Brisbane vs Adelaide tonight 

It will be interesting to see if there are any flow on effects from the WC crowd wise. Hopefully Roar can eke out a win, 2 - 1.

Adelaide have been pretty to watch and have some young talent. Since the bakries took over ive felt less and less attachment to the roar as they run the club into the ground and will just watch the game to enjoy

From what I’ve seen you’re not the only one. Hopefully something changes 

Woop woop!! I'm more excited about the second launch than the first.

Onwards and upwards

Yep I'm super keen.
Such a shame we have to play in Brisbane.
I can't imagine much of a bump in crowd there.

What do people think about the Brisbane players giving Goodwin a guard of honour before the game?

I think it's weird and instinctively hate it but the comments online were all congratulating Brisbane for the gesture.

It's one thing his home crowd giving him a standing ovation when he is subbed on/off but the Brisbane players?

Am I a curmudgeon?

Agree to an extent, but not enough to really care about it. Understand these kinds of gestures when a player has had a big impact on the league, and is playing their last game before retirement etc, but being one of the better Socceroos players at a world cup? Not sure about that.

Was definitely excited about the A-League being back, but have obligations tonight during the game and was instantly reminded that Paramount Plus STILL doesn't have pause/rewind functions etc. The World Cup break would have been a great opportunity for them to get something implemented, but no luck it seems.

Noting the best way this league will advance in the short term is to harness the success of the Socceroos I can understand it. 

On a personal level I think we should be celebrating these players, it gives the players a level of acknowledgement for not only participating but succeeding at a the greatest level.

MCG when starting a game thread post up info koff time etc :)
P+ or FTA ?

AU should be winning this at least 4-nil they have had like 20 shots 

Roar have had  a few chance but overall they are proper shit upfront 

Brisbane you jammy pricks

how has AU f**ked this 

straight out Roar were proper shit today but AU simply couldnt kill off the game 

Trewin, popa, irakunda all impressed.

Was out tonight look forward to watching highlights tomorrow 

Unfortunately, less than 5000 at the game.
Redcliffe must bbea trek, especially on a Friday night 

Yeah it would be maybe three hours from where i lived

Especially for a 6:45 kickoff. 

But   surely   fans    would   be   willing   to   make   an   extra   effort    to   get   to   Dolphin   because   of   the   "great   atmosphere ".   Wouldn' t   they  .. . ?

neiwenhoff plays like this each week he will be in the roos by the end of the year. 

Nice to read. We can expect Mooy and maybe Irvine to make way. Genreau hasn't done himself any favours so space is starting appear in our most stacked position. 

Pretty disappointed in this Sydney attendance.

Nice to see Maty in the stands. I assume he's having a new club sorted while taking some time off. 

This game is awake now.

This game seems so slow mo at the front of goal. Bos has been great up and down the wing.

Anyone know why Sydney is playing in black today? 

In    honour   of   the   APL' s    failed   bid   for    Ronaldo ?    It' s   dead   isn' t   it ?

I kept thinking we were playing against Brisbane

City a completely different team after just one week of rado…

crowd seems decent

Good to see Gurd can take over from Irvine in the hair stakes 

Ha Glover. I mean that's instinct but yeah, outside the box. 

I’ve never rated Glover.
Still can’t believe he was our starting Olyroos keeper

Outside of the handlball, he made some brilliant saves today. Let down massively by Bos for the first goal. WTF was he thinking?

Jamieson is such a wanker

having trouble finding a stream for perth v WUN. Any have one?

I went to the Sydney FC v Melbourne City game at Allianz Stadium, and I have to say what a terrific game of football, that was the best $30 I spent (and I had good seats watching the game at ground level).

It was a very fast game, with end to end football and good passing by both teams, the standard of the A-League is definitely getting better.

yes enjoyed that game!

Well ,  the  A- league   has   essentially  produced   a  Socceroos    team    which   has   recently    made   its   5th   Consecutive   World   Cup ,  and   won   through   to   the  round   of  16  (and   only   narrowly   succumbing  to  a   team  now   in   the  semi- final  boasting   one  of ,  if  not  the ,  greatest   players    of    all- time ) .

Who   would   have   thought   20   years   ago    that  Australian   football   would   be   able   to   say   that  ?

Yes a very enjoyable game and result. Decent turout as well.

It was infinitely more watchable than the garbage served up friday night.
I've never understood why United play the occasion so often.

Give us a good crowd in a good ground and we look incredible.

Put us against a team of plonkers in some far north Qld shit hole and we play ponderous laborious uninspiring football

I went to Wellington-WSW yesterday. A very mediocre game. Couldn't help but notice the precipitous drop in standard from what I've been watching recently. The speed of the game was decent, but first touch was lacking across the board and neither team could shoot to save their lives. At least the Wanderers fans put on a bit of a show in their corner. They have a good drummer. There were even a couple of flares, much to the horror of the ground security. 

I don't get why Wellington still plays home games in Wollongong? 

To be fair the pitch looked absolutely shocking.

Why   were   they   even    playing   there  ??

The pitch was terrible, which is hard to work out. It's not like they've had any rugby games or concerts there recently. There's actually been nothing. There's really no excuse for the woeful state. 

