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about 7 years ago

I am not convinced that playing 2 games a week in the peak of the Australian heat for a prolonged spell is that great an idea.

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about 7 years ago

Outed this idea on twitter but I thought it would be worth posting here as well. Given that the Nix can sign both Australians and kiwis without filling up import slots, shouldn't Aussie teams be able to do the same for kiwi players given that for them, kiwis do fill up an import slot?



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about 7 years ago

It does give us an unfair advantage, but I don't think it makes sense from an Australian football point of view to call New Zealanders local players for their teams and reduce the amount of Australians playing.

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Dan The Man With The Pan
about 7 years ago

RR wrote:

He is moving to the UK to do work as a post doctoral researcher in children with cerebral palsy, as well as taking up a Refs gig in the Championship.


https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/referee-jarred-gillett-championship-australia-2458003

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about 7 years ago

Hey guys, anyone know of any sites that show full replays of A League games? 

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about 7 years ago

The YouTube channel that shows the games live does iirc, just means you need to use a VPN to access it. The Opera browser has an inbuilt VPN, tho I haven't tried using it to access it.

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about 7 years ago

So Adelaide signs a striker, City gets one of Australia's best strikers, Vuc upgrades their CB (Donachie >>> Ansell), Sydney signs a top striker - it's going to be very hard to get higher than 5th/6th, I feel.

a.haak

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about 7 years ago

valeo wrote:

So Adelaide signs a striker, City gets one of Australia's best strikers, Vuc upgrades their CB (Donachie >>> Ansell), Sydney signs a top striker - it's going to be very hard to get higher than 5th/6th, I feel.

Don't know what strings City pulled to get McClaren signed 'within' the window.
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about 7 years ago · edited about 7 years ago · History

Well, we signed an ex-Irish international striker.  By the comments on this forum he's all class. I look forward to seeing Sheridan perform once he settles in.  And while we need some backup for midfield, clearly none were floating around to be signed.



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about 7 years ago

Bullion wrote:

valeo wrote:

So Adelaide signs a striker, City gets one of Australia's best strikers, Vuc upgrades their CB (Donachie >>> Ansell), Sydney signs a top striker - it's going to be very hard to get higher than 5th/6th, I feel.

Don't know what strings City pulled to get McClaren signed 'within' the window.

They didn't get McLaren in the window, they got around it by his other club releasing him from his contract, so that he was uncontracted, then signed him today.

I'm an optimistic pessimist. 
I'm positive things will go wrong.
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about 7 years ago

Dan the Man with the pan wrote:

Outed this idea on twitter but I thought it would be worth posting here as well. Given that the Nix can sign both Australians and kiwis without filling up import slots, shouldn't Aussie teams be able to do the same for kiwi players given that for them, kiwis do fill up an import slot?

Aussie teams were able to until Aussie stood Oceania up and jumped in bed with Asia.

Supporter of the world's best football teams: Waikato..., Kingz FC, NZ Knights, The Nix, The Argyle & of course the All Whites

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about 7 years ago

Consensus is growing behind a slightly shorter A-League season for the next campaign as the competition evolves to accommodate an 11th team.


The tricky dynamic behind admitting Western Melbourne Group (WMG) for the 2019-20 campaign is likely to mean a 26-round league, down one game from this season, to include a full home and away fixture as well as three additional home and away matches.

https://theworldgame.sbs.com.au/a-league-chiefs-grappling-with-format-changes
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about 7 years ago

Great news re Hakeem Al-Araibi, the former Bahrain player detained in Thailand. All the support and work done on his behalf has paid off and the Thai authorities are releasing him tonight.

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coochieetheprof
about 7 years ago

Aussie's going to the polls on the Saturday of Grand Final weekend. That makes things interesting, more likely to be a Sunday Grand Final now? If the Glory hosts, I'm almost certain it will be a Sunday afternoon game.

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almost 7 years ago

An Independant A League or not? The owners need to grow some and tell everyone else that is will be  from next season and onwards. They need to tell these minor clubs to either front up with their own resources to join and expand the A League or to just back off and let the rest get on with it. Enough stuffing around. Leave the politics to the washed up free loaders that seem to be dragging this all down.

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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almost 7 years ago

RR wrote:

Aussie's going to the polls on the Saturday of Grand Final weekend. That makes things interesting, more likely to be a Sunday Grand Final now? If the Glory hosts, I'm almost certain it will be a Sunday afternoon game.

Sydney have a Tuesday night ACL game in the week after the GF, so if they are in the GF it might have to be on a Saturday night after all.
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almost 7 years ago · edited almost 7 years ago · History

RR wrote:

RR wrote:

Aussie's going to the polls on the Saturday of Grand Final weekend. That makes things interesting, more likely to be a Sunday Grand Final now? If the Glory hosts, I'm almost certain it will be a Sunday afternoon game.

