{"id":10962,"date":"2013-04-21T07:41:25","date_gmt":"2013-04-20T21:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=10962"},"modified":"2013-04-21T07:44:19","modified_gmt":"2013-04-20T21:44:19","slug":"a-league-201213-semi-final-beaten-by-the-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=10962","title":{"rendered":"A-League 2012\/13 &#8211; Semi Final &#8211; Beaten By The Best"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?attachment_id=5928\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5928\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5928\" alt=\"tagfootball\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tagfootball.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"75\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tagfootball.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tagfootball-300x37.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fk3186CUQRI\" height=\"354\" width=\"629\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Western Sydney Wanderers 2 Brisbane Roar 0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Central Coast Mariners 1 Melbourne Victory 0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8220;Shinji Ono&#8230;genius!&#8221; &#8211; Brenton Speed<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8220;If we were going to get beaten by anyone, I&#8217;m glad it was Western Sydney and I&#8217;m glad it was Shinji Ono&#8221; &#8211; my mum<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In the end, Western Sydney Wanderers were too good and beat us for the fourth time this season.\u00a0 The win sends the Wanderers through to the Grand Final in their debut season and ends the Brisbane Roar&#8217;s two year as defending champions of the Premiere&#8217;s Plate.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The injuries we picked up during the Adelaide game ended up hurting our chances immensely.\u00a0 Thomas Broich was unable to play a full ninety minutes and with Ivan Franjic dropping into defence to cover for the injured Jack Hingert, we instead had to rely on James Halloran who, if he was a FIFA player, would have a speed setting of 10 and passing\/crossing setting of -2.\u00a0 Time and again he broke down the wing for the Roar only to blaze his cross over the sideline or fire it straight at the keeper.\u00a0 The injury toll limited our attacking opportunities immensely.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Having said that, after a tumultuous season, I think Mike Mulvey has now aquitted himself with the club and its supporters very nicely.\u00a0 He has taken the team from the foot of the table to one game shy of the Grand Final and I think that is a fantastic effort considering some of the challenges this season.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll do a full debrief of the season after this weekend&#8217;s Grand Final.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">So its the Western Sydney Wanderers versus the Central Coast Mariners.\u00a0 The debut dream versus the perennial bridesmaids.\u00a0 We are guaranteed a new team to win the Premiere&#8217;s Plate this Sunday.\u00a0 A fifth team winning the competition in eight years shows that, for now at least, when the start of the new season rolls around in October, the supporters of any club should have aspirations of winning the title on day one.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?attachment_id=10964\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10964\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10964\" alt=\"wswmariners\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/wswmariners.jpg\" width=\"630\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/wswmariners.jpg 630w, http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/wswmariners-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Western Sydney Wanderers 2 Brisbane Roar 0 Central Coast Mariners 1 Melbourne Victory 0 &#8220;Shinji Ono&#8230;genius!&#8221; &#8211; Brenton Speed &#8220;If we were going to get beaten by anyone, I&#8217;m glad it was Western Sydney and I&#8217;m glad it was Shinji Ono&#8221; &#8211; my mum In the end, Western Sydney Wanderers were too good and beat &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[218,342,1232,1427],"class_list":["post-10962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-a-league","tag-brisbane-roar","tag-central-coast-mariners","tag-western-sydney-wanderers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10962"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10969,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10962\/revisions\/10969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}