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2021 FFA Cup

Wombat

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I want to pay credit to Monty tonight. This bloke is a dead set quality coach! Tony, Dross, Mulvey or Okunt would have switched to 441 and with a cheating Ref we would have lost or conceded 2 more on the break.
Urena and Cy's quality was obvious and steadied the ship.
Nizzy was MOM and simply awesome. Farrell is something else.....f**king love this kid already.
 

Big Al

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I want to pay credit to Monty tonight. This bloke is a dead set quality coach! Tony, Dross, Mulvey or Okunt would have switched to 441 and with a cheating Ref we would have lost or conceded 2 more on the break.
Urena and Cy's quality was obvious and steadied the ship.
Nizzy was MOM and simply awesome. Farrell is something else.....f**king love this kid already.
The boys were playing well early in the second but it was both smart and ballsy to go 3 at the back and attack early enough for it to have time to work instead of the usual same same stuff.

Also stayed calm when the boys were loosing there shit and pretended to calmly ask Birraz what happened when he clearly knew he had a anger explosion
 

scottmac

Suspended
They go elsewhere in the A-League and they will struggle for game time more.
That's a stretch. There's no first season kids of their quality in the A-League ATM. Other kids of ours have gone on to be starters at bigger clubs and I think we'll be first port of call when teams need a cheaper player.
 

Big Al

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That's a stretch. There's no first season kids of their quality in the A-League ATM. Other kids of ours have gone on to be starters at bigger clubs and I think we'll be first port of call when teams need a cheaper player.
Yep

Charles Mowomba starts a bit at Macurthur as does Lockie Rose and both are not as good as our guys and both played here.

This really is a special bunch
 

scottmac

Suspended
The boys were playing well early in the second but it was both smart and ballsy to go 3 at the back and attack early enough for it to have time to work instead of the usual same same stuff.

Also stayed calm when the boys were loosing there shit and pretended to calmly ask Birraz what happened when he clearly knew he had a anger explosion
Very ballsy to go 3 at the back but a master stroke. Changed the game more than the subs as much as they were perfect. Showed trust in an under performing Rowles to anchor the 3 in between 2 rookies and didn't it f**king work. Coach of the year.
 

turbo

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That's a stretch. There's no first season kids of their quality in the A-League ATM. Other kids of ours have gone on to be starters at bigger clubs and I think we'll be first port of call when teams need a cheaper player.
It doesn’t have to be first season though - Sydney have the likes of Neunhoff (spelling) who can barely get decent minutes outside of Brattans injury where do they expect to sit in that pecking order? Mo Toure hasn’t cracked a starting role at Adelaide. Better to cement that bench role here with regular minutes and step up when called upon. Then once they’re more established look at their options.

I think a big part of the reason we lose players to other clubs with less opportunities is they offer to pay them more than a scholarship and we can’t. That’s shortsighted if we have a good crop of young talent.
 

true believer

Well-Known Member
team rating
1 birra head explosion put the whole side under extreme pressure
6.0 sozer did nothing wrong . birra can watch him this weekend . if he has a MOM performance .guess what
5.5 miller was easily baited .needed to hit the deck more .than punch on
8 nisbet quality through out .had to just work after birras brain snap .when he was dominating
6.0 bozanic technically the best player on the park .failed at talking to the ref .
should have dictated terms to him .
6.5 moresche gave plenty .he's not lafondre , but didn't cost 7 figures either
6.5 rowles worst game of the season .still better than most
3 tsekenis will be thanking birra
7 farrell kid pulled 180 minutes in 4 days . find of the season
6.5 hall nothing stand out , thats how you like to remember cb in a winning team
6 hatch ok shift .still learning his trade lots of up side
6.5 steele could see a balard/steele 6/8 in future ccm sides
6 cy just added experience and class .turned the game
6 urena with cy took over the game and won it .
5 mccarthy wrote his name in ccm legend

monty great team subs . but needs to get someone talking to the ref
 
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scottmac

Suspended
It doesn’t have to be first season though - Sydney have the likes of Neunhoff (spelling) who can barely get decent minutes outside of Brattans injury where do they expect to sit in that pecking order? Mo Toure hasn’t cracked a starting role at Adelaide. Better to cement that bench role here with regular minutes and step up when called upon. Then once they’re more established look at their options.

I think a big part of the reason we lose players to other clubs with less opportunities is they offer to pay them more than a scholarship and we can’t. That’s shortsighted if we have a good crop of young talent.
I think we've lost young talent before because of management and ownership and a little bit culture (excluding os losses). Not wages or opportunity. With Monty in charge (and he'll be here in charge for a while) I can't see that happening again.
 

scottmac

Suspended
Thinking back on the game, I know I said a can't see us winning, however I also couldn't see a Mariners coach go 3 at the back and make it work with perfect subs. Such a shock to see. The Mariner's of the past would have lost that by 2 or 3 and Monty is the difference. Also having the subs to make, makes a huge difference too which is a massive shout out to the academy guys and off season signings on the field to be subbed.
 

turbo

Well-Known Member
I think we've lost young talent before because of management and ownership and a little bit culture (excluding os losses). Not wages or opportunity. With Monty in charge (and he'll be here in charge for a while) I can't see that happening again.
Yeah management and actually having a competitive team with half decent recruiting helps too. I can’t imagine how the academy prospects would feel knowing they’re getting pushed back behind Majok or Shabow and that wasn’t very long ago at all. Now we’re putting together a good core and giving chances to break into that group.
 

Josho Howe

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The boys weren't at their very best tonight. Were quite sloppy but we made it out of the Gong with the W.

And that's just Erin, Boyce and I ?

On the game, thought we were great in the first 15 mins. Birraz red rattled us. 2nd half subs made the difference. Goddard is different gravy and Nis was great as usual. Job done but not in style.
 

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