Unnecessary yellow cards continue to be the bane of SC Kittsee’s starting eleven. There were games last season where up to five players were sitting out due to cards. Tomas Bastian picked one up, as did Patrick Pail. Pail at least was dragging down a Gols player who might have broken away one on one. Some congratulations are in order to Patrick Dietmann who did not get a yellow card (just checked the sheet), only a couple of warnings from the referee.

Still SC Kittsee did win at home on a warm evening, which is good.

Gols Keeper v was called on early and often. Could one of the Kittsee players could be leaping for this ball?

Veteran forward Juraj Fuska ran circles around the Gols defenders for much of the night.

Kittsee forward Manuel Oswald broke down the sidelines to send a dangerous ball towards Johannes Den.

Johannes Denk kicks the ball away from an onrushing Tomas Banovic just in time.

Ex-Landesliga midfielder Aleksandar Stanojcic brings his power to SC Kittsee after a brief séjour in Tadten.

It was a reasonably warm evening, 150 fans showed up for the game.

Patrick Pail prepares a long throw close to the Gols net

New attacking midfielder Frantisek Nagy scored a solo goal starting with a bold takeaway.

Nagy has the ball past Gols defender Paul Sommer, Milan Bortel is too far away to come back to save the day.

Nagy is closing distance on the goal fast

Keeper Johannes Den is far enough out to give Nagy an angle on the net. Nagy is smart not to take a clean shot unhindered by a defender. Sebastian Limbeck is closing fast.

Nagy’s shot is just out of the reach of keeper Johannes Den.

It’s all over but the crying. Nagy’s hard shot sails into the right hand side of the net with room to spare.

Patrick Dietmann shows off his veteran chops with a neat wrapped arm hold to knock Gols forward Fabian Ziniel off his balance yet not pick up a penalty.

Fabian Ziniel slips past Patrick Dietmann but Manuel Schiszler is having none of Gols tonight and kicks the ball away before Ziniel can get his shot in.

Gols managed to sustain some pressure on SC Kittsee.

Frantisek Nagy the goal scorer has a chance here to put the game away. It’s a joy for SC Kittsee fans to see the worry on the faces of Milan Bortel and Johannes Den.

Patrik Petrak is worried enough about Frantisek Nagy to just grab his shirt and throw him to the ground even with Alexander Wendelin running to intercept him.

Patrik Petrak was arrested for mugging by the Kittsee police after the game. Just kidding – Petrak certainly showed good mugging technique.

Fortunately referee Claus Wisak was paying attention and gave Patrik Petrak the yellow card he deserved. Petrak arrogantly waves the referee off with his hand as Nagy tries to pull himself back to his feet.

Gols’ Dominik Schmidt had a clear break on net after slipping past Patrick Dietmann. Keeper Manuel Schiszler saves the win for Kittsee with a sliding tackle at speed.

All the desperation tackling from Gols offered Kittsee some good chances, none better than this free kick from Patrick Pail

Joseph Machovec climbed high to take a shot at Patrick Pail’s free kick

Patrick Dietmann picks up a lot of the throw in duties from his right back spot. For the Dietmann fans out there, this image is for you.

The big man Aleksandar Stanojcic has great height on another late chance for SC Kittsee. No luck alas. Milan Bortel defends.

Keeper Johannes Den manages to make a diving save on Aleksandar Stanojcic’s late header.

A nice corner crosser slips past Johannes Den. Roman Tarek was in the right place behind the keeper but was unable to reach the ball in time and put the game away.

In the late onslaught Patrick Pail has another chance where he laid out Gols keeper Johannes Den but his shot went just wide.

Juraj Fuska and Sebastian Limbeck fight over a corner ball while our friends from SK Pama look on in the company of their glamorous girlfriends. Among the Pama group are the the infamous Hafner brothers here to scout for our derby next Sunday. Great preparation work, gentlemen. See you in Pama.

Veteran Juraj Fuska continues to run circles around younger players with his light footwork. Alexander Wendelin won’t be able to touch the ball.

Kittsee captain Tomas Bastian and Christoph Drobela surround Dominik Schmidt to shut down any Gols attack.

