General A-League discussion

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about 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
A-League: cancer on coal face football

"Phoenix till they lose"

Posting 97% bollox, 8% lies and 3.658% genuine opinion. 

Genuine opinion: FTFFA

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about 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
It seems that Blue Magic was right after all... http://au.fourfourtwo.com/blogs.aspx?CIaBEID=2687
 
(BTW the one TW match we might have been able to make on 18 March we now can't as we have another activity on then)
 
 

"Phoenix till they lose"

Posting 97% bollox, 8% lies and 3.658% genuine opinion. 

Genuine opinion: FTFFA

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about 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
It seems to be the other way round here. Coalface saying the A league is sh*te despite never watching it.
 
I've never heard anyone say anything like what is said in that article.

Allegedly

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about 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
"A-League snob" - has a nice ring to it.  I will insist that Aklders call me that. 
 
Or Plastic C*nt - either is OK.
 
 

"Phoenix till they lose"

Posting 97% bollox, 8% lies and 3.658% genuine opinion. 

Genuine opinion: FTFFA

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about 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Nice J82. Loving your work recently.
 
I've found more than a few that have trashed the NRFL as being garbage in comparison to the Premiership but then they don't want to go watch it in summer cause they would rather do family stuff on a Sunday. I've said it once and I'll say it again - make it Saturday 2pm and you will get more people along. The lads get the shopping done with the wife in the morning, afternoon they can go to the football and still have Sunday to do stuff around home.
 
Also by the same token, if you get matches which feature Manwatu, you are going to be watching rubbish. Waikato aren't flash but there is some football skill around it. The top 4 really do set themselves apart.

Grumpy old bastard alert

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about 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Jeff Vader wrote:
Nice J82. Loving your work recently.
 
I've found more than a few that have trashed the NRFL as being garbage in comparison to the Premiership but then they don't want to go watch it in summer cause they would rather do family stuff on a Sunday. I've said it once and I'll say it again - make it Saturday 2pm and you will get more people along. The lads get the shopping done with the wife in the morning, afternoon they can go to the football and still have Sunday to do stuff around home.
 
Also by the same token, if you get matches which feature Manwatu, you are going to be watching rubbish. Waikato aren't flash but there is some football skill around it. The top 4 really do set themselves apart.


I remember the heady days of 05-06, when Manawatu came 2nd in the league. Good times!

People like Coldplay and voted for the Nazis. You can't trust people.

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about 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Junior82 wrote:
It seems that Blue Magic was right after all... http://au.fourfourtwo.com/blogs.aspx?CIaBEID=2687
 
(BTW the one TW match we might have been able to make on 18 March we now can't as we have another activity on then)
 
 
If 15,000 thousand aucklaners turned up to watch the AWs last week, then surely they too are a cancer on local football.
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over 13 years ago

The Hyundai A-League @ALeague

Would you like to ask Head of A-League Damien de Bohun a question? @DamiendeBohun is the place to be tomorrow night from 7pm AEDT #AskDamien

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over 13 years ago

@ardrigh has put in some good questions, I suggest people retweet them, so maybe they will get picked. Especially the one regarding Kiwi's being domestic players for all A-League clubs.

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over 13 years ago

Pretty much only soft questions so far. Looking into a FFA Cup for next season, looking into increasing the bench sizes, and looking into having breaks for FIFA windows.

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over 13 years ago
I got a question answered and surprisingly it wasn't "Do you like puppies?".
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about 13 years ago

I agree with most of them, would have done Milligan rather than Celeski. No clue how Chapman is there.

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about 13 years ago

Football Federation Australia (FFA) today announced that Major League Soccer (MLS) senior executive Russell Sargeant will join the Hyundai A-League as General Manager, Operations.

Reporting to Head of Hyundai A-League Damien de Bohun, Sargeant will lead the FFA League Operations team, managing Hyundai A-League competition administration and services.

http://www.footballaustralia.com.au/news-display/Russell-Sargeant-named-new-Hyundai-ALeague-General-Manager-of-Operations/60638

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about 13 years ago

So does the restructuring of the state league system make that kind of like a conference system, with national playoffs?

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about 13 years ago

To me, it sounds more like they are separate leagues, with an Australian 'Champions League' for the highest placed teams after them. And then the winner gets the chance to go into the A-League, kinda like how the usual Champions league winners get to go into the Club World Cup.


