Round ball code talk

[Greasyrhys]

Reds were robbed of at least a point last night due to a ref howler

 

[diegodcg]

Strange defeat that. Two goals against the run of play for the Wanderers. I guess the Reds won't be the first team to struggle after a major squad revamp, but at least there are some reasons for optimism, I think. Most of the new signings seem to be technically sound, players like Guardiola, Henrique, Makarounas. I haven't watched much of them but they look good enough, even if they were not clinical in front of goal on that night - and things should improve as the season progresses.

 

[Seanybruz]

Reds were robbed of at least a point last night due to a ref howler

Looked a disgusting challenge and just as I thought Clisby was extremely lucky to not even cop a punishment when Cirio will miss 2 months with a knee injury, not happy at all that was a red card in any league around the world.

 

[Greasyrhys]

Hope the Reds can bounce back tonight

 

[Grave Danger]

Hope the Reds can bounce back tonight

Victory nabbed it 1-2 with a 93rd minute winner.

 

[Greasyrhys]

There is no justice in soccer, like last week, we should've won given the chances we created. Simply mentally weak

 

[Seanybruz]

Here's hoping it's just a case of starting the season off slow which we seem to do way too often, did the same thing last year and won most games in the back end of the season.

The loss of Cirio for the next 8-9 weeks is going to hurt though, he was a cruicial playmaker for us considering other losses over the off season.

 

[mic59]

FIFA is considering penalising Britian and Scotland World Cup qualifting points if they wear poppies on their uniforms on Remembrance Day matches. This would be under their rules preventing rules on preventing political, religious or commercial messages being displayed.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-11-03/fifa's-poppy-block-outrages-britain/7991496

 

[Greasyrhys]

The Reds are back to their mentally weak worst...

 

[Seanybruz]

The Reds are back to their mentally weak worst...

Yeah can't make any excuses for them now, they're just flat out struggling against every side that is itching to prove they're more than capable of knocking off the champs.

 

[mic59]

At least the lady Reds look like they have improved from previous years when they couldn't even score a goal, let alone win a point. W-League started today and they had a 3-3 draw with the Melbourne Victory. It was televised and the play was pretty good. Two of the Melbourne Victory's goals were scored by Natasha Dowie. Some of you may remember her uncle, Iain Dowie who played for 9 clubs including Southampton, Crystal Palace and West Ham. Or her father Bob, who coached Crystal Palace.

 

[diegodcg]

How have Australia failed to beat Thailand! It was your chance to top the group, but instead you just gave Thailand their first point...

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

How have Australia failed to beat Thailand! It was your chance to top the group, but instead you just gave Thailand their first point...

The Leicester City / 2016 fairy tale effect. The Thai billionaire who has owned LC for 5 or 6 years has pledged to help Thailand make the WC if not by 2018 then by 2022. Maybe his pledge is starting to take shape.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

An article in the UK Daily Telegraph in April this year about using data analysis.

The numbers don't lie: why football clubs place such importance on analytics
In a quiet corner of West Ham United’s Chadwell Heath training ground, long after the players have left for the day, Rory Campbell is staring intently at a computer screen. The residential surroundings have changed only superficially in the 50 years since this was a second home to Bobby Moore and Sir Geoff Hurst but the complexity of the off-field preparation is transformed.

Campbell is West Ham’s technical scout and analyst. An Oxford graduate, one of Alastair Campbell’s sons and a successful poker player with a moderate playing and coaching background, his focus is to make sense of the infinite statistical data about football and then communicate what really matters to the club’s key decision-makers. It is a specialism that has been profitably applied to sports betting but is increasingly now being employed across the professional game....

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football...-why-football-clubs-place-such-importance-on/

Leicester's direct style makes them a distinct Premier League outlier in the data CREDIT DAVID SUMPTER

 

[Greasyrhys]

Another game where nothing went right for the Reds, more injuries plus a red card to one of our players as well as Amor being sent to the stands, can it be any worse?!?

