New Season Same Wanderers

[Sithslayer1991]

Adressing the negativity losing the 1st game against Smurfs is still within my expectations for the season. If we don't beat Western United next week then we are in trouble. 

We go from playing the title contenders to the wooden spoon contenders in Aloisi's team

Edited October 20 by Sithslayer1991

[StringerBellend]

37 minutes ago, Davo said:

He’s been great in preseason and was universally praised on here for his performances in the Cup, but one bad game against one of the strongest teams in the comp, with almost zero protection from the midfield and suddenly he’s being compared to the worst CB we’ve ever had.

I’m used to you going full Eeyore in the post match threads but this feels a bit much.

Fair enough

 

 

 

He did look good against a bunch of Uber drivers  

[matty]

Count me in the negative side. That's normal for me but I love to be proven wrong and actively look for hope. I didn't see much. 

We didn't look very good at all. We lacked cohesion, lacked an obvious plan and worst of all lacked tenacity. Seems like the same old, fighting-to-make-the-six kinda season. 

But hey, our coach seems like a nicer guy 🙄

[PedroPony]

3 hours ago, StringerBellend said:

On the subject at negativity, if you are still going to WSW games then you are nowhere near the most negative. Most people gave up years ago 

Good point. 

Maybe what I'm trying to get at is that there is a decent chance that no more than 5 teams have their **** together. We could be the best of the teams that don't. Lofty ambitions. 

And if anyone is following the Perth game, well I'm thinking we are doing better than them at least.

[matty]

3 minutes ago, PedroPony said:

Good point. 

Maybe what I'm trying to get at is that there is a decent chance that no more than 5 teams have their **** together. We could be the best of the teams that don't. Lofty ambitions. 

And if anyone is following the Perth game, well I'm thinking we are doing better than them at least.

For now 🙃

[PedroPony]

Oh and  don't forget that many on here wanted Zdrillic to he our coach. As I type this they are losing 6-0 to the bulls with 20mins remaining.

[TwoLeftFoots]

1 minute ago, PedroPony said:

Oh and  don't forget that many on here wanted Zdrillic to he our coach. As I type this they are losing 6-0 to the bulls with 20mins remaining.

Last goal wins though... so let's see what happens

[PedroPony]

3 minutes ago, TwoLeftFoots said:

Last goal wins though... so let's see what happens

Ah yes I see that Perth have turned a corner now. 

[matty]

12 years and still don't know how to post pictures

[BohemianDublin]

So I remember a few seasons ago, when we were poor and they were quiet good.
We didn't win a Derby for what felt like 10 games in a row.

The youngest BD was about 10.
"Dad, will we ever beat them"
[he said in anguish with the desperation only a little kids face can muster]
"Yeah, we will son"
[said not completely confidently]
And then next game we did (think it was the 1-0 at Olympic Stadium).

Not at lot has changed.

We're completely unpredictable.
Anything is possible.
However as long as we continue to do high-risk, unnecessary stuff,
well, we'll get stuffed.

Sydney will play with a 4 or 5 man high press.
They always do.
So WHY, would we bollocks about with the football close to our goal?
[that first goal was a killer].

Clisby.
He means well.
[if you were having a quiet word with Jack before the game]
Ok, Jack, run forwards into space, and JUST cross the ball.
[poor lad couldn't cross the road without his mother holding his hand]

Korean bloke was alright. He'll get better.
Bulgarian guy is good. Causes chaos, in a good way.
Hammond, I like this kid.

 

[Zelinsky]

I fear that by round 3 @StringerBellend will be on the drip and by round 6 in a mental ward, screaming the words Borda, Clisby and Brilliante. Mate, I’d you don’t make it through this season: I’ll be at the funeral 

 

Edited October 20 by Zelinsky

[StringerBellend]

2 hours ago, PedroPony said:

Oh and  don't forget that many on here wanted Zdrillic to he our coach. As I type this they are losing 6-0 to the bulls with 20mins remaining.

