elieanid Posted August 13, 2014 Report Share Posted August 13, 2014 Any sort of pub/pregame being organised? there is no pub near enough in the area for all of us to meet up and march from it......the closest one is 3-3.5 km away in Coolaroo/Dallas area. Im not sure if we are going from there but I'm sure the organisers will have something up their sleeve for a pre-match meet! . 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jestr Posted August 13, 2014 Report Share Posted August 13, 2014 There are few mosques close by. Could meet up in the car park if grand mufti is ok with that. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parrot Posted August 14, 2014 Report Share Posted August 14, 2014 Broadmeadows. Not for me. I once drove to Sunshine to watch a game of football. When I returned to my car after the game the hub caps had been taken. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damiano Posted August 14, 2014 Report Share Posted August 14, 2014 I'll be going should be good Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drewmelbcity Posted August 14, 2014 Report Share Posted August 14, 2014 Broadmeadows. Not for me. I once drove to Sunshine to watch a game of football. When I returned to my car after the game the hub caps had been taken. Unfortunate for you, sunshine is not that bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hedaik Posted August 14, 2014 Report Share Posted August 14, 2014 Broadmeadows. Not for me. I once drove to Sunshine to watch a game of football. When I returned to my car after the game the hub caps had been taken. Unfortunate for you, sunshine is not that bad. I wonder where you live then 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drewmelbcity Posted August 14, 2014 Report Share Posted August 14, 2014 Broadmeadows. Not for me. I once drove to Sunshine to watch a game of football. When I returned to my car after the game the hub caps had been taken. Unfortunate for you, sunshine is not that bad. I wonder where you live then Not sunshine haha, use too though never found it as bad as people painted it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Attack11 Posted August 14, 2014 Report Share Posted August 14, 2014 Definitely going, I'm hearing the club are looking at giving Koren at least 45min... so would be good to see how the boys back up from the disappointment of the FFA cup... I'm expecting a big score ... no pressure on this game so boys should play out of there skins... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tesla Posted August 14, 2014 Report Share Posted August 14, 2014 (edited) Broadmeadows. Not for me.I once drove to Sunshine to watch a game of football.When I returned to my car after the game the hub caps had been taken.Never actually seen anything to justify the reputation Broadwmeadows has TBH, seems like a nice quite suburb. Edited August 14, 2014 by Tesla 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boffins Posted August 14, 2014 Report Share Posted August 14, 2014 Broadmeadows. Not for me. I once drove to Sunshine to watch a game of football. When I returned to my car after the game the hub caps had been taken. Never actually seen anything to justify the reputation Broadwmeadows has TBH, seems like a nice quite suburb. It's a shit pit like werribee. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tesla Posted August 14, 2014 Report Share Posted August 14, 2014 Broadmeadows. Not for me.I once drove to Sunshine to watch a game of football.When I returned to my car after the game the hub caps had been taken.Never actually seen anything to justify the reputation Broadwmeadows has TBH, seems like a nice quite suburb.It's a shit pit like werribee.Either way, there's no where in Melbourne where it's reasonable to fear someone fucking with your car if you park it and leave it for a couple of hours.Just make sure you have those anti-theft screws on your number plates though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaliMate Posted August 14, 2014 Report Share Posted August 14, 2014 Broadmeadows. Not for me. I once drove to Sunshine to watch a game of football. When I returned to my car after the game the hub caps had been taken. Never actually seen anything to justify the reputation Broadwmeadows has TBH, seems like a nice quite suburb. Broadmeadows, like Sveti Albans/Sunshine is becoming better as much of the scum is shifting out to Craigieburn/Melton. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drewmelbcity Posted August 14, 2014 Report Share Posted August 14, 2014 (edited) Broadmeadows. Not for me. I once drove to Sunshine to watch a game of football. When I returned to my car after the game the hub caps had been taken.Never actually seen anything to justify the reputation Broadwmeadows has TBH, seems like a nice quite suburb.Broadmeadows, like Sveti Albans/Sunshine is becoming better as much of the scum is shifting out to Craigieburn/Melton. Easy fella I'm moving out to Melton next year cause the land is cheap as haha but Yeh agree with craigeburn Edited August 14, 2014 by drewmelbcity Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaliMate Posted August 14, 2014 Report Share Posted August 14, 2014 Broadmeadows. Not for me. I once drove to Sunshine to watch a game of football. When I returned to my car after the game the hub caps had been taken.Never actually seen anything to justify the reputation Broadwmeadows has TBH, seems like a nice quite suburb.Broadmeadows, like Sveti Albans/Sunshine is becoming better as much of the scum is shifting out to Craigieburn/Melton.Easy fella I'm moving out to Melton next year cause the land is cheap as haha but Yeh agree with craigeburn Was gonna post saying no disrespect to my Melton brethren. I know people who are well off and living in both Melton/Crud but I'm sure you all know what I meant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murfy1 Posted August 14, 2014 Report Share Posted August 14, 2014 https://twitter.com/HumeCity/status/499798406340960256 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tesla Posted August 14, 2014 Report Share Posted August 14, 2014 I was assuming members are free but haven't seen it confirmed? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeardedHeart Posted August 14, 2014 Report Share Posted August 14, 2014 I was also thinking the same thing but no word Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dylan Posted August 14, 2014 Report Share Posted August 14, 2014 It was free for Ballarat so I would assume this would be the same. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
