We still get in the same habit as last few seasons. All this mucking around with the ball trying to get cute with these intricate passes.
Just find someone square, get into a shooting position and put your boot through it. 

That was atrocious from Peter Green, the worst refereeing  I have ever seen. Made a farce of the whole game and was simply disgusting. Well done to Adelaide and Marco Kurz you deserved your win and 3 Wanderers deserve a suspension.

I know it'll never happen, but it'd be great if the WSW coach came out and declared that garbage as extreme bias and openly described that as the most pitiful of refereeing to blight the "A" league.
The squads of all teams improve every year, but no professional sportsmen are going to come to the A league (unless they get a gig in Melbourne or Sydney), if they don't get protected and have to endure pitiful refereeing, or the referees are punished. 
Tonight Peter Green should've been absolved of his right to referee, as he's clearly  biased or hopeless. 

Foxe thought the only problem with the Wanderers was they didn't take their chances. Apart from the two Riera headers, which I think he would usually score at least one of them, I don't remember many chances. Foxe would probably get a huge fine if he criticised the referees for not sending off his players, but surely he knows he was very lucky to end the game with more than 9 players on the field.

Best chance they had in open play had Risdon in possession in front of goal and instead of shooting he played it off to Riera. 

I'm not sure what the final stats were regarding possession, territory, balls into the pen box and shots at goal, but I thought WSW dominated the game for long periods.

They played plenty of neat football. As a neutral I thought WSW were the better team and deserved to win. I certainly enjoyed watching their style of football last night.

Recently it seems Baccus has improved quite a lot in a short time. I think Risdon has also improved.

WSW 66% possession to Adelaide’s 34%. Crucial stat for wanderers is only two shots on goal one of which was a penalty (AU only got 3). 13-8 to WSW on shots overall.

Thanks.

I thought  the 13 - 8 shots at goal was about right in WSW's favour, but I'm even surprised that WSW didn't have more and AU had less.

Looking at the WSW bench I didn't recognise the Spanish assistant coach from last season. Does anyone reading this know if he is still at the club?

As  a neutral I didn't think the ref was significant.

You missed a good game.

I thought it was a 50/50.

As a neutral - the ref made a lot of errors in favor of WSW.
It was a good game and I am ok with the reds winning it.
The Reds need to be careful about complaining about it being too rough as they are just as bad as their opposition this year.
Both teams will do well this season.
They both play attractive football (unlike some other teams who are doing well of late).

Go have another look if you can find a replay.

Ha ha trolling much?
Decentric, if you think that is a fair challenge it only goes to prove you "critics" right regarding your actual understanding of the game from anything other than a vague tactical perspective.

I am still fuming at the tackles in that game.
Roly's tackle was disgusting and petulant but Melling's was borderline criminal.

Foxe talked about his players being "men". Well 
 if Foxe had an honourable bone in his body he should suspend Melling himself. I would if I was his coach. On top of everythjing else, on any other day it would have been a red and cost his team any chance of a comeback

Sorry, we might be niggly sometimes or Isaias might be a pain in the arse and I can see why people take pleasure in him getting hurt but I have never seen him or any other United player (certianly not in this squad) put a tackle on like Bonevacia's or Melling's.

That's a line there that shouldn't be crossed.

Besides the fact it should have CLEARLY been 11 vs 9 and 2-0 with no penalty yeah, insignificant factor.
The fact Fox commentators and pundits alike were on our side for those 3 incidents says all you need to know as we are hardly a favourite of theirs.

Roly's should have been a red.
I think there have been a lot of games too rough this season.
It is a general thing (not just a team or 2).
I would prefer for the refs to be more strict.

As usual the "tactical genius" decentric shows his lack of all round football awareness and knowledge.

Scenario 1 - give the final to Adelaide, Arnie whinges and complains and media beats up the story, FFA cops another slagging.
Scenario 2 - play the game in Sydney and Kurtz says "it is an honour to play in the finals and may the best team win" and Arnie can talk about how they deserve it.