Stajic set the foundations.

yes I know it's a ridiculous thing to blame him

 

[StringerBellend]

2 hours ago, PedroPony said:

Ah yes I see that Perth have turned a corner now.

Like us they have turned so many corners that they now dizzy but going in the same direction.

I admir I wanted zdrilla over ataj. Let's see where we end up. 

We have the stajman now so best get behind him.

 

[PedroPony]

7 minutes ago, StringerBellend said:

Stajic set the foundations.

yes I know it's a ridiculous thing to blame him

 

Yep. In that scenario rudan is to blame for last night. Or Carl, or JP, or the cool German dude, or Gumby. Actually maybe it was all Popa's fault.

[StringerBellend]

16 minutes ago, PedroPony said:

Yep. In that scenario rudan is to blame for last night. Or Carl, or JP, or the cool German dude, or Gumby. Actually maybe it was all Popa's fault.

Although how much ridiculous it is than say Stajic taking credit for Montgomery winning stuff with the Mariners I'm not sure 

He was cool DJ Bavaria wasn't he 

[mack]

17 minutes ago, PedroPony said:

Yep. In that scenario rudan is to blame for last night. Or Carl, or JP, or the cool German dude, or Gumby. Actually maybe it was all Popa's fault.

Ultimately it's the fault of Clive Palmer for getting Gold Coast United kicked out.

[Themumf79]

To paraphrase Alan Hansen, you won’t win anything with Clisby, Brillante and Cleur. 
 

If the only positive is that we didn’t get battered, then something is wrong. We knew what we were getting with Staj. He is a middle of the road coach. He isn’t a winner. That’s just one man’s opinion but I’m sticking with it.

[PedroPony]

29 minutes ago, mack said:

Ultimately it's the fault of Clive Palmer for getting Gold Coast United kicked out.

I still long for the days of Sydney Rovers. We are just a sad attempt to resuscitate them. The mighty black white and reds.

[Kotallo]

My scapegoat of the evening was Antonsson. Time after time he comes on and blows big chances in pressure situations, as he did in the last couple of minutes last night. He is surplus to requirements in the forward line and if we replaced him with a Hendrix-type midfielder we would be looking a lot better. The defence is problematic but our midfield is heaping pressure on them IMO.

I don't think we will have a tougher opponent this year than the smurfs. As others have said, the next three rounds will be the real litmus test.

[Potkorok]

23 hours ago, StringerBellend said:

Costa was excellent. Maybe other people watch the same game Stajic watched as I'm convinced he doesn't watch the same game as us. 

Do coaches ever watch the same game as us lol??

[Potkorok]

But in all seriousness, if ever there was a time for long balls and clearances it was this one - it was suicidal to keep playing out from the back and that is on the coach.

[SNS100]

12 hours ago, Kotallo said:

My scapegoat of the evening was Antonsson

Is there a stat on how many duels has won? Every single time the ball gets played to either his feet, or in the air, he loses out. He can't hold onto the ball with his back to goal. He is pretty useless when facing towards our goal. Lacks balance. Slow to the ball. Other than a good showing at Marconi Stadium, last seasons Australia Cup... I haven't seen a reason to persist with him. That penalty miss late last season was a sign of a player who doesn't event look like scoring. 

Did we make him into a useless striker, or he has always been this way?

Thumbs up to our now infamous recruiting team. 

Oh, and our Korean friend Jeong Tae-wook is an early candidate for 'worst visa player signing... The Borda Award'
 

[Kotallo]

26 minutes ago, SNS100 said:

 Oh, and our Korean friend Jeong Tae-wook is an early candidate for 'worst visa player signing... The Borda Award'
 

This is Seyi Adeleke erasure!

[SBW]

On 19/10/2024 at 10:40 PM, BoyFromTheWest said:

They bought to win not to develop players like most clubs have decided to do.

Thats how they have always been, they tried the development route and that hasn't them anything so they have gone back to buying players. We tried to follow that but we can't seem to get it right.

