only way to get rid of this, is an open draw for ALL teams. 

once Western United and Macarthur come into the competition it will be 12 HAL and 20 NPL clubs, perhaps open it up to 64 teams, but that's another discussion.

Maybe with 12 sides they can say top 6 from prev season automatically make R32.
The bottom 6 have to qualify via round of 64 to earn the right to be in it.

With a second division soon things are really going to get mixed up - and I think then it has to be open.

Melbourne Victory v Newcastle Jets
Wednesday, August 7
7.30pm kick-off
AAMI Park

https://www.melbournevictory.com.au/news/victory-face-jets-ffa-cup

Full schedule here: https://www.theffacup.com.au/news/ffa-cup-2019-round-32-fixture-schedule-confirmed

FFA CUP round of 32 official match schedule,

Wednesday July 24th:
7.30pm Olympic FC v Bayswater City at Perry Park*
7.30pm Adelaide Olympic v Floreat Athena at VALO Football Centre
7.30pm Darwin Olympic v Edgeworth Eagles at Darwin Football Stadium
7.30pm FC Bulleen Lions v Moreland Zebras at Veneto Club – David Barro Stadium
7.30pm Mackay & Whitsundays Magpies Crusaders United v Coomera Colts at Sologinkin Oval
7.30pm Mount Druitt Town Rangers v Manly United at Popondetta Park

Wednesday July 31st:
7.30pm Campbelltown City v Melbourne City at Steve Woodcock Sports Centre*
7.30pm Cooma Tigers v Hume City at Deakin Stadium
7.30pm Maitland v Central Coast Mariners at Maitland Sportsground
7.30pm South Hobart v Marconi Stallions at Blundstone Arena
7.30pm St George Saints v Sydney United at Rockdale Illinden Sports Centre

Wednesday August 7th:
7.30pm Melbourne Knights v Adelaide United at Knights Stadium*
7.30pm Brisbane Strikers v Wellington Phoenix at Perry Park
7.30pm Melbourne Victory v Newcastle Jets at AAMI Park
7.30pm Sydney FC v Brisbane Roar at Leichhardt Oval
8.30pm Perth Glory v Western Sydney Wanderers at Dorrien Gardens

*FOX Sports main broadcast live matches.
**The Round of 16 draw is scheduled to take place on Wednesday August 7th approx 10.30pm AEST (after Perth Glory vs Western Sydney Wanderers), with match details finalised over the following few days.

The good

Maintland gets a home fixture against the Mariners.
Well done for getting this organised, should be a very good occasion.

Knights v AU in Sunshine. Should be a really spicy tie for the Reds to spoil a buoyant crowd.

The bad

Blundstone Arena against NPL opposition...yuck!
I guess this highlights the issue with appropriate venues in Tasmania.

Controversial but I don’t like that Victory are playing Jets are AAMI. I get it, it’s their home but it really doesn’t entice members to want to go. 
It would’ve been good to mix it up and play somewhere like Heidelberg where a 5k + crowd has the joint rocking. The whole love affair with the ffa cup is the community grounds and experiencing something different than usual. Just my 2cents though

So, Cooma forced to play in Canberra. I wonder if Capital Football made that decision for them.
Would be interesting to see in the future where games would be played (based on some performances, highly doubtful) if Wagga City Wanderers or Riverina Rhinos were to win the ACT Federation Cup, A’s Botha Wagga and Griffith have grounds I think on par with Deakin Stadium

I'm surprised Maitland vs CCM wasn't chosen as a main live game.

Olympic FC forced to play at Perry Park is fucking stupid considering they aren't even playing an A-League club. They should be playing at Goodwin Park, considering they have played Knights there before in the cup. 

Speaking of Knights, why the fuck are Knights and MV playing at home on the same night? That is beyond stupidity. 

At least Maitland got sorted out, it'll be a great day for them.

Yeah Campbelltown vs City is seriously dull in comparison.

Seriously considering a day trip to Tassie for South Hobart v Marconi.

I think the renovation of Olympic Village will have started by then.

I think it really shows the pointlessness of having A-League v A-League ties in the cup. Obviously an away game at a small ground is the attraction, but even an NPL team having a big away match at AAMI Park against the big boys has a better ring to it too, in my opinion.

Not to be a downer but I don't think it's worth bothering spending significant money to go to games at ovals. 

Would wait and see if the Vuck get through and see what's thrown up in the next round. 

Totally agree I wouldn't waste a cent. 

I am interested to see what it'll be like down there.

Flights are $95, might be a fun day off.

I'll go to any away trip outside of WA for the Ro16 for the Vuck, but we won't talk about how that went last time lol

@pala - if you do end up coming down consider heading to Bellerive early and getting some prematch beers and/or meal in at the Waterfront Hotel which is 300-400m from the ground.  Otherwise there would plenty of pubs in town that are options before taking an uber/taxi/bus over. PM me if you want any other suggestions.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Waterfront+Hotel/@-42.8759265,147.3696839,17z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0xaa6ddf8e5883c9f5:0x86cec2a4d957ff3e!8m2!3d-42.8742125!4d147.3658752

Nice one, thanks. I've never been to that side of the Derwent in Hobart at all (other than going through from the airport) so it would be interesting.

This is what the stadium looks like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaRunxpRRWk

It's a small oval with a brand new main stand, I'll be interested to see how it holds up to a football match.

Racism

anyone going to any of the matches? 

Going to see Strikers v Nix. That’s if Nix can raise eleven players of course and don’t have to forfeit the match 😉

Can't make it down to Melbourne to watch the Jets unfortunately but will definitely be heading up to Maitland to watch them knock out CCM :P

planning on making it to 7.30pm St George Saints v Sydney United at Rockdale Illinden Sports Centre.

Whatever's available to me. Love the cup.

FFA fucked me by putting Knights Adelaide and Vuck Newy on the same day, will probably head down to the Victory game. 

You're tearing me apart, FFA.

Knights v Adelaide Utd has all the hallmarks of a terrific cup tie, but my team is my team.

Where are they playing the Cooma game?  At night the temperature would be approaching zero down there, would make it interesting.   

In Canberra unfortunately 

Massive let down unfortunately. Imo a key reason why games need to be moved to weekends.