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It makes complete sense, it’s how it works in the AFC. The main domestic cup winner gets a spot along with the league winner and any other spots are allocated based on league position.
The finals however deserve nothing as it is only a 2-3 game tournament and is nowhere near our “main domestic cup”
A new solution to the old A-League finals problem
I would prefer this, having a stand-alone cup would make a lot more sense than continuing with the the status quo. Having finals/playoffs to decide a 26 game+ league is a pile of hot garbage and giving an ACL spot to the winner instead of the FFA Cup winner is not good enough.
Teams that have had a poor season and finish miles off the top can just win one or two knockout games and all of a sudden are in for a shot of a championship trophy. It make the whole thing makes the rest of the season feel like a glorified group stage.
How are we supposed to be teaching our players to be consistently ruthless when teams can just drop points and not take it too seriously because of this “Oh well, at least we’ll still make the 6” mentality?
The game needs to harness the large football community as it moves to winter and it’s not going to do that if we keep offering a product filled with gimmicks and Australianisms that make the A-League completely unfamiliar to the leagues that a lot of actual football people are watching instead.
A new solution to the old A-League finals problem
It was annoying enough that a bunch of suits in Sydney based FFA stuffed up expansion in Victoria by introducing Heart . The fact they’ve done it again is infuriating.
Are Western United a Cinderella story or the A-League's ugly sibling?
No one in Victoria cares that the stadiums are multi-tenanted, they care that Western United are playing in 3 different AFL Ovals across the state with two of them nowhere near Western Melbourne and thus makes it makes a dull addition to the league.
South Melbourne would have given Melbourne a derby against MV with some actual bite to it as opposed to the current game against City which has nowhere close to the level of bitterness to it’s Sydney equivalent, not to mention being an afterthought compared .
The biggest club of Old Soccer vs New Football eras is a narrative that is impossible to ignore and plenty of fans of each club would relish the opportunity to smash the other after all the barbs that have been thrown between the two for over 15 years.
Team 11 was more exciting because of the way they were clear that they wanted to carve out a clearly defined patch of turf around the biggest hub of the south east of Melbourne rather than trying to appeal to everyone in a whole half of a state whilst building a stadium in a suburb that barely existed for 5 minutes and isn’t even close to a suburban rail line.
Are Western United a Cinderella story or the A-League's ugly sibling?
“It’s been interesting to read some of the complaints aimed at United this season, many of which revolve around their desire to build a stadium in Tarneit, often made by fans of clubs playing in borrowed stadiums of their own.”
This sort of rhetoric is utterly unhelpful and missing the point. Fans are annoyed at Western United because they waited so long for expansion and feel they have been handed a dud ahead of other more exciting bids.
The stadium plan was the ONLY saving grace of the WU bid as far as many were concerned and there has been zero progress on that front worth speaking about so of course people are pissed at their inclusion.
Southern Expansion bid copped a lot of flack partly of their travelling circus plans. Well frankly Western United situation deserves even more because not only are they moving all over the state but they are doing so at a bunch of inappropriate AFL Ovals that no one wants to watch football at.
The fact that this is now feeling like yet another sham of a expansion process in Victoria when there were far more interesting bids in Team 11 and South Melbourne makes them a fair target and saying other fans criticism is not valid because their clubs rent stadiums is pathetic.
Are Western United a Cinderella story or the A-League's ugly sibling?
Adelaide. They won the league comfortably and finished top after every team played each other an equal amount of times.
Would the A-League be better off if Sydney FC weren't crowned champions?
Aloisi would be a great option if the MV board wanted a riot on their hands. Utterly ludicrous that they are even considering him considering how hated he is by the MV fanbase.
Manager candidates the Melbourne Victory could target
You have to give people a competition that they want to engage and connect with, not just throw out a half-arsed effort in front of them and expect them to blindly follow it out of loyalty to the game.
People are rightfully frustrated with the competition and the time it takes to actually address issues within the game. Nothing reflects that better than the recent expansion process where fans were driven insane constantly calling for the need to freshen up a stale competition and then left completely underwhelmed by both the process and the result.
Hopefully this is the decade that we see some serious reform in the A-League and a serious effort to reconnect with the Football community, otherwise people will just turn back to other alternative leagues that are available. Like Simon Hill says, Fans want an authentic competition without the gimmicks that is familiar as “Football” to them, not a cheap imitation of the AFL/NRL with a round ball.
Sparkling Diamanti reminds us the A-League can still shine
Gallop might be gone but his destructive legacy is going to torture the game for a long time.
It was clear as day that the FFA is full of non-football clowns who wouldn’t have a clue at what goes on in football outside of the Premier League top 6, let alone outside of the anglosphere. There is no way the likes of Diamante or Pandev would have been blocked if they had played most of their careers in England instead of Serie A.
