mattyh001

courtesy of A League memes the irony of Alex King blowing his whistle 30 seconds early.

Harper has been anit City for as long as I can remember so what do you expect? Disappointing result given we were 2 goals to the good. Rubbish red card or not, quality teams and quality players take any situation by the scruff of the neck. Considering all teams have been either poor or inconsistent, I'm not sure if we should read too much into that last 30 min (or however long after Noone was sent for a bath) given we have been really solid for 150ish minutes of our 180 minutes so far since restart. from reading the a league regulations, it should only be a one game suspension for Noone - unless of course the Match Review panel want to make a seriously bullshit upgrade. very lucky boy.

by far their worst ever season since the start of the a league. ** PpG = points per game ** This season of the a league they will finish 2nd last & have a PpG of 0.833, 14 losses and a -14 GD currently. Season 1 of the a league they finished 2nd last holding a total PpG of 1.238, 9 losses and a +2 GD (they only bettered New Zealand Knights) Season 7 of the a league they finished 3rd last holding a total PpG of 1.074, 10 losses and a -8 GD (it was our second season as Heart and finished 6th) They have Perth and Wanderers to come, meaning they probably wont get 1 PpG (they have to win both). FWIW, our season where we finished last, we had a PpG of 0.963, lost 13 (having played 27 games to Victory's 26 games this season) and a -6 GD (we actually drew 2 and lost 4 of our last 6 games, so we were on track to do much better until our usual end of season fade away). So funnily enough, one could argue through comparison that John Aloisi was actually unlucky to "win" the wooden spoon with us that season when Victory have been total rubbish this season. Then again, we did only get 4 points from games that season (for a 0.333 PpG). It also magnifies how much better we would have been if Engelaar had been fully fit at the start of the season. on an additional note, in season 2 of the a league, New Zealand Knights had a PpG of 0.9048 - Victory would need a win and draw from their last two games or else their current season would be worse than one of the New Zealand Knights' seasons

if only the Mariners had picked up form earlier in the season - i can't see the scum picking up points (let alone a win) for the rest of the season.

anyone else watching the Adelaide v Perth game?

From reddit

Agreed that it would be great to see them. i just find it interesting Assange has been hounded for years by a number of countries in an effort to extradit for releasing shit while the the Chinese are being made to look like arseholes for doing what the USA should have re wikileaks info. Could be me misinterpreting coverage tho

UOTYH: After being booted from their Houston embassy, the Chinese are perfectly justified in burning their documents and should almost be commended for it. It also shows the West's (particularly the US) hypocrisy regarding wikileaks

helps that Brisbane lost to Adelaide and Wellington play Perth tomorrow too; massive six pointer coming now that Brisbane are too far back. thoroughly agree. and that's the difference between the great and the good teams; the great teams find a way irrespective of the refereeing (although it certainly helps to get the rub of the green).

We play Sydney August 1st, Adelaide August 11th, Geelong United August 19th (which is also the last league fixture before the finals). Great that we play all three games closer to the finals (particularly if we finish top two we don't have big breaks) but sucks that we have a two more weeks before we "restart"

Don't get our hopes up. We will conceed just before half time and then in the last 10 to lose 4-3 😔

Don't see how signing a visa player from the start of a season as a squaddie / bench warmer could ever be a good thing. The main reason I can see in keeping Berengeur is that we know what we are getting in what are very uncertain times. The chance to make a quality signing from elsewhere later in the year is dependent on travel restrictions, our start dates vs when other leagues restart (meaning available player pools might be limited), the amount of money available in the cap (which also means we do need to sign Florin at a good price), what impact will "inactivity" experienced by players during lockdown have on each and every player.

could be applied to any sport or social activity really ...

When you fear your wife more than Covid 19