwards when we had a chance to push on and seemed to lack any sort of urgency.

 

There was one where we ended up with someone with the ball in acres of space IN THE BOX...might have been the otherwise anonymous Lustica...and we somehow ended up passing the ball back to our defenders on the halfway line.

That said, the buildup to our second goal was sexual. I don't expect it to be really discussed or even shown anywhere because #ausfootballmedia, but there were at least twenty passes before picking them open. The difference though was that the final ball was quick and direct to our striker's main threat, i.e. heading. Llorente didn't faff around with it on the wing waiting for others to arrive.

When you've got a guy that can put away headers as difficult as that, it seems insane not to base your whole game around trying to give him as many opportunities to do so as possible.

Is the fitness issue because of not enough to fitness training or too much? Is gombau working them really hard in order to have a solid crack at finals (assuming we make it)?

Also our form seems to drop significantly with Sotirio not on the field. 

11 minutes ago, DanButler said:

Is the fitness issue because of not enough to fitness training or too much? Is gombau working them really hard in order to have a solid crack at finals (assuming we make it)?

We have been knackered in the last 20 mins all season.

Roly and Bridge are cooked nearing the end of games and it is costing us.

I have the deepest respect for Mark Bridge but he is not as good this year...a legacy from his injury perhaps....?

Yeah Bridge is well off the pace. I would have Ikonomidis and Sotirio on the wings starting ahead of him. 

Roly as well, although he wasn't terrible today, should be well down the pecking order in midfield.

The crowd figures all around are a clear indication that FFA's approach to growing the game is trying to kill it.

Our conditioning took a hit when waterhouse left, another one when popa departed, and the end came when Foxe walked. 

Sad state of affairs when you win and couldn't even be bothered taunting Mariners fans on Facebook.

7 hours ago, luisenrique said:

There was one where we ended up with someone with the ball in acres of space IN THE BOX...might have been the otherwise anonymous Lustica...and we somehow ended up passing the ball back to our defenders on the halfway line.

 

There was one passage where we only just stopped the ball going over their goal line, and within 4 passes had it back at the feet of Vedran. WTF is that?????

18 minutes ago, wswtragic said:

There was one passage where we only just stopped the ball going over their goal line, and within 4 passes had it back at the feet of Vedran. WTF is that?????

It's a process. It's attacking football, apparently. 

8 hours ago, StringerBellend said:

 Guilty of playing backwards when we had a chance to push on and seemed to lack any sort of urgency.

 

Whilst this has certainly the case in most games, yesterday's effort was particularly 'spectacular' as the Mariners were there for the taking. So frustrating where the forward options are blatantly obvious yet we stop, ponder then pass it backwards.

a few times in the first half before we scored, Sotirio found himself in acres of space - often on the counter - and slowed the game right down instead of pushing forward like he usually would in seasons past. lets face it, 99 tiimes out of 50 he's gonna turn over possession or run it over the sideline - at least if he runs forward like a chicken with its head cutoff he loses the ball in better field position, or maybe even creates a chance, but **** man, play like this slowing down the game when you've got a chance to put pressure on the opposition with a quick counter is just negative and allows the other team to re-organise and get bodies behind the ball. I don't blame Sotirio, i think it's just bad coaching. play to win - not some stupid philosophy.