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over 3 years ago
3 Kiwis running the lines in ALM. Let's hope for bigger things for them.
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over 3 years ago

Waldron gets another VAR stint

Oi Oi Edgecumbe... lets have a clean sheet

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over 3 years ago
Well we thought the A league officiating was bad. So we exported it. From a match summary:

Moyes saved the majority of his ire for Jarred Gillett, the VAR official.


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over 3 years ago
martinb
Well we thought the A league officiating was bad. So we exported it. From a match summary:

Moyes saved the majority of his ire for Jarred Gillett, the VAR official.
So we're supposed to take anything a club manager says as gospel? They're totally unbiased of course.
Gillett is an excellent referee.
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over 3 years ago
harrymc55
martinb
Well we thought the A league officiating was bad. So we exported it. From a match summary:

Moyes saved the majority of his ire for Jarred Gillett, the VAR official.
So we're supposed to take anything a club manager says as gospel? They're totally unbiased of course.
Gillett is an excellent referee.
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over 3 years ago
Okay, I've thought about it for the last 15 mins. Here is my A-League Predictions:

Victory
City
Macarthur
Adelaide
Sydney
Western
CCM
Phoenix
WSW
Roar
Jets
Perth

Golden Boot: J-Mac
Johnny Warren: Davila
Young Player: Danzaki
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over 3 years ago
I wonder what sort of viewer numbers they get

Oi Oi Edgecumbe... lets have a clean sheet

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over 3 years ago · edited over 3 years ago · History
Oi Oi Edgecumbe
I wonder what sort of viewer numbers they get

Nfi how they do on Paramount+ but these are the current YouTube views:

Ep 1 - 24k
Ep 2 - 17k
Ep 3 - 11k
Ep 4 - 6.6k

I expect the Kuol episode to do big numbers once the Newcastle fans find it.
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over 3 years ago
If Aussie beats Argentina, and gets to the quarterfinals, will the A League restart be delayed?

Oi Oi Edgecumbe... lets have a clean sheet

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over 3 years ago
Oi Oi Edgecumbe
If Aussie beats Argentina, and gets to the quarterfinals, will the A League restart be delayed?

Nope.
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over 3 years ago · edited over 3 years ago · History
Hopefully performance of the Socceroos gives the ALM crowds a boost.
Imagine if the AWs had beaten CR, and the extra momentum that would given the Nix for this season. Alas.




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over 3 years ago
Imagine if they’d beaten them in Wellington…


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over 3 years ago · edited over 3 years ago · History
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over 3 years ago
Complete and absolute morons for this. 

Game in the spotlight, and football at the forefront of the sporting conversation in this part of the world at the minute and they go and do this?

What a waste of all the goodwill that's been built up over the past few weeks.



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over 3 years ago
I assume the League rather than FFA made this decision, in which case all of the clubs have had some say???

"You can never get a bloody tradesman at Easter, it's a wonder Jesus got crucified" - Karl Pilkington

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over 3 years ago
theprof
https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/football/a-league/300762682/aleague-risks-fan-anger-by-selling-grand-finals-to-sydney
Horrid idea, but it wont affect us anytime soon. Likely that there will be one of the Sydney teams in the finals for sometime to come anyway.

“When you think about a cup final in England, you think about the trip to Wembley, and we want fans in Australia to look forward to the A-Leagues finals in the same way.”

i wonder if he knows that this only works because england is a lot smaller than australia.
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over 3 years ago
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over 3 years ago
YoungHe.\rt
Wouldn't surprise me if 'Nix were ok with this, "we're not likely to make a final and after a  tough few years of covid we could do with the extra cash"
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over 3 years ago
Bullion
YoungHe.\rt
Wouldn't surprise me if 'Nix were ok with this, "we're not likely to make a final and after a  tough few years of covid we could do with the extra cash"

I'd assume all the clubs are getting some of the money.

Queenslander 3x a year.

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theprof
Bullion
YoungHe.\rt
Wouldn't surprise me if 'Nix were ok with this, "we're not likely to make a final and after a  tough few years of covid we could do with the extra cash"

I'd assume all the clubs are getting some of the money.

Reported 8 figure sum from the NSW Govt. Lets say $12M or $4M per year for 3 years.

Split between the 12 clubs that's $1M of extra income per club. Yipe wouldn't surprise if Welnix agreed. Be interesting to know.

