Match Thread: August 26, 2023 - HFX Wanderers v Valour

[narduch]

Game is at 4pm AT (2pm CT) on One Soccer and Fubo 

[K Edgar]

Rain, at times heavy, continues. The ground, already near saturation, has little ability to absorb further rainfall.

Total rainfall: 40 to 70 mm. Possibly higher in areas of heaviest rain.

 

Edited August 26, 2023 by K Edgar

[Cheeta]

Officially, for Valour, I'd think the worse the pitch the better for them.  Rain, baby, rain.

Unofficially, a couple of the usual syspects will be at the King's Head taking in the proceedings this afternoon so if any of you day drinkers want to watch Cheeta and Dougie growl nonsense at each other you know where to find us. 

Two oceans in one week for Valour.  Weeeee!!!

[Big_M]

[Big_M]

haynes finally goes to the bench...hfx has morelli rampersad henry on the bench and they would probably be every day starters for valour...polisi visits his former team after scoring one of the goals of the year last game...can translator perruzza finally score his first goal for hfx??

hfx needs 909 u21 minutes but doesnt start a single one...coimbra giraldo rushenas on the bench

[K Edgar]

12 minutes ago, Big_M said:

hfx needs 909 u21 minutes but doesnt start a single one...coimbra giraldo rushenas on the bench

Valour starts 3... perhaps they can sell U21 minutes.

Baquero on the bench, Campbell in at RB?  Sanchez playing a more offensive position?  No Williams!

Edited August 26, 2023 by K Edgar

[K Edgar]

30 minutes ago, Cheeta said:

Officially, for Valour, I'd think the worse the pitch the better for them.  Rain, baby, rain.

[Cheeta]

15 minutes ago, Big_M said:

haynes finally goes to the bench...hfx has morelli rampersad henry on the bench and they would probably be every day starters for valour...polisi visits his former team after scoring one of the goals of the year last game...can translator perruzza finally score his first goal for hfx??

hfx needs 909 u21 minutes but doesnt start a single one...coimbra giraldo rushenas on the bench

What's that?   More than 100 minutes per for the remainder the season?  Doesn't sound that bad.

What's the penalty for not making the U21?  Can't remember.

[jonovision]

Williams is surely hurt again. Glad to see Sanchez is back, but disappointed we couldn't shuffle Polisi off to the bench.

4-1 Valour (Ponce hat trick)

[jonovision]

1 minute ago, Cheeta said:

What's that?   More than 100 minutes per for the remainder the season?  Doesn't sound that bad.

What's the penalty for not making the U21?  Can't remember.

Fine, no playoffs.

[Big_M]

how many times will fillion go down today?? 1 2 3??

[Ozzie_the_parrot]

That pitch looks close to waterlogged judging by how the ball is moving, but guess they will try to play the full 90 unless things get farcical given the cost of the Valour travelling for a makeup game on a weeknight.

[Aird25]

We could use some of this rain out west. 

[davey_twelve]

Glad to be watching this as a neutral, these slip n' slide conditions are nervy.

[Ozzie_the_parrot]

Only a matter of time until somebody was likely to get injured in conditions like this. Kind of why games usually get postponed in weather like this nowadays if the drainage of the pitch isn't up to it.

[Ozzie_the_parrot]

About time, 1-0 Halifax. Nimmick

[narduch]

Nimick scores off a corner.

HFX lead 1-0 

Edited August 26, 2023 by narduch

[Big_M]

perruzza looks so clumsy in the final actions and nimick steps up and does it for him...1-0 49'

[grasshopper1917]

Is there anything Nimick doesn't do??? What an addition he is to our club.

[jonovision]

What a stupid team. I've wasted so much time on this nonsense in 2023.

Edited August 26, 2023 by jonovision

[Ozzie_the_parrot]

2-0 Morelli

[grasshopper1917]

Assumed Morelli had to be offside to be that far in the clear. Horrific defending against a guy like Morelli.

[Aird25]

The standings are so tight

[Ozzie_the_parrot]

3-0 now, Morelli sets it up well for the guy at the back post.

[davey_twelve]

Valour looking like they might actually finish the season in last.