Not an embarrassing performance.
Really happy with the combinations
With my orange glasses on I will say another competitive game and several steps up from last week.

Back from the game - got there late and missed the first goal so don't know much about that yet.

We did not huff and puff so much tonight. We got down the wings and through the middle regularly, but we struggled to create real pressure or panic in the defence once we got there. We can find a way through a contested middle when we try, but we don't try enough - looking sideways a bit too often and not seeming to see an open player as often as not.

Ingham has the most hideous touch of any of our players based on his performance when he came on. Most of his passes were behind their target or not hard enough to make the distance. He is not any sort of impact player - I would rather we start with him than bring him on when we need to up the ante (if we have him on at all).

Neville is a player I have time for. His workrate is huge both forwards and defensively and while his final passes are often aimless he has got an eye for other players and opportunities, good ball control and body strength. I would rather have him in my side than not.

One thing I cannot stand is a ref who gives a yellow card to a Roar player for a professional foul but fails to give one to an opposition player who commits a professional foul, then after the whistle kicks the ball away hard and right into a Roar players face. FFS - in another incident where a Roar player was fouled blatantly and professionally he only gave a yellow when the offender then forced him to by running back through after the free kick was awarded and knocking the ball away. Far too often he has managed players rather than play in games I have watched and he is probably my least liked ref these days. It is a broken record - but professional fouls (by any player) should get a frigging yellow card from the first time.

Too much faking injury as the game wore on. A few calls went the wrong way or should not have been called at all. Funny when Rudan was telling Kurto to take the ball to the other side of the goal - and he did and finally got a card for time wasting.

Not an uplifting, heart racing game - but not an embarrassing performance. Really happy with the combinations we put together from time to time with 6-8 passes getting through traffic. On a better day we would be getting through with 3-4 passes but getting through all the same. Yes, a long way from 90 minutes of sustained pressure, but with my orange glasses on I will say another competitive game and several steps up from last week.

If only we could get a good cross in to a moving player or use the skills we have to get inside the box rather than skirting round it.

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Will you not concede that we were a chance at scoring one or two throughout the game? At the game (if you went) did you not think a goal was in the air a few times?

Rudan may say they were smoking cigars but that is as much gamesmanship as his team employed in the second half - desperately stopping our attacks by professional fouls and throwing their bodies into defence. For a side with such recognised quality they did everything they could to hang in the game after they got ahead.

The combinations were missing from most of the game - but there were several times when they got it together. Those are the bits that I see and like and as I said above I hope they can produce a lot more of them for that to become our standard.

As an aside, when we had maybe O'Neil (?) wide on the right in the first half (far side from me at the time so I can't be sure) he made every effort to turn and face the goal/defender in the final third rather than just playing the ball back up the line with his back to everything. Most times he was successful and just that was a step up from purely defensive attacking.

Reality check.
Roar ,from having the best defence after three rounds ,now have the worst defence of any team after 9 rounds.....With two away games next.......And we bagged JA....
Only CCM and NJ have scored less goals.Yet they both have two games in hand.
We have the best possession statistics.....So did a certain Okon at CCM years ago and how did CCM go?

Does anyone seriously think RF can turn this around?......

I didn’t think Roar looked remotely like scoring at any stage. They could have played till midnight and I don’t think they would have scored.

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Will you not concede that we were a chance at scoring one or two throughout the game? At the game (if you went) did you not think a goal was in the air a few times?

Rudan may say they were smoking cigars but that is as much gamesmanship as his team employed in the second half - desperately stopping our attacks by professional fouls and throwing their bodies into defence. For a side with such recognised quality they did everything they could to hang in the game after they got ahead.

The combinations were missing from most of the game - but there were several times when they got it together. Those are the bits that I see and like and as I said above I hope they can produce a lot more of them for that to become our standard.

As an aside, when we had maybe O'Neil (?) wide on the right in the first half (far side from me at the time so I can't be sure) he made every effort to turn and face the goal/defender in the final third rather than just playing the ball back up the line with his back to everything. Most times he was successful and just that was a step up from purely defensive attacking.

If by chances you mean the countless no look, aimless crosses into the box?, then I guess so...... How hard is it to lift your head up, see where players are and then cross it in? 

You are taking into account the desperate saves by defenders and the keeper as not looking like remotely scoring?

I can agree that our build up rarely looked like unlocking their defence - but not that I did not think 'Yes!...oh crap' more than once.

I don’t recall anything that I would call desperate saves by defenders and the keeper. Kurto had a couple shots he dived at that were going wide, pushed one slow tame header over the bar, blocked one that was straight at him that had rebounded off ROD, and the defenders blocked a couple of other shots (just normal blocks, not last man blocks with the keeper beaten). I guess you can say that looked remotely like scoring, but VERY remote.
I like that you are passionate about Roar, and I too sincerely hope every game that the it will mark the turning point in the season, but unfortunately I’ve seen a continuing decrease in performance level over the season so far.

Mells , O’Toole and Hingeart will be playing NYL again this week 
coach got no idea 

For possession statistics they should subtract back passes from forward passes to give a more meaningful idea of what is going on.

The Courier Mail is reporting Roar will try and sign “a playmaker” in the January window - not sure what quality is going to be available though. 

I haven’t read back through all the comments so apologies if I’m repeating stuff that’s already been said. 

That was pretty dire stuff. Listening to Fowler and watching what went on there’s clearly a disconnect  - Roar just wouldn’t move the ball forwards even when that was the easier pass. 

At the back, Young was criminally negligent for that first goal. What the f’ck was he thinking? So he can be dropped. 

Mauk also had another poor game. He just looks like a friend of Aloisi and doesn’t want to be here any more. 

Looking at ROD, he was about 50/50 on making the right runs last night. Not sure whether that’s him second guessing his slow midfield or not ...? 

The Courier Mail is reporting Roar will try and sign “a playmaker” in the January window - not sure what quality is going to be available though. 

Aiden McGeady has become available in the last couple of days. He is someone who would fit the bill and would be someone Fowler would know about.

Attitude, wages and recent form would be drawbacks though.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-7787593/Aiden-McGeady-banished-Sunderland-training-ground-Phil-Parkinson.html

Aiden McGeady has become available in the last couple of days. He is someone who would fit the bill and would be someone Fowler would know about.

Attitude, wages and recent form would be drawbacks though.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-7787593/Aiden-McGeady-banished-Sunderland-training-ground-Phil-Parkinson.html

McGeady is a winger not a playmaker and has a terrible attitude.

He plays out wide but he's still a creative player and a very good dribbler. I did mention his attitude as well.

I'm not saying Roar should or shouldn't sign him but he is an option.

I mean Fowler is the one who came out said the cap was a nightmare,  that sounds like a cop out to me.
The blame has to go somewhere, which is it? The coach or the players, either way it doesn't look good. 

For possession statistics they should subtract back passes from forward passes to give a more meaningful idea of what is going on.

Geria has been quite good when Franjic has been injured, but with Hingert's arrival I think Geria might have to be content with a youth contract (if he's eligable, not sure though) or as a squaddie.

Hingert and Jurman were fantastic against the Ipswich XI but it was an invitational side so I think they'd have been easier to break down given they'd have had much less time to gel as a unit. The Rochedale game will be a much sterner test of how well they are going.

Looking forward to tomorrow nights game, especially to see the Bahrani trialist. If he performs I've got no doubt Ange will snap him up with the Asian player requirement covered for the ACL as a bonus.

Just waiting on the arrival of a striker and we'll be all set to go back-to-back \:d/