I played 2 years juniors for Oakleigh and spent half my life living no more than a 5 min drive from both Jack Edwards AND the old pitch off Princess Hwy and dont hate Oakleigh Cannons players (with the exception of the rat Matthew Zucchini) or fans - just the shady way the board goes about things. I wouldn't be talking about feral fans and players if I was you "megale" the very "essence" of Oakleigh seems to be all about trying to "stick it to Hellas". The funny thing is that all 17 of your "fans" will come crawling down to Lakeside in a year or two if/when this NSD ever happens trying to act like the last 17 years never happened........

So just curious, as an Oakleigh supporter, do you not think the grand final (which your club has very admirably earned the right to play in) deserves to be played at a ground with more than 1000 seats? If for no other reason than to reward the hard work those 22 players have put in for the year and to justify the achievement? The players have friends, family, loved ones they want to invite, both our clubs have older (and very young) fans who need a seat to see this match and last time we played in a GF there where 7 thousand seated people at Lakeside with a great atmosphere.
Your presidents wife may have arrange a lovely sit down dinner for the FV Gold medal night early in the week with more seats offered their than both City Vista and Kingston Heath have combined!!! Where the fuck are all these dignitaries going to sit at the GF?
You know, and I know, that outside of AAMI ( stupidly never booked and now lost to the Rugby Union League game) the only grounds with the required capacity in Victoria are possible Knights stadium and Lakeside... Id be happy to play at Somers Street, im sure the Knights boys would be more than welcoming hosts - their president even offered to serve up gyros for us :)

It's the biggest club match in the state for the year, the venue and organisation should be planned well in advance. It should be the showpiece, a day to remember at a venue befitting the occasion, not a suburban park used by dogs and their owners during the week. It's turned to complete shit and embarrassment. The FFV is simple incompetent and a fucking disgrace  This type of bullshit is what happens in the under 12's, where are we playing, what time etc. But when the wife of the major Oakleigh powerbroker is president of the FFV this  is the end result. All to try and somehow get one over South. Go fuck yourselves you peasants.

It was booked in advance mate... Lakeside 4pm Sunday 11th... FFV was pretty much assured by the referees association that South would stumble to Gully and Oakleigh vs Green Gully would result in, for the first time in history, more Oakleigh fans at a game than their rivals..... No plan B for what happens if South make the final...... 

That's the thing though, alot of Oakleigh supporters are South Melbourne fans. If Oakleigh didn't make the final, you'd still see Oakleigh fans come to the game and support a fellow greek team. 

When we played earlier in the year at Oakleighs ground, it was a tame game, i was in the stand, didn't hear any insults towards south or the player's, maybe one or two malakas.

When i went to the rematch at lakeside, all night all i heard was insults thrown to Oakleigh fans, the club, the player's, the player's wifes etc. Wasn't nice hearing and seeing that shit especially with kids around, but whatever i let it go. 

Then i come here and see insults thrown at Oakleigh again, instead of discussing the actual game. 

I'm sure both sides are guilty, but i would of thought this kind of stuff would of been left behind in the 80s/90s. 

We dont want the game to be played in the middle of nowhere. We we're hoping it would be at aami park. Personally I'm fine with it being at lakeside. If that's not an option, then yes, a neutral ground like knights stadium is fine. Why isn't it at aami? Maybe it was too expensive and all 1,000 of us Oakleigh and south fans wouldn't be enough to cover the cost, i dont know.

Either way, i hope they bring it somewhere closer to home and a better stadium.

How do you know this as fact? Should be played at a big stadium like aami or knights or lakeside or whatever.

https://twitter.com/footballvic/status/1567331699142578178?cxt=HHwWhMDSyYr4o8ArAAAA

Looks like we are off to the village now.....  who said complaining online doesnt get results :)

"Fellow Greek team"? You haven't been around the NPL paddocks for long have you mate?

Not sure what your agenda is here pal but if you think this looks like 1,000 maybe you should go to OPSM?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSGIoabwcJg

https://neoskosmos.com/en/2021/05/21/sport/football/football-victorias-first-female-president-wants-to-bring-football-back-to-its-roots/

"The new FV president is no stranger to the game of football herself, as her husband has been a part of the sporting community for over 20 years and is currently working with Victorian NPL team Oakleigh Cannons."

Just in case you were wondering :)

Maybe football victoria visits this forum. Maybe they are watching us now 👀 

Beautiful, I've heard they have mad souvlaki there too. Very happy to go there instead of middle of nowhere.

No, admittedly not. I played for Oakleigh like 25 years ago or something like that as a kid, thats about where my connection ends. 

Either way, I'm happy for any of the Greek teams to win.

That was 6 year's ago, fan interest has dropped off since then from what i've seen. I don't know how many people will turn up on sunday, I'm going to assume probably around 1,000 give or take.

I've been to a bunch of sth games this year, including the one against Oakleigh at lakeside. I don't know what the attendance was, but the stand wasn't completely full. Admittedly it was a very windy and cold day, but I'd assume there was probably something like 500-750 people there? Maybe more, not entirely sure, wasn't as big as i was expecting for a 1st vs 2nd game.

