I hope that the referee appointed will clamp down more on rough play by showing more cards than were handed out against oakleigh thugs

I once saw a man try to fight a referee while holding a baby over there in a game near Dundee. 

I was actually referring to the so called playing style adopted. Not for the faint hearted.

The incident you described would be nothing out of place at a junior match on any weekend the length and breadth of the country. 🤣🤣

Tickets for the final just went on sale on Ticketek

Is there going to be a game on? Nah, not interested. ;)

I think it is going to be a ripper. Both teams can play football, have good cohesive play, and want this big time.

On a personal note (and not to become a focus of the thread please) I have always disliked the different perspective between 'Aussies with Croatian ties' as opposed to the 'Croatians' who go to the games. However, I have enjoyed watching the progress of such teams in this Cup, did not mind the support in the game against us, did not feel resentful of them beating us, and am looking forward to the final even though I won't travel for it. That, in my mind, is no small change.

Hope the football is good and both teams have great games.

SU all sold out

Macarthur all sections available

Anyone notice last night the Australia Cup final was only mentioned once during the match commentary?

they opened up another release. 8,500 tickets have been sold just for the United section alone as of yesterday. 

Hope they have the safe standing in place for SU58 

Macarthur end I beleive

Pathetic
 SU58 should be at the northern end.
If not, no safe standing for those Macarthur Bullsh1tters 

Hey Paul01 - Do you mean a physical barrier between groups of fans or something else when you say "safe standing in place"?

SU Fans are in the northern section of the ground, so i believe it will be safe standing.

Commbank has one side of the stadium for active support as safe standing. It's where the RBB normally are.

Macarthur will be on the other side of the stadium.

Thanks for that. So it means active support are allowed to stand without being told to 'sit down or you will get evicted'?

thats correct.
the link below is the safe standing area at commbank

https://www.google.com/search?q=commbank+safe+standing&rlz=1C1GCEB_enAU1019AU1019&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjNwtHT4bP6AhX77jgGHTpiAlwQ_AUoAnoECAIQBA&biw=1920&bih=937&dpr=1#imgrc=22NiyoWTA5I-qM

The safe standing equipment is removable so it may or may not be in place at the moment.  Has anyone checked whether it will be installed for this game?

If this match can go without controversy about the crowd it’ll be a bloody good promotion for the league 

Wow - never seen that before. That is a lot of infrastructure.

How do you figure mate? Which league is this a promotion for the NPL NSW that just finished or the Algeaue that just started (or has it not yet?) If an NPL side and a new franchise with barely any fans manages to get a better crowd/atmosphere to a final than the champions of professional Australia did  earlier this year this will be an embarrassment to the APL rather than a promotion.

Why dont they just let people stand in front of their fold down seats (I assume the stadium seating is fold down?) why this extra expense? I dont get the purpose. If its to prevent crowds crushing each other like the original intent to do away with standing only terraces, surely having seat rows is a better preventative?

I don’t care who plays or what league they are in the sport of football needs a decent crowd and story. It’s fooking lackluster atm 

The barriers actually provide prevention.  Seat backs don't.

The "sport" of football in this country is anything but lacklustre mate... Massive participation rates, 1000s of clubs all around the country, interest in never before seen numbers for overseas leagues and players.. Aleague maybe floundering but thousands attending Soceroos and Matildas games and the couple of million plus who will get up in the wee hours in Nov to cheer on the Socceroos is NOT lackluster.far from it......

Prevention from what? Serious question?

That may be your first ever positive post on Australian football. Well done lad.

Crowds spilling forward. They are to prevent crushing.

Crowd surging can cause death.  The first question for someone doing a risk analysis is can the risk be eliminated?  If it can be that is the action the person responsible for safety at the site must take.  If it can't be then, how can the risk be minimised?  ... and so on on down the hierarchy of acceptable actions that a so called "reasonable person" might take.

Hahahah rubbish, and you know it :P
You can blame me for whatever you want but cant say I dont worship at the alter of this stupid game of ours.

Yeah I did a dig on the link and see what you mean... Awways thought that rows of fold up seating would be enough but looking at imagtes I get the fact they would be not as effective at preventing forward surge. Also I note that EPL stadiums seems to be gong one further and having these barriers AND fold down seats in the rows.... seems a much more elegant solution.