DinoPresinger Posted November 25, 2016 Posted November 25, 2016 Victory you're spot on about us having some **** bandwagoner fans but SOP is truly a terrible precinct. I'm not sure I'll renew next season because transport is so difficult. And I have been to every NSW game for the last 3 years. eggs, DamnedUnited and Themumf 3
eggs Posted November 25, 2016 Posted November 25, 2016 Victory, please don't be those idiots I have seen on twitter. Oh look, 11,000 people = 1/2 fan base are bandwagoners, the muppets that are the loudest are led by Easts flogs, what a surprise. Most of the people commenting have read the bossi article and have taken it as gospel. If the hack bothered to be a journalist & actually looked beneath the surface he'd see there is a lot more wrong than just a crap stadium. There are plenty of issues with SOP that are completely ruining the match day experience, yes the die hards like many on here will turn up no matter what but even then there are those on here that would rather travel to any other game but those at SOP. If die hards like us are asking these questions what are those, what are the casual fans thinking? They go to get the kids out of the house, but would they bother when transport to/from SOP is horrible, police presence is over the top, security are over bearing, pre match drinks venue is horrible, nothing to do post game except leave & at the bottom of that list the ground is poor venue. If spotless was just a poor venue to watch football none of us would have an issue (new ground 3 years) but there is so much going on than that. Spot on, and to add to that we have zero family friendly fixture times this season. My 6 & 4 year old kids are buggered by half time. ManfredSchaefer, Burgerman, Horus and 4 others 7
Prydzopolis Posted November 25, 2016 Posted November 25, 2016 Eggs spot on, they put on a game that finishes at 9pm on a Sunday night. They are worried that the flares are going to make the game anti-family friendly but perhaps they should re-focus the efforts on the fixture list! Bulut isn't getting the service. Thought we played well overall, as we have for a few matches this season. Just hasn't clicked in the final third. We were just lucky that last year we gelled much quicker than we did this year. eggs and Horus 2
Themumf Posted November 25, 2016 Posted November 25, 2016 Second half was good. On another day we would have won comfortably, but the cutting edge wasn't there. Huge improvement on anything else we have produced this season though. wendybr, Paul01, Alexander and 6 others 9
pseudonym Posted November 25, 2016 Posted November 25, 2016 new club mascot Valter43, thefairy, xxBrandonxx and 1 other 4
Horus Posted November 25, 2016 Posted November 25, 2016 Second half was good. On another day we would have won comfortably, but the cutting edge wasn't there. Huge improvement on anything else we have produced this season though. Nico was amazing...they got back in when we tired at the end, but overall a good effort. The back 4 are doing better every game...Tyson's distribution is waaaay better than Redders StringerBellend and HillsWanderer 2
DinoPresinger Posted November 25, 2016 Posted November 25, 2016 (edited) ref had a good game. Scott should be brought in for Bulut imo for the next few games. He seems to move like he knows where to be whereas Bulut is just reacting to what he sees. Jerrad Tyson Ole Ole Ole Edited November 25, 2016 by DinoPresinger EmMac, ptwsw and WestSyd 3
Zelinsky Posted November 25, 2016 Posted November 25, 2016 Unbeaten at Spotless :-) which could turn into the WSW graveyard :-( **** first half, excellent second half. 11k - that's what happens when an understrength squad misfires and the first third of the season goes down the toilet. All planned, apparently - apart from the lack of results, of course. Martinez, Jumpei, Nichols and Bulut have scored two goals between them in - wait! - eight games. Yep. The Borda-Aspro combo seems to function. Cornflakes will struggle to play another game this season. His lack of pace would have cost us tonight. How did Santa not score? Plane ticket for Bruno is edging closer. Apologies to Martinez - not just an accounting marquee after all, but one of the best players the league has seen. My goodness, Lustica is slow. Amazing performance of Pepper. Aloisi is doing good work with him. Cynth, EmMac and GunnerWanderer 3
Victory Posted November 25, 2016 Posted November 25, 2016 Positive is you've got Saturday night against us at ANZ next up - should be a lot better and hopefully nudging 25-30k. wendybr 1