These guys were the loudest and more passionate of the Kittsee fans, chanting and singing and cheering. Kittsee is the closest town to Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia. The SC Kittsee team has become the defacto adopted team of German football fans in Bratislava for a weekend of partying. This is another group of our German guests. As long as you keep cheering for Kittsee, Wilkommen!

Despite the close game, both teams mostly kept their temper. There were no attempts to injure one another with leg kicks behind the referee. A clean and close game. Kittsee should pursue an advantage when it has one.

Every picture hides a story. The two gentlemen were relatively elegantly dressed. What paths brought them and their beautiful companion through Kittsee Sportplatz on a Friday evening?

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The above is a short video of this year’s Lanternfest in Kittsee.

The substantial crowd for the last home game at 17h on Saturday faced an unpleasant early surprise when Thomas Wickl scored after two minutes. The rest of the first half was fairly evenly matched with Mustafa Atik equalising at the end of the half. In the second half, SC Kittsee enjoyed breakaway after breakaway and notched two more goals. A decisive win over a worthy opponent, which bodes well for the spring season.

The game was very exciting and I have a lot of photos. Here’s the first seventeen including mostly the goals.

At two minutes, Thomas Wickl scored for FC Illimitz making the home crowd nervous after the ASV Deutsch Jahrndorf game where another top ranked team dominated SC Kittsee.

Fuska’s goal here is to keep Gartner from getting to the ball and win a corner after too hard a backwards pass. Illmitz held the Kittsee players quite often. Seemed a strategy with them.

SC Kittsee coach Manfred Wachter was unusually intense at the Illimitz game.

Adam Bombicz delivers assist to Patrick Pail goal. Right after this pass, Patrick Pail knocks the ball straight into the net at a high angle.

FC Illmitz keeper Patrick Kamper gets a hand on this one, under siege from both Michael Wernecker and Jozef Szombat

Mustafa Atik scores for FC Kittsee. Keeper Patrick Kemper is left well out of position and on the ground this time.

SC Kittsee keeper Manuel Schiszler has been driven into the back of the net by a previous save. Fortunately Patrick Pail is there to head away an attempt by Thomas Zwickl to notch a second goal for Illmitz.

Adam Bombicz created a number of dangerous attempts on the FC Illmitz net. Thomas Zinkl and Patrick Kamper foil this one.

Michael Wernecker attempts to push a loose ball into the net. Thomas Sazl holds Wernecker while keeper Kemper tries to block the ball. The second half of the game turned into a bit of a nightmare for Kemper with SC Kittsee forwards in front of him in one on one or two on one situations again and again.

Jozef Szombat knocks in his first goal. This goal put SC Kittsee ahead 2:1. Szombat enjoyed a one on one chance which visibly angered keeper Kemper. Defender Filip Kutaj doesn’t seem to be in a rush to hinder Szombat.

Congratulations to Szombat for the go-ahead goal. A moment of real joy and camaraderie for SC Kittsee. Adam Bombicz, Mustafa Atik, Rafael Artner, Jozef Szombat, Michael Wernecker, Tomas Bastian, Christoph Drobola.

Jozef Szombat enjoyed another clear breakaway. Thomas Sazl preferred to stop Szombat with a two-hand hold than face the anger of keeper Kemper.

Referee Manuel Gregorits rewards Thomas Sazl with a well-deserved red card for this two-handed hold. Is it better to be down 3-1 with 10 minutes left in the game or to be down 2-1 with ten players? At the 80 minute mark the goal is worth more than the red card but even if Szombat is left alone one on one with the keeper, there’s a good chance the keeper will be able to stop his shot. The red card is a sure thing. Interesting tactical decision.

Sebastian Skerlan is a very good player and a fierce defender but an inveterate troublemaker with a yellow card or red card almost every match. It was an astonishing and amusing moment to see him carry the captaincy for SC Kittsee. If Sergei Ramos can be captain at FC Real Madrid and for Spain, why not Skerlan?

Jozef Sombat notches his second goal, as Michael Zwickl arrives too late. Keeper Patrick Kemper doesn’t stand a chance. The score is 3:1 and we are already in extra time. SC Kittsee fans breathe a sigh of relief. The game is ours.

