Sydney vs. Melbourne

[Jerem]

Hills commentary after Aloi$is comments gave me goosebumps, as it sounded exactly like commentary in 06 against japan.

i had a feeling syd would win, at least they won with two great goals, if they dont sign kisel, we should

 

[Sean]

My fav pic of the day, don't like either teams more than the other but I thought it was a good shot showing the winners & losers (in silence)

 

[razza]

Tards are gone for this year one would think.

Did anyone else find it unethical for Lowy to be wearing a Sydney FC hat with the premier. I think he has some vested in the club, but as FFA chairman surely he should be a bit more impartial?

 

[Forum Phoenix]

Everyone knows his hat is well and truly sky blue regardless of what he wears.. So no harm done I think.

I thought he was a tad pushy in the plate preso with Corica and Vitslav though? Not anywhere near as bad as Con though.

Alois's goal was awesome. Easily his best game since coming back to the HAL. You could see it coming on this year - he's thrived under Vitislav, they all have. He's a class act and you could go a looooooong way to get a better coach. I know they just extended, but they should be after a 3 year deal imo.

 

[Jaza_SFC]

Lavicka only wanted 1 more year.

Oh yeah - FTT. What a night.

 

[marinermick]

25000 people in a city of 5 million for the biggest regular match in a-league history

and sydney suporters take potshots about everyone (bar melbourne) else's crowd  : : :

 

[serious14]

Apparently the Daily Terror has a "League's Strongest Men" special on its front page??

 

[Paolo]

Very much enjoyed watching from up in the prawn sandwhich section. Great atmosphee from both ends(well both ends until it went to 2-0 then all but a handful of melb stopped).

Re: the fighting, it all started with tards jumping in to stop another tard being ejected which lead to fights with the cops.

Re: The Coves Tifo..oustanding, a massive piss take on Melbourne and their "Welcome to Hell" and was better executed

 

[Sean]

25000 people in a city of 5 million for the biggest regular match in a-league history

and sydney suporters take potshots about everyone (bar melbourne) else's crowd  : : :

Got to admit the weather from Friday throughout the weekend didn't help.

 

[MagpieMariner]

Apart from the pain of watching our rivals win something it was good to see winning the league being given the proper treatment.......trophy presentation,team celebrating with the crowd etc.

Now all we need to do is serparate it from the post season farce that's about to begin and we have a proper football season.........

Agreed that it's good to see the premiers being treated properly.

As for the finals being hived off from the main comp, it ain't gonna happen.
This is Australia, not UK or Europe. Australians love their finals, in all codes. Even the Sheffield Shield cricket (or whatever they call it now) has finals. Why do you think finals draw the biggest crowds?
As for "a proper competition", in this country it is defined as one with finals, whether you like it or not. It ain't gonna change, so you might as well learn to live with it.  Why the hell should we copy others? In sport, we do things our way, and that's just the way we like it.

 

[Part_Timer]

i dont..

 

[MagpieMariner]

That's cool, not everyone feels the same way, but a vast majority do.

 

[FFC Mariner]

Sydney have achieved their main aim, league champions. What happens now is irrelevant really.

The finals systems beloved of the minor codes are really a copy of the Super Bowl concept which was done to bring 2 warring "conferences" together in the US about 40 odd years ago.

To say it is an Australian tradition is just bollocks really.

 

[serious14]

That's cool, not everyone feels the same way, but a vast majority do.

Mmmmmm, 'cause their precious Telegraph tells 'em to.  No vested interests there at all, no sirree bob.

First past the post >>>>>>> Finals.  End of.

 

[LFCMariners]

Can you imagine the Scum somehow finding form, beating all-comers and then pipping Sydney in the GF on the back of a "Hand of God" type goal and being crowned 'Champions'?

If you don't see that as being a farce, I don't know what is.

 

[FFC Mariner]

Put yourself in SFC's shoes.

Best throughout the season - deserved league champions (tables dont lie) and going into the finals Corica is injured.

Melb now welcome back Musc**t so will be stronger.

A few unlucky suspensions or decisions and someone else is "Grand Final" winners and fapped over by all and sundry.

