After three rounds in the A-League, two for a number of teams, we have had a mixed bag of results, which I guess is to be expected with only newcomers Auckland FC having the maximum quota of nine points from three matches and Brisbane Roar the only side yet to notch a point from their two games to date. Login or signup to continue reading The Jets sit in eighth position, have only played twice and could consolidate a somewhat mixed start to the season with three points tonight, when they take on the Western Sydney Wanderers at Commbank Stadium. On the other hand .
.. let's not go there, just yet.
Suffice to say, it's best not to concede starts to any number of teams in the early stages of the season and be chasing your tail early doors, particularly if you have the sort of run that confronts the Jets between Friday and the beginning of the new year. They face eight games, and two blank weekends between Friday night and January 4, one for the international break next weekend and the other a bye on the weekend prior to Christmas. Carol singing in the community and present wrapping for all! In that period they travel to Sydney on Friday night, take their scheduled home clash against the Mariners to Allianz Stadium on the 22nd of this month for the Unite round, hop over to Auckland for a November 30 clash, pop home to play Adelaide on December 7 in one of only two home games prior to Xmas, and then jaunt across the Nullarbor to face Perth on the 14th.
Let's presume they luxuriate .