Sydney have a Tuesday night ACL game in the week after the GF, so if they are in the GF it might have to be on a Saturday night after all.

We do not have any plans for Tuesday night so if Sydney FC are too busy getting ready for the ACL game we could always help out with the GF against Perth, and our price is that Sydney pays the flight costs of Perth Glory to come here for the GF instead, as a last minute rearrangement.  It's not like we're too proud to give a fellow club a helping hand.



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almost 7 years ago

Well a 14 team competition where every team players each other thrice would result in a 39 game long season, so the move makes sense imo. 



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almost 7 years ago

Might work out ok because we're unlikely to get 3 games with Melbourne and Sydney teams. 3 games against Newcastle and CCM is ideal.

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almost 7 years ago

Dan the Man with the pan wrote:

Well a 14 team competition where every team players each other thrice would result in a 39 game long season, so the move makes sense imo. 


A 14 team  comp? Is that the plan for next year?

Oi Oi Edgecumbe... lets have a clean sheet

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almost 7 years ago

11 for next season with West Melb coming in???

Queenslander 3x a year.

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almost 7 years ago

Oi Oi Edgecumbe wrote:

Dan the Man with the pan wrote:

Well a 14 team competition where every team players each other thrice would result in a 39 game long season, so the move makes sense imo. 


A 14 team  comp? Is that the plan for next year?

GOR was saying that we will have to put up with an unbalanced draw until we hit 14 teams, so probably a decade knowing how slow things change.
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theprof
almost 7 years ago

Global Game wrote:

https://www.smh.com.au/business/consumer-affairs/dead-in-the-water-foxtel-austerity-drive-signals-end-of-sports-rights-boom-20190514-p51n3v.html

Spanner. Meet works. 

I've mentioned this before in the independent A-league threads. Fox has already put the NLWG on notice that they can't expect that the next TV deal will be better than the current one, and that in fact, there's every chance that it'll be a worse one.

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Global Game
almost 7 years ago
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BullionLGOi Oi Edgecumbe
almost 7 years ago

Damn I love everything about these videos each year. Also our own Nix photographer Photomac (Cam) is in the video at 41sec when Krishna goes over the boards

I'm an optimistic pessimist. 
I'm positive things will go wrong.
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almost 7 years ago

The season will be 143 games, so I assume there will be a round with 3 games in it around ACL time.

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almost 7 years ago

RR wrote:

The season will be 143 games, so I assume there will be a round with 3 games in it around ACL time.

See, they should have allowed 2 teams in at a time and saved themselves a whole lot of headaches. Too simple I guess.

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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almost 7 years ago · edited almost 7 years ago · History

Lonegunmen wrote:

RR wrote:

The season will be 143 games, so I assume there will be a round with 3 games in it around ACL time.

See, they should have allowed 2 teams in at a time and saved themselves a whole lot of headaches. Too simple I guess.

We are staying at 26 games until there is 14 teams.
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almost 7 years ago

Isn't there set criteria around how many games a season must have in relation to ACL spots? 

I think if the A-League has any fewer rounds/games then they'll lose a spot. 

NB: This may not be correct and completely fabricated.

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almost 7 years ago

So how does that work?

The phone play each team twice = 20 games.

Then play 6 other teams?

Grumpy old bastard alert

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almost 7 years ago

Christo wrote:

Isn't there set criteria around how many games a season must have in relation to ACL spots? 

I think if the A-League has any fewer rounds/games then they'll lose a spot. 

NB: This may not be correct and completely fabricated.

A league needs a minimum of 27 games to qualify for the ACL, this includes Cup games & Final Series. So 26 games & 1 FFA Cup game and your sorted.
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almost 7 years ago

RR wrote:

Christo wrote:

Isn't there set criteria around how many games a season must have in relation to ACL spots? 

I think if the A-League has any fewer rounds/games then they'll lose a spot. 

NB: This may not be correct and completely fabricated.

A league needs a minimum of 27 games to qualify for the ACL, this includes Cup games & Final Series. So 26 games & 1 FFA Cup game and your sorted.

Ah! I thought it was just regular season games. 

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almost 7 years ago

Christo wrote:

RR wrote:

Christo wrote:

Isn't there set criteria around how many games a season must have in relation to ACL spots? 

I think if the A-League has any fewer rounds/games then they'll lose a spot. 

NB: This may not be correct and completely fabricated.

A league needs a minimum of 27 games to qualify for the ACL, this includes Cup games & Final Series. So 26 games & 1 FFA Cup game and your sorted.

Ah! I thought it was just regular season games. 

4.01 on Pg13 http://www.the-afc.com/afc/documents/PdfFiles/entry-manual-afc-club-competitions-2017-2020-33728
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Christo
almost 7 years ago
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