Thats why the only test of the best side over a season is the final league table.

 

[Atomic]

Put yourself in SFC's shoes.

Best throughout the season - deserved league champions (tables dont lie) and going into the finals Corica is injured.

Melb now welcome back Musc**t so will be stronger.

A few unlucky suspensions or decisions and someone else is "Grand Final" winners and fapped over by all and sundry.

Thats why the only test of the best side over a season is the final league table.

Agree with you 100%... but was your earlier post a piss-take or are you genuinely that niave?

Sydney have achieved their main aim, league champions. What happens now is irrelevant really.

The finals systems beloved of the minor codes are really a copy of the Super Bowl concept which was done to bring 2 warring "conferences" together in the US about 40 odd years ago.

To say it is an Australian tradition is just bollocks really.

To say the finals concept is a copy of American Football is laughable. A quick google search will tell you that. To say that finals aren't an Australian tradition in the minor codes (which makes me think your post is a piss-take and only there to bait idiots like me) suggests to me that you should perhaps stop commenting on what Australian tradiations actually are.

Let me pose these questions... if the football public thought the same way about the Premiership as you and I do, why were there only 25000 there on Sunday. If Sydney were to host the GF, how many punters do you think will show? 25000 or 42000?

 

[curious]

The finals systems beloved of the minor codes are really a copy of the Super Bowl concept which was done to bring 2 warring "conferences" together in the US about 40 odd years ago.

To say it is an Australian tradition is just bollocks really.

Is VFL semi final series starting in 1897 and played mainly at the MCG and RL starting finals in 1908 and played at Sydney showground far enough back to call it a tradition? About 60 years before the American 'conference'  split.

I can't find the stats on RU, but an educated guess is that also followed the finals format early in it's history.

 

[LFCMariners]

Put yourself in SFC's shoes.

Best throughout the season - deserved league champions (tables dont lie) and going into the finals Corica is injured.

Melb now welcome back Musc**t so will be stronger.

A few unlucky suspensions or decisions and someone else is "Grand Final" winners and fapped over by all and sundry.

Thats why the only test of the best side over a season is the final league table.

+1.

In a code like ours, where there is a such a small margin for error and 0-0 scorelines aren't too uncommon, you can't dictate an entire season on one game the same way you can with both Rugby codes, Aussie Rules or Gridiron in which scoring is much easier so the better team (almost) always wins.

Scrap the finals series, introduce the much-vaunted FFA Cup and play the final the weekend after the last round of the season. Then you get the hype of the final round deciding the title winners, as well as the Cup final the weekend after. The game still has great promotion.

 

[LFCMariners]

Put yourself in SFC's shoes.

Best throughout the season - deserved league champions (tables dont lie) and going into the finals Corica is injured.

Melb now welcome back Musc**t so will be stronger.

A few unlucky suspensions or decisions and someone else is "Grand Final" winners and fapped over by all and sundry.

Thats why the only test of the best side over a season is the final league table.

Agree with you 100%... but was your earlier post a piss-take or are you genuinely that niave?

Sydney have achieved their main aim, league champions. What happens now is irrelevant really.

The finals systems beloved of the minor codes are really a copy of the Super Bowl concept which was done to bring 2 warring "conferences" together in the US about 40 odd years ago.

To say it is an Australian tradition is just bollocks really.

To say the finals concept is a copy of American Football is laughable. A quick google search will tell you that. To say that finals aren't an Australian tradition in the minor codes (which makes me think your post is a piss-take and only there to bait idiots like me) suggests to me that you should perhaps stop commenting on what Australian tradiations actually are.

Let me pose these questions... if the football public thought the same way about the Premiership as you and I do, why were there only 25000 there on Sunday. If Sydney were to host the GF, how many punters do you think will show? 25000 or 42000?

The extra 20k or so are largely people who come because they are attracted to the media-generated hype about the 'Grand Final'. If we had a traditional league system like Europe, biggesr crowds would flock to the final rounds, believe me. And the 'finals hype' brigade can still go and watch the FFA Cup Final, the media still gets their week of fapping on about a 'Final' of some sort and everyone is happy.