Southern Football (incl Southern United)

the coach has to seriously look at the uni players, they were not up to the challenge, Peter Rae was dismal, his passing was poor, i counted four passes to the opposition players. Taylor McCormack impressed me upfront, I for the life of me cannot understand why he was taken off at halftime, Taylor should have stayed on and dropped Rae, I think the combination  of Taylor and Henrique will go well together. I like the look of Jacob Schneider. 

The backs were shocking, without Joy they were a lost group with no clues. The team needs Jude and Ross Howard.

I thought Henrique looked like once he settles and gets match fit he could be a bit of a threat. Was disappointed to see Geordie subbed, he worked hard and off the ball. Patrick being a step above in terms of control made him good to watch, but some frustratingly poor passes at times though and as the deepest lying midfielder needed to compete more strongly off the ball. Also think he looked too central with his passes too often, very frustrating when the wide men had room. Batty the Otago MotM for me.

What was wrong with Joy? And how fit is Caldicott? What formation did Southern play?

Don't think anyone could have predicted that starting line-up or some of the players that missed out all together. Wonder if Luiz will make any changes for the next game (Mepham anyone?????????). Didn't Coldicott get injured at 7s? that may be why he didn't play from the start? Good to see Taylor getting a run up front but dissapointed not to see Big Dan in there.

Were there any decent opportunities for us or was it all one-way traffic?

The only person making opportunities was TM in the first half, if it was not for the keeper it would have been 10   

Based on what I saw yesterday my XI for the next game would look something like this

                          Batty
                     Joy         Overmire
Mansford                                      Hindson
              Ebanda   Mepham    Day
Coldicott                                      Aajay
                       Taylor/Morris

Potrich, Attwood, Higgins/Wrightwebb, Rae, Taylor/Morris,

Reports are that there will be no Joy next weekend!

Joy is out for two matches with university commitmnets

It is beyond me how average southern league players who wouldn't start at either of cavy/tech/roslyn are in the southern squad let alone starting. Some very biased selections and frankly from the few southern league games I observed this year ludicrous selections

Yep told the coach to piss off after not being selected the first time round. Good on him. 

Sounds like it's going to take a while to get sorted. Is Luiz capable of getting the best out of them players? Is there lot's of potential in a few of them? Are the games on Otago Channel 9 this year?

From what i heard, the problem is no one from Tech or Cavvy wanted to play for Luiz & the ones that did (Howard & Fitzpatrick) were overlooked..

The right back is one of the worst players i've seen at National league level, can't be having a fullback that can't pass to a team mate, disgrace that Howard was overlooked, left back is just as bad

Luiz is just a D level coach & the majority of the players are C's & D's

think about 4 coaches turned the job down before poor old Luiz

What four?

I heard Horner and Burgess were watching together on Sunday.Only question is who will be top dog?

It would be like having Ronaldo and Ibra in the same dressing room.

not quite...

paul marshall!? why the heck did they turn him down?

Might have been the other way round

I notice that ASB website is behind with the news for this weekends game.

. News from the printers ftp server is that the SU Gk has been axed. More to be aired on this in the next day or so. Beats reading Next week's T V Guide.

Harls will be FIZZING

Let's be honest HB can't be that flash if Rodeka is starting

Gee I hope this Batty chat is unfounded. Brilliant keeper, would be up there with Lutz as one of the best to play for Otago tbh. 

We will know later today but heard that Batty is on the bench today.

Batty has been dropped from the starting line up for no reason! This is an absolute joke Luiz! What are you playing at?? Not time for experimentation! Tom batty was the best player on the park last week! 3-5-2 formation with regan and Geordie on the bank...need speed and regan has that! Need compare and Geordie has that! Good for Daniel Morris getting a start though, he deserves it! I hope they get up but there's something going wrong here! Rant over! 

If what is being discussed re: Batty is actually true Luis has lost the plot already. Horrible decisions last week playing his Uni boys who weren't even close to being up to it, now brings in his Uni (Brazillian) keeper to replace the Man of the Match last week. Batty's performance was similar to Moss v Mexico kept the score respectable.
3 5 2 will actually end up being 5 3 2 and will mean they sit way too deep on a big pitch and will only be a matter of time before the brazillian keeper has a brain explosion. I am picking 5-0.

HB paying $1.33 this is some easy as money