TBF Adelaide have hosted already. 

Yeah and I have no problem (besides the whole thing being based every year on whims instead of criteria) with Sydney getting to host the final.

O'Doherty's tackle from last season is the worst I can remember recently, it got him a second yellow card, should have been a straight red, but not as bad as these two tackles.

Isais is one of the best players in the league. Refs like this guy who allow bad tackles need to be sacked and never seen again. 

Ah yes, I do remember that actually and yeah that was pretty bad.
Was that where he tried to fight a brick wall on his way off the pitch? aha that was not a good look for the kid.

I actually didn't think of his name when i was picturing our squad admittedly, but stand by my point.

Last night crossed any lines that heated games like vs Victory can draw. If it was a league game and not a cup game there would be more outrage too I reckon.

Yes, it was that game, the game where there was the goal after the collision with Galekovic and the game where Amor got sent to the stands and then was banned for two weeks for touching a referee.

What a season that was

Decentric you have made comments about the refereeing not having any impact on the game. There are 7 incidents that I will bring up that show how bad the refereeing was and most of these call favoured Wanderers over Adelaide, but that is not really the issue to me. I will call things against Adelaide such as La Rocca getting away with an elbow to the head last season and as I mentioned above O'Doherty getting a second yellow card instead of a straight red for a tackle last season. Both clear errors.

1. Bonevacia tackle on Isaias. This was a late, high, studs showing lunge that caught the calf just below the knee. 100% red card, given a yellow.
2. Melling tackle on Elsey. This was a two foot studs showing lunge, was only slightly late, but the only thing that could have made it worse was if it was also high. 100% red card, seems Peter Green missed the details of it as it was only a free kick.
3. Risdon tackle on Absalonsen breaking down the left. This deserved to be a yellow, it is given time after time in the A-league, for stopping a promising attack without even looking at the nature of the tackle. The tackle itself was very late I think was clearly reckless so should have been a yellow for that reason as well. Some have said it should have been a red card, maybe they have a point. However 100% yellow, free kick given
4. Aspropomatis elbow to the head. Asporpomatis was on a yellow card when he contested a heading contest and elbowed the Adelaide player in the head. It was a situation when he came in quickly from behind on an Adelaide player who was jumping up on the spot to head the ball. I feel this was a yellow card which would have been his second.
5. Isaias tackle on Bonevacia. This showed the frustrating inconsistency of the referee. I don't have a huge problem with Isaias getting a yellow card, although he did get the ball, but it was no where near as bad the tackle on him or the Risdon tackle which went without a card. 
6. Ben Warland definitely was throwing his body around and making a number of fouls for a period in the first half. While, perhaps, none of the incidents on their own deserved a yellow card, although a couple certainly went close, as a total there is no doubt Warland should have received a yellow card.  
7. The penalty was a joke, Santalab did not contest for the ball, he just bent over so what would have been a normal contest for the ball saw Isaias go over the top of him. 

Risdon and Warland both received yellow cards later in the game. I think both were for stopping promising attacks. SO we saw two attacks stopped by players taking one for the team which they would not have been able to do if they had been correctly given. So is two clear examples of how the quality of the game suffered because the referee did not do his job correctly.

Now I am sure there were other incidents that could be highlighted as well which I don't remember and maybe some of them helped Adelaide when they should not have done so but it seems the majority of worst decisions went against Adelaide. This on top of the missing of two Victory red cards on Friday night makes it hard to think we have not been hard done by in the last two games.

We were never going anywhere that season, but that match really broke any spirit the team had left in it. Before that we were at least competitive.

Was this the game last season where Adelaide hit the post twice late on only for Victory to steal it at the death?

I agree Roly's was real bad. He just basically attacked him with no effort to disguise it as an attempt on the ball.
But I remember being just amazed that he did it. He is so very skillfull as a player and was the highlight when watching the Nix and I cant recall him ever acting out like this for them either.
I didnt think he had it in him or was that type of player.