General A-League discussion

The PFA announced the team of the year and no surprises Sydney dominates the list

GOALKEEPER: Danny Vukovic (c) (Sydney FC) 

DEFENDERS: Rhyan Grant (Sydney FC), Alex Wilkinson (Sydney FC), Michael Jakobsen (Melbourne City), Michael Zullo (Sydney FC) 

MIDFIELDERS: Brandon O’Neill (Sydney FC), Milos Ninkovic (Sydney FC), James Troisi (Melbourne Victory) 

FORWARDS: Marco Rojas (Melbourne Victory), Besart Berisha (Melbourne Victory), Diego Castro (Perth Glory) 

SUBSTITUTES: Liam Reddy (Perth Glory), Jade North (Brisbane Roar), Josh Brillante (Sydney FC), Bruno Fornaroli (Melbourne City), Alex Brosque (c) (Sydney FC), Ruon Tongyik (U20) (Melbourne City), Riley McGree (U20) (Adelaide United) 

COACH: Graham Arnold (Sydney FC)

I know the VAR only played in a few games, but he did really well and scored 3 goals for Sydney. Thought deserved at least a bench spot. 

Wouldn't you have Cahill on the bench?

In the Marc Warren XI? Nope!

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/may/16/w...

Interesting read on the state of the FFA from a commercial perspective

Channel Seven to make late move for A-League broadcast rights https://t.co/r9hFHsKYta (Sport) #brisbane #qld

— Brisbane News (@BrissieLiveNews) May 16, 2017

Western Sydney Wanderers star Mitch Nichols, 28, charged with cocaine possession at nightclub. https://t.co/CxDVpBXK94 pic.twitter.com/ifVALHPB6W

— The Daily Telegraph (@dailytelegraph) May 17, 2017

Was this all caught on one of those cop shows? Or do police in australia always have a film crew?

I'm guessing it was the VAR

I always thought his eyes were popping out of his head..

Hmm but it didn't result in a goal for Sydney FC so it can't have been the VAR?

But he was offside when he scored.

No way. It was on the line.

It was an own goal.

NSW government in bid to make Sydney permanent home of A-League grand final https://t.co/gL1ADsGB0Z @DomBossi

— SMH Sport (@SMHsport) May 19, 2017

That's retarded

Stupid idea, completely forgetting that NSW is not all of Australia. 

Correct. Should be Alice Springs that hosts the Final

Wouldn't Auckland be a better fit?

It has the biggest population.

Too far from Perth and not in Asia

Isn't that what most other sports in Australia do?

It makes sense because the FFA have proven incapable of booking a venue - even when it's been obvious for half a season that one team is going to win the competition. Of course what makes more sense is for the teams to organise and profit from their own finals.

NRL and AFL do it but they're both really popular in the cities that host them. So most NRL teams are from NSW and most AFL teams are from Victoria. And even if you got an NRL final with no NSW team or an AFL final with no Vic team there are enough general fans and interest to sell out a big stadium for the final. The A League just isn't like that.

Plus both those competitions started as state-based comps and became national comps later, so there's history behind it too. Again, the A League doesn't have that

Well, 40% of A-League teams are in Sydney.

What they need to do though is just book stadiums earlier, if they book a stadium in Sydney and a stadium Melbourne then they're going to be able to host then they're going to have at least a 60% chance that a team from one of those cities (or adjacent) are going to be able to play there.

False. And the technicality here is enough to make it less viable. 

The FFA get venues to pencil in bookings for the Grand Final at each teams home venues before the season starts. In 2015 there was an issue with venues because the FFA pushed back the date of the Grand Final a week and forgot to change the bookings for Etihad.

Sure, I meant NSW obviously. The point is that the CCM is pretty much in Sydney, the Jets are a bit further away but still has public transport links to Sydney.

Also an issue this year because they weren't organised. They should book the venue for the entire weekend of a final, they make so much money from it that they can wear the extra cost. Maybe make a festival of football sort of thing over a couple of days.

And your point is?

So, statstically, we should have an A-league grand final in NSW 40% of the time. But that doesn't mean that the A-league grand final should always be in Sydney.

I would trust the FFA to book the venue for the game to be scheduled 24 hours after a Rugby Union or Rugby League had been played on it. They have already shown this ability.

Yet how many people were there at Sydney matches during the regular season? They're lucky Melbourne Victory were in the final this year, otherwise you would have seen blue seats popping up everywhere

Imagine Glory V City being played at Allianz.

That would look like the biggest load of crap ever.

If ABC2's coverage of the Liverpool game tonight is anything to go by, the FFA may as well not sell the FTA rights to anyone. This is an example of what they did:

what the actual fudge. 

Speaking of WTF moments, this is how one Australian news network identified the Manchester bomber:

The NZ Herald reporting on this in their rugby section? Anyway, man he comes across like a right knob

http://m.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_i...

>> The NZ Herald reporting on this in their rugby section? Anyway, man he comes across like a right knob

http://m.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_i... <<

Well that would just about sums up the NZ Herald.

 Bunch of eggball loving dim witted retards

Apparently he's a comedian and that's his act. The problem that sort of thing only works if people know about it, otherwise it's sort of an in joke to his audience with everyone else mistified. 

Ill advised.

This guy and the otger two have copped a real serving via twitter and face book. None of it was nice, some of it was racially offensive, most of it was about how he had absolutely no idea of what he was talking about..... and they were right. He was a muppet from what I have seen on you tube.