It is kinda sad really. It's a nice stadium. Probably the one and only stadium in the country with ocean views. It's a shame to see it fall into disrepair. Apart from a handful of NRL games and the Wellington weirdness, it's become a bit of a white elephant. We really need a Wollongong a-league team to make proper use of it. 

what   a     Joke 

Sydney v Melbourne City was a good game to watch.Both sides showed flair and ball movement.Lolley is such a busy and talented player and Tilio looked sharp when he came on.

Burgess puts himself about and would be a chance to be in the squad for the next WC cycle.

And next week Lacroix and Risdon are both suspended

whenever I see Marco Tulio on the team sheet  I picture marco tillio in a fake mustache disguise

So f3 derby happened 

Was   it    one   of    those  " If   a  tree   falls   in   the  forest.. . "   things ?

I reckon you haven't watched a game of football in years. 

The disappointment you must of felt when Australia did well at the World Cup fuels me. 

how is that not a pen to MV 

Should have been a red card as well.
Uskok is a thug who happens to play football

How long till arzani gets back to his best

his defence has improved dramatically, but he used to be able to consistently take on 2 or more players and set up an opportunity 

if he defends like this and dribbles like he did in 2018 he would be a real force to be reckoned with

He won’t. He is at his best. Tbh he plays football (want of a better word), like a little sook

hes too busy whinging and worrying about everything else other than what he’s meant to be doing. 

He does go down a bit too easy at times but was still one of the best players for Bulls today.
nice goal Folami 

He’s a good player. He just needs to concentrate on his game. 

I'd say his fitness is back to 100% or pretty close to it. It's clear he still has that raw talent and good instincts that he had before he went to Europe. His issues seem to be all psychological. He's clearly frustrated. Probably with the trajectory his career has taken. Probably with the lack of NT selection. Whenever you see a player whinge and focus their frustration outwards, it's almost certainly a case of they don't want to deal with their own shit. Hopefully Yorke can get him back on track coz he definitely has a lot more potential than we have seen.

The fact his defense has improved considerably suggests to me its not an attitude problem

a reminder of just how good he was pre acl

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1u34hTKeKeQ

i suspect he will be back. Probably a year or two from now. 

So after watching the world cup the past few weeks I found it really hard to watch the victory vs Macarthur match. Just seemed so slow and tiresome, even when folami scored I felt as if everyone looked like they were moving in slow motion, it was a tidy finish but I think we've been a bit spoilt. Hopefully get more into it next week. 

Typical world cup game has around 1000 passes per game

sfc had about 800 and victory v marcarthur around 550. It was indeed a remarkably slow game

Despite Wcup quality difference to AL, It is Summer now so players/games will be slower as well. If only we had air conditioned pitches 😎

Yeah the AL always slows down this time of year. There are always some slow games in Dec-Feb. The players also haven't been playing for a few weeks, so they wouldn't be at the same fitness that comes from playing competitive games every week.
There are also the difference is stakes. Whether it's conscious or sub-conscious, players are always going to lift their performances for the opportunity to be crowned best in the world compared to a regular season match.

Looking back to last years season, there does seem to be a trend where afternoon games have less passed per 90 (sometimes a couple of hundred less) than night games

i wonder if it is possible for all games to be scheduled for the evening if we keep with summer football

The world cup is the pinnacle of the sport so there is that but I'm like you. I sat down to watch the Sydney City match on Saturday night and found it soooooo slow by comparison.

It is what it is I suppose.

Saturday night at the SFS at the new stadium was great.  Looks like the break did Sydney good, they played very well.   

Always enjoy the Melbourne derby. Aiden O'Neill is another who wouldn't look out of place in the national team squad but we're just so stacked in midfield. It's a blessing and a curse because there are so many combination questions. Secretly hoping the older guard make way pretty soon.

Fans about to leave?

Absolutely disgraceful.

Scenes!

What a disgrace! Their faces are on TV. Seriously?!! I've seen fans around the world run on and taunt but to actually hit someone or throw, was it a bucket? is a crime. 

Scumbags, that lot of them who entered the field and attacked the players.

What.

Just why? 

It’s really hard to believe these morons. We have by far the worst fans of any sport in Australia.

If    that   is   the   case  ,  do    you    have    a    solution ?

Get new fans? Make normal people interested and keen to take their families to football. With strength in numbers, these devolved thugs would in time become irrelevant and die out.

Incidents like this make that pretty much impossible though. It's clear that we are being held hostage by these "active support" imbeciles. Game really has no chance in this country with supporters like these. 

I  see .  So   make  it   a   " family    friendly "   environment   at    a- league   games ?   Interesting .

Absolutely idiotic from the victory fans 

I've missed it what happened?

Glover was hit with something during a pitch invasion. He was bleeding. 

Oh for crying out loud.

Why give the anti-football lot ammunition like that? 

Yikes what were they thinking?

apart from threatening players this makes it impossible for the apl to reverse their decision

Well done Victory fans.

In 5 minutes have managed to set the game back 20 years.

At least 20 years.

No excuse for pitch invasion and VIOLENCE but At the end of the day NONE of that shit would have happened if it wasn’t for APL decision?!

So you assault the referee and the opposition goalkeeper?  There is no justification for that.

This is a shameful comment. You should have stopped after the first sentence. 

Right because there has ALWAYS been pitch invasions and violence at ALL previous Melbourne derby games. Nothing to do with a stupid APL decision recently 🤔

Your defence of their actions is disgusting.

I’m not defending their actions - just explaining what made them go crazy like that

Nope. He is 100% correct. This would not have happened had the APL not moved the finals.

This doesn't excuse it but it does explain it.