Bring back the footy ASAP!!!

 

[Seanybruz]

Adelaide United fans need to be like.

 

[diegodcg]

Another game where nothing went right for the Reds, more injuries plus a red card to one of our players as well as Amor being sent to the stands, can it be any worse?!?

Bring back the footy ASAP!!!

Such an strange season. I've watched a few Adelaide United games and I genuinely don't think they're playing that badly. I actually like their idea of trying to play from the back, and in Isaias they have a midfielder whose passing ability really stands out in the league - from what I've seen so far, at least. But injuries keep happening, and they keep conceding against the run of play. Normally 0 wins from 7 games would suggest a team is doing horribly, but that's not truly the case I think.

 

[mic59]

Looked a disgusting challenge and just as I thought Clisby was extremely lucky to not even cop a punishment when Cirio will miss 2 months with a knee injury, not happy at all that was a red card in any league around the world.

Too many refs here seem to be listening to the AFL and are thinking they have to be as lax in their refereeing. Note to the A-league refs, it's a different game!

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

the proposed rectangle stadium, that probably wont ever see light of day.

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/busin...r/news-story/6f0d03203df2ab35bbb08ce0758c7b62
SOUTH Australia’s premier soccer club cannot grow without a new city stadium situated nearby Adelaide Oval, according to Adelaide United chairman Greg Griffin. Mr Griffin said there was currently no incentive for the Reds to recruit a marquee player without a new stadium — located within the Adelaide Oval sporting precinct — that is capable of holding up to 30,000 people.“Would we like a to recruit marquee player? Yes, of course,” Mr Griffin told the Sunday Mail. “But we can’t get a return on investment because we’re going to sell out our stadium anyway ... we need a bigger stadium that needs to be filled and that’s what marquee players do — they put bums on seats.

........ with Recreation and Sport Minister Leon Bignell against the Oval move despite being a “huge supporter of soccer in SA”. “A soccer stadium can’t be built within the Adelaide Oval precinct because it would prevent us from ever hosting a Commonwealth Games or World Athletics Championship,” he said. “Both of those events require a warm up track next to the main stadium.” Mr Griffin said this was flawed thinking.“You can’t plan a city and put everything on hold in the hope of maybe getting the Commonwealth Games in 10 or 20 years’ time,” he said.
http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/busin...r/news-story/6f0d03203df2ab35bbb08ce0758c7b62

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

The other day in a PM diegodcg sent me he wrote;

Oh and the A-League is broadcast on BT Sport here, which is one of the main sports channels (the main one is Sky Sports). However, I usually watch A-League stuff by downloading on the internet - I'm a member in a forum where I can download lots of Australian sports stuff, which is how I follow the NRL as well for example.......do you watch the A-League? In all honesty I was expecting much worse, but the quality of football is actually very decent. Quite a few clubs try to play good, passing football. Goalkeeping and defending can be shambolic at times but at least it's entertaining. I think if I were a football fan in Oz, I'd certainly be attending matches and following the league.

And on queue in today's Weekend Australia ( the national paper Diego) had a big article on the current poor state of Australian goalkeeping. He is on the ball when watching sport. can analysise a Port game better than people who have spent 20+ more years watching Port or the game in general, picked the Western Bulldogs as the best team he had watched in 2016, and now picks up the weakness of the A league in such a short time.

Australian goalkeeping in desperate need of saving
Between them they have over 100 years’ experience either playing the game or coaching some of the finest goalkeepers to have come out of Australian soccer. So when Jimmy Fraser and Ronny Corry decide to speak out about the standard of goalkeeping, declaring it “the worst in five years” and “poor”, then you have to sit up, take notice and wonder what has gone wrong.

Give or take one or two of the current crop, it is a sobering thought, especially when you consider Australian soccer has long had a great reputation for producing a seemingly never-ending list of outstanding, world-class shot stoppers over the past 30 years.

