A-League

“But when it does happen to my football club, and my players they don’t even think twice, it’s a straight red. “

“And then some issues occur. And all of a sudden, since that moment, years ago, there’s been a stigma and our poor fans and members have had to pay the price”

ALW

Wednesday 3rd Jan

Sydney 1 - 1 Canberra

Saturday 6th Jan

Newcastle 3 - 3 Canberra

Adelaide 0 - 5 City

Victory 1 - 4 Western

Sunday 7th Jan

Brisbane 2 - 1 Wellington

Mariners 0 - Sydney

Perth 0 - 2 Wanderers

ALM

Thursday 4th Jan

Adelaide 2 - 2 Wellington

Friday 5th Jan

Macarthur 1 - 1 Newcastle

Saturday 6th Jan

Wanderers 0 - 1 Mariners

Brisbane 1 - 2 Sydney

Perth 2 - 3 Victory

Sunday 7th Jan

Western 1 - 2 City

Socceroos

Sunday 7th Jan

Bahrain 0 - 2 Australia

Matildas

Sammies ACL 😭

What was your highlight for the week? There were some banger goals, last minute equalisers and winners.

For me it was a tie between the look on Rudan's face after the game on Saturday and getting 9 green squares on gridal game without having to use Leigh Broxham or Danny Vukovic as guesses.

As promised here is the preview thread for this weekends matches.

ALW

Early start to the week in the Aleague Women’s with the postponed round four clash between Sydney and Canberra kicking off tonight at 7:00pm AEDST at Leichhardt Oval.

Then round 11 kicks off from Saturday.

Matches:

Saturday 6th Jan

Newcastle v Canberra

Adelaide v City

Victory v Western

Sunday 7th Jan

Mariners v Sydney

Brisbane v Wellington

ALM

This weekend Round 11 action kicks off on Thursday night and we get a bonus Round 12 match on Monday night.

Matches:

Thursday 4th Jan

Adelaide v Wellington

Friday 5th Jan

MacArthur v Newcastle

Saturday 6th Jan

Wanderers v Mariners

Brisbane v Sydney

Perth v Victory

Sunday 7th Jan

Western v City

Monday 8th Jan

Adelaide v Macarthur

Big talking points:

Will Ben Cahn have an immediate impact at Brisbane?

Will the changes to how the ladder is determined, now that everyone knows about them, affect how teams play? context

I’ve been finding myself heading over to reddit more to find out things because the fediverse is bereft of A-leagues discussions and KEEPUP is painful to read as always.

I really want there to be a corner of the fediverse where like minded people can discuss the greatest football leagues in the world. We don’t need a massive amount of people. In the early days of the A-League there was The Football Blog on SMH/TheAge and even though there were really only a dozen or so regular commenters the discussion was vibrant and engaging. Even the early days of the aleague subreddit the community was very small, we just need engagement.

So who is still here?

I’m thinking we can start with generic pre and post round threads, open forums to highlight whatever your looking forward to in he coming games or to vent about what ground your gears or floated your boat about the prior weekend games. I’ll start tomorrow morning.

Yay? Nay? Shit is this app still installed?

Exclusive: document shows rights to national teams, A-Leagues and data of all football participants, including children, was part of possible deal

The Central Coast Mariners can announce the departure of club legend and current A-League Men’s Head Coach Nick Montgomery to take up the role of Head Coach at Hibernian FC in the Scottish Premiership. Alongside Montgomery, Assistant Coach Sergio Raimundo and Goalkeeper Coach Miguel Miranda will also depart the club. First joining the Central Coast… Continue reading Nick Montgomery departs Central Coast Mariners for Hibernian FC

Joey Lynch via ESPN

cross-posted from: https://aussie.zone/post/738306