Yeeaahhhh......

Only a Queenslander would think Spain was a Latin American country.

Also, Isaias has been here about 5 years so I dare say our league is safe..........FOR NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh yeah, we were horrible and I felt so sorry for the guy who made the mistake for the goal coz they were fighting so hard.

I'm not OVERLY concerned because you could see we couldn't run at all and just wanted to go home against a very fit and up for it side but we march on into another round so will get more valuable minutes into the legs.

Also, please please can we play Strain over Galloway once the season starts!! Please Kurtz..... 

Ouch!! Probably true though!

Interesting fact - no Queensland team played an FFA game this year outside of Queensland!  Should Queensland loose a spot for not getting any teams into Qtrs?

Still have a major fitness advantage over these semi pros, the A League clubs usually end up over running them by the end to save their skin. Imagine if these Bentleigh, APIA and other top NPL clubs got proper professional training how good they could be.

Yep agree. I suspect Strain would have played if he was fit but we'll wait and see.

One would think so.

However, some players find it difficult  stepping up to a full time training regime. I knew one player who went to a HAL club from a NPL club. His body had a lot of difficulty coping with the volume of pro training in the HAL after previously being a part-timer in the NPL.

I think at the end of FFA Cup games, the HAL players are often struggling physically, because they are fatigued from training. Mark Rudan was beastly careless about Nix losing to an NPL club because he was flogging them so hard on the training track at the time in preparation for the HAL season.

Nah, nothing to do with fitness, they are just shit. 

I tend to think that in every professional football club in the world the players would be getting "flogged" at training.  Such is the essence of professionalism.  That excuse was quite frankly pathetic & probably not the reason why they lost.  

Why are semi professional clubs who train 4 nights a week after work able to match quite well it with clubs who do, double sessions 6 days a week, UEFA licenced ciaches, sport science backing, video sessions, sports psychology, nutritionists, facilities etc etc etc & of course the unmentionable question of significantly larger pay packets & revenue.  

Now we all know the answers to these questions however that would rock the boat.  

Plus if they were allowed to have five foreign players like the A-league clubs are.

That crowd still made the all time top ten for FFA Cup matches and was only the second match from the second round or under to make the top ten.

Western Sydney Wanderers, who played in the heart land of western sydney (marconi stadium), against a western sydney club, should of hit capacity of at least 8k.

But then again Bonnyrigg isn't a big club, and they bumped up ticket prices so people would of stayed away

I can't understand the stupidity from FFA and Foxtel for the upcoming fixtures. 
It's quarter finals and they are playing two games per night over two weeks simultaneously the dickheads.
How the fuck didn't anyone from either side come up with a Wednesday and Thursday game so all four games would be live and you have two days of live football that week instead of the one in the FFA Cup.
No common sense what so ever. 

Yeah this season of the FFA Cup has been done terrible with respects to TV related stuff.

-PB

Big game tonight

From what I have seen of the two teams, Avondale could do this. It's a banana skin this for Sydney and a massive test of Avondale's fortitude.

As for WSW v MC, I havent seen enough from the sides to make a call but I will probably lean towards MC.

Looking forward to getting out to ABD for the game tonight, hoping for an Avondale upset of course.

Pre-season training is all about getting  teams fit for an upcoming season.

Despite differences in professionalism, upsets will occur in any Cup competitions too.

So far in the FFA cup, the team that has defeated the reigning champions has always gone on to win the cup.
So... Good luck!

The reigning league or cup champions?

I WISH they would open up aami park tonight make it free entry 

Free for Members

Sydney should beat Avondale given I assume they will have tired legs.

From the cup runs so far, I'd expect City to beat WSW 2-0 or 3-1

good start but they should open it for everyone have a massive sign outside the punt road bridge 

Bit late for that

Reigning cup champions

Penalty for City

Fuck off Bruno

Missed it LOL

Terrible pen by Bruno. 

Cross bar, Sydney miss a sitter. 

Avondale good play before that. 

Damn, Avondale playing some nice tiki taka

Shit defending from Avondale, Sydney will win this.