Olympic vs knights. Crowd 2,195 as seen on twitter .
absolutely fantastic stuff

Given Magic Park has demonstrated the perfect all round cup experience and given the Jets v Glory game is played there next Tuesday, I dare say that'd be the most likely game to be broadcast on Fox, should they decide to do it. As much as i'd like to see two lesser clubs battling it out as a feature game, to at least have something (Jets v Glory) with crosses to other games when goals are scored would be great.

Given the great job that was done last night, it should be mandatory that every Tuesday has one televised game with crosses. It saddens me that we may not see another live game on Fox until the round of 16.

Remember, South Hobart are streaming the entire game on their website (free?), so even if Fox decide not to do another game, there is something to watch for those that cant make it to a game next Tuesday.

Dont forget that MK have been struggling this season mostly due to injuries. I believe that they're out of the race for finals football. Still a decent effort with a fairly young squad

Anyone see the no-penalty incident? What was it? Tackle/handball?

Says the bloke with the Nazi eagle in his avatar. fmd.





Anyway, everyone was crowing about how Knights were going to use the 'Melbourne Croatia Soccer Club Inc' logo purely to stick it up the FFA. They even used a bigger font for 'Croatia'. I'm all for celebration of your background, I think the FFA's move to cut all ethnic imagery is backwards, but you'd be daft to think that they wouldn't see that logo as a deliberate provocation and try to do something about it.

Edited by REDRUM: 30/7/2014 12:18:01 PM

Handball, pretty obvious one too. Defender raised his arm to shield his face, definite penalty. It happened right in front of the Croatian fans who didn't really make a big deal of it, but I think they were already at their full capacity for noise for most of the match.

The red card was also a no brainer, guy was on a yellow for persistent fouling and should probably have been replaced. Ito held off committing to a 50/50 ball long enough to tempt him into diving in with a two footer. A 16 year old kid being outsmarted by a more experienced player.

There's few ALeague game last season where the rating are under 40k.

Would be interesting to compare ratings against ALeague Season 1, I have vague recollection that not all matches were shown.

I didn;t pay much attention to this saga about the sponsor but its very clear having one look at that why they got banned and quite rightly. All you would be able to see on TV is the word Croatia, its a clear stunt and they were lucky not to get thrown out of the comp and even the NPL.




Edited by nickk: 30/7/2014 12:28:57 PM

In their defence though, that is what is known as kerning, the process where typesetters adjust the size of fonts to make the width of the words equal in a logo. If they didn't write Croatia in a larger font the letters would be twice as wide as they are high. That is why the letters in the bottom line are smaller than the letters in Melbourne.

OR... they could have set the words out differently.

Now I wish I went, just to light a durry at half time WITH Simon Hill. I have TAFE Tuesday nights, so I couldn't attend the Magic game which I wish I did, and I can't attend the Jets game next week. Bloody Tuesdays ](*,) (But thank you Foxtel Go for me being able to stream the game in class on my laptop on TAFE's wifi. But, reading through the thread, it makes me so happy to see people attending their local games. Some of my friends watched the game as well who aren't big football fans, but mainly because one of my friends had drinks at his house and he wanted to watch the game, so they all watched it. The friends who weren't big football enthusiasts reckon the FFA Cup is a really cool idea that semi-professional clubs were able to verse professional clubs in a national wide tournament. Apparently they were getting into it and backing Magic, fired up when the penalty was called.

Under 40k is no suprise.
I think 30k would be a great figure, 20k okay, 10k they should scrap the comp.

Going off what we saw last night the ratings will grow too, especially once the HAL clubs come in. I think HAL season 9 having matches that rated less than 40k is more concerning. My guess is that they would have been Wellington home games. Less of a vested interest down under.

I enjoyed the premise of last night but I must admit some of the football was dire.

I know this isn't top teir football but there were times where the game looked more like what would happen if AFL players had a hit out instead of established football teams.

I think it raises the question about the need to engrain football at the grassroots so when players get to the top of the state (or there abouts) they can at least play the fundamentals of a passing game and keeping shape. There was too much hit the ball long to absolutely nothing last night.

Broadmeadow Magic had Macedonian something as a sponsor on their jersey... I don't see why they were aloud and Knights weren't.

No games being broadcast next week.

that's shit

I daresay the FFA will say it is because Magic always have that Macedonian reference on their jersey.

But I agree with you, totally.

Edited by pv4: 30/7/2014 12:59:29 PM

If anyone was offended by my spelling my mistake I'm deeply sorry wow how could i

I keep hoping for an announcement to counteract the 1 matchday televised... but just isnt coming. latest from adam:

Adam Peacock ‏@adampeacock3 11m
No, we aren't doing any other nights of the Rd 32 @FFACup live. Yes, you should get out to a game and do it live that way. Won't regret it.

The Knights were allowed. Their "existing sponsor" AHD Croatian Club Melbourne, with the red & white checkered shield, was clearly visible on both sleeves of the knights jeresys.

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

-PB

You must have good eyesight to have spotted it on TV, the point about what the Knights did is they put Croatia in a huge bold font, and the rest in a thinner font at a smaller size as theit main sponsor in a very obvious ploy.
They were stupid to use this occasion to try that sort of stunt and then trying to make up some sort of legal excuses why it was all ok. If I was the FFa they would be told try any more stunts and you will be thrown out of the NPL.

It must be said, it got them a lot of coverage (and a lot of people talking about the FFA's draconian rules) even if they didn't wear it during the actual match.

Adam Peacock ‏@adampeacock3 4m
.@kazonis weeks ago. Can't just snap fingers and make it happen again - doesn't work like that. All games from Rd 16 onwards are live.

Pretty sure it was originally only 1 rd of 16 game, so that is good news.

fucking bullshit.

If that's the case, that's sick. I am really excited for that. More football on TV to watch! [-o< \:d/

:lol:

it's only a nazi eagle, if you put the nazi sign there you idiot, which in this case it is not.... there are many different 'versions' of a nazi eagle, if you wanna call it that.... :roll:

i'm all for every team getting the same treatment, following the correct rules and regulations... which we all know is not the case.

the knights forced the FFA's hand and exposed them for their stupidity, highlighted the stupidity of the policy which made them amend the rules....

Well that sucks arse.