Heard on the sidelines #482895

Logan: 'Before the game I went to Chipmunks, I saw Paddy there'.

Bet he blew a hamstring.

Big day stallions: vs best team in the league, leaking goals, losing fan support, barely got a team, but what a chance to turn things around  - and we are at KP before it turns into a mudbath.

And the winner of last weeks pony: Tangihaere.

Do not startle the pony

Pony poll for last week's game to right, vote away - winner is he with the most votes on Saturday morning.

Corey definitely gets the Stallion.

Support the Ball Carrier

Micheal Caine has got it right. Unless you are channeling Pele, pass, let the ball do the work.

ARRGHHH

Sometimes updating these stats on a Sunday sucks.

Tough loss Stallions - worse than last week - at least we were steamrolled then, yesterday we just capitulated. I can't believe how quickly we went from 'what an easy win this is going to be' to 'wait, we can't let this be a draw' to ' damn, we are 2 goals down'. In hindsight we/I should have pulled one of the forwards back to central mid to try to shore up the centre when we got in front, but it looked like we were going to run all over them, and then suddenly we were chasing. 

Hard to say what's going wrong - easy to look at the D and say 14 goals in 4 games ain't good (almost as many as all of last season), but blame don't rest there. We are putting ourselves under a lot of pressure, almost refusing to hold possession, play simple football and support each other. Still adjusting to the loss of Dan (and Paddy yesterday), but back to basics could be the key.

And it ain't going to get easier - next week the rampant wests who had a good win over the raiders. What a good game for us to turn the season around with though right?

Oh, yeah, nominations for Pony/Stallion here. I'm almost tempted for a split Stallion between Gus and Tom for one of the greatest goals we have ever seen from the Stallions, denied by a bad off side call. God, Pony moments galore, not so much funny ones as bad play ones.

Knowing these sorts of things are much less fun when you are losing, especially over the blog, we got special guest Jules to select the mvp points: Panda, Spencer, Aaron in that order. But you know, another week of a pretty poor team performance really.

Guess who?

In one of the most anticipated returns in Stallions history, tomorrow, answering an SOS call (umm anyone else know anyone else?), Jules (the inventor of the twizzle, the turtle, and scorer of at least 1 goal over many seasons  - I think) will be putting on the green and gold for the first time in about 3 or 4 seasons. All those screaming One Direction fans will be making their way to Frazer Park in anticipation.

If I remember correctly, Jules was the first winner of the pony of the season award. That's confidence building.

Wests lose

Or at least draw.

After a few days unable to look at results, I finally did to see that Wests had a draw with Brooklyn - and only scored a measly single goal! Something funny going on, or perhaps they are beatable. Kind of glad we ain't facing them this week with all our absentees.

Fantasy Points vs Raiders

Sometimes this ain't much fun at all.

 

Raiders
Paul
Tangihaere	60+, -2 (4 goals)	0
Jason	60+, -2 (4 goals)	0
Corey	60+, -2 (4 goals)	0
Mike B	60+, -2 (4 goals)	0
Graham	60+	2
Joe	60+, -2 (4 goals)	0
Spencer	60+, -2 (4 goals), 3bps	3
Aaron	60+, 3 (assist), 1bp	6
Lloyd	60+	2
Paddy	60+, 3 (assist)	5
Robin
Panda
Tom	60+	2
Logan	60+, 4 (goal), 2bps	8
Rauru	60+	2

At least the title race is interesting, a 3 way tie at the top

Rauru 25 Paddy 25 Logan 25 Aaron 18 Lloyd 14 Graham 11 Mike B 6 Jason 5 Joe 5 Panda 4 Tom 4 Paul 3 Tangihaere 3 Spencer 3 Corey 0 Robin 0

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