A Historical Night To Be Forgotten

Perth Glory played host to the Central Coast Mariners on a historical night for the Western Australian football club. This is Perth Glory's 20th year in top flight Australian football and their 11th in the Hyundai A-League which they hosted their opening game against the Mariners in 2005. The stage was set on a very cool moist October Saturday night with Steve Armstrong coming back to a huge round of applause and cheers as he sang Glory classic theme songs and fired up the crowd. Due to the Perth Wildcats being on at the same time and the bad weather certainly kept fair weathered Perth sports fans at home, the 20th year celebrations from the club endorsed purge of the terrace supporters end a little underwhelming and modest. However I must say that these guys despite vowing to boycott the team have come back to show that they love the team far more and beyond the idiotic and ridiculous decisions of the people in control at Pier Street.
Perth came out of the blocks and dominated against the visitors. Taggart put 2 past the woeful and shaky Gosford defence and a penalty from Castro put us up at half time with a 3 goal to nil lead. However tactical brilliance from the manager Kenny Lowe by substituting Taggart, Castro and leaving Keogh as the only option, we took our feet off the pedals and hands off the wheel. We were heading for certain disaster and it proved correct. The Mariners chipped away and eventually levelled by scoring 3 goals. 3 simple school-boy error defending and a foolish penalty to give away the third goal. That is some terrible football i witnessed and I hope that Lowe and the team can bounce back from this as you shouldn't be losing to the Mariners like this who are just simply terrible of late.

I didnt have any food but I was given a slice of some pizza from one of my agents who said the pizza was at 13 dollars. While that is definitely on the steep side the pizza was very tasty and hot. But for a small pizza and you paying for something way higher than something at Dominos or Pizza Hut should have a bit more 'beef' in it pardon the pun.

Well there ends a disappointing opening game of the 2016/17 Hyundai A-League season for Perth Glory. Central Coast would feel that they got a 1 point win out of that encounter and I would have to agree. Perth looked utterly sluggish and as if they didn't have a pre-season at all.