Sweden has rejected the introduction of VAR. A-league still can be the first country country to get rid of it.

Interesting news on the Canberra , a report they are waiting for Austrac to clear the funds.
So dodgy overseas investors that a lot better than some local effort relying on the council hand outs.
The problem is though you go to 14 teams, the TV pie is cut even further.
The costs go up etc.

I disagree.
The big factor is the travel playing more matches = more time wasted travelling and less time for training.
So big country definetly should look in the 25-30 match range and not more.
The MLS has it wrong should cut the matches down to 30.
Small country can play more matches.

Isaias one year extension. Youth policy of Adelaide they had Bovalina on a one year scholarship contract so it developmental compensation not a transfer fee.
Brisbane must be crazy chasing old players, its like Rooney and the granny.
Why would Wanderers let go of Brooke one of their top scorers, unless Rudan is going to go full Aloisi next year and wants to get the wooden spoon.
Garrucio one of Western Uniteds best and a left back same appplies there except the coach is the full Aloisi already but Aloisi has never failed and then not got sacked so its uncharted territory.

The Mariners should lose to Newcastle and Adelaide they looked tired in the first half the Kazakhs didnt capitalise on the first half , and still had more energy than the mariners till the middle of the second half.
The other factor is Macarthur I think they could knock off Wellington or they could take it easy.
I am going to go all out on this prediction.
Mariners and Wellington lose every game. Victory lose to Wanderers. WUN spring a suprise to knock City out.
If they are in financial trouble they need Wanderers in the finals not City and need to do whatever possible to get rid of City.
The other two matches are irrelevant.

Where is the article on the awards themselves when they happened last year.
Here is the massive issue search for dolan warren on youtube and there is only one independent news service that did a report on it Abbie who was then 12 years old who covers womens sport and has her own platform HerWay.
Search for DallyM and Brownlow and you will find every major news outlet there in this country.
The irony is then the major news outlets then report on the cancellation.
Then we find despite it being freely available to be watched on Keepup no one watched it.
I just wish they cancel VAR for the cost savings, but at the same time if the do cancel VAR I expect endless reports on how this is a negative including for the top level whingers here.

Expected goals is based on the shooting position not how good the shot was. Jamie Young doesnt compare to Ryan Scott saves. I would give it Jankolis for City , good goal always works hard.
Rudan how many goals the young guys have scored for him versus minutes and how reluctantly he uses them.
Corey brown he was poor defensively, Freke was the one who saved the bacon when Fornaroli beat him and Trewin, and Arzani as well . With the man advantage there was a lot more chances to deliver in the box and he was taking the corners as well. Freke for my money on the Aldred give away he did well to delay the play with his positioning.

Sports investment in American sports where they have restraint of trade salary cap that enable profits to be made is ok. Multi club investement in football is just insane though , its a loss maker.
Somehow every tin foil hat football fan thinks that someone is out to exploit their club and make profits. Thats simply not true, you cant exploit football for money its the reverse.
Red Bull works because the combination of drugs in the drink pays for the sport.

You could say the sensible thing would be for the A-league to be sustainable there would need to be less teams, less matches.
Everyone wants their team they dont want a reduced competition, and now Canberra and Auckland want their team.
The same people that say doom to the A-league will be livid if Brisbane and Wellington are cut from the competition. That may well need to happen at some point.

Alright I found out the awards night last year was live streamed on Keepup.
Now the trillion dollar question who watched it here.
Surely in this gang of awards ceremony admirers there is at least one fan who watched it and could tell how many players were there and where the 150 fans were seated.
Did anyone at the Roar journos go or were maybe someone was amongst the 150 fans can fill us in how big was the room , how many players,journos and officials and what percentage of the room was taken up by the fans.
I can understand the girl reporter Abbie from HerWay magazine complaining she was there, running the red carpet as a reporter and interviewing the A-league womens stars and produced a video on youtube about it, and she is an extremely hard working reporter and attending school at the same time and able to cover ever womens sport in the country .

Which three players did you lose and for which games?

If the womens team needs 250k a year to subsidise it, why would an investor for a Canberra mens team want to pay for it.
The solution should be to cut the W-league length and lower wages.
Also number of teams needs to be looked at as well.

Wow Faghani almost wrecked it for Kewell why did a red card need to be given.
Mariners and Kewell now in the finals.

How do you know how many players went.
I found some some weird information 150 fans were invited to attend the awards. I get the suspicion not that many players attended if that was the case and were invited for filler.

Why would they waste money on a celebrity coach whose Brisbane Roar side struggled to score.
Talk about the EPL fan boys on here.

That was Irakundas goal of the previous week against Macarthur.
Yengi scored again so 9 goals in under 900 minutes of play.
Brisbane were playing against 10 men for one half not sure why you picked two of their players.
Vince Rugari reporting on a 3000 a head dinner with Totti must be the guest of honor and Arnie is going to be there,according to him they will be discussing Volpatos future.

The addition of prize money would spread money without the need for replays.
It also would mean more lower teams progress more because after a replay the bigger teams then are more likely to progress.