Patrick Kemper watches Szombat’s second goal float over his head helplessly.

Happy teammates Adam Bombicz, Jozef Sombat, Juraj Fuska celebrate a well-deserved win. Each enjoyed an excellent night.

There wasn’t much work for Deutsch Jahrndorf keeper Michael Unger. SC Kittsee keeper Manuel Schiszler had to work harder to keep our side in the game.

Here’s some photos. ASV Deutsch Jahrndorf have the weakest lights in all of II Liga Nord, which means sometimes faces are in shadow and ISO is very high.

Jozef Szombat was always guarded by at least a couple of Deutsch Jahrndorf defenders who did a good job shutting him down.

In a foot race, Said Asharaf Soltani ends up outrun by Stanislav Ducar while Deutsch Jahrndorf coach Rene Hoffmann observes and linesman Stefan Bauer runs with the action.

A typical situation where there’s quite a bit of dangerous action in front of the Kittsee net. Manuel Schiszler is alert while Christoph Drobela battles Carstenn Lang for the ball. The goal did not come until the second half but ASV Deutsch Jahrndorf had their chances in the first half.

Slippery Sebastian Skerlan can appear and disappear and this time he appeared right in front of the Deutsch Jahrndorf goal chasing in a long ball as Martin Puster and Juraj Tomasek chase.

Sebastian Skerlan is not a player to shy away from physical contact. He forces Michael Unger to make a huge leap to catch the ball. Unger hit the ground hard after his catch and took some time to get back to his feet.

Michael Unger greeted at half time by his son. An excellent keeper, Unger manages to be both friendly and in control around his net. He’s a devoted father as well.

Manuel Schiszler had his work cut out for him with considerable action around the Kittsee net. He did good work to keep Kittsee in what was a fairly one-sided game.

Referee Eyüp Orman would not put up with any criticism. On the Kittsee side, Patrick Dietmann took a card fifteen minutes later for too much talk as well. There is not too much to say about the refereeing which means he must have done a good job.

Bodo is a big fast aggressive player. Juraj Fuska did a good job of keeping his runs in check.

A spectacular tackle by Juraj Fuska, taking the ball away without fouling David Bodo.

Michal Slezak was a star attacker at Kittsee for a couple of years before the Corona crisis. He’s back in II Liga Nord, but this year for ASV Deutsch Jahrndorf. Kittsee defence held Slezak well in check despite a season where he’s scored five goals in eleven games.

Even our good chances were mostly mediocre like this one where Szombat heads the ball but keeper Michael Unger is at the ready with eyes on the ball and few Kittsee attackers nearby. Carsten Lang continues to mark Szombat closely.

Christoph Drobela gives chase to David Bodo. Bodo has scored six goals for Deutsch Jahrndorf this year. SC Kittsee marked him as closely as DJ marked Jozef Szombat preventing Bodo from scoring.

The game became a bit chippy in the last thirty minutes. SC Kittsee enjoyed three or four penalty shots within striking distance of the net. David Bodo, Juraj Tomascek, Irfan Akbiyik and Martin Puster make up a worried wall.

The strike flew over the wall and fast at the lower left corner of the net. Michael Unger managed to cleanly punch out the dangerous shot.

Normally Patrick Dietmann is a stalwart defender with strong tackling and good long balls to the forwards. He can jump when he has to. It was good to see Kittsee fight hard for an equaliser.

Deutsch Jahrndorf always had at least two or three of their better players covering Szombat. Mustafa Atik is offside here were Szombat to come free and pass him the ball.

Manual Schizler came out of the goal and into the attack. Kittsee made a great last effort with six Kittsee players surrounding Michael Unger.

The loose ball at the end of the game had Deutsch Jahrndorf in a cold sweat. Had the ball come out Mathias Skerlan, Christoph Drobela and Jozef Szombat all have a chance. Michael Unger is finally way out of position on the wrong side of the scrum.

No matter. Tonight was Deutsch Jahrndorf’s celebration. They almost locked up second place in the II Liga Nord autumn segment.