Maybe the wife of Oakleigh is an 'Oakleigh fan'... :P

Sorry to post crap in your official thread Mono and SMFC

As far as Souvs go its Northcote City --- daylight     --- then Oaks, Bentleigh and Bergers fairly even... South unfortunately is so far down the table we may as well be serving Maccas these days.

Many will call me a heretic but you cant beat a Knights (Or Dandy City) stadium Cevapi roll........ 

Trust a connoisseur of the fine art of eating :)

Thats about my vintage, Wouldnt suprise me if we played on the same team :) hahahahahah

I wont bore you with 18 years of bad blood in VPL and NPL then mate, suffice to say that not all "Greek" clubs are equal....

Yeah it was a poor turn out for 1st vs 2nd but in fairness there were 15 Oakleigh supporters when they usually bring 200-300 to Lakeside. Ill be suprised (as long as it doesnt pour down) if less than 4-5k turn up on Sunday.

This is EXACTLY the sort of abuse Football Victoria frowns upon mate.... shame on you :)
https://www.footballvictoria.com.au/news/new-venue-announcement-2022-senol-npl-victoria-double-header
"We appreciate the passion our community has for football and hope you bring it to the games this weekend. However, a reminder that while constructive feedback and debate is welcomed, we will not tolerate abuse directed at anyone in our community, in any format, including online."

Post all the crap and abuse you want here. Football has be become so fucking boring and woke nowdays. Everyone treading on egg shells. Been off the forums for the past few years til this issue come up. Fired me up. 

Fair enough. Well i hope its a massive turnout, when theres a big crowd, the atmosphere is more exciting. In your unbiased opinion, who is more likely to win? Taking into account stadium location, players in/out of form, injuries etc. 

I'm predicting south should win, just think the amount of games Oakleigh has played recently, injuries and so on may take its toll. Plus they seem to have a habbit of losing finals. But i guess south have some injury concerns of their own. 

Hoping it's a good game, would love to see it go to penalties even if results don't go my teams way. 

Knowles and Guest are two of the best players in the league right now. I believe Joe Knowles has already signed for Brisbane Roar and will join them after the Australia Cup semi final next week (if Oakleigh dont make the final that is). Wade Dekker has slumped a little in the last 2-3 weeks for me but overall Oakleigh are well up for it. Oakleigh having "special federation dispensation" in signing a keeper for the finals despite having perfectly healthy keepers in the reserve squads is absolutely criminal but ...... well ....... sick of spewing hate on that thing that runs the federation.
A GF is an "all bets are off" game as always but despite missing our best full back and striker we are playing solid, pragmatic football this year (not always pretty to watch) and chances tend to come our way in spades.... If Andy, Max or Alun have their shooting boots on then OV will erupt in noise.... Personally I want us to score all of our goals off a Max Mikkola thunderbastard throw in :) It would be so representative of our whole season.
You dont want penalties mate. Lopez has kept 15(?) clean sheets this year, just won FV keeper of the year and is a tremendous shot stopper, plus ALL the crowd behind the goals will be giving Italiano the "ring in" some serious grief :)

C'mon now mate, its not as if the Aleague grand final is played at the home ground of one (or both) of the finalists :)

Yes, I was just telling the missus wokeness is to blame for the final being moved. 

Quite the opposite actually. Not very "woke" of Olympic Village only having 2 x changerooms and because of it this double header will have at least 3 hours of "dead time" between it to allow the girls to get changed in peace and spray their Gatorades everywhere before the men's teams can use them :) hahahahahah


I hope the fans take ALL the standing room under the ONLY cover and the FV clowns and assorted shit eating corporates end up on the dirt mound on the Northland side, standing in the rain....At least South Melbourne wont get an an unfair advantage over poor widdle Oakleigh though.......

Anyway, if the weather is nice I will go on Sunday and take the kids

6.30 kickoff mate, if it goes to extra time and penalties wont be getting home till 10.30-11pm.... I was planning too as well but bit too much on a windy rainy night for my two... Will see what the weather is like on the day I suppose.
See you there :)

Oh damn, really. Was also going to take a few kids from our club as well, but that rules that out. 
I thought it was 3 for some reason 

Mate, I actually had my two kids and missus all hyped up to come to the soccer with daddy. My brother, his 3 little ones, Old man, father in law, my brother in law and his 2 little boys .... All excited to watch Hellas in a grand final at 4pm Sunday at Lakeside - I was getting them all tickets to sit in the stands, beers and food all on me, it was gonna be a great family outing the little ones were all excited..... Worse case iot would have been (I assumed) at AAMI where the atmosphere would have been a little muted for our measly 5-6 thousand but at least it would have been great for teh family..... OV, while a great place to watch soccer for us die hards is NOT a family friendly place..... From 15 of us from my family alone there will now be only 2..... Im pretty sure Im not the only one in this boat. Feel sorry for the players and their families more.