Ryan John O'Connor

"Why do you smoke" is such a powerful question to patients as oppossed to telling them they shouldn't smoke, most patients know they shouldn't but are disconnected from the reason they smoke despite health concerns, key example today is a PMR patient worried about her prednisone

Randall gets shoved, Brook is pulled down and his shirt pulled and nothing is called. Then he has to Make a lenient call at the other end. It’s all wrong and out of his depth as a referee #AFCvCCM

@JacobSpoonley is right, @fc_auckland need to create goals and not let decisions dictate play. Play with an arrogance to win the game! Score goals. Put it in the net. 🥅 ⚽️ #AFCvCCM

Old man made the comment that there should be two yellow cards- one for the elbow to the back of the head no where near the ball and a second for standing on the player

@JOSH______NZ That was the thing he didnt go down. And probably if he had it would be stop in play. On the flip side, Brook is promoted and on goal and we get pulled back for a free kick 10m into the half 5m from the sideline 🤦🏽‍♂️

@stagryan I was on the fence about that; it probably should’ve been a FK but he also went down softly

Oh my god that’s shocking defence ffs #AKLvCCM

@JOSH______NZ Wasn’t that the case last week? 🤦🏽‍♂️

How’s D’Arrigo not been booked for his reaction lmao, if that was the other way round there’s no doubt one of our own would’ve seen a card for reacting in that manner

@ryanator109 Yeah as I tweeted the Refs performance has been severely inconsistent but then not much to be said for AFC tonight and a lot of times this season, can’t hold momentum

@stagryan Fr, I’d have been gone down the tunnel way earlier if I was him because the team being shit too hasn’t helped

This referee is fucking terrible #AKLvMVC

@JOSH______NZ If it’s anything like my lounge I kinda don’t blame him. It’s been a hard watch

No doubt Corica would’ve said something that got himself sent off, but this time wasting from Victory is absolutely pathetic with the throwins

BROOK FREE-KICK™ !!!!!!! GAME ON. ⚔️AKL 2-2 MVC 🔵 (82’) #AKLvMVC

77 scoring like so many legendary 7s off the dead ball!!! Amazing from Brook!!! #AFCvMVC

To be fair so is the AFCs ability to cement momentum.

This has been one of the more inconsistent refereeing performances I’ve watched in a while. #AFCvMVC

Fair to say Mark Levy and Mark Riddell were NOT happy with Albo's on-field appearance last night.😡

Cosgrove top of the A-League goalscoring charts.

3 Goals, 3 Points😄😄😄 #AKLvMLC

@Matt16082013 @BigRed_AKLD_FC I like that they are confident enough to go you know what we actually don’t need to play out every single time, we are strong and dangerous enough to absorb and break down teams. Kicking it long or out for a throw is not the end of the world.

@BigRed_AKLD_FC Agreed. The defence & Woud appear more in sync.

Ideally, this is us hitting our straps for the run into finals. I assumed the Jets would stumble at some point, just need them to stumble some more, though I can't lie the Plate race going to the last game of the season would be awesome.

@Clarke_NZL @WgtnPhoenixFC Just look at @ManUtd fans right now😁

@ryanator109 He got an absolute Spray on that chance in the first half which the Phoenix sent wide for tracking back slow and without marking a man

Credit to Howieson who has been very good, was hoping he would be since we’re missing Louis #WELvAKL

@henrylee_nz Stats of 4-0 from 3 shots on target and the fact that Phoenix took until deep into the second half before Auckland made a save, might have other sides looking at nullifying attacks a bit more

@henrylee_nz Just saw a post criticising AFCs refusal to play out from the back and sparse amount of times they went back to Woud, which I think is both credit to the capability of especially Eze, but also Nagasaki and Amiento and Coaching and defensive genius which resulted in a clean sheet

People will be quick to look at how poor the Phoenix were, but it was a Steve Corica masterclass tonight. Astonishingly, it was arguably Auckland FC’s weakest lineup in an A-League match. No Verstraete, no Pijnaker, no Cosgrove, with Brook and Brimmer on the bench. #WELvAKL