Tadten team posted an excellent write-up of the game play in German. Here’s a quick translation:

After the draw at home against UFC Pama, a “tricky” away game awaited us in Kittsee.

From the beginning, we were well in the game against the somewhat unsettled home side. We were clearly in control and dominated the game.

We also had some good chances, but often we were not precise enough or we did not get the last pass or we missed the right time to play the better positioned team mate.

So we missed some good chances to take the lead, although we were still dominating the game. Initially, the home side did not score much or even anything.

But after half an hour, Sebastian Pichler scored the well-deserved 1:0 for our team after a (dream) pass from Dominik Christ.

Shortly before the break, the home side had their only real chance to score: After a misunderstanding in our defence, Adam Klekner made a great save. We go into the break with a 1:0 lead.

Immediately after the break, we concede an “avoidable” goal after a standard situation.

After that, the game was even in difficult conditions (snow flurries). We are no longer as dominant as before the break, the home side is now a bit better in the game. There are no big goals on either side until the end. So it remains 1:1.

Conclusion: Before the break we could have or should have decided the game for us. Unfortunately, we failed to take advantage of the many good opportunities. After the break, we couldn’t generate as much pressure and therefore had to be content with the 1:1 in the end. Now full focus on the upcoming derby against Wallern!!!! Gemma boys!!! Vuigas!!!!

Tadten frustration after their strong first half is understandable.

Impfen macht frei! [Injection builds freedom!]

LadyDaze cynically adds:

The likelihood is that impfen macht Tot …

oldschool states the important obvious.

Tot ist frei. [Death is freedom/]

Why have so many Russians, black Americans, NASA scientists and PhD’s not gone to get vaccinated?

It’s about trust in the government. Russians learned over seventy years not to trust the government. Black Americans have two hundred years of negative experience with government and government health inspectors (before they were ex-patriated, most dangerous medical studies were done on blacks). NASA scientists know you can’t trust the government. Critical thinking PhD’s have strong reason to believe we should not trust the government.

Most of the people foolish enough to get vaccinated are those who trust the government.¹ For better or worse, there are many people who adulate authority and trust the system.

chiswickcat explains the phenomenon:

Psychological control technique 101. Isolate people, scare the shit out of them, bring them a solution. That’s why people are so willing to take an untested jab. They don’t even know they have been psychologically manipulated. They think their .govs are helping them.

Going a bit deeper, some longtime members talked about who in their personal circles has chosen to be vaccinated and why.

bringonthebigone:

Yep, midwits love their rules, orderly lives, and bureaucracy.

Last study I saw on jab rate vs education the bachelors degrees had the highest vax rate and PHDs the lowest rate.  There are a lot of bachelors degree, masters degree and even PHDs who are midwits; they know enough to think they are highly knowledgeable and intelligent.  If they knew more (and have self awareness) they’d get humbled by how little they know and not trust an mRNA vaccine with no history just because some stuffed shirt tells them to.

You also see this with occupation.  Those that work in the real world have a grounding to reality, you screw stuff up and shit goes wrong in real time.  Those that work in the abstract can screw stuff up for a lifetime and never get solid feedback.

in_xanadu_did_kubla_khan

A close family member of mine has 4 academic degrees from 3 very respectable universities, 3 of which are science based and one is a masters in environmental biology. Their partner also has 2 degrees, one is a masters of biochem. They are both fully vaxxed and are looking to vaxx their kids, who are all under the age of 6.

Incredibly, I know MUCH more about this COVID bullshit than they do. Last I talked to them I mentioned ivermectin as a suitable alternative to vaccines. They immediately said the studies are bogus, well, one study, the Elgazzar study, is bogus and was retracted….months ago! They had no clue that one paper had zero statistical impact on the overall picture. They are clueless and only following the gov/ media and their BS without asking any questions at all. Am I surprised? Not really. It’s elitism. They even remarked to me that the “minority” populations who are not taking this jab are simply “not properly educated on the matter” – UMMM…I’m pretty sure that is a Christian savior, or messiah complex talking there and that’s exactly how atrocities in the past have occured – case in point the Canadian residential schools.”You are dumb, savage, so we will assimilate you. If you resist, you will pay a price”. Unbelievable to hear that logic come from this person. Totally removed from reality.