The irony now is that the A-League can’t get enough of Diamante’s social media antics despite all of Gallops concerns about he wouldn’t live up to those precious metrics.
Sparkling Diamanti reminds us the A-League can still shine
I have no idea who plays where in the local WA AFL league. I just saw that the location would be an ideal spot for a team potentially based in Fremantle and noticed that the AFL team no longer trained there.
Who should replace the Mariners?
No way, it’s bad enough having one foreign team from oceania in the league, why on earth would we want another parasite team?
Who should replace the Mariners?
If WA want another team then they need another stadium. History has shown that introducing a new team and having them share a stadium with the established club and their now main rival is a great way for things to fail and no one wants a “Perth Heart”.
If that Fremantle Juve Bid had plans to develop Fremantle Oval into a rectangular ground I’d be all for it.
Who should replace the Mariners?
FFA have screwed up expansion in Victoria twice now. It’s pretty telling that Sydney is still considered by Victory fans to be their biggest rival even after a decade of heart/city.
Dandenong might have offered something different, Western United might as well be a non entity.
Who should replace the Mariners?
Using a crowd number from a single midweek game to have a go at South Melbourne’s A-League ambitions is ridiculous, the conditions on that night were beyond appalling and any team in the country would have got bugger all in that scenario for a Cup game.
It was absolutely bucketing down that night in a way more like a summer storm in Brisbane and people chose to stay home rather than get caught in that for a midweek cup game. Play that game on a Saturday afternoon and it gets 10k easily.
Who should replace the Mariners?
I hope it doesn’t come to it but either CCM should stay on the coast or fold and a new club replace them. Relocation is garbage and an insult to the fans.
Clubs are representative of their communities and you can’t leave that community behind and pretend it’s the same club. No one wants a 2nd hand club either.
Mariners owner to sell Central Coast club
Well of course it’s a lie. Even if you ignore the pandemic, we now have a sham of a draw where teams don’t even play everyone an equal amount of times and teams that do play each other 3 times are decided by Foxtel ratings. The table is pretty much useless by this stage of the season.
Based on form, the A-League top six is an utter lie
So happy that Tuckerman is back just to resume lazily blaming Football Fans for the state of the game.
Can a cut-price A-League offer more chances to local youngsters?
Happy enough for a new team but got a feeling they’ll just be another boring southern team.
Brentford deserve a shot at the EPL
Really as a MV fan, I couldn’t care less about results atm.
The season was over well before Covid started and we’ve lost half our squad. Just start the kids and give them some senior football experience to prepare for the resumption of the ACL and next season.
Victory insist they’re going in the right direction
Kruse went for nothing because he had a great season when he was going out of contract on a 2 year deal. Same happened with Rojas and Traore’s first stints at MV.
If you want to ensure clubs receive transfer fees then we players to be under contract and for longer and clubs are only going to do that if we ditch the salary cap.
Is a switch to winter the key to unlocking the A-League's potential?
About time someone told speed to just shut up and call the game.
'I'm the expert' - Mark Bosnich alphas his fellow commentators
Thank god that tool Cavalucci wasn’t given the job as CEO if he’s the sort of bloke to sue journalists for fairly reporting their dodgy behaviour.
Simon Hill's departure from Fox Sports leaves a gaping hole
Brenton Speed is an absolute stinker of a commentator for Football and if he wasn’t working also doing commentary on other sports for Fox then he should have been the first out the door.
He sticks out like a sore thumb in Football with his AFL/NRL-esque commentary style (oh wow how goods that!), butchering of foreign players names and constantly drives people insane with unnecessary stats or anecdotes or pointing out the utter obvious.
One of the worst sounds in Aus Football is watching the lead up to some dull early Saturday game involving Central Coast or Newcastle and hearing Adam Peacock say “and here’s your commentator Simon Hill,” knowing that you’re going to be stuck with Speed for an important game like a derby.
The fact that we are now potentially going to be stuck with him for all major games over the next year actually makes me cringe. At least with the Spanish commentary round, we could switch to those guys instead without turning the volume down!
Simon Hill's departure from Fox Sports leaves a gaping hole
Foxtel threatened to use the transition as a way to get out of their contract pre-covid by stating they had a deal with the FFA and not the Clubs which effectively blocked everything.
The A-League is still being run by a seperate business unit within the FFA and whilst the clubs have a lot more influence on decisions, it’s still unclear when the clubs will officially take over. It might happen now at the end of next season when a new tv deal is organised without Foxtel.
The case for FFA TV
Ah right, it’s to do with the FFA cup currently being a mess (i agree with you on that btw).
Rumours from Adam Peacock are that a lot of the gimmicks like the rigged draw are out next season and with the season moving to winter, the cup will probably have a different feel about it next year.
A new solution to the old A-League finals problem