belaguttman Posted August 14, 2014 Report Share Posted August 14, 2014 Anyone attending? Well it's the one and only chance we'll have to see the team playing in Melbourne (barely) until Round 2 of the HAL season. Not much respect to the fans. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedukeofhearts Posted August 14, 2014 Report Share Posted August 14, 2014 It should be free for members. The bendigo one is. But how to we get in without our memberships yet ?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingofhearts Posted August 14, 2014 Report Share Posted August 14, 2014 Anyone attending? hopefully the real Melbourne city shows up cause they quite clearly weren't at the Sydney game. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedukeofhearts Posted August 14, 2014 Report Share Posted August 14, 2014 Anyone attending? Well it's the one and only chance we'll have to see the team playing in Melbourne (barely) until Round 2 of the HAL season. Not much respect to the fans. They've put offers out to melbourne clubs, but it's harder than people think to get games. They have either already committed to a victory game, don't have the facilities (lights, good pitch, enough room etc) or they aren't interested. That's why regional areas often get the pre-season games because it's a big deal for them and the councils push hard to help clubs host. For a lot of the bigger city clubs it's not in their interests to host a games and they um and ah a lot and don't fully commit. And nope, it's not just a theory I have, it's info from talking to an actual person that is involved in these things. Not involved with City, but negotiating with them and that's what he discovered after talking to other metro clubs. Hopefully next season they will either get in early and beat victory to the teams that want games or down the track they can develop LaTrobe so they can host the practice matches themselves and teams just have to show up. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
belaguttman Posted August 14, 2014 Report Share Posted August 14, 2014 Then they should have fought harder to play the FFA Cup game here in Melbourne. What a ridiculous idea playing it midweek in Ballarat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedukeofhearts Posted August 14, 2014 Report Share Posted August 14, 2014 It's not as simple as just walking in and kick someone off their ground to play. That's the problem the club faces when you're home ground gets used for other sports in winter. You have to move around. If you have a council and club that is going to push hard to host, the club and FFA they are going to take it. I doubt they had a host of metro clubs coming to them saying 'please play on our pitch'. In Bendigo were not playing on our pitch for the next few weeks just to make sure it's good enough for the City match. Travelling around to some of the NPL games not all the pitches have faired well with the rain over the last few months. They might of looked at options but didn't want to take the risk at the condition of the pitch or teams not willing to budge (which I don't blame them). There's lots of factors that come in to play. I was looking at grounds and set ups for FC Bendigo's game the other day and there's a lot of things that come in to play, and that's just a practice match let alone an FFA CUP match with two A-league teams. The FFA was probably more than happy to push the game in ballarats direction. And it was just ballarat, not like they were travelling to albury or anything. The club might of been able to push harder, but after hearing and looking at some of the factors that come in to play for matches, I wouldn't be surprised if other options they had been looked at and ruled out before they just decided to go to ballarat. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dylan Posted August 14, 2014 Report Share Posted August 14, 2014 (edited) Then they should have fought harder to play the FFA Cup game here in Melbourne. What a ridiculous idea playing it midweek in Ballarat.Ballarat was a success (bar the result). One of the fellow Melburnians said it was a great turnout and in fact there were more there for the pre-game at Ballarat than sometimes at the imp. Edited August 14, 2014 by Dylan 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
belaguttman Posted August 14, 2014 Report Share Posted August 14, 2014 No doubt it was successful however I'm sure that the attendance would have been greater than 2800 here in Melbourne. From a strategic POV, playing the first competitive home game in Melbourne would have been good marketing and a possible recruitment opportunity, especially as we don't even get to open the season at home (yet again) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dylan Posted August 14, 2014 Report Share Posted August 14, 2014 (edited) No doubt it was successful however I'm sure that the attendance would have been greater than 2800 here in Melbourne. From a strategic POV, playing the first competitive home game in Melbourne would have been good marketing and a possible recruitment opportunity, especially as we don't even get to open the season at home (yet again) I am not so sure about that. If anything, there would have been more Sydney supporters, the Jets v Glory game had less than 2800 from memory (I am trying to track down the number) and that was in Newcastle. Edit: number was 2,877 Edited August 14, 2014 by Dylan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HEARTinator Posted August 14, 2014 Report Share Posted August 14, 2014 It's not as simple as just walking in and kick someone off their ground to play. That's the problem the club faces when you're home ground gets used for other sports in winter. You have to move around. If you have a council and club that is going to push hard to host, the club and FFA they are going to take it. I doubt they had a host of metro clubs coming to them saying 'please play on our pitch'. In Bendigo were not playing on our pitch for the next few weeks just to make sure it's good enough for the City match. Travelling around to some of the NPL games not all the pitches have faired well with the rain over the last few months. They might of looked at options but didn't want to take the risk at the condition of the pitch or teams not willing to budge (which I don't blame them). There's lots of factors that come in to play. I was looking at grounds and set ups for FC Bendigo's game the other day and there's a lot of things that come in to play, and that's just a practice match let alone an FFA CUP match with two A-league teams. The FFA was probably more than