Not as big of a legend as his brother, but gotta feel great for John Anastasiadis!

So the semi draw is Friday.

Fark it has been annoying how they've done these draws, some were straight after the last game of a round others have to wait.

Stupid.

-PB

Need enough time to book the venues before they fix the draw.

Edited by jlm8695: 29/10/2014 11:07:14 PM

lololololol

-PB

Did the commentator just say Perth feel 'fitterer" :lol:

What's the bet the Mariners get Bentleigh and make the final not having once played A-League quality opposition?

Wolves nearly beat them. :(

Y u do dat 4

do red cards count toward a-league or ?

:cry:

Yep

well shit :(

and now were down ffs



Edited by thejollyvic: 30/10/2014 12:19:27 AM

Probs.

so thats leijer & georgievski gone and doubts over thompson and berisha.. monday is going to be fun

Edited by thejollyvic: 30/10/2014 12:36:14 AM

It'll only get worse with Crea

Sydney cup final :cool:

Your Semi Finalists: Bentleigh Greens, Adelaide United, Central Coast Mariners and Perth Glory.

If ever there were four teams to tantalise the audience and pack the stadiums...

Maybe next year we'll get a final with more than 8k in attendance.

looks like the first FFA cup final will be a low key affair

a bit anti climatic:(

maybe the FFA should hire some Indian Super League marketing gurus to hype it up a bit

where everything is super exciting :)

Yeah because the whole 3k that turned up to watch AUFC vs Sydney is a clear indication that big cities will provide larger crowds :roll: :roll: :roll:

If Adelaide host Hindmarsh will be at capacity, we did it for the AFC champions league final and that was a game where we were losing 4-0 on aggregate to start with!



Edited by kienchil: 30/10/2014 01:33:28 AM

who's bright idea was it to stage the final on a Tuesday :d

fools

theyve been very clear from the start that the intention is to host the Final on Australia Day in the future. It was only different this year because of the Asian Cup.

It will be played on a Tuesday because they stated they wanted fans to feel like Tuesdays were "Cup night".

Literally retarded. Every regular poster on here knows it was moved because of the Asian Cup, including you.

excuses
they could've still held it on a saturday or sunday and moved the HAL games of participants to midweek

Hopefully Bentleigh is given a home semi-final. Give them the best chance to chase the dream.

isnt it part of the conditions that they are, given all the other participants are a-league franchises?

i wouldnt count them out either, they could possibly do a number on one of these unfashionable teams playing away from home on a different kind of field

Edited by ricecrackers: 30/10/2014 02:04:06 AM

I still think we could get more out of the cup if it was on weekends.
More sponsors, crowds, tv audience.

I love re configuring things so here is my suggestion.

Play the round of 32 over the 2 weekends before the the first A-league round.
8 games per weekend. Let teams who have sufficient lighting play in the evening and those who don't during the day.
You could have at least 3 games on tv (1 friday, 1 saturday, 1 saturday evening) with most of the games Saturday daytime for goal updates.
NPL season starts a little earlier or the finals have 2 rest weeks if there is a clash.

Have the round of 16 on 1 weekend. With no A-league games on that weekend. Same applies for tv (friday, saturday even sunday, any combo)

Same round of 8 weekend. 4 games televised. non-a-league team at home.

Semi finals can be played on 2 Tuesdays. Must have correct lighting or play elsewhere.

Final Australia Day.

Free draw (lower division team gets the home game)

This makes the season 2 weeks longer. Plus 2 weeks earlier.
Teams who get knocked out have bye weeks for the r16 and 1/4 finals.



Edited by scott21: 30/10/2014 02:06:41 AM

ridiculous. the cup games must be midweek. it provides more regular games and encourages greater professionalism.

the final however is a different story. it is the event that should be on a weekend and it could've been achieved with provision to reschedule 1 or 2 games out of an a-league round to midweek

I'm fine with TV games on tuesdays, that's what fox pay for. However all none televised games, especially those hosted by NPL sides should be Saturday 3pm kick offs. No more bullshit of moving to bigger grounds for lighting etc.