WSW Extend Winless Run To Seven

Babbel needs to go, incompetent. 

I hope JT and JP can follow him through the door.

Simply not good enough, the club is being run to the ground. 

I actually don’t mind no subs 

To me, he’s building match fitness. 13 points behind first and they have a game in hand, but 17 games to go. Maybe Babbel is going for a late surge?

My main issue was that it was a simple cross that undid us. We didn’t defend it properly, especially at 1-0 ahead. We got complacent.

We should’ve scored at least twice with our chances.

Dreadful 

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I think it's kinda funny seeing all the east sydney fans claiming calver.

Still angry their women's team had to stand up on the bus all the way home......

That’s the fourth game in a row we’ve conceded due to ball watching in the box. Calver could’ve made a sandwich before he nodded that in he had that much time. That has nothing to do with Babel, that’s laziness from our defence.

... so where do we go from here? 

Just now, pseudonym said:

... so where do we go from here? 

.....barrack for the women.

How did georgievski get man of the match. Running up and down a lot isn’t football 

4 minutes ago, pseudonym said:

... so where do we go from here? 

Put the women in for the men

I'm just stumped as to why no subs....

5 minutes ago, DomJ said:

Put the women in for the men

I know Williams would score....

I actually thought the team played well. Sure end product was often poor, but the build up was good.

ive never been Babbel out, I was happy to give him to the end of the year. But after tonight, may as well give the head coaching gig to a traffic cone. If he doesn’t coach them during the week, he also does f@ck all during the game to try and influence the result.

Sat in the corporate area tonight and Mustafa Amini was in a box in lower tier. Our January attacking midfielder signing or here just on holiday?

7 minutes ago, billybob said:

I actually thought the team played well. Sure end product was often poor, but the build up was good.

ive never been Babbel out, I was happy to give him to the end of the year. But after tonight, may as well give the head coaching gig to a traffic cone. If he doesn’t coach them during the week, he also does f@ck all during the game to try and influence the result.

Did you watch the same game? Our build up play was slow, our passing is all over the place, and we can’t cross.

22 minutes ago, pseudonym said:

... so where do we go from here? 

Upwards.

Most telling for me was in transition. At one point Duke won the ball from a bad pass Ina good position. 

No one knew what to do with it. We had them outnumbered and everyone just strolled around waiting to see what Duke would do..Duke couldn't do anything as no one was moving.

There seems to be no plan. They talk about structure but I think that's limited to defence. Attack is just 'pass it around in midfield until your under pressure and then swing an aimless ball into the box so someone past the far post can glance it out for a goal kick.. 

And the end of that game was crying out for subs.either Mo before out goal or some fresh legs in the middle to hold out. Was a hot night too.

Really wanted Babs to come good. But it doesn't seem he will and he doesn't seem to care.

4 minutes ago, Xfactor said:

Sat in the corporate area tonight and Mustafa Amini was in a box in lower tier. Our January attacking midfielder signing or here just on holiday?

Visit surely. He's played 90 minutes in 16 of his side's games this year. He did miss 4 in a row earlier in the season, but I doubt he's leaving.

32 minutes ago, StringerBellend said:

Dreadful 

No it wasn't.

I saw a lot of positives out of tonight, not least being almost completely outplaying a team with way more points on the table than we have.

Of course, our finishing is dreadful, but once again, we dominate a team for the majority of a game.

I'm more Babbel in this week, than I was last week.

Even a small thing like getting a point from a game we should have won, could make a massive difference to the mindset of the squad.

I'm the glass half full kinda guy.

Onwards and upwards.

We really played some good football tonight. 

1 minute ago, Wanderboy said:

No it wasn't.

I saw a lot of positives out of tonight, not least being almost completely outplaying a team with way more points on the table than we have.

Of course, our finishing is dreadful, but once again, we dominate a team for the majority of a game.

I'm more Babbel in this week, than I was last week.

Even a small thing like getting a point from a game we should have won, could make a massive difference to the mindset of the squad.

I'm the glass half full kinda guy.

Onwards and upwards.

We really played some good football tonight. 

Was it as dreadful as the Brisbane game, no.

Did we outplay WU, no, I would put it somewhere in between

Did Babbel get the tactic spot on, no, I am unchanged on Babbel in that he baffles me and just don't know if he can sort this out.

Nope.

They put in a good effort. But they didn't play good football.. unless your talking about the women...they played good football

1 minute ago, Smoggy said:

Was it as dreadful as the Brisbane game, no.

Did we outplay WU, no, I would put it somewhere in between

Did Babbel get the tactic spot on, no, I am unchanged on Babbel in that he baffles me and just don't know if he can sort this out.

 

We had like 19 shots - how is that not outplaying them? They had like 2 shots of note, the one they should've scored in the first minute and their fluke goal at the end

Signing Meier was a mistake. Once we get near the box we are eunuchs.

17 minutes ago, StringerBellend said:

Did you watch the same game? Our build up play was slow, our passing is all over the place, and we can’t cross.

 

Agree that at time it was slow, but we had attack down both flanks and for all the poor passing we dominated most of the game. Yes our crossing is still poor, and we still take too long to pull the trigger or shoot from poor positions.

My point was more that I don’t blame the players tonight. Babbel did nothing to try and influence the game when we went ahead. Ok, maybe the players on the bench aren’t better than what was out there, but they were fresh and would have added some energy into a team that was starting to look tired. Changes also would have taken some of the pace out of the game.

2 minutes ago, Unlimited said:

We had like 19 shots - how is that not outplaying them? They had like 2 shots of note, the one they should've scored in the first minute and their fluke goal at the end

Perhaps my standards of what I expect are high, maybe too high, the term outplayed I would reserve for a different scenario personally.

I am getting a bit tired of this stuff at the moment and think I need a break to be honest. No time better than to take a break than leading in to Christmas and Christmas week, back other side of xmas folks, have a good one 

4 minutes ago, Unlimited said:

We had like 19 shots - how is that not outplaying them? They had like 2 shots of note, the one they should've scored in the first minute and their fluke goal at the end

How is there goal a fluke and ours with Durante sidelined with a head knock not? They were both well taken.

2 minutes ago, Smoggy said:

Perhaps my standards of what I expect are high, maybe too high, the term outplayed I would reserve for a different scenario personally.

I am getting a bit tired of this stuff at the moment and think I need a break to be honest. No time better than to take a break than leading in to Christmas and Christmas week, back other side of xmas folks, have a good one 

Quitter

5 minutes ago, sonar said:

Signing Meier was a mistake. Once we get near the box we are eunuchs.

I thought Meier played well tonight and close to his best performance for us, his pin point first time passing was good and he created a few chances with his back to goal. And I thought he was a lot sharper tonigh as well.

1 minute ago, sonar said:

Quitter

Have a good one mate 

Just now, dcrow said:

I thought Meier played well tonight and close to his best performance for us, his pin point first time passing was good and he created a few chances with his back to goal. And I thought he was a lot sharper tonigh as well.

Too slow. When we transition forward we always end up holding the ball while players get into postion. He is not the sort of player where you can lob the ball and he can outrun defenders. We always give opposition defences time to reset or reform. They have time to crowd the box.