happy to push the game in ballarats direction. And it was just ballarat, not like they were travelling to albury or anything. The club might of been able to push harder, but after hearing and looking at some of the factors that come in to play for matches, I wouldn't be surprised if other options they had been looked at and ruled out before they just decided to go to ballarat. Overall, I think it's good for our game to have A-league teams play in regional centres during the pre-season. It's a boost to the local community and gets the game vying for media attention alongside the traditional winter sports - and in regional centres of Victoria where the AFL is dominant. I like the idea of taking games like our match against Adel to places like Alice Springs. In time if we got more aboriginal players into our game I reckon it'd make a great impact in the HAL and eventually the Socceroos - much the same way they have made a great impact in the AFL. Tremendous athleticism and just sheer instinct, knowing what to do with the ball and when. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigerou812 Posted August 14, 2014 Report Share Posted August 14, 2014 Then they should have fought harder to play the FFA Cup game here in Melbourne. What a ridiculous idea playing it midweek in Ballarat. Yeah because heaven forbid that anyone outside of Melbourne should be able to see a football game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
belaguttman Posted August 14, 2014 Report Share Posted August 14, 2014 I don't have problems with us playing games outside Melbourne, in fact living outside Melbourne myself, I support it. I do think that our first competitive home game as a rebranded franchise (playing the same shit football) should be played at home, for our own home fans. In particular it's more important as it was against HAL opposition. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drewmelbcity Posted August 14, 2014 Report Share Posted August 14, 2014 (edited) Seeing other results, I think the ffa cup is hardly official to the bigger clubs lot of star players missing from all clubs that have played. I have my views of how the ffa has handled the competition but for now I'll keep it to myself cause I'm sick as a dog from Tuesday night cbf writing out a essay, but in a sentence, they haven't thought the competition layout through properly and it is a manipulated draw to ensure state league teams go deep into competition. Edited August 14, 2014 by drewmelbcity Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boffins Posted August 14, 2014 Report Share Posted August 14, 2014 Broadmeadows. Not for me. I once drove to Sunshine to watch a game of football. When I returned to my car after the game the hub caps had been taken.Never actually seen anything to justify the reputation Broadwmeadows has TBH, seems like a nice quite suburb.It's a shit pit like werribee. Either way, there's no where in Melbourne where it's reasonable to fear someone fucking with your car if you park it and leave it for a couple of hours. Just make sure you have those anti-theft screws on your number plates though Park at Melton train station and try your luck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnno cpfc Posted August 15, 2014 Report Share Posted August 15, 2014 Assuming it is free for members, i would imagine that if you rock up with your old (last season) membership card that would suffice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tonyboozeadams Posted August 15, 2014 Report Share Posted August 15, 2014 They isually have a book with members names in it. Just bring id Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tesla Posted August 15, 2014 Report Share Posted August 15, 2014 Broadmeadows. Not for me. I once drove to Sunshine to watch a game of football. When I returned to my car after the game the hub caps had been taken.Never actually seen anything to justify the reputation Broadwmeadows has TBH, seems like a nice quite suburb.It's a shit pit like werribee. Either way, there's no where in Melbourne where it's reasonable to fear someone fucking with your car if you park it and leave it for a couple of hours. Just make sure you have those anti-theft screws on your number plates though Park at Melton train station and try your luck If I didn't find my car on bricks all those times I parked it pretty much overnight at St Albans train station so I had a way to get home from the night rider, I doesn't afraid of parking anywhere I have expensive tires too, someone could have bought a decent amount of crack with them. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benzema23 Posted August 15, 2014 Report Share Posted August 15, 2014 I went to Ballarat to watch the game. While I'm fine with the idea of playing regional games, we are Melbourne City, why was our first ever competitive game not played in the CITY!!!!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malloy Posted August 15, 2014 Report Share Posted August 15, 2014 I went to Ballarat to watch the game. While I'm fine with the idea of playing regional games, we are Melbourne City, why was our first ever competitive game not played in the CITY!!!!! This is what I have a major issue with. We were the home team. It should have been played at AAMI. If they want to play pre season games all over the country side then so be it, but competitive fixtures should be played at home. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n i k o Posted August 15, 2014 Report Share Posted August 15, 2014 (edited) As someone said elsewhere, the condition of aami is so poor it can't hold a football match, apparently. But yes, it would be good if they found somewhere closer to home for that particular game. Edited August 15, 2014 by n i k o Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malloy Posted August 15, 2014 Report Share Posted August 15, 2014 As someone said elsewhere, the condition of aami is so poor it can't hold a football match, apparently. But yes, it would be good if they found somewhere closer to home for that particular game. Keep forgetting about the pitch condition, but yes agree. Should have been in Melbourne. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strider Posted August 15, 2014 Report Share Posted August 15, 2014 We already own the city... why not venture out and claim the rest of Victoria? Before we know it we'll have fans all over the place (I'm sure we already do) and those spuds in navy blue will end up representing Tasmania Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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