In terms of their intelligence, they are VERY book smart – not so street smart. Therefore, they fail to see the world is not a loving place and more often than not, corruption leads the day. They just can’t seem to wrap their liberal heads around this, that they are being controlled through military grade propaganda, psy ops. And it is money which drives “science”. It boggles my mind, but it is what it is. Will be sad to see them all suffer down to road. Mind you, the one with 4 degrees wound up in an ambulance being rushed to the hospital with a heart rate of 200bpm immediately after the 2nd dose of Moderna….truly have no idea what these people are thinking….well, clearly they aren’t thinking. It’s quite disturbing.

Herewardthewake

I don’t think that is education or IQ.  I think it is observational skills. Sure you have to be intelligent enough to process what you observe but first you have to see it.  You have to be willing to see what there is to be seen, however unpleasant. Takes a spine to do that.  My Dad brought me up to have courage, to be brave in the face of anything and to accept facts as they are not as I wish them to be.  I thank him for that.  I guess WWII South Pacific Marines helped him with his observational skills.  Of my 4 siblings 2 are liberal and myself and my brother are conservative.  The two conservatives were both closer to the parents.  The other two live in fairyland.

in_xanadu_did_kubla_khan

I think education and IQ 100% have a part in it…moreso to where education and that IQ took them in life. Have they lived a hard life and survived and even persevered? Or did they have everything on a silver spoon and have zero skills or ability to deal with things like childhood traumas, potential narcissism or elitist mind sets?

I think you make a great point though, as to how you were raised, which gave you a spine to not always approach the world with a set of rosy glasses on. And that isn’t to say you aren’t of high IQ or aren’t educated. But perhaps IQ and education are not prerequisites for being able to see and understand evil. Perhaps what is required of that is not IQ, but EQ – emotional intelligence. If you are all book smart and not street/ people smart, you likely aren’t all that good with people, meaning you have trouble meeting them at their level, and you therefore walk around with a holier than thou approach to others. Again, elitism.

You can have a high IQ and high EQ, likely born out of hard life experiences, but you can’t have a high IQ and naturally get a high EQ. To obtain a high EQ, it is all about the life you have experienced thus far and how you have connected with those experiences. Meaning, if you have a high EQ, you likely went through those experiences fully, as opposed to pushing them aside and letting your thoughts and feelings boil inside without dealing with them in any way – avoidance rather than acceptance.

Privethedge:

Same situation here.

> associates locally that I thought had two brain cells and were awake have gotten the jab, their excuse it makes life easier…

A friend with a slow cancer, he knew it was a scam, kept telling me it was the Kalergi plan, refused to wear a muzzle.

He got the jab to stop the medics constant heckling and to visit Disney. Suddenly his cancer and body went crazy, he didn’t make it out of the month.

Some people know, but against them is a team of very clever experts checking every single weakness – and they found his. Now he’s dead.

What side am I on? I lived in Russia where I learned never to trust the government² and am on the side of the cynical NASA scientists and PhD’s in political science. Trust but verify. The urgency to participate in a frightening mass medical experiment is simply not apparent to me. When one looks at the number of incidences of young endurance athletes collapsing on the tennis court or soccer field in the past year, it’s at about three times higher than normal. I’d like to see better statistical analysis but the anecdotal evidence is right there in front of our own eyes.

True. The scheme is as simple as this:

Admit a country in EU and open borders. Buy the profitable businesses there far below their value. Absorb the workforce from that country into Old Europe to the degree that 80-90% of young able-minded and/or bodied men and women (who usually have a work ethic and motivation far above their “Old European” counterparts) leave their homeland. “Elect” the traitors you want as a government using simple political technologies under the rule of US/EU embassies. And finally, turn this Nation/Country into a territory inhabited by feeble old native geezers, and gangs of predatory gypsy/migrant/homegrown psychopaths.

