I assume that they won't play any "home" games in this?


What do you think about the FourFourTwo article South’s Singapore Cup Draw ?
SOUTH Melbourne FC will join clubs from Cambodia, Thailand and Hong Kong in the RHB Singapore Cup which kicks off later this month.


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so...um.... how did this come about?

its good for South Melbourne, but how was the A-league missed?

Correct.

If you look at the Fixture List http://www.sleague.com/Web/main.aspx?ID=fd4e1fd5-f05f-4167-ada7-d56c6bdcf8e4,,&TargetPageID= you'll see that the game against Gombak United is nominally a "home" game for South Melbourne. Its being played at Jalan Besar Stadium, which is close to the main city area of Singapore and, if I recall correctly, it has a synthetic surface. Gombak's home ground is at Jurong West, which is towards the western side of Singapore. It holds about half the number of people as Jalan Besar.

One of the other overseas teams in the Cup, Phnom Penh Crown FC, have also been allocated a "home" game at Jalan Besar, while the other 2 overseas teams are designated as "away" teams and are playing their games at the suburban home grounds of their opponents.

If SMFC make it through the first round, which is a single-game knockout, the rest of their games will be two-legged. In past years, these have all been played in Singapore (even when they have involved 2 overseas teams) and I can't find any info which suggests that this won't also be the case for the 2010 Cup.

Well my mate plays for Souths as well as the Young Socceroos. Hopefully he can get some experience and dbring the silverware back to Australia.

yeah all in singapore......they dont like to travel, their advantage is the humidity.....at around 90% all the time and 35 degrees its a killer......players lose 3 litres a game easy

Any word on any television coverage???

The FFA wouldn't allow an A-League club to play in a rival nations FA Cup. That's most likely why they denied Darwin a chance because they are planning on expanding there soon.

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thats sort of right, you can play in the singapore league if you base yourself in singapore,but FFA wont endorse it,
singapore has a chinese team, a japanese team and a french team in their league at the moment,last season they had also a korean team and a team from brunei

Well Sydney Croat if thats true they should have expanded a Darwin team and chucked them in instead of South Melbourne.

the darwin bid was actually to play a season in the S-League,not just the singapore cup.....

i have a copy of the letter where the FFA tell the darwin mob they wont be supported

go south

A-League franchises were invited 5 years ago - as I understand it the invitation was open and they could go if they wanted. They obviously don't feel it's worth pulling the squad together out of season - which is understandable. For SMFC, the squad is already in place and active.

They lost 3-0 to Richmond on the weekend fucken. If they can't beat Richmond what they going to Singapore for to do dutyfree shopping? Beznadne Grci. Hopeless fucken.

One result fucken. Beat Hume 6-0 the week before fucken. Struggled to beat some small no-name outfit in the west the week before fucken.

SYDNEYCROATIA!

Is it possible if you can send it through and message it to me?

and they have a lot of injuries fucken.

Do you mean batfink's copy of the letter from the FFA telling the darwin bid they won't be supported in Singapore:lol:

It's a letter than poses more questions than it answers (common with the FFA) as it very clearly states that the FFA won't support ANY Australian side taking part in a non-Australian competition - yet within 2 months they had signed off on SMFC going into the Singapore Cup.

EDIT - It's available online on the NT Football website...

http://www.footballnt.com.au/content_images/attachments/20100318%20FFA%20FFNT%20S-League%20letter.pdf

Edited by Benjamin: 5/5/2010 03:54:27 PM

Australia desperately needs a cup comp

not just for all the clubs and future franchises - but it will give tyhe World Cup Bid so much more credibility

Edited by chris: 5/5/2010 04:09:09 PM

grgur do u put the word fucken on the end of every sentance just to show that you are croatian to us or something. Or are you just a tryhard.

I agree, should be more of a priority than a world cup bid at moment though imo.
Until today I did not realise that we have had a national knock out comp before. Here is a link;
http://www.ozfootball.net/museum/index.php/timeline/178-timeline-of-australian-football-1951-2009
South Melbourne made it to the semi's on two occasions I think?



Edited by roos48: 5/5/2010 07:34:11 PM

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Edited by sydneycroatia58: 5/5/2010 07:41:51 PM

Even now Football NSW has a cup comp incorporating all the teams from the NSWPl down, yet the FFA can't get their act together to get a cup comp between the A-League and the top level state leagues. Pathetic really.

If the State federations can do it with more teams and less money why can;t the FFA do it with less and more money.

fucken wogs these days, they're all so fucken incomprehensiable 'nd fucken, like yeah fucken, they almost remind me of fucken lads. Yeh Brah, fucken fully sic'.