The big news of the weekend should be about the Jets semi-final crowd of almost 7k at Maitland.
Why dont their A-leagues mens team have at least one match at Maitland per year, their crowds are rubbish .
The Mariners did poorly in comparison with 4k at Gosford and half the crowd were Sydney FC supporters.
Another point City dropped their aging striker Hannah Wilkisnson and put Galic up front and it payed off with more mobility. if only some A-league teams could do the same.

I would go one step further, have penalty shootouts at the end of 90 minutes.
This replays business is ridiculous , of course the clubs at the lower end dont care about the scheduling issue replays create for others, its give me my grub at any cost.
On the other side there should have been a price extracted say EPL gives 50 million to the FA cup to be added to the prize pool. This is a much more sensible arrangement than having replays.
If being a professional whinger is your go then your following the wrong league, its doesnt matter what you say about the EPL there will be thousands more bandwaggoners lapping it all up by the end of the week.
Maybe you should concentrate on the A-league as whinging is a speciality of that league.

So can anyone point out to me where there was media coverage of this much loved awards night.
Was it broadcast live on Channel 10 , in fact the biggest question shouldn’t be why didnt the awards night appear on Channel 10 last season in the first place. DId it even appear on the news at any point, I certainly saw nothing, did anyone actually watch the awards here, but now its gone its suddenly an issue of importance.
The major issue for the A-leagues has got to be Channel 10, why do they promote the FA cup more than the A-leagues. Why dont they promote the Matildas and Socceroos more. Guess what I see the Matildas all the time on CHannel 9 , you have the Olympic promos and CHannel 9 have this lego promo that mentions the Matildas all the time now. Now I am seeing Sam Kerr being used by these dodgy ads even. Everyone is using the Matildas except Channel 10.

This seems to be the story every Brisbane Roar fan lives miles away from wherever they play at. When it was Redcliffe everyone apparently lived in the South of Brisbane. Now they moved back to Suncorp now none of them actually live in Brisbane anymore its Toowomba and up north.

So the question is why do NPL clubs in Adelaide where its Australias poorest state and has the second smallest population of the states produce so many players. Less than 10% of the population.
Well there is a simple answer rego fees , not enough parents with big money means talent gets a go in South Australia.
Adelaide United it helps they are now cheapskates I remember when they used to spend big with the previous owners.

The VAR to me it gives more opportunities to make dodgy decisions based on interepertation.
The two times the refs have got the opposition down to 9 men Sydney have lost and two penalties were missed as well the other time.
Brattan to me showed his mastery of the situation delaying the pass to ensure Lolley was offside.
Last season it was Brattan Cabello, now you have Brattan La Cerna.
Talay is no different to Corica, Macarthur, Western United, Wanderers, Jets have a level of
mystery to them as well as to what is going on.
If they are broke as Tuckerbox the 1.5 million cost of the VAR versus the journos junket saving a couple of grand surely VAR has to go.
The W-league finals no VAR CCM Sydney was a great match.

They have made a good decision to cancel the night because no actual fan ever got to see the awards when was it ever televised or reported on. If the winners of the awards are announced at half time at the grand final at least thats televised and people will now know. Its the journalists that are at fault actually and no doubt the loss of a junket will make them unhappy but if you dont cover something whats the point of them staging so goodbye to your junket and you deserve to lose it. If they cant afford to stage the awards why do they keep paying for the VAR.
VAR being ditched would be the top priority.
There is a massive issue with the w-league they have expanded the number of rounds to 22 and they raised the minimum wage to about 20k. That makes it massively more expensive.
The Canberra government has actually done the dirty , its pays over 2m to the GIants for just three games , Super rugby and Canberra get about 3 million each for a season. Now the w-league season has been doubled and wages have increased ten fold there is no increase is regular payment just a one off.

WHat is the relevance of the average squaddie across the whole Thai league, I would believe that if you take only Thai players across what you say might be about right. They have 16 teams in Thailand first division.
Have a look at Buriram United.
They have Kenny Dougal the Socceroo.
He has played in the Championship and he is 30.
They also have a South Korean center back who has about 200 J-league and K-league games and he is only 32.
They also have two Brazilians who have played in Serie A higher credentialed than Penha and Tulio.
These players are there for one reason the money they are getting is bigger than what they were getting in Europe,Brazil and Japan Korea.
You have got it totally the wrong way around about the A-league.
5% of the A-league is there for the money.
The A-league has a thing for really old and foreign players, Ninkovic, Aldred, Isaias , Lopez are there for the money but its a relatively small amount.
Australia is a shop window for Asia as well so people try to get money but also look for more, the reason the Brazilians come here is not the money is that much better but the eye of Asia is more on this league so guys like Tulio, Penha etc
The A-league is paying some players good money that no one else in the world would want .
the rest are looking to put themselves in the shop window, some will not accept a league that takes them out of the Socceroos window, the rest will take any big money offer that comes along.
A-league is a lot of state league players wont play in the A-league, because a bench player in the A_league doesnt get much and they get 20k in the NPL plus have a job at the same time. Of course you cant do that in most of Asia because the local jobs pay peanuts.