General A-League discussion

A-Leagues Match Officials Panels for 22/23
https://www.footballaustralia.com.au/sites/ffa/files/2022-08/2022-23%20A-Leagues%20Match%20Officials%20Panels.pdf

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

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.

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.

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.

MOTD’s opinion on West Ham’s disallowed goal. #WHUFC pic.twitter.com/QiqzrTXpmL

— Ollie (@ocwhu) September 3, 2022

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

The A-Leagues is doing a new weekly docu-series each week. Nani first up, Charlie Austin next week.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uEqgCO5n2Q

Sounds like this was another good un https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ISbg2-LQtk

Patrick Kisnorbo next week

Episode 3: https://youtu.be/7mtW8tvbpqM

Garang Kuol next week

I wonder what sort of viewer numbers they get

Latest All Access: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkBV7igX5-g

Arthur Papas next week.

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.

Ep 5 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpGl0xNm6eA

Episode 6 is Milos Ninkovic ahead of the Sydney Derby.

Ep 6 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSB766MUs5g
Ep 7 - Chloe Logarzo - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuGaouKc7Cg

Ep 8 is on Kayla Morrison.

Ep 8 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gsf-o2lYwgE

Ep 9 is on Melissa Barbieri

If Aussie beats Argentina, and gets to the quarterfinals, will the A League restart be delayed?

Oi Oi Edgecumbe

If Aussie beats Argentina, and gets to the quarterfinals, will the A League restart be delayed?

Nope.

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.

Rate it! pic.twitter.com/CnANFALRls

— Adam Peacock (@adampeacock3) December 6, 2022

Imagine if they’d beaten them in Wellington…

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Ep 9 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvjVkA1ZiSk

Ep 10 - Ruben Zadkovich

It has been announced today that Sydney will host the @IsuzuUTE A-League Men’s, @LibFinancial A-League Women’s Grand Final and a number of other football-related events in a three-year deal with @NewSouthWales, beginning in 2023.

Full details: https://t.co/I6hV6xbjr9 pic.twitter.com/5rw6sktwfT

— Isuzu UTE A-League (@aleaguemen) December 11, 2022

This is a terrible idea.

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.

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

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.

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.

YoungHe.\rt

Can’t say clubs weren’t involved, WSW owner Paul Lederer, MCY Vice Chairman Simon Pearce and Victory chairman ADP sit on the APL board they all knew.

Clubs who are on the APL board turned their back and shown contempt to the fans of the league. Shameful. That’s their legacy

— JESSEE .\ (@jenko0923) December 12, 2022

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"

Bullion

YoungHe.\rt

Can’t say clubs weren’t involved, WSW owner Paul Lederer, MCY Vice Chairman Simon Pearce and Victory chairman ADP sit on the APL board they all knew.

Clubs who are on the APL board turned their back and shown contempt to the fans of the league. Shameful. That’s their legacy

— JESSEE .\ (@jenko0923) December 12, 2022

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.

theprof

Bullion

YoungHe.\rt

Can’t say clubs weren’t involved, WSW owner Paul Lederer, MCY Vice Chairman Simon Pearce and Victory chairman ADP sit on the APL board they all knew.

Clubs who are on the APL board turned their back and shown contempt to the fans of the league. Shameful. That’s their legacy

— JESSEE .\ (@jenko0923) December 12, 2022

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.

Bullion

YoungHe.\rt

Can’t say clubs weren’t involved, WSW owner Paul Lederer, MCY Vice Chairman Simon Pearce and Victory chairman ADP sit on the APL board they all knew.

Clubs who are on the APL board turned their back and shown contempt to the fans of the league. Shameful. That’s their legacy

— JESSEE .\ (@jenko0923) December 12, 2022

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. 

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. 

Really disappointed by the lack of statement from the club to date

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.

coochiee

theprof

Bullion

YoungHe.\rt

Can’t say clubs weren’t involved, WSW owner Paul Lederer, MCY Vice Chairman Simon Pearce and Victory chairman ADP sit on the APL board they all knew.

Clubs who are on the APL board turned their back and shown contempt to the fans of the league. Shameful. That’s their legacy

— JESSEE .\ (@jenko0923) December 12, 2022

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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