Thanks for your persistance RU, now my mind is eased somewhat, but I couldn't figure out why it took so long for them to issue just a receipt!
Why they couldn't print the tix there & then still baffles me

Edited by redcup: 15/2/2010 11:39:33 PM

Cheers DaWoo!

I received my ticket for the Pohang game in the mail today. Can't wait, just over a week to go!!!

Mine turned up today too so it looks like they've got the distribution working **huge sigh of relief**

Richard

As did mine. Along with all this other advert shit. I didn't realise my ticket was in there until I tipped my envelope upside down. Shame they didn't include one of those ticket card holder things that Venuetix had last year.

As outlined above, I believe that the tickets were withheld by the AFC, and were only released today.

I tossed the envelope to my son and said: 'you might be interested in this'.

He dug through it and gave me a teenager's wtf look - the tickets were still in the envelope and he hadn't noticed them. ](*,)

If I hadn't seen them when I'd first opened the envelope, they could easily have been thrown out :shock:

Gates open at 6pm.
We'll be there at 5:55pm.
Anyone who nicks 'our' seats will be severely frowned at ... and if you sit behind us and talk loudly about the bloody EPL, you'll get more than flamin' frowned at (why is it that the EuroLovers think their football is so wanking wonderful yet they seem to know so little about the game - does it come from only watching it on a small box rather than seeing it in real life on a regular basis?).

Richard

Haha! I decided to get General Admission tickets as opposed to my Gold Members tickets for the ACL. I thought what's the point when my allocated seat was being taken over by AFC anyway. :(

So yeah, forgive me if I happen to steal anyone's seat! :p

Being tempted by the idea of purchasing a AUFC shirt with the following name and number:

Gen. Ashnak
442

:D

even though it is $165...

Id like one with my head super imposed over Jim's :lol:

For what its worth I'm gonna have a guess at a line-up...
Its gonna be interesting to see if all four players make it into the line-up for the first game.
There may be a temptation to ease a couple in.
Either way here's my guess :

.....................Gelekovic.............
Marrone/Mullen....Boogard..Fyfe......Jamieson
....................Griffiths.................
.....Dodd..........................Pantelis/Cassio
.....................Flores................
..............Leckie...........Van Dijk...............


My main problem with this is dropping Barbiero as his last few games(even leaving aside goals)have been great after a bit of a bad patch.
Or if the trusted 4-2-3-1 is to become our template again perhaps...

......................Galekovic..................
Mullen.........Boogard......Fyfe.......Jamo/Cassio
.................Griffiths..Marrone.............
..Dodd...............Flores..............Leckie
..................Van Dijk........................

Either way it's a team that would probably have won the A-League this season if you think about it.
Its a pity 2 of the newbies are on 6 monthers for now but still can't complain.



Edited by davide82: 17/2/2010 12:35:44 PM

Now that we have so many good quality players to choose from to make up the line-up it's much harder to pick... :(

Hopefully with all this competition for places in the starting line-up, we won't have the problem of underperforming players *cough*Hughes*cough* making up our squad.

I also agree that Barbiero should start as he has been a gun lately. Let's hope van Dijk delivers for us and that he's not just in it so that he can get his foot into the door of another Asian club.

Do it! Then we'll know where to gather for beers! :lol:

Anyone catch the Q & A with Sam Ciccerello on RTI this morning?

It seems that van Dijk got shirt #9 and Boogard got #3 ( Cristiano's and Alamao's numbers ) because of squad sizes and number resrictions placed by the AFC.
Also he said that there had been NO in-fighting at AU this year - a political answer methinks, and that Alan Young is a passionate football supporter > well time will tell us that!

Edited by redcup: 20/2/2010 04:02:03 PM

Yeah, for registration of playing squad for the ACL, players must be numbered from 1-30 sequentially. Since Alemao and Cristiano weren't going in the first place, it makes sense that those numbers would be used for Boogaard and van Dijk respectively.

