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The Crossbar: Goals, Goals, Goals.

Tuesday, November 06, 2012

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GOALS GOALS GOALS (to the tune of Motley Crue's Girls, Girls Girls)

What a round of A-League football with no less than 23 goals scored in 5 games, a huge plus for the neutral and a huge minus to the countries defences.  

All except Adelaide who were the only side to maintain a clean sheet. But enough of the boring defensive stuff and more on the ones who put bums on seats - the entertainers, the goal scorers. 

Young guns Thomas Rogic and Marcos Rojas were on fire. It was a delight to watch football this weekend, that is unless you are a Sydney FC fan.   Watching re-runs of Everybody Loves Raymond would have been more entertaining.


These snuck under the Crossbar and into The Sack (Likes)

1.  The Mariners. Seven goals against Sydney and all of a sudden they become opponents fans second favourite side.

2. Marcos Flores goal. Wow, Vidosic goal. Wow. 

3. Wanderers win at home for the first time. Well in boys.

4. Vidosic vs Vidosic. 'Nuff said.

5. The Mariners beating Sydney 7-2. Good enough to get in here twice

6. Crowd behavior. We're giving the mainstream media no choice but to report on the positives.


What went over the Crossbar (Dislikes) 

1. Sydney. Not even Steven King could have written a horror story like that.

2. Adelaide v Brisbane. In a round with 23 goals, this game finished 1-0. Get with the program guys.

3. Patrick Gerhardt becoming Western Sydney's 2nd greatest goal scorer. Of all time.

4. Del Piero not playing. Surely he was good for six goals on Saturday night. 


Things we learned: 

Meatloafs performance at the 2011 GF was better than Sydney's performance Saturday night.

Things we already knew:

Mark Bosnich hurts when Sydney lose.

Things we could change if we had superpowers

More Monday night games. It means four days of A-League. We'd call ourselves the Switcheroos and put some of the games on the Monday evening. Then we'd switch the ratings as well.

Hero of the week:

Thomas Rogic. What a display 

Villain of the week:

Gol Gol Mebrahtu. Had he played and scored this week it would have been so good.

Player to watch:

.Jason Culina. Will be back in the A-League by all reports in some way on Saturday night vs Melbourne Victory.

 Next week's prediction:

1. Brisbane to beat Melbourne Heart comfortably.

2.  We won't see 23 goals.

3. A full house at Allianz. Baying for blood. one way or another. 
1. Victory and Sydney FC fans will be watching Friday night's other Melbourne vs Sydney game out of the corner of their eye. CORRECT - you have no proof otherwise.

2. Del Piero to score in open play. DIDN'T PLAY, NOT MY FAULT.

3. Fox Sports to come up with some 'big blue' style name for the Wanderers vs Heart but in red. We'll get in first and call it the Red Stripe Stoush. DIDN'T HEAR ANYTHING BUT MAYBE WE SCARED THEM.

Worth a punt:

Melbourne Victory @ $3.05 to beat Sydney after looking like they've finally clicked.