StringerBellend Posted November 25, 2016 Posted November 25, 2016 Victory, please don't be those idiots I have seen on twitter. Oh look, 11,000 people = 1/2 fan base are bandwagoners, the muppets that are the loudest are led by Easts flogs, what a surprise. Most of the people commenting have read the bossi article and have taken it as gospel. If the hack bothered to be a journalist & actually looked beneath the surface he'd see there is a lot more wrong than just a crap stadium. There are plenty of issues with SOP that are completely ruining the match day experience, yes the die hards like many on here will turn up no matter what but even then there are those on here that would rather travel to any other game but those at SOP. If die hards like us are asking these questions what are those, what are the casual fans thinking? They go to get the kids out of the house, but would they bother when transport to/from SOP is horrible, police presence is over the top, security are over bearing, pre match drinks venue is horrible, nothing to do post game except leave & at the bottom of that list the ground is poor venue. If spotless was just a poor venue to watch football none of us would have an issue (new ground 3 years) but there is so much going on than that. Spot on, and to add to that we have zero family friendly fixture times this season. My 6 & 4 year old kids are buggered by half time. True dat Its way too hard 750 kick off and getting in and out of that place. i have a 5 year old with a season ticket and some games it's just too difficult I'm seriously thinking of not renewing his next year it's just too late for him ManfredSchaefer and 102megan 2
marron Posted November 25, 2016 Posted November 25, 2016 Victory, please don't be those idiots I have seen on twitter. Oh look, 11,000 people = 1/2 fan base are bandwagoners, the muppets that are the loudest are led by Easts flogs, what a surprise. Most of the people commenting have read the bossi article and have taken it as gospel. If the hack bothered to be a journalist & actually looked beneath the surface he'd see there is a lot more wrong than just a crap stadium. There are plenty of issues with SOP that are completely ruining the match day experience, yes the die hards like many on here will turn up no matter what but even then there are those on here that would rather travel to any other game but those at SOP. If die hards like us are asking these questions what are those, what are the casual fans thinking? They go to get the kids out of the house, but would they bother when transport to/from SOP is horrible, police presence is over the top, security are over bearing, pre match drinks venue is horrible, nothing to do post game except leave & at the bottom of that list the ground is poor venue. If spotless was just a poor venue to watch football none of us would have an issue (new ground 3 years) but there is so much going on than that. I took my kids tonight (as well as my dad). where I am now, if I went on the roof I'd be able to see anz. I only just got back here and we left on the whistle. Me myself, it wouldn't stop. But if I had kid members, I'm not doing that with them every week. That's just stupid. Like others have said there is nothing there. When you add no wins there this season as well I'm not surprised people aren't coming. Btw when I booked the tickets there were no empty seats around us, and maybe one or two singles in the entire bay. We could have sat anywhere tonight. The view was shite though. Horus, wendybr, FootballRelic and 2 others 5
Johnno Posted November 25, 2016 Posted November 25, 2016 Glad there are no more Friday night games. Still on the train home now and its 11.20. wendybr and FootballRelic 2
Victory Posted November 25, 2016 Posted November 25, 2016 More positive news for everyone - no more Spotless until 12th Feb and it's a Sunday afternoon kickoff. Next three home matches are ANZ/ANZ/C'town. So interested to see how the ANZ crowds go. I think they're going to compensate for the lower Spotless ones. DinoPresinger 1
dcrow Posted November 25, 2016 Posted November 25, 2016 I thought Bulut is just short on confidence but tonight his positioning was poor for a main striker. Unfortunately he has been as useful to us as Pio. It's a shame but we desperately need a striker with good movement or the season will be gone. The difference between Pio and Bulut, Pio had scored two goals by Round 8 but Bulut is so passionate. FootballRelic, Zelinsky and SBW 3
WestSyd Posted November 25, 2016 Posted November 25, 2016 I thought Baccus when he came on added some energy and helped us transition quicker from our own half into Brisbane's half. But as long as we don't ever play Hamill in defence again, and buy a new striker to combine with Martinez, Jumpei and Nicols, I still hold hope of making the finals. The composure and stability in defence has definitely improved because of Tyson. Not a fan of Borda, but I suppose we will have to live with him. Zelinsky, Horus, SBW and 5 others 8