On 19/10/2024 at 10:46 PM, Upthehill said:

This was my biggest take away from tonight. Holliday was more productive tonight at LB than Clisby has been in all of last season.

I'm not stressed about Mata, Borello or Mila. Our defence and midfield isn't able to get the ball into workable positions.  Mata loked really lively on the end of the attack when he was actually given something to do. He looked great for 10 minutes because he dropped deeper to get on the ball.

Pelekanos did a decent job at progessing the ball when he came on, but I still have major questions about running a 2 man midfield with the (lack of) quality we have.

Broadly speaking, our squad just isnt there at all. Sydney started with all 5 foreign players, yet 3 of our 4 dont cut the mustard in the biggest game on the fixture list? And wookie has a hell of a lot to answer for in this scoreline. I really hoped Staj had some answers, but it seems pretty clear to me that my preseason worries about recruiting not matching the structure were accurate 

I think what you are going to get with Staj and he has mentioned this in the forum, he's going to start more young players, and there was also a suggestion that we are going to have less signings and more youth players coming through over the coming years

[StringerBellend]

18 minutes ago, SBW said:

 

I think what you are going to get with Staj and he has mentioned this in the forum, he's going to start more young players, and there was also a suggestion that we are going to have less signings and more youth players coming through over the coming years

Hope so, long as it isn't at the expense of actually winning stuff. 

I can't see Staj lasting the season (but I hope I'm wrong)

[MartinTyler]

2 hours ago, Potkorok said:

But in all seriousness, if ever there was a time for long balls and clearances it was this one - it was suicidal to keep playing out from the back and that is on the coach.

Actually we played a lot of long balls 

[Upthehill]

1 hour ago, StringerBellend said:

Hope so, long as it isn't at the expense of actually winning stuff. 

I can't see Staj lasting the season (but I hope I'm wrong)

Exactly.

The current quality of our crop doesn't have trophies written all over it

[WHACKO]

1 hour ago, StringerBellend said:

Hope so, long as it isn't at the expense of actually winning stuff. 

I can't see Staj lasting the season (but I hope I'm wrong)

He's only got a one year contract.     If that's correct. 

So what does he have to do to keep the job.

I can't see us winning anything and I'm undecided yet if we can make finals.

So what will it take. 

[WSWJACK]

Can we get Callum the Hoff back?

[MartinTyler]

OK just a few thoughts and I'm not going to join the "doom and gloom" club, nor the happy clappers set. Anyway, it was great to be back at Parramatta with a vibrant atmosphere although once again the crowd was overstated by the usual percentage.

Before the game I always thought that Sydney were going in better prepared due to ACL commitments and that was indeed the case. However, to be honest a slightly underprepared Sydney would have probably taken the points as well. With Priestman missing I was pleased to see Scicluna in the line-up for his combative approach but I feel that his distribution let him down on Saturday night.

Talking of distribution, Clisby had an absolute shocker on that front and I'm usually one who can tolerate his inclusion so hopefully we can find better. I may be in the minority here but I actually thought that Brillante had a decent game. Milanovic was disappointing given expectations and I still believe that Sapsford is too lightweight for this level.

Hammond provided several bright moments but Borello is struggling and desperately needs a goal. Now on to our defence; sitting up high behind the RBB allows a great opportunity to see the build up from the back, particularly in the first half. I can see what Staj is trying to do but I feel that we don't have the troops to carry this out effectively and I felt very uncomfortable every time we had a goal kick.

The Korean guy is decent but he's no Marcello or even a Mrcela and doesn't dominate in the same way. Whilst it's obvious that Antonsson is out of favour it's very disconcerting to have 3 of our 4 imports sitting on the bench so I'm hoping it's only a fitness issue with the other 2. In conclusion, whilst Sydney are going to be the benchmark it's going to be tough for us to claim a top 4 spot with the current squad. There were some promising signs but not enough of them.

Edited October 21 by mack
added some paragraphs