The names roll off the tongue — Fraser and Corry, Jack Reilly, Terry Greedy, Allan Maher, Jeff Olver, Tony Franken, Mark Bosnich, Mark Schwarzer, Zeljko Kalac, Clint Bolton, Mitch Langerak and Maty Ryan. But where once Australia was lauded worldwide for producing quality goalkeepers, now we are left scratching our heads and wondering where the next crop is going to come from.

According to Fraser — who is still heavily involved in trying to bring young keepers through via his academy — and Corry, the cupboard is almost bare. “Where are the young guys coming through to put pressure on Maty Ryan and Langerak?” Corry asks. “If any of the current ones in the Socceroos go down, who comes in? “The standard of goalkeeping here has declined alarmingly over the past five years,” Corry said. “It is a worry because I can’t see too much in the A-League at the moment, guys who might go on with it and maybe get a contract overseas.”

Fraser is just as brutal. “The standard is poor. There is no depth any more,” said Fraser, who runs the Jim Fraser academy out of Blacktown and has more than 80 young keepers on his books. “In Ron and my day, there were six or seven keepers who could step up (to the national team) and that carried through right to the 90s, but it’s not there any more.”.....
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/spo...g/news-story/acfd8a0a7983a5b2fef007313ed0107a

The article finishes off with looking at what kids are doing these days and not playing other sports to improve their ball skills. And Diego cricket helped one of them. He was a wicketkeeper! They both lament that they aren't asked for their advice despite their experience. They praise 4 keeprs in the A League - Sydney, Perth Glory, Melbourne City and Adelaide United had done so because they had good, experienced keepers like Danny Vukovic, Liam Reddy, Eugene Galekovic and Thomas Sorensen, and Maty Ryan, who plays in Spain and is the No 1 Socceroos keeper and was coached by Fraser.

Fraser believes not enough thought goes into the goalkeeping program. “When it comes to putting the curriculum together there isn’t much thought given to the keepers,” he said. “The kids are not getting the right grounding regarding technique.” Corry also believes that because the game has become almost a year-round thing, the kids are not honing their ball skills by playing other sports such as cricket, basketball or rugby league. “Jimmy and I were both wicketkeepers, so not only did we get the chance to relax and focus on something else but we were getting a grounding,” Corry added.

It irks Corry and Fraser when some in the game describe them as dinosaurs. “Some of the kids we send to clubs and the system get told we’re old school or dinosaurs and that hurts,” Fraser said. “It’s the sign of the times, I guess. People these days know better but they haven't had the results. No one comes to us and asks us for advice re coaching. We have a lot of knowledge. “We have had the results. Kids still come to me, so I must be doing something right. Fact is, we send kids to the system but they get worse and we have to sort them out when they come back.”

 

[Greasyrhys]

Announced today that Adelaide Oval will host the Socceroos v Saudi Arabia World Cup qualifier on June 8

 

[Garibaldi Red]

Announced today that Adelaide Oval will host the Socceroos v Saudi Arabia World Cup qualifier on June 8

Don't the crers play at AO around that time? Wait for the saltiness to run through the Ambassador network

 

[Garibaldi Red]

https://au.news.yahoo.com/a/3335776...allers-from-brazil-crashes-in-colombia/#page1

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Don't the crers play at AO around that time? Wait for the saltiness to run through the Ambassador network

One of the Saturday nights the Roosters play the Storm as well in June. The NRL hasn't released its draw yet so we dont know which Saturday night it is. The draw is - Port Thursday 1st June home game, Socceroos Thursday 8th, Crows Friday 9th home game. So the roosters will have a home game either on Saturday 10th or 24th as 17th is a crows night home game.

 

[Greasyrhys]

https://au.news.yahoo.com/a/3335776...allers-from-brazil-crashes-in-colombia/#page1

That is awful news, hope it's not as bad as reported