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@aussie.zonehttps://www.theguardian.com/sport/picture/2024/apr/12/david-squires-a-league-cartoon-robert-mak-red-card-suspension?m=
Our cartoonist looks at Robert Mak’s callous uppercut to the hairs on Phillip Cancar’s chin
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?
https://www.espn.com.au/soccer/story/_/id/38682628/aleagues-scrap-grand-final-deal-favour-unite-round
The A-League has scrapped its controversial Grand Final deal in favour of a Unite Round that will feature all 24 men's a women's teams.
https://aleagues.com.au/news/aleagues-expansion-auckland-preferred-bidder-black-knight-bill-foley-bournemouth/
William P Foley II is a US-based owner of multiple sports teams and has strong business connections to New Zealand.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2023/sep/27/football-australia-considered-selling-socceroos-matildas-privatised
Exclusive: document shows rights to national teams, A-Leagues and data of all football participants, including children, was part of possible deal