I can't imagine what in-fighting could or would have happened seeing as we didn't have an owner or board to fight with. :p Players v manager maybe?

Meanwhile, I heard the internal trial match on Thursday morning went well - with most of the ACL squad on the pitch.

Anyone else heading to Hindmarsh for the Youth game today @ 3pm? :p

I was hoping to, RU, but my ongoing can't-walk achilles issue gets the better of me. Basically I'm stuffed. Would be great if you could give us a report when you get back.

Lol, I have a blank AU shirt at the moment.

IM.ON
442

perhaps?

Back. Sarkies has now been added to our injury list with a broken leg after 5 minutes into the game. I arrived at Hindmarsh at about that time, and could hear the frantic ref whistles as I was making my way through the tunnels to find a seat. No idea who made the tackle, but apparently a loud crack was heard by fellow audience members.

The team played pretty decent football, I thought, but Shin still looked weak on the ball, and his touch wasn't very good. I think I might be being a little too harsh on the kid, as he's one of the players I could recognise - doesn't help when the youth team changes their shirt numbers every darn week.

Reid was back playing. Some clever moves by him, but literally fell over the ball a tad too many times. He was very good at marshalling the midfield like we know he can, but he received a nasty knock deep in injury time which didn't look too good, but he played on anyway.

Perth managed to score right at the death, in the 3rd or 4th minute of injury time to win the game 1-0. Either team could have gone away with the points, but it seems our up-front impotence has been passed on from the senior squad to the youth squad.

Shit! Bad news for Sarkies (should give that cursed treasure back) and for the youth.

Thanks RU.

Hey guys, thanks for beating us that couple of Fridays ago. Means that we got to knock GCU out, instead of probably being bundled out by the Phoenix today. :d

In return, Adelaide will have my support for the ACL. :p

Edited by MidfieldMaestro: 21/2/2010 11:53:18 PM

The curse of cash flow is stopping me doing it - that and the fact it would be the first peice of club merchandise I would have ever purchased...

I know that sounds a bit strange but I am not into club gear, I don't feel the need for it to be a supporter.


Your welcome.. sort of ;)

Is there a podcast or anything?

It's been very quiet on the ACL advertising front here...

We're in the ACL? Could have fooled me based on the puclicity it has gotten...

Not that I know of, maybe contact radio RTI, or Paul Pellazari?

Re the ACL; the media are WAY too busy with the mickey-mouse " football ", can't have " wogball " interfering with the Crows training in the shed with " real " crowd noise and other stuff like that!



Edited by redcup: 22/2/2010 04:14:45 PM

It's a real shame seeing as we're the first Aussie club to feature in the continental club competition for the third time. :(

OK guys, I just went and bought my tickets for the ACL and they told me that General Admission (that's not just you, General) was booked out and I had to buy reserved seating.

Now there could be two reasons for this. 1) Theire system is stuffed, in which case I will have to fight them for a refund when I turn up at the game and the GA seat are half empty. 2) The GA seats are actually sold out!

Now I would prefer the latter and it would explain a lack of advertising. But I think it might be the former.

Either way I'll be there - in gold seats - come Wednesday night. \:d/ Still on crutches. :(

AFC reserved allocation may not have been exhausted as of yet, or hasn't been released for purchase yet. Normally more GA tickets will come on sale on match day.

I bought GA tickets for the two games I'm attending. Should be fun. GO YOU REDS!

Where they member allocation tickets or general public tickets? I assume we have a certain number of tickets allocated to us. The Steelers get a certain number, the ACL/AFC get a certain number and then a certain number are reserved for the public...

I may have been living under a rock but have adelaide unvailed their ACL shirt or are they just wearing the same regular one. There was a poste in the paper yesterday and it had galakovic in one with i think it was study adelaide as the front of shirt. But I cant find anything showing the rest of the strip anywhere.

maybe it is the same as their last one? They were sponsored by the state government for that one...