'nother crap crowd but I'm used to it now and things could be worse. 'nother crap ref but I'm used to it now and things could be worse.
Slater started (not very well either) and Packer returned so it was a twin threat from the wings but it never really got off. Deans can't even get a game! Wonder if Simon will either... Speaking of which they were showing his famous 7 man dribble and score against Souths on TV this week. And el classico grande is on next week...
Jonesy sent in a low hard cross that Hughes conveniently spilled to Moreira and he convincingly (!) put it in with his feet.
Kupresak passed back badly to Hughes, who shanked it straight to Jonesy. His first touch was crap (something I've noticed recently) but a desperate lunge and he got a goal.
The Terminator - in great form recently - sent over a lovely little gambeta that Jonesy arsed in. 3-0 at halftime and we basically did nothing afterwards.
Perhaps we were in clinical shock over the incompetence of the ref, Dwight. The Terminator walked off the pitch to get treatment, for which McPherson was shown the red card. After a minute to allow jaws to clench together again, he decided it was all a mistake via consultation with his linesman.
You just had to be there. Perhaps we are marketing Carlton wrongly. A better product would be "Come see the 3 blind stooges!" etc
Kevin Christopher adds : I type this direct from the tape recording of the after match conference for the general enlightenment of the list. The following is virtually direct from the mouth of Stuart Munro. "Terminello went off injured and then got himself back on to the pitch and I went up to the linesman and said "He can't just come back on, can he? Stupid me, opening my mouth.." The linesman says "No". And the next minute he's off running down the line waving his flagging, and obviously telling him he's supposed to get booked for coming back on without permission. But the linesman didn't know who he was. He said it was number two (McPherson). I mean he's picked the biggest guy on the pitch from the smallest guy on the pitch. So I've said to the ref, you know, the referee has shown the red card, and then he said "Oh no, sorry, it shouldn't be a red, it should be a yellow. And then he spoke to the linesman who said, no, it wasn't the big tall guy. And then he said, we don't know who it was so perhaps we'll just cancel it." The linesman involved (we believe) was Senko Rastocic. It truly was farcical, and I believe Stuart was happy enough to discuss the event in a simple effort to show how incompetent some officials really are. He would never agree to such a thought, no coach in their right mind would ever suggest to an official to book one of his players, but the way he related the exchange was quite clever....
Perhaps Sydney Divided could do better in the transfer market, which is why I'm sure they're pandering to an ethnic group by importing a Croatian striker from Croatia's 2nd division.