A-Leagues 23/24, The Other Matches Thread

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about 2 years ago
Ryan
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Utterly ridiculous. Such a poor decision all round from the officials.

In slo-mo, the contact looks way worse than it really was. They both stuck legs out & the Victory player's leg got in front. Just chuck out the lazy yellow card and play on.
Unfortunately with a ref like Kersey the nod by VAR to have a second look at it would immediately have put into his mind that the two most recent similar offences (Payne, O'Shea) were red carded, hence he just better follow suit. 

I'm sure there are other (better) refs in the league who would've had the common sense to distinguish that this incident was totally different.

Kersey is about the only ref I’ve seen in the A league who has ignored the VAR recommendation and he’s done it twice. And if other similar incidents are getting carded, then it seems fair. Still having issues with Keep Up so haven’t seen it yet…May change my mind!

Edit: yeh, that looks ridiculous, but getting ridiculous calls against the Victory has been suspiciously common this season. Both Payne and O’Shea were late, missed the ball and got the player who they could clearly see. Here Wood gets to the ball first and can’t see the player who arrives second and can see and avoid Wood. I’m doubtful there’s a foul against Wood there. 
yet the victory fans are certain the league is rigged against them.

The Rangers fans of the a-league. Absolute victims. 
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about 2 years ago
Rare concurrent ALM fixtures tonight, can watch the first half of the Western Derby from Tassie before switching to the Nix match. 
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about 2 years ago
WSW take the lead, 0-1 
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about 2 years ago
WSW went down to 10 men but held on for a 0-1 win. 
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about 2 years ago
CCM open the scoring vs the Roar, 1-0 
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about 2 years ago
Huge miss by Waddingham, 1-0 
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about 2 years ago
Torres seals it for CCM, 2-0 
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about 2 years ago
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Torres seals it for CCM, 2-0 
Very funny seeing him leap the hoardings and hug a bunch of little kids.
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about 2 years ago
CCM are such a dynamic team

Oi Oi Edgecumbe... lets have a clean sheet

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about 2 years ago
Davila scores after some sexy lead up play, 1-0 
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about 2 years ago
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Davila scores after some sexy lead up play, 1-0 
MacArthur are a one man band. Without him they would be down with the also-rans.


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about 2 years ago
Penalty for the Glory, they deserve it for all their attacking this half.
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about 2 years ago
Amini converts, 1-1 
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about 2 years ago
Penalty for Macarthur 
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about 2 years ago
Germain converts, 2-1 
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about 2 years ago
Absolute idiot, Susnar. Just made all that 2nd half performance a wasted effort.
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about 2 years ago
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Absolute idiot, Susnar. Just made all that 2nd half performance a wasted effort.
 Glory deserved to be level, absolutely daft by the defender. 2-1 
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about 2 years ago
DW you little ripper!
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about 2 years ago
David Williams!!! 2-2 
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about 2 years ago
Have to confess that goal gave me more of a kick than Zawada's!

Never a boring goal from DW.
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about 2 years ago
Davila should have sealed the 3 points, they gift wrapped him some great chances late. 

I love a David Williams goal but that cost me a perfect round in the official A-Leagues tipping :(
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about 2 years ago
Perth up by a goal and some Oli Sail magic. Come on Perth! 


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about 2 years ago · edited about 2 years ago · History
Somehow the ref finds 8 minutes of stoppages so David Williams lays on another goal for Perth! 

4-2 over City! 98th minute
And done! Now that’s a deserved win.


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about 2 years ago
Oh dear, poor City (NOT), can't get any results.
Proud to have attended the first 175 Consecutive "Home" Wellington Phoenix "A League" Games !!

The Ruf, The Ruf, The Ruf is on Fire!!

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about 2 years ago
Need the Jets & Adelaide to do us a favor tonight. 
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about 2 years ago
jets draw with victory and adelaide run CCM ragged will be nice to watch.

Queenslander 3x a year.

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about 2 years ago
theaucklandphoenixfan
Jets vs Victory at 8pm. 

That is if you don't fall asleep watching WUN v SYD first. 30 mins in and it's 0-0 & pretty garbage so far. 
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about 2 years ago
Sydney gets a penalty after a VAR review.
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about 2 years ago
Gomes slots it, 0-1 
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about 2 years ago
Another one of those ludicrously harsh handball decisions. 
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about 2 years ago
VAR 2 WU 0
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about 2 years ago
After a lengthy VAR review, Sydney double their lead just before half time. 0-2

This Western side is dire.
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about 2 years ago
Botic breaks his drought!! 1-2
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about 2 years ago
Just a side note, Kris Griffith Jones is VAR operator for Jets vs Victory tonight.
So expect any VAR decisions to go victory’s way.
Auckland based forever phoenix fan
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about 2 years ago
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Another one of those ludicrously harsh handball decisions. 

People keep saying there was a deflection but I just don't see one. Burgess shanks his shot and hits the arm away from the body. Being so close and it being hit hard makes it feel on the harsher side of things tho.
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about 2 years ago
Victory open the scoring from a corner, 0-1 
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about 2 years ago
FFS Ryan Scott pulls off two world class saves within seconds but his defence hang him out to dry with poor marking from the corner.

0-1
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about 2 years ago
Western level things up in Tassie, 2-2 
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about 2 years ago
Jets get a penalty, Izzo saves. VAR calls for a retake for encroachment. 0-1 
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