General A-League discussion
I remember the heady days of 05-06, when Manawatu came 2nd in the league. Good times!
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
@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.
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.
http://www.smh.com.au/sport/a-league/top-10-aleague-players-this-season-20130202-2drmm.html
Craig Foster's top 10 players. I would have had Wee Mac in the top 10, he has been fantastic this season.
http://www.smh.com.au/sport/a-league/top-10-aleague-players-this-season-20130202-2drmm.html
Craig Foster's top 10 players. I would have had Wee Mac in the top 10, he has been fantastic this season.
Agree, he has been fantastic this season.
I agree with most of them, would have done Milligan rather than Celeski. No clue how Chapman is there.
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.
latest announcement from the FFA, FA cup comp by 2015, plus promotion/relegation - interesting that the suggested start date is the same as our term expires. http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/football/8298966/FFA-consider-Cup-comp-promotion-relegation
So does the restructuring of the state league system make that kind of like a conference system, with national playoffs?
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.
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).
Bloody lawn bowls. The 'sport' is a cancer on the A-League.
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.
It would be a massive slap in the face if they don't include us in a cup competition.
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.
Seems like a good reason for them to hide behind.
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.
Has any minutes of the FFA forum they did last night been posted online yet? Saw a few questions on their twitter feed.
I have a feeling that the Nix aren't really in the FFA's plans within the next 10 years.
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.
Winner of NPL has to beat all teams who didn't qualify for the playoffs. One loss and you don't get promoted.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Looks like the FFA will be wanting a Sydney final. Seems it is the only place that could have a stadium available for the GF.
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.
Goal Line Assistants, 5 men benches & Covered benches all possible for next season.
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.
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?