Milanovic Earns Late Draw In Wellington

[Sithslayer1991]

34 minutes ago, MartinTyler said:

What I meant was dropped after the previous game. Who could you really drop after the Victory win?

Panta and Priestmann only because of international duty they were last to come in. For the Auckland game I would probably keep it the same but have Priestmann, Panta and Sapsford on notice

[StringerBellend]

1 hour ago, PedroPony said:

I assumed that Staj would have prepared for the game with Mata, Laws, Pelakanos and antonsson all starting. And then bring in the players who had international duty in the final 30mins. 

But if he had done that and we lost then everyone would be questioning why so many changes were made. 

He rested players after Perth it didn't go well

[PedroPony]

5 minutes ago, StringerBellend said:

He rested players after Perth it didn't go well

Yeah he seems keen on stability. Probably not a bad thing.

[StringerBellend]

Just now, PedroPony said:

Yeah he seems keen on stability. Probably not a bad thing.

Or he's learned, he messed about with the line up after good performances twice and we were terrible both times 

Still for this one not sure why he didn't get Mata on earlier or even start but yep if he'd made big changes and we'd have lost he would rightly have been hammered.

It's too close to end of the season to mess around now 

[SBW]

1 hour ago, PedroPony said:

Yeah he seems keen on stability. Probably not a bad thing.

There's nothing wrong with squad rotations, we were coming off an international window, had players play in different parts of the world, some players came back later than normal then they had to fly out to NZ either on the same day or the next day which isn't easy to do. If we had a home game, then a change to the line up wouldn't be necessary

[Sime11]

its a point and we maintain our unbeaten record

team's attitude to fight and keep coming is just what is needed, that wont go unnoticed by opposition teams and the fact we keep getting results means its working.

Auckland game is a free hit this weekend - losing is not the end of the world - reality is we will have to visit Auckland again during the finals if we make it far enough

we remain in NSW for the rest of the regular season, so travel should not be an issue from next weekend.


 

[HillsPanther]

I don't know if this has already been mentioned. But I thought this game was in Wellington, not Auckland.

[mack]

I accidentally used the post-game title for the match this weekend. Sorry.

[StringerBellend]

5 hours ago, Sime11 said:

its a point and we maintain our unbeaten record

team's attitude to fight and keep coming is just what is needed, that wont go unnoticed by opposition teams and the fact we keep getting results means its working.

Auckland game is a free hit this weekend - losing is not the end of the world - reality is we will have to visit Auckland again during the finals if we make it far enough

we remain in NSW for the rest of the regular season, so travel should not be an issue from next weekend.


 

Not sure about the free hit and not need to win. Winning this keeps finishing second largely in our own hands. Lose and the Melbourne teams will start getting away.

 

[matty]

On 30/03/2025 at 3:11 PM, WanderingToquii said:

This was the opportunity for Stajcic to give run outs to Josh Laws, Juan Mata, Antonsson and Pelekanos from kick off. 

The team looked really flat. We could've and should've had 3 points from Wellington. 

However,  I can certainly see a pleasant change in the mentality of the team. The never say die attitude is coming back. 

I hope, hope, hope that they turn up 150% for the Auckland game. There's nothing sweeter than sook boy Corica spitting the dummy against us.

 

 

Agree 100%

Wellington were down several first 11 players. The draw is a big negative at this stage of the season.