How are CCM coping after that loss? I was at that game and like some football games, the scoreline was not an indicator of the football played. I don't think Graham Arnold and Phil Moss sit in their offices all day going 'Oh shit if only we have beaten ACFC....' They would have moved on the next day.
I don't think this has anything to do with reputation either. Considering that ACFC will be together into August sometime with O League (is that right?) and the Phoenix will be in preseason mode, you have absolutely nothing to lose by proposing that game again. I ask you though, how you would fair, if you lost 3-1? I would suggest the club would keep on going and it would be some supporter egos that would be dented more than anything else (much like if the result was the other way around)