I will be at the Sunshine Coast when the r32 is played, so I am hoping for Fire. From the interview after the Apollo GCC game, their manager says they have a few guys who were playing NPL last year.

Obviously an A-League team would be good. Not sure I would want BR though. AU, WSW or MC ..... could all probably generate some kind of a crowd I would imagine.

Can't believe Fury are out. Well done to Heat though.

Heat and Fire would be great FFA Cup entrants. Both have put forward ambitions to be in the A-League.

Fury bottle it again.

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On second thought, they're on bottom of the ladder, and Heat's on top.

So I suppose looking at their current form I shouldn't be surprised.

Yup.

Supposedly the excuse was we had a lot of players out with other committments.

If they cant committ week in and week out let alone a Cup match against our fucking Derby rivals then they can fuck off.

-PB

Maybe they dont want to play for the present coach? lost the locker room

Very true.

-PB

Great to see my old club North Armidale into the last 8 of the NNSW qualification.

I don't expect them to go any further against the NPL clubs though.

7.00pm Local – Wednesday May 18th Wollongong Wolves v Wagga City Wanderers
7.15pm Local – Wednesday May 18th Manly United FC v Mounties Wanderers
7.30pm Local – Wednesday May 18th Parramatta FC v Bonnyrigg White Eagles
7.30pm Local – Wednesday May 18th Marconi Stallions v Bankstown Berries
TBC Local – Wednesday May 18th Sydney United v Sydney Olympic

Keen

Damn the Sydney United match being on the Wednesday. I've got my Christmas Party on the 18th. :lol:

who the F*** has a Christmas party in may? :lol:

This.

Sydney Utd vs Olympic would be a cracker might go for this one.

Does Sydney Utd have any good croatian food at the games

plenty of chevapi....made by indians!

Gotta love multicultural Australia:cool:

Victoria – 6th round kickoff times,
8.00pm Local – Tuesday May 17th Green Gully v Heidelberg United at Green Gully Reserve
8.00pm Local – Tuesday May 17th FC Bulleen Lions v Avondale Heights at Veneto Club – David Barro Stadium
8.00pm Local – Wednesday May 18th Malvern City v Hume City at Jack Edwards Reserve
7.30pm Local – Tuesday May 24th Melbourne Knights v Dandenong City at Knights Stadium
7.30pm Local – Wednesday May 25th Murray United v Bentleigh Greens at Lavington Sports Ground
7.30pm Local – Wednesday May 25th North Geelong Warriors v South Melbourne at TBC
7.30pm Local – Tuesday May 31st Richmond v Kingston City at Kevin Bartlett Reserve
8.00pm Local – Wednesday June 1st St Albans Saints v Port Melbourne Sharks at Knights Stadium

Good luck for the two remaining regional teams, they'll need it!

So they do sell this at the ground?

I don't want to go all the way to edensor and not get any

ACT – 4th round:
Tuesday May 10th – Belconnen United 8 d ANU 1
Tuesday May 10th – Cooma Tigers 6 d Goulburn Stags 0
Thursday May 12th – Canberra White Eagles v Queanbeyan City
Tuesday May 17th – Tuggeranong United v Monaro Panthers
Wednesday May 18th – Narrabundah v Canberra FC
Tuesday May 17th – Woden Weston v Brindabella Blues
Wednesday May 18th – Canberra Olympic v Gungahlin United
Wednesday May 18th – Weston Molonglo v O'Connor Knights

Edited by NicCarBel: 12/5/2016 11:53:15 AM

I work in hospo which means weekends. The 3 months before and after New Years people tend do have their Xmas Parties and functions. Throw in the mix things like Australia Day and ANZAC Day, it's not until May that things start calming down.

Could by boss have done it sooner, absolutely. :lol: But I'm still not turning down a day of free piss and hospo shennanigans...

http://www.theffacup.com.au/article/draw-re-vamped-for-2016-westfield-ffa-cup/1jd7tvvrqsl9r19j49c0p3hk1d

randomised draw bitches!!!

Yep. Read this

Good change.

Next is open draw round 64

Nope, read again.

The 'revamp' has almost no impact on the structure of the cup.

Literally the only change I can see is that the A-League clubs are now in a single pot for the Round of 32 instead of giving the top four a guaranteed easy game.

There are still four A-League teams to be drawn against non-A-League. There are still three A-League vs A-League in the first round.

There is still a guaranteed path to the semi-finals for one non-A-League club.

Not too fazed about that considering there is a less likely chance of playing Wellington again. Keen to going for a run around Lakeside (Y)

Edited by TheSelectFew: 12/5/2016 01:24:00 PM

What do you mean by 'randomised draw' then?

Unless I'm missing something, there is literally one small change that only impacts the Round of 32, and that change only impacts the A-League clubs. Everything else is the same as last year.

http://www.theffacup.com.au/dct/ffa-dtc-performgroup-eu-west-1/Westfield%20FFA%20Cup%202016%20Draw%20Process_11xckvck4b21f15d1u775261m5.pdf

It seems like how its been promoted and how it actually is are two different things.
Would love an open draw at the round of 32 or 64 would be even better.

A lot of quality clubs are missing out due to bad luck of the draw.

I guess the main benefit of the new draw system, is that the weaker A-League clubs can face Federation clubs in the Rd of 32, and therefore a greater chance of an upset. Rather than the weakest A-league clubs being knocked out by other A-league clubs first up.

I agree it's a small step in the right direction, but it really makes no difference. I'd prefer to see a completely open draw.