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Scotty has announced his retirement. The grand final will be his last match as a player. He will continue with the club in a coaching role next season. https://melbournecityfc.com.au/news/jamo-calls-it-a-day-city-skipper-to-retire-following-alm-grand-final?fbclid=IwAR2PKE8AClRHqC9QQr6nLCXsUG_oeFRfWxMsiWz3zgadzcU7NyuKM8hrZgk A true club hero for his attitude and leadership. Let's win it for Scotty!

Indeed. Great to hear he's staying on with the club. Deserves a Testimonial match - make it happen CFG.

I have a feeling that doubts about the ownership of City is one reason why we don't have a bigger fanbase.

And to top off another personal milestone, Bos has been named in the PFA's team of the season and named captain: https://melbournecityfc.com.au/news/pfa-tots-six-city-stars-recognised

Yes, but i didn't action it once they announced option 2 was the successful one. That's way too much bus in two days and very little buildup

Couldn't think of anything worse than spending 20hrs on a bus for a 2-3 hour game 😥

Our active group has organized a club event at the imperial to watch the match on Saturday night. $10 pp to book

Should he step on the field, it will be his 141st aleague appearance for us - a club record. Curtis Good is not far behind, but still a phenomenal effort given 100 game players have never been that common for us. Great to know he's hanging around too. Biggest congrats to the man and his family.

So the current breakdown of posts by the A-Leagues facebook page looks like this: (started counting posts after each team's 2nd semi finished, so we've had 24 hours extra) Both (posts promoting the grand final match) - 4 City - 19 CCM - 44

Signed up for another season 👍 Cmon City 💙

Nuffie

Are we sure that this is not confusion with the reported likely arrival of Jamie Young?

If we're going to play that game. Do people know much about our owner and how he had acquired his wealth? Or even about his human rights record?A little bit of digging may show that he is not exactly a shining beacon of humanity so we should really be boycotting the club too... In all seriousness I understand the frustration with the grand final decision and tbh I don't think their is one person out there that agrees with what is going on. It just gets tiresome having to talk about the same issue every thread when people like myself, just want to talk about what's going on, on the pitch rather then what's going on off it. If people wish to not go and boycott the grand final that's their decision. But I wanna watch the game (on TV for the record) and enjoy it and I don't really give a fuck what people say about it sorry. I'm here to support the team first and foremost and that's what I'm going to do

Email these guys yarraendcollective@outlook.com It's 10 pp you just need to tell them how many you want to book for

Obviously people picked Option 2 as it means they dont have to take a day off work on the Friday, but jesus christ, way to suck all the fun out of the whole experience. You'd get virtually no pre-game, scrambling to get your gear to a hotel before kickoff, and then youd have to be hungover af on a bus all day Sunday. Fizzer. I was kinda hoping they'd split it and do a coach or more of each tbh.

https://melbournecityfc.com.au/news/join-our-epic-grand-final-road-trip No price is quoted here. The way it read to me was that you would be up for food, drinks, incidentals, and Saturday night's accommodation in Sydney, but everything else was going to be paid for by the club. $100 refundable deposit but no refund if you didn't turn up. It might have been a sweeter deal if the accommodation in Sydney and transport to and from was arranged by the club, even if you had to pay for that component, but if you're not familiar with a place getting decent accommodation is a bit of a lottery. I've never been to Parramatta in my life and know absolutely nothing about it. Pearce is likely in the UK. Maybe everyone could kip down at his mansion...? And any overflow to Townsend's place.

Exact same happened with us. 20 hours of bus in a 30 odd hour span was just too much. Would've been exciting for the first few hours but then..... Would've been different if option 1 was picked... Which tbh, i can't believe it wasn't...

APL is simply trying to drum up enough visibility for fans who are more likely to travel to, and attend, the GF.

I don't do (anti-)social media so I'm not likely to be influenced by it one way or the other. But after reading your post, just for interest and comparison, I checked out our club website. I think it's fair to say that there is not a lot of hype there either.

The point I was making was that CCM are getting all the hype and media attention. In a way it's good for us as it piles the pressure and expectation on them, but at the same time it does feel like another example of how we're not getting treated fairly by the league.

I've been paying $38.49 per month for one adult City Blue and one senior City Blue. Next year it will be $45.97 - an increase of 19.4%. I guess Mansour needs help paying his Victorian electricity bill.

Plastic.

Wouldnt latch on to that too hard just yet, but irrespective of age he'd be a great get coming straight out of a 30 appearance Premier League season. Not sure how exactly we'd fit him in cap/marquee wise though.

Probably a couple pages of crying then talk about the game... But on a serious note, both teams match up well with attacking intent. Although we are the better team we will be more the underdogs. Purely on the fact 95% ofthe crowd will be Mariners or neutral supporters. Pretty much a home game for the Mariners and virtually everyone will be against us except our own fans. Hostile environment etc etc. I believe this team is stronger than last years grand finalists. Hopefully our experience pays off in this game, as the Mariners have barely any finals experience in the past decade...

Briefly liked Central Coast until I saw some of the comments from their fans today. No solidarity at all over this APL decision. I really hope we smash the bastards.