Yellow Fever - Misery loves company

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about 13 years ago

They want promotion/relegation to meet some AFC targets but doubt they would make it very easy for the National Premier League clubs (They couldn't use APL because of Lawn Bowls).

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about 13 years ago

Bloody lawn bowls. The 'sport' is a cancer on the A-League.


Yellow Fever - Misery loves company

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about 13 years ago

From what i have read, the NPL will be the 2nd tier comp and run over winter. Each state will have their own division,and they wanted to include the A-League NYL teams in it. They must be thinking of adding a final series to it.

Also for the FFA Cup, it would be NPL teams & A-League teams involved but probably not us. They could time the Cup rounds for FFIA windows, so they avoid having to shift games for us.

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about 13 years ago

It would be a massive slap in the face if they don't include us in a cup competition. 


Allegedly

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about 13 years ago

If they play the the cup fixtures during international windows, and therefore make the A-League take a break, I would be okay with them excluding us.


Yellow Fever - Misery loves company

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about 13 years ago

Seems like a good reason for them to hide behind. 


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about 13 years ago

Kills two birds with one stone for FFA, gives them a reason to leave us out of the cup and stops us complaining about Nix games in the international windows.


Yellow Fever - Misery loves company

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about 13 years ago

Has any minutes of the FFA forum they did last night been posted online yet? Saw a few questions on their twitter feed.

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about 13 years ago

I have a feeling that the Nix aren't really in the FFA's plans within the next 10 years.

We will never fully decide who has won the football.

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about 13 years ago

Azevo wrote:

I have a feeling that the Nix aren't really in the FFA's plans within the next 10 years.



They have no choice.  There aren't any other markets that would support a team and add our revenue.

Realistically the NPL is a sop to the AFC.  The chances of a team meeting criteria for promotion will be about 1 million to 1 I would imagine.

How's my driving? - Whine here

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about 13 years ago

Winner of NPL has to beat all teams who didn't qualify for the playoffs. One loss and you don't get promoted. 


Yellow Fever - Misery loves company

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about 13 years ago

How does that work? If they do manage it, who would then get relegated? 

If the bottom team of the A league then what incentive is there for the other 3 teams to win? 

It all seems a bit odd and stupid to me. 


Allegedly

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about 13 years ago

patrick478 wrote:

Winner of NPL has to beat all teams who didn't qualify for the playoffs. One loss and you don't get promoted. 



...and meet a whole pile of criteria re-venues and so on that A-League clubs must meet.

How's my driving? - Whine here

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about 13 years ago

Hard News wrote:

patrick478 wrote:

Winner of NPL has to beat all teams who didn't qualify for the playoffs. One loss and you don't get promoted. 



...and meet a whole pile of criteria re-venues and so on that A-League clubs must meet.

And if they already meet all of these other criteria would they already have a shot at getting in to the A-League when it expands anyway? Or are we looking two different types of club for these two pathways?
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about 13 years ago

Another FFA forum on tonight, Melbourne this time. Saw one retweet regarding the Friday night free to air game. Sounds like it will be the 'match of the round', I guess that rules any of our games out then.

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about 13 years ago

Azevo wrote:

I have a feeling that the Nix aren't really in the FFA's plans within the next 10 years.


We could do with not being utter horse manure so that such decisions would be a bit harder for them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qe_B5CzbTJo - Caceres winning penalty v Perth - footage from the Fever Zone

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about 13 years ago

Interesting, because yesterday DDB said that they had bookings and plans to cover all possible permutations of how the finals go, depsite media reports to the contrary.


Yellow Fever - Misery loves company

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about 13 years ago

There has been a whopping 171 more yellow cards and 12 red cards this season than last season. Sydney have smashed the record for yellow cards with 83 ( an average of 3 per game!) and equaled the record of 7 red cards.

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about 13 years ago

And yet there was still so many missed or gotten wrong. Amazing.

I have to ask objectively, is this a problem with player discipline or poor refereeing. Ok in the last Phoenix game as the example, Siggy and Mullen should have both gone. Brockie was lucky not to get one for gobbing off. Now that's poor refereeing but also an indication of poor discipline.

Perhaps the problem two fold and not always the referees.

Are there any stats on which refs where more card happy than others?

Grumpy old bastard alert

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