CityWildcat

Zero interest in NPL. ESPECIALLY not when kids in 2024 are forced to pay $3000 to play a season with an NPL club. I know a talented youngster who has turned his back on the game this year for this exact reason. So have 4-5 of his team-mates. They have opted for girls and part-time jobs. Loved Heart. Red and white like NFFC, who I have followed for 40yrs, despite being a Kiwi. I lived half a mile from the City Ground for 7yrs. Dislike Manchester City. Still here but interest is definitely ebbing away. Especially now that Forest are back in the EPL and I can watch them live on TV for the first time in 20+yrs. Looking forward to seeing how Auckland do this season. The moment my home city of Christchurch gets an A-League franchise, I'm out of CFG for good.

That megaphone is gonna have no room for any more **insert current name of Active** decals on it very shortly. The next lot might not even have been born when Heart played its first A-League game.....

When 10 players depart the squad (that's the tally now) ...it really tests the resolve of the kind of fan who came here for Melbourne Heart and has really no time for CFG / no interest in Manchester City.....

I love how the MVFC press release today did not mention his previous A-League club, not once. LOL. This will be very interesting to watch. My suspicion is that he will be found out. IMO his predecessor Monsieur Erick presented him with a strong, title-winning squad on a plate when he got the top job at City. As for his new job, cut-price salary gets cut-price coach. If he truly was so talented, and events at Troyes were way out of his control, surely CFG would have found another internal posting for him.

We got what we deserved - finishing 6th. I will watch the off-season with huge interest.

How very hardcore, showing up at a ''big ticket'' game and on FB urging people to be there. Like, where were these people in mid-season at any time in the last couple of years? I might hate the finals concept, but I go to every pre-finals home game I can make when I'm not working.......

Probably an unpopular opinion but I'm tired of this ''finals'' BS. It's not a football format. I don't like paying for membership (12yrs now) and then being fleeced at this time of year. Already today I have had about 5 emails about finals tickets. The APL has got so much to answer for (let's not even mention that shitstain Danny T******d, now ruining some project in bloody Saudi Arabia, of all places. Then again, probably the perfect place for him) over the couple of years since it made the A-Leagues independent. I want investment in the bread-and-butter season, not confected hype. To get the league back to where it was a decade ago. We certainly do not deserve to win the GF this season, but obviously there is a chance we could. Good luck to the team. But.... nah.

Bonkers. But our support seems to be falling off a cliff.....

Did that seem accurate? The crowd v Nix on Saturday was quoted at 4461 but that seemed a very creative bit of maths to me...

Makes total sense after the Phoenix display.

I’m at the game. Small crowd. The Phoenix fans in the corner are making the most noise. Talbot just came off, he’s had a great game, as has Arslan. We really deserve to win, we should be 3-0 … Caputo just had an effort cleared off the line. Against the best team this season we are owning the second half. Shame so few are here to see it

Just got home from the game. Yes, very harsh to have that goal disallowed. Given relative form so far this season, I feared a drubbing, but thought we battled really hard throughout and had the better of them overall. Very solid defence tonight - our CBs were great. But sadly their defence was also pretty staunch. We were just poor at the point of final ball. It was a match notable for a total absence of quality finishing by either team. On the plus side, excellent sized crowd, big atmosphere in our Active (version 4.0 or whatever it is now seem to have their shit together at last....) and a good display pre kickoff, well done lads .... their revived North Terrace was weirdly quiet. But at least there was no BS anywhere. Good to see a lot of families and young kids back at the derby too. Pretty good showcase all round.

Yes, this just in. https://www.codesports.com.au/football/a-leagues/sydney-strikes-new-deal-with-aleagues-grand-final-format/news-story/cf6430789e5d129dc65b386a5c71d52e But of course, the shockingly overdue U-turn is buried in the official PR guff by the ''exciting'' news of a new ''Unite Round''. Is that tool Townsend STILL in charge of the APL?

I do hope he fares better than Arzani..... the SPL may be average overall, but Celtic is a genuinely huge club (I worked in Glasgow for five years) and it's a miniscule fee they have paid by their standards. He won't be strolling straight into the 11. I also hope that Kewell's job security there is not integral to his future success....

He lit the place up when he played at AAMI. Good luck to him and his family. Am I right in thinking he is the one player to leave City and really make a name for himself in Britain? For a time a few years back he was an absolute Hero of Huddersfield, reducing elderly men in flat caps to tears LOL. ''Best player I have seen in 60 years watching the Terriers'' was a typical quote. Seriously. https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/66063541