Monday 3 July 2017

Sydney Olympic 1-2 Manly United

It is Round 17 and the story has been the same not only for this season, but for the past few seasons – WE CANNOT SCORE GOALS – a combination of flop signings and shit recruitment has seen us continuously shoot blanks, especially in the big and important matches. Don’t take my word for it, look it up yourself. It was the same story on Sunday Night too, a game we should have wrapped up early on, only for us to drop our bundle and fold like a cheap suit to a fairly average side.

There was not too much to write home about in that first-half in terms of chances. Sydney Olympic was the far superior team but the game was virtually bogged down in midfield. Our best chance of the first-half came via corner and we managed to take full advantage of it, as Mitchell Stamatellis put away his header to give us a 1-0 lead. Nothing much happened for the rest of the half and so we went to the half-time break leading 1-0.

At the start of the second-half it was evident that the instructions were to sit deep and defend the 1-0 lead, which was moronic if you ask me, we should have attacked and tried to put Manly away. Instead all we did was invite them into our own half and put ourselves under all sorts of unnecessary pressure. While they did have a lot of the ball they didn’t really create too much in the way of chances. Meanwhile on the break we had numerous chances to put the game to bed, but a poor final pass combined with some shocking finishing meant the door was left ajar for Manly to turn the game on its head and turn it on its head they did scoring 2 goals in the final 10 minutes. The first came about via a poor punch out from Paul Henderson and them putting the rebound into our net, whilst their second goal came after a fast break as we flooded too many players forward. We were now 2-1 down and we did not have any energy left to mount any sort of reply, seeing us lose 2-1.

What made it worse is that everyone out there would have known that next weekend was a bye round, so there would have been no excuses not to give it everything knowing that whatever happened, they had 2 weeks to recover and to get ready for the next match. Hagi Gligor and Mitch Stamatellis were our best last night, the rest looked dis-interested and didn’t want to be there.

While we have been spruiking the possibility of finishing in the Top 3 this season and earning a double-chance in the Finals, we will be lucky to finish in the Top 5.

In terms of the Club Championship, our U18’s lost once again, this time 3-2, I wonder if that has anything to do with punting the coach at the start of the year? And in the U20’s we drew 2-2 after being 2-0 up, what a shambles. That pretty much rounded off another pathetic week for Sydney Olympic.

A word of advice for people in charge of Sydney Olympic’s various social media outlets, stop blocking, banning and deleting comments from passionate supporters who actually give a fuck about the predicament of the team, otherwise soon enough you will have even less people rocking up to matches. And the condescending comments that are made by people who are only at the Club because a relative happens to be working there at the current moment only makes matters worse. It is not all good, not at all.

Also the Club in its infinite wisdom decided to appoint a coach with 6 rounds to go, another genius decision no doubt. Who knows it might turn out that he knows what he is doing, but in this League, if you don’t have players who can score regularly and create chances for you, ie a no.9 and no.10 you will be an also ran. We have let plenty of those players leave the Club in the last few years too, more idiotic decisions.

As mentioned earlier next weekend there are no games, because of the Waratah Cup Final taking place between APIA Leichhardt and Hakoah Sydney City-East.

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