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Barbara is out of the GF due to injury. 44 year old Barbieri comes in as GK.

Bos with another screamer for his club in Belgium. https://x.com/ElevenBeFR/status/1786516082552881661

Yes, it’s odd. Have they come forward with a reason? City Terrace is back too.

I would presume (incorrectly probably) that the monitoring device alerts the monitoring service about battery status. Hence once it falls below a threshold, the police or whomever track them swap devices etc.

Yup.

Isn't this the mob that owns Victory? https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-04/777-partners-the-private-equity-firm-behind-bonza/103802624

They are designed to track the person concerned. Surely we can do better than rely on a potential criminal to recharge his tracking device?

Another of "ours" who should be in our "Hall of Fame."

Melburnians are copping a lot of flack at the moment for their sudden return. I can't defend against it either. Seems to be a case of 'derby specialists' coming out of the woodwork.

The problem with ankle bracelets is that if they wanted to commit a crime is that it won't stop them. At best it can place them near the scene.

Oh yeah? Put ankle bracelets on people you consider dangerous and then rely on them to recharge the bracelet? That's just Mickey Mouse stuff - unbelievable!!

I reckon his record for us will stand for decades! It will be unlikely that we find a striker as prolific that stays around long enough...

I miss the trumpet

A club legend. I wonder if the league will ever see someone score at his rate again? I doubt this club will.

I’m heart broken. Club stalwart. Heart player. His career started here but more importantly we gave him a lifeline when he seemed too injury prone for most. He repaid us in spades. He’ll leave as our most capped player reflecting his strong contribution over many years. He’s Good, he’s good, he’s really fucking good.

I hated city voice with a passion. Trying to suggest we were supporters of “the city group football clubs”’! The concept made me feel ill and I’m not supporting a club because a suit on the other side of the world said I should. Sorry but it doesn’t work like that. im glad it and “city points” went. Two less things to make me think of quitting.

The final (insipid) Derby loss to the Tards gave them third and us sixth. No complaints but it was thin margins.

Wholeheartedly agree. Neither do double-headers. They are IMO and cynically, just a mechanism to artificially inflate attendances at women's matches. However, I suspect that the cost of staging them at AAMI is greatly reduced by making them double-headers. Which justifies them from a business perspective. That's an issue with all big sports events in Australia. Not just football.

I don't think curtain raisers work. They are fun sometimes for back to back games but didn't work last week

OK we know all about our problems getting a crowd to the men's let alone the women's. Interestingly I've been offered two for one tickets to the ALW final by Liberty who are one of my suppliers. I'm going to the Elimination final on Sunday but I think the Mrs will have my guts if I went to two games plus my local team playing Saturday. Which brings me to my point, why would the APL not schedule the Final on the same day ie as a curtain raiser or afterwards. Ready made crowd from the derby! In regard to that article, Dodd the former Matilda is being disingenuous. The same crowd that attends Matildas and Soccerroos games aren't dedicated supporters of Australian football, most are theatregoers and hence that's the eternal problem with the league

It's straight out of "Yes, Minister." (Or "Yes, Prime Minister.")

The fact of the matter is that that Melbourne City Football Cub does not present itself as a football club for the people of Melbourne. Melbourne Heart was quite different. CFG took over in 2124, but the colours did not change completely to the City Blue style until 2016/2017 (we hade the interim stripe colours for two seasons -see https://www.footballkitarchive.com/melbourne-city-kits/#2010s). Crowds started to slide after the 2016/17 season. It is not surprising that the decline coincides with the removal of contacts with the club such as City Voice and City Points and the gradual change to presenting itself as a business rather than a football club .I recall the message one day about how excited it was to have appointed a new Forex partner - WTF is the relevance of that to football fans? Since then IMO the club has compounded its own problem by removing itself to the fringe of Melbourne's outer suburbs. Now it cannot even let what members remain know anything about its Fan Representative Group. IMO the club's attendances reflect the interest of the people of Melbourne in it, and any damage that has been done is entirely its own fault.

And with the support and backing of the club

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/football/2024/may/01/a-league-women-alw-grand-final-2024-crowd-size-aami-park-melbourne-city-vs-sydney-fc