90 Minutes, 90 Emotions

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By cbowden9000, 6 Sep 2009 cbowden9000 is a Roar Rookie

Tagged:: A-League, Central Coast Mariners, Perth Glory

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The A-League slogan, “90 minutes, 90 emotions” could not have been more true during the game between the Central Coast Mariners and Perth Glory. As a Mariners fan, watching this game unfold was a crazy emotional roller-coaster.

Allow me to describe it for you:

I was afraid in the first 20 minutes – happy and feeling lucky from being one up thanks to Wilko, then depressed and doubtful after Porter’s handball. I was happy Vukovic saved the penalty, but then I had the sad realisation that I should stop cheering because Sterjovski collected the rebound and did what he should have done the first time.

I was then depressed during the last third of the game because we should have been still in the lead. Then I had the attitude of “these things happen in football.” I was in absolute disbelief that Tando Velaphi could just give the ball away, and then I was so hoping the pass to Simon wasn’t intercepted. Oh, and I was hoping Simon didn’t hurt himself running into the up-right! Then there was the free kick at the very end of extra time, where I was hoping and praying we didn’t concede a goal.

I know many of you comment on the “poor quality” of our A-League players but, to some extent, the uncertainty in our players ability creates anticipation and excitement. Sure it also creates a lot of disappointment, but I don’t allow my expectations to raise too high for the A-League. I love it for what it is, and I will embrace the day when it is full of quality.

I used to be fan of the NRL until I opened my eyes to football about two or three years ago. I have seen so many NRL games, but none of them truly immersed me in the way that last night’s game did. Being a hardcore supporter of the Mariners, I was sitting on the edge of my seat completely into the game just hoping we could get the points.

The variation of the goals and the way the game can instantly change its pace is a trait that other codes just do not possess.

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The Crowd Says (18) | Page 1 of Comments

whiskeymac said | September 6th 2009 @ 12:04pm | Report comment

the first part of the game was dire and scrappy but once it settled down it was reasonably good qualiy. felt sorry for Tando V. as for the mariners, their strikeforce was struggling. macallister wld seem a more slid player than mrdja for me, and elrich is disappointing at the moment. good to get the points but still not convinced we cld dish it to a team with a bit more – like Gold Coast or even NQ at home (so unlucky… was hoping williams wld score).

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Tifosi said | September 7th 2009 @ 12:02pm | Report comment

I was at that game.

Perth deserved to win.

CCM reputation for boring one dimensional football is justified.

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Pippinu said | September 7th 2009 @ 12:11pm | Report comment

Tifosi
was anything said at the game about the Canberra bid, etc?

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andy g said | September 7th 2009 @ 9:02pm | Report comment

Welcome to the world of football addiction.
While every now and then a game will bore your socks off ( thats what alcohol is for), but it’s the games that do that to you, the edge of your seat stuff, that keep you coming back for more.
I hope your friends and family will understand.

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Midfielder said | September 7th 2009 @ 9:12pm | Report comment

Cbowden9000

Welcome lad … you will find many folk jealous of the Mariners … take Pip he would love to support us but is stuck in the hole at the at of the Hume and must follow the Tards…

Tifosi … you are two influenced by Fozzie … actually for all the talk of poor play … the Newcastle Herald keep a tally of how many completed passses each team makes and year to date … its the Beach Worms in the number one spot , followed by the Choppers ( Flying Circus) and then the Mariners… SOOOOOOOoooooooooo CB you know nobody ratyes us … we don’t care….

But back your game analysis … I tho in the first 20 mins we where in for a flogging … but we got back in the match and should have won….. as we did …

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Killer_Tomatoes said | September 8th 2009 @ 11:38am | Report comment

How does completed passes mean that you do not play boring football midfielder? It could be all sideways and backwards passes, playing a non-enterprising or dangerous (and therefore less exciting) game plan that accounts for that statistic. Or it could simply be a statistical anomalie, whereby long balls up to your admittedly tall strike force that, say Simon or McCallister, get first head to ball on are counted as ‘successful passes’.

Statistics rarely tell the whole story, and with that statistic, it is again definitely the case. You’re boring, it is not just Fozzie that thinks so.

As for the Canberra bid, may as well be dead in the water for the crowd they got. I know that watching Perth v CCM isn’t the most enticing prospect to get any football fan salivating, but a little bit of foresight on the part of football fans from the nations capital would’ve told them that the FFA bid peoples will be watching very closely, and that, in the interest of getting yourself a nationally recognised club side, maybe the sacrifice of sitting through 2 hours of essentially shite football was one worth making.

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Robbos said | September 8th 2009 @ 11:57am | Report comment

cbowden9000,

Yes football is a game that caputures my emotions like no other. It just ebbs & flows.
Keep Enjoying.

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Gibbo said | September 8th 2009 @ 12:54pm | Report comment

I could be wrong here, but aren’t emotions for girls?

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- rojack said | September 8th 2009 @ 3:52pm | Report comment
  
  Hahaha. I guess you watch sports coz you like looking at the blokes.
  
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rojack said | September 8th 2009 @ 3:51pm | Report comment

cbowden9000

Yeah, I didn’t ‘get’ football until the famous night in 2005. After the Japan V Aust game in 2006, I was well and truely converted and a true believer. No other sport can draw out your emotion like football can. Sometimes it just gets too much. I was ready to throw the remote at the TV after CCM scored the first goal. We (Perth) should have got something out of the first 20mins.

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Midfielder said | September 8th 2009 @ 7:02pm | Report comment

Killer

Sad it is that you cannot see past .. perceptions and bias.. actually completed passes is a good yard stick to measure teams performance .. would you deny that the Beach Worms & Flying Choppers are the two form sides … they are 1 & 2 in the table … it’s just every time you watch us the measurement standards used against us are different to other teams… each year all the knowledgeable (cough, cough, choke) football folk predict we will come last are coached by a Scotsman …. and don’t have any Brazilians …. each year we make the finals and twice into grand finals…

This year we have a mid field that will tear the A-League apart … LOL LOL ROFL … No we do … speed, touch, intelligence…. and we will be in the grand final … I have no fear of saying this ….

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- Killer_Tomatoes said | September 10th 2009 @ 2:19pm | Report comment
  
  Nice to hear you be so optimistic midfielder, when you’re done with whatever that is you’re smoking could you pass it over this way
  
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