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AF

Are Bridge and Brosque really as great as the Sydney commentators would like us to think? Neither of them figure in the top 5 goal-scorers. Crikey, Matt Thompson of Newcastle has as many goals as the overly-lauded Brosque and he’s a mid fielder or back! Why not try him up front as lone striker against Indonesia? He’d probably deliver.

I’d say that all 3 teams are of even quality, and have even chances of finishing whichever position, it’s all about who has the better day and wakes up on the right side of the bed!
Gold Coast, Sydney, Melbourne…….. it’s a 3 horse race, Flip some coins and the order of 1,2,3 has 6 possibilities!

Even if Melbourne beat Gold Coast (please God!), there’s a strong chance that the final game in Sydney will decide the premiership. Whether Melbourne and Sydney are within 3 points behind or ahead of each other.

One thing that is in Melbourne’s favour ,is that it has a team with many players(and coach) who have won 2 premierships and 2 championships.

Go Melbourne!

a striker or an attacking mid, surely. But who??

Luckily they have a good defence, but you need a class striker to score when you are under pressure and really need it, especially when they go behind and don’t score first.
If they score first they protect their one nil lead..

They are better organised, but looks like SFC still can’t handle the pressure.

Grammar is awful. Sentences are split where they didn’t need to be. Three paragraphs start with ‘And’. The writer asks about fifteen rhetorical questions, which are never good in an opinion piece but particularly bad when you don’t put a question mark on the end of them.

The article just flits from thought to thought, stream of consciousness style. There’s no more structure to it than the ramblings of a drunken hobo. The main point seems to be that Sydney will struggle to make the grand final, but the only substantial argument is made by naming a few players and asserting that they’re not natural finishers. With a rhetorical question, of course.

I agree with some of what the writer says, too. But I find this kind of article hard to read. I wish people would take more care before they post something on this website. Maybe get someone else to read through it first, for example.

Also I don’t so much think they need strikers but more something better from their midfield. Kisel, Mcflyn, Musilak all have a good work rate but often it’s only Corica provides anything in the final 3rd. And the Silver fox can’t do it all by himself.

Thwaite was very good on Sunday, be interesting if he plays as a defensive midfielder throughout the finals.

Phutbol..I think you are right…but I didn’t choose the photo….maybe Dave Mitchell did!

Pretty sure Viteslav Lavicka has been Syd FC coach all year……

I am pretty sure Mitchell doesn’t fit Fosters criteria for being judged an overseas coach. Nor Fergusson, Mckinna and Merrick.

Football is about attack AND defence.