i like the traditional look of the ball. umbro definitely has had worse

Nice. But the FFA should work on timing their press releases to get more bang for buck.

100% this. Should have done it with the draw tbh. Now this will get lost. Everything about the cup has been done right except the qualification path. The FFA is hardly at fault though.

Now we need advertising for both the cup and the league.

According to twitter, Sydney United have qualified with a last min penalty winner 1-0

Yup.

United dominated the match, Parra barely had a shot on target, but at the end of the game a United player got round the keeper then fell over on the byline. Could have been a dive, or an ankle-tap, or the player just tripping over. Given, Mirjan Pavlavic did a Paneka penalty that was absolute garbage but the keeper was set the wrong way. Had no idea how much time was left, Parra restarted, ref blew whistle.

Results

Victoria
Bulleen Lions 0-1 Bentleigh Greens
St. Albans 4-1 Eastern Lions
Richmond 4-0 Sunbury United

NSW
Parramatta 0-1 Sydney United

Hakoah vs Northern Tigers at Hensley Athletic Field tomorrow night. Tempted to head down for it. Pre-game feed and watering pubs are proving hard to find.

What's a good feed include at Hakoah?

Judging from This Article one of the more prestigious things is a on-the-spot cooked Chicken Schnitty Roll. I'm presuming there's a BBQ there.

Anybody whose been there before know if there's a bar of some sorts?

Just grab a slab of VB's from the bottle o and get shit faced in the stadium.

preemptive gif of me then. :lol: :lol: :lol:

I wouldn't mind there eventually being a mini cup with 6 npl all star teams (1 from each league). It might provide a better bridge to the a league and help some of the best talent showcase what they have to a league scouts

Wouldn't mind that at all. In fact, would be decent if HAL clubs decided to fund it, purely because it'd make for fantastic access to cheap Aussies.

NPL clubs are hardly going to agree to that when it makes it easier for A-League clubs to take their players for fuck all. It would have to be funded by the federation because the clubs won't help and the a-league clubs won't touch it if they had to pay.

NPL teams won't accept being ripped off. They have the FFA Cup to play for now.

Ripped off in what way? Their players are tied to semi-pro contracts...

And I doubt if they have talent they wouldn't let them go without a fight. And there's no point starting pointless cups. Happy the way it is for the moment tbh.

Also a little fun fact. Out of every confederation throughout this entire qualification process no game has ended in a 0-0 score line after normal time.

In other words shit defence probably.

Unless something has changed since 2003, there's nothing at Hensley park except for roosters training sessions, bad pies, concrete chairs and broken dreams.

Tuggeranong Utd 0-0 Woden Valley
Hills Pumas 0-0 Camden Tigers
Cooks Hill Utd 0-0 Charlestown City
Cessnock City 0-0 Toronto Awaba
Dudley Redhead 0-0 Medowie
Kahibah 0-0 Raymond Terrace
Swansea 0-0 New Lambton
South Adelaide 0-0 West Torrens
Keilor Park 0-0 Eastern Lions

Or super good attackers :D

-PB

Yep, there's been a few.

If you're looking at the scores on the Pursuit of the Cup website, I've only listed scores at the end of the game (i.e. either after 90 or 120 minutes, depending on the game).

LOL welp shit. In my defence though, that's not a lot considering the amount of games played :D

Edited by TheSelectFew: 5/6/2014 10:32:21 AM

Does anoyone know when the 2015/16 FFA Cup qualifying rounds start?

would be February next year wouldnt it just before state leagues start? Who knows about ACT though

Exactly, most state's start around February/March.

If ACT does the same thing as this year (last year's Cup winner qualifies), technically their process has already started. My guess is that they'll change it though.

Hmmm still some unknowns :/

:lol: :lol:

The accuracy of little boy wonder with rose tinted glasses.

:lol:

so 21 teams have already qualified now.

Already can't wait for the FFA cup draw in 3 weeks today. Some potential awesome round of 32 clashes either against A-League sides or pitting former NSL rivals up against each other.

It will also be a good chance for state league sides who have only been just a state league side to get exposure to a national audience.

hope the Fox Sports coverage does focus extensively on the Non A-League clubs and give the national audience a chance to understand when they were established. their historical achievements, number of grassroots kids etc.

interested to see who the Tasmania and Victoria qualifiers will be next week.

hope the south Melbourne/melbourne knights game is streamed.

Speaking of accuracy, which of these teams did you play for again?