Prydzopolis Posted November 25, 2016 Posted November 25, 2016 Positive is you've got Saturday night against us at ANZ next up - should be a lot better and hopefully nudging 25-30k.Thats some positive thinking mate, let's just focus on the 18,000 members turn up first before we start at looking at 25-30k So much work for the club to do to make the fans/members want to come back Wobblies and ManfredSchaefer 2
Themumf Posted November 25, 2016 Posted November 25, 2016 Positive is you've got Saturday night against us at ANZ next up - should be a lot better and hopefully nudging 25-30k. Home game against the mariners in Gosford first.... BrightSpark, 102megan, ManfredSchaefer and 6 others 9
Zelinsky Posted November 25, 2016 Posted November 25, 2016 (edited) . Edited November 25, 2016 by FCB
StringerBellend Posted November 25, 2016 Posted November 25, 2016 More positive news for everyone - no more Spotless until 12th Feb and it's a Sunday afternoon kickoff. Next three home matches are ANZ/ANZ/C'town. So interested to see how the ANZ crowds go. I think they're going to compensate for the lower Spotless ones. I don't know why people seem to prefer ANZ it's still in the middle of nowhere, the view is nearly as crap and it is a atmosphere vacuum. As bad as spotless is I marginally prefer it. Fcb where did your post go, I agreed with most of it? marron, lloydy136, Prydzopolis and 2 others 5
KGee Posted November 25, 2016 Posted November 25, 2016 (edited) More positive news for everyone - no more Spotless until 12th Feb and it's a Sunday afternoon kickoff. Next three home matches are ANZ/ANZ/C'town. So interested to see how the ANZ crowds go. I think they're going to compensate for the lower Spotless ones. You think? I don;t think we'll see much more than we're getting now. 14k tops for Vic and 10k max for Perth. I may go to the Vic game and try and move. I don't have great long sight so I can't see the game much at all from where I sit. Had to watch the Derby on the screen mainly. May as well just stay home. Dat Dale tonight though. Great work boys in getting it going. Always good that we're picked first as guinea pigs. Worked well upstairs. Clisby was excellent tonight I thought. Aspro too. Becoming the composed young player we remember when he first came in to the team. Not sure how Lustica can be so slow and be done by an out on his feet defender in a foot race with two minutes to go when he's just come on. First half was just awful. The worst I've seen in a long time. Second much better. Bulut is done. Edited November 25, 2016 by KGee Prydzopolis and Zelinsky 2
btron3000 Posted November 25, 2016 Posted November 25, 2016 Thank you Boris for the epic ******* Dale. SBW, nmh94, WSW27 and 7 others 10
WestSyd Posted November 25, 2016 Posted November 25, 2016 The thing is just about every game at Spotless we have conceded goals which were really bad defending and we should have never conceded. The silly penalty tonight. The back pass against Mariners. The free kick against Newcastle. Really should have a much better record then we do even though we are undefeated. I think we will get 18k against Victory. FootballRelic and Zelinsky 2
jdrudd91 Posted November 25, 2016 Posted November 25, 2016 Bulut I think is done, Already the whispers are he'll be out in Jan for Keane and tonight I think confirmed it. Tyson is for sure the starter, if we get Vedran Tyson will stay on and Redmayne will be out the door. We are taking massive strides towards the positive, the wins are coming. I think we'll be right in the mix come the end of the season, not for the plate but I think we'll be in the championship mix. We should have won bar a **** referee call and Theo worldlies. Next week will be our turn. BrightSpark, Horus and EmMac 3
braad Posted November 25, 2016 Posted November 25, 2016 8 points out of a possible 24 and some people say we are playing well - just as well we are not playing badly. Plus 11 points behind our biggest rivals and they have a game in hand. Sure we had chances but blew them and this problem is so well entrenched it is chronic and the coaching must take the blame. We don't know how to create attacking space , cross properly or play defence splitting passes. Chronic also are pathetic set pieces. Even if we had Keane he would have no space or service. They could have won it in the end with Oar. Luckily he missed. Winning is the major key to good crowds , keep this winless run up and crowds will fall below 10,000. Mate you'd complain if you found $100 note down the back of the couch that there wasn't another $10 there Glad to know you are happy with the results. Idiot. So bitter. Don't worry about esfc, we need to improve and our club can control that Bulut isn't getting the service. Thought we played well overall, as we have for a few matches this season. Just hasn't clicked in the final third. Bulut got chances, but the guy is literally right footed and unless it's to his right side he suffers Positive is you've got Saturday night against us at ANZ next up - should be a lot better and hopefully nudging 25-30k. Don't get excited by that number. How many are you expecting to bring up? ANZ is a pit BrightSpark and dodson 2
