Blackout

Maybe he's more of a Garfield man.

Not lodging the application isn't the same as not starting. At the same time the land is likely going to have to be re-zoned, which comes with the multitude of government departments that will have their sticky mitts all over the project.

Reportedly set for one year contract extension (serious): https://theworldgame.sbs.com.au/joyce-set-to-land-surprise-contact-extension-at-melbourne-city?fbclid=IwAR16CxG9PANf6JB9vJtbIJjVUj9_FurRf-Ideqlz7djUQlmwI7PvjwdKmII

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Western United... what a nothing name.

I've largely lost interest in the Club these days due to CFG's persistent ignorance/uninterest in Melbourne as anything other than a side project. After reading the comments above about the forum being relatively measured compared to Facebook, I had a look at the last month's engagements by the club. Fuck me! The club is completely tone deaf and are two steps removed from reality, and the supporters are certainly letting them know about it. On the flipside, if anyone is studying PR, Melbourne City is an excellent example of what not do with fan engagement.

It certainly makes his decision to jump ship from his relatively comfortable tenure at Crawley Town look like a terrible decision. Crawley are currently 12th in League Two - Notts County are currently 22nd. When he took on the Notts job I'm pretty confident they were stone motherless last, so he actually had them sitting out of the relegation zone when he was sacked.

So against whom will City be wearing the black kits I wonder? As it stands, the blue kit is worn about 60-65% of of the time. My first guess would be that the black kits will be worn for Adelaide/Brisbane away, whilst the blue kit will probably be worn away against West Sydney.

Well, that... and for 5 years they were they only choice for Melbourne football followers. They could have called themselves the Melbourne Sex-Offenders and the membership numbers would be similar to now. Once people have a team it is very hard to change that.

Maybe they are hoping he will actually buy the club, seeing as football is basically his hobby nowadays.

If the rest of the league was on Celtic's level it might be a fair comparison. Does this actually improve him as a footballer, or does it just put him in the European shop window? The Championship is a clear step-up from the A-League, this is almost a sideways move. This is a league where Motherwell were recently being outbid by English tier 5, non-league clubs:https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/44908872

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Does the FFA still police the whole "two years, one kit" rule?

I'm just glad to see that I'm in the majority that finds the generic 'Greater Southern Sydney' bids uninspiring. EDIT: Looks like the Greeks have found the poll.

“Wide ball for the Australian substitute, Smith, I hope I pronounced that correctly”

Robbie Kruse holds his spot on a wing. Some people have obviously lost patience with him, I had a quick look at his wiki page to see his European record and this is what I found:

Really?

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/sport/football/a-league/teams/adelaide/the-10-aleague-clubs-have-rejected-football-federation-australias-expansion-plans/news-story/bd1ac1a506dcec0f1cc3f47ce3f27c15 "The 10 A-League clubs have rejected Football Federation Australia’s expansion plans Val Migliaccio, Soccer Writer, The Advertiser March 29, 2018 5:58pm THE 10 A-League clubs have rejected Football Federation Australia’s expansion plans after the governing body excluded its member clubs from consultation. Australian Professional Football Clubs Association chairman Greg Griffin contacted FFA chief executive David Gallop on behalf of the clubs claiming the conduct of FFA is “completely unacceptable”. Griffin said the timing of the announcement, while FIFA is driving reform to expand FFA’s congress without consulting the 10 clubs, made little sense. The Advertiser has seen the letter from APFCA addressed to Gallop with the A-League member clubs and FFA’s board also Cc’d in an email. “Until the FIFA/AFC (Asian Football Confederation) governance reforms are articulated and implemented we would counsel you that the administration and board of FFA should not be undertaking any such action having regard to the fact that they are now essentially in a ‘caretaker’ mode,’’ Griffin said in the letter. “APFCA puts you on notice that it does not accept the legitimacy of the process, whatever that may have been, adopted by FFA administration and the FFA board to expand the A-League competition. “APFCA takes great exception to the process that FFA has embarked upon in respect to expansion of the A-League competition which process has been undertaken without any formal consultation of both the APFCA membership and the PFA (Professional Footballers Australia — the players union). “To proceed in this manner is to act in complete conflict with the current governance reform process. “APFCA under these circumstances will reject any position purported to be put in place by FFA on any expansion of the A-League until such time as there has been proper consultation of, and engagement with, the stakeholders of the professional game APFCA and PFA.” FFA on Thursday publicly released plans to expand to 12 A-League clubs by the start of the 2019/20 season, calling for expressions of interest by May 24 this year."

I'm looking forward to seeing the shortlist. It will certainly provide an insight into the thinking or lack thereof at FFA headquarters.

I for one look forward to cheering on the FIFA athletes from Australia.

Staying on brand, nice. Hyundai will be impressed.

How many responses have you had from each of the CFG clubs? For what it's worth, I filled it in during a slow work day.

1. $ 2. Just wait til they invariably play 5-6 home games a year at WIN Stadium, to "bring the game to Wollongong".

YouTube is normally pretty good. I'm watching the Miami TV YouTube channel in HD (ish).

Harry Kewell is up for Manager of the month in League Two. He has Crawley Town 6 points outside the playoffs.