This sort of stuff is common in Aussie sport, State Govts competing for events and throwing out cash in a bid to host. A bit more common since Covid with  Melbourne not being able to host the Grand Final for 1 (or 2 years?) - and every other state then fighting to host the big game. NRL have also sometimes sold Origin games to the highest bidder.


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over 3 years ago
Bullion
YoungHe.\rt
Wouldn't surprise me if 'Nix were ok with this, "we're not likely to make a final and after a  tough few years of covid we could do with the extra cash"


Neither, however it shows the amount of ambition that the club has at the moment. Not that I blame them, but still. 
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over 3 years ago
If it’s only for 3 years and the cash injection helps with the financial impacts of covid, then ok cool Let’s do it to keep the league alive. 
If it’s a permanent idea. It’s fudgeing dumb. 
I have an amazing ability to find my way out of mazes. I'm pathological. 
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over 3 years ago
Really disappointed by the lack of statement from the club to date

Valley FC til I die?

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over 3 years ago
Nelfoos
Really disappointed by the lack of statement from the club to date

why?
it's not their decision, they probably had not input into the decision.
YF made a comment on the RNZ News this morning.

Queenslander 3x a year.

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over 3 years ago
coochiee
theprof
Bullion
YoungHe.\rt
Wouldn't surprise me if 'Nix were ok with this, "we're not likely to make a final and after a  tough few years of covid we could do with the extra cash"

I'd assume all the clubs are getting some of the money.

Reported 8 figure sum from the NSW Govt. Lets say $12M or $4M per year for 3 years.

Split between the 12 clubs that's $1M of extra income per club. Yipe wouldn't surprise if Welnix agreed. Be interesting to know.

This sort of stuff is common in Aussie sport, State Govts competing for events and throwing out cash in a bid to host. A bit more common since Covid with  Melbourne not being able to host the Grand Final for 1 (or 2 years?) - and every other state then fighting to host the big game. NRL have also sometimes sold Origin games to the highest bidder.



Hope Sydney Teams or Nix get 1st and 2nd the next three years, there will be no return for their investment. Even if City or Bitumen make the GF, they have no fans.
They could promote the game in many different ways, some good deal, I would fly there watch game, stay a long weekend.
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theprof
Nelfoos
Really disappointed by the lack of statement from the club to date

why?
it's not their decision, they probably had not input into the decision.
YF made a comment on the RNZ News this morning.

And yet they're affected by it. A statement is warranted given the unrest this has caused.

Cant see a YF statement posted anywhere.

Honestly, the way the Nix have been treating fans lately I'm pretty close to cancelling 2 memberships and pirating the rest of the games instead of attending. I feel like a resource being exploited after maintaining financial support throughout covid, rather than a partner to build with and I'm sure I'm far from the only one.

Valley FC til I die?

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over 3 years ago
theprof
Nelfoos
Really disappointed by the lack of statement from the club to date

why?
it's not their decision, they probably had not input into the decision.
YF made a comment on the RNZ News this morning.

Why not? They could say we love to play our first Grand Final in Sydney in front of our NSW fanbase. Maybe: We love the extra cash as we historically never made money out of any GF.
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over 3 years ago
As you are entitled to do. Each fan will make their own call around how they want to be treated or what they think theya re entitled to be provided with. For me, and I'm sure some others, I  feel that expecting more from the club is fair, but threatening to leave is only really hurting you. If you are a fanatic for the club, love the game etc then why would you punish yourself and not attend the home games - and then break the law by finding an illegal stram of the game?
Could the club do better? - sure, but then you have to counter that with they reduced staff during COVID to save money and stay afloat, they are now trying to build that staff back up in an asustainable manner when unemployment is at an all time low. The skilled people they need may not be around anymore. Dome is very vocal and verbose on the socials, if you follow him and the club most if not all of the information is there. This decision by the APL board impacts the Nix positiviely in that we get $1m for 3 years in the pocket. If we reach the finals series during this time and we've earned top spot then suire it negatively impacts us the fans as we dont get a home final - be realistic here - is that likely to occur??? 

I understand why the Melbourne fans are unhappy, they have 3 clubs that have won the league are always involved in the finals series. Them walking out in protest makes sense. The rest not so much.


Queenslander 3x a year.

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over 3 years ago
In light of yesterday's announcement from the APL, this morning we wrote to Wellington Phoenix GM, David Dome. You can read that email below.
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