wendybr Posted November 25, 2016 Posted November 25, 2016 Second half was good. On another day we would have won comfortably, but the cutting edge wasn't there. Huge improvement on anything else we have produced this season though. Nico was amazing...they got back in when we tired at the end, but overall a good effort. The back 4 are doing better every game...Tyson's distribution is waaaay better than Redders Agree with these. Might just have been that we now have better seats, but I thought that, despite a poor crowd, there was a bit more life and atmosphere at Soulless than previously, and there was more confidence in the team than I've sensed in the past. Congrats to the RBB - inspiring as always. EmMac, Erdz, ManfredSchaefer and 2 others 5
MartinTyler Posted November 25, 2016 Posted November 25, 2016 Positive is you've got Saturday night against us at ANZ next up - should be a lot better and hopefully nudging 25-30k. Home game against the mariners in Gosford first.... 11k would be a good crowd then !! theguyyouwishyouwere 1
nmh94 Posted November 25, 2016 Posted November 25, 2016 Positive is you've got Saturday night against us at ANZ next up - should be a lot better and hopefully nudging 25-30k. Did you read any of our posts? ANZ is in the same precinct as Spotless (apologies if you didn't know that). As we have all been saying, it is the precinct as much as the actual ground, in fact more. The odds on 25-30k in two weeks time are exactly zero. I am sorry, I wish your optimism had a basis in reality, but it doesn't. MartinTyler, Prydzopolis, 102megan and 1 other 4
beatsurrender Posted November 25, 2016 Posted November 25, 2016 Positive is you've got Saturday night against us at ANZ next up - should be a lot better and hopefully nudging 25-30k. Did you read any of our posts? ANZ is in the same precinct as Spotless (apologies if you didn't know that). As we have all been saying, it is the precinct as much as the actual ground, in fact more. The odds on 25-30k in two weeks time are exactly zero. I am sorry, I wish your optimism had a basis in reality, but it doesn't. Totally agree. I will be happy and surprised if we crack 15k against Victory. The atmosphere at ANZ is worse than Soulless Prydzopolis 1
Popular Post Hughesy Posted November 25, 2016 Popular Post Posted November 25, 2016 What a ripper atmosphere tonight. Vintage Boris getting everyone involved. I had a great night, I spent the first 10 mins of the game chanting with mouthfuls of panang curry and beer lol I couldn't care less if people aren't showing up, their loss. I thought we played solidly yet again and deserved to win, all the lads putting in a good shift. Again, we look best when we play with width. We'll be right, the wins will come if we keep this up. We just need the opposition keeper to stop having a blinder every week, it's really inconvenient. Chin up Riva you miserable old bastard Burgerman, DamnedUnited, Alexander and 16 others 19
Generator Posted November 25, 2016 Posted November 25, 2016 (edited) 8 points from 8 games and sitting under the Mariners on the ladder. To say this has been underwhelming start to the season would be an understatement... But I wouldn't go so far as to say it's a horror start. That honour clearly goes to Adelaide! As for the action on the pitch, it was all a bit meh. I arrived late but it was decent enough football for the most part, even if the lack of anticipation regarding the short backward pass in midfield was a bit baffling (the players constantly stopped, turned and passed backwards, so why were the receiving players often not ready for such a pass?). As for the stadium, again it's a meh. I can see why it's a good ground for GWS, and coming up from Canberra (where we really have a stadium win no nearby amenities!) I think the offerings at Olympic Park are reasonable compared to past years, though nothing like Parra, of course. Anyway, I think that is about all I want to type at this time of night. Edit: one more thing... I still find the RBB repetitive, but the friendly competition and variety from the WST has created a better overall atmosphere as far as I'm concerned. Edited November 25, 2016 by Generator
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