From my time in Slovakia, Austria, France and the UK, I can attest first-hand this is how it happens. Canada, my birth place, certainly suffers from this phenomenon. Many of our stars are poached to the United States and at the same time, due to the US-Canada Free Trade agreement Canada is not free to protect its own cultural industries. It’s been a slow spinning vortex into US culture, to the point where the cultural differences between most of the Canadian provinces with one another and with their neighbours to the south is more like the difference between individual US states. Has Canada reached the point of no return?

It’s a difficult question and one with complex answers.³

The same kind of self-annihilation is what is planned for Europe.

This is not to say, entrepreneurs and citizens cannot work against this diabolically designed construction to hollow out nation states. I’ve worked hard to offer great opportunities in Slovakia to young Slovak programmers and designers, and had some success in helping them stay home and have families here. But the system does work like above and some of my past colleagues have indeed left Slovakia behind.

We must hold Slovakia, Austria, Hungary, Italy, Greece even illogical Poland against these designs for bland strip-malling of Europe and our individual cultural identities.⁴

Photo by Xandro Vandewalle via Unsplash.

Our SC Kittsee is still not in form but it was a well-deserved win for UFC Pama on clean play, hard work end to end and will to win. UFC Pama relies on team work rather than any individual star.

What’s afflicting SC Kittsee? Apparently since new coach Erwin Raithofer took over from Franz Ziniel, there’s been quite a few changes in position and formation. None of the position changes have yielded any perceptible benefits so far while the existing set plays don’t work any more (set plays require players to spend time playing next to one another). It would make sense to go back to the classic 4-4-2 formation and mostly the existing positions. Any position changes could be saved for the next break when there will be more time to practice and test them in exhibition games.

UFC Pama were very kind hosts post-game.

I have some nice Leica R (wide Leica R is much better on mirrorless than Leica M as it doesn’t distort around the edged), Nikon and even a drawer full of Pentax lenses. I tried every kind of special focus screen for my Canon 5D (the 5D Mk III doesn’t allow special focus screens) but none of them were accurate enough. Yes, those focus screens do get you into the ball park but if you want to be sure of a sharp picture at wide aperture you have to focus bracket with about four pictures. Not particularly good for catching special moments.

When focus peaking first appeared on the Sony A7, I thought my issues with focus on manual lenses were solved. I could never really get focus peaking to work well enough. I thought the issue was with the camera. It turns out not to be.

There’s a great image development application for photographers who shoot RAW called Fast Raw Viewer. FRW lets you view the nitty gritty of your images straight from the RAW file fast. With a fast drive (SSD), it’s almost like browsing jpegs. Among many great features, FRW lets you preview focus peaking on your existing images with both fine detail focus peaking and high contrast edges focus peaking.

Here’s an image which focus peaking, both fine detail and high contrast edges, says is sharp in the critical area and even into the background.

Fine detail:

High Contrast Edges:

Here’s a closer look at that image:

The image is very blurry.

The issue is not that Sony’s implementation of focus peaking is so broken (as I originally though).

Poor quality focus peaking affects a lot of cameras like Sony A7, A7S, A7R or NEX 5T, NEX 6, NEX 7 or A5100, A6000, A6300, A6500. It’s nice to know we can stop blaming Sony and accept the limits of focus peaking. There’s no camera on which focus peaking really works. On my Canon 5D Mark III with Magic Lantern firmware the image peaking also didn’t really work. Now I know why.

The only really useful focus tool is then image zoom. Image zoom for focus did work on the Sony A7 and on my Sony NEX 5T. What didn’t work is that image zoom had three steps:

• no zoom
• 5x zoom
• 10x zoom

Having to cycle through three states made even image zoom useless for live action photography. What’s really necessary are two steps with the zoom level customisable. For instance:

• no zoom
• 7x zoom (this could be 3x, 5x, 8x, 10x)

I’m not sure if Sony has fixed this simple software issue. I’ll find out soon as I’ll have a Sony A7S and a Sony A6000 in to test soon.

Here’s to sharp images!

ISO 100, 1/800s, f4.5

These images are shot on the spectacular (for daytime work) Sony Zeiss FE 2.8/35mm on the Sony NEX 5T. Yes, I’m using an expensive full frame lens on an APS-C body. The advantage is absolutely no vignetting and edge to edge landscapes.