It will be 9 derbies a season not 3Quote:
Originally Posted by hawk
That keeps the code in attention nearly all season long
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It will be 9 derbies a season not 3Quote:
Originally Posted by hawk
That keeps the code in attention nearly all season long
wasn't talking about the number of games MKRs but still a good idea for football.Quote:
Originally Posted by MFKS
Was that MykitchenRules on porpoise.
When the league goes to 12 teams, play everyone twice = 22 Rounds, not long enough season.
Would have to have 2 conferences, maybe something like
Sydney FC
Wanderers
Newcastle
Central Coast
Brisbane
New Sydney?
Perth
Adelaide
Victory
City
Phoenix
New Melbourne?
Play everyone twice and your conference teams 3 times.
22 + 5 Conference games = 27 games
Could even revamp the finals system, top 3 from each conference go through.
12 teams 3 games against each opponent would be a 33 game season perfect length IMO.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Postman
Would that mean a new TV deal?Quote:
Originally Posted by Premy
It would certainly mean more content for a new TV deal.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Postman
12 team comp top 10 make the finals.
Content content content y'all!!!
yup. there are many others, membah loves itQuote:
Originally Posted by My2BobsWorth
Dolphinitely.Quote:
Originally Posted by My2BobsWorth
lol, we would be 11.Quote:
Originally Posted by plague
The way I see it, there's only two options for expansion that are actually viable: Wollongong (not Southern Sydney) & South Melbourne.
The ideal is to have Wollongong & Canberra but Canberra won't be able to maintain the interest, money, everything needed to last the distance IMO.
Other than those 2/3 options ^ I don't see any other legit place in Australia for expansion.
The FFA are desperate to get 2 more teams in before the new TV deal. They'll try really hard on Southern Sydney and Canberra, and they'll both IMO fail, and the "safe" options for the FFA are Wollongong and South Melbourne. And it'll pain the FFA so freaking much to allow effniks back in :rof:
I think South Melbourne won't be anywhere near it.Quote:
Originally Posted by pv4
IMO it will be South Sydney/Wollongong and Brisbane's South Western Corridor, FFA loves Derbys and that will give them a new one in Brisbane and 6 more Sydney Derbys a year.
That "conference" idea has been tried by both the NSL and NRL ending in failure - some teams played each other three times, some once and the draw had no sense.
And I remember Rosebud being relegated after coming fifth or sixth due to those stupid rules.Quote:
1984–1986: Conference system and power shift
Shrinking crowds led to the radical move of introducing more teams (mainly from Victoria and New South Wales) and splitting the league into two conferences, with the winner of each division to play off in an end of year two legged final. For season 1984 the 'Australian' Conference had competing teams from New South Wales and the ACT, whilst the 'National' Conference consisted of Victorian, South Australian and Queensland clubs. For 1985 and 1986 this reverted to 'Northern' and 'Southern' Conferences. Strangely, the competition's most geographically northern sides, Brisbane Lions and Brisbane City were in the latter grouping.
This period saw South Melbourne become the first Victorian team to win the league, followed by Brunswick Juventus, and Adelaide City, all Southern conference sides. At the end of the 1986 season, the system was scrapped, and about half the teams were dumped back to their respective state leagues. The criteria used to decide who stayed and who went was based 50% on the 1986 playing record, 40% on past playing record, and 10% on crowd support.[14] The result was that only one team from outside Sydney and Melbourne, reigning champions Adelaide City, was retained.
Keep it simple - 11 x 3 = 33
Amen.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jetmaster
Canberra will def be able to some decent $ sponsorship with all those polli suits having fingers in corporate pockets.Quote:
Originally Posted by pv4
harder to get $ out of corporates down here than in newy.Quote:
Originally Posted by hawk
tight bastardsQuote:
Originally Posted by belchardo
Canberra
Wollongong
South melbourne
Tasmanian team
In that order
Big opportunity with the tassie one imo
http://www.theherald.com.au/story/29...meback/?cs=306
The fat controller has to ****ing go.
Stubbins is a Muppet no doubt about it but this fat **** should have no say in team selections at all
What I see as a huge problem with these sackings and Carney's case is it's obvious the only reason they're not "mutually terminating" Carney is because he has an extra year to run on his contract. Having a guess, that'd say to me that Tinkler will never again sign anyone for more than one season - as he'll want his players to be disposable if given the chance. Not only will this be frustrating as we won't be able to tie players down long-term, but I daresay it'll make it difficult when negotiating for incoming players.
Although in saying all that, they DID sign Boogard until the end of 17/18 :rof:
Another string in the bow for FFA against the Fat Controller.Quote:
Originally Posted by MFKS
Trialling Antelmi? That slipped under the radar... he's a decent prospect. Was at Wigan when they did their massive cull, let go the entire reserve/youth set up, basically. Was at Leeds youth before that.Quote:
Originally Posted by MFKS
Could be a great little coup if we actually sign him.
Anyone heard of Luke Gearing?
I have, but mostly negative stuff though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Grimario
This is possibly the best post on the history of the forum.Quote:
Originally Posted by plague
So NXFM just said we have signed Lucas Neill on a 2 year deal starting next season.
Any club people on here confirm that?
Heads about to explode.
Pv4's life has been madeQuote:
Originally Posted by plague
Whats the date again?Quote:
Originally Posted by plague
thisQuote:
Originally Posted by Bon
I pray this isn't an April Fools thing and is legit.Quote:
Originally Posted by plague
Must be april fools. No whispers on twitterQuote:
Originally Posted by plague
u got played homie
although this is the kind of sick stuff the club would actually do irl
To be fair id believe anything the Jets came out with.Quote:
Originally Posted by pv4
Pretty stupid joke by NXFM if it is an April fools. Thought they'd go after the Knights.
The 'club official' they had on sounded legit enough.
We're a joke, so why not go for us - clearly it would be believed.Quote:
Originally Posted by plague
references to the signage/protest, no pics though
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/spor...06-1mfixh.html
http://theworldgame.sbs.com.au/artic...-dispatch-jets
http://www.theguardian.com/football/...newcastle-jets
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-04-0...?section=sport
but they are basically all the same AAP report. forza independent journalism!!!!
geez this will in be in the top 5 tifos
http://www.a-league.com.au/article/e...d1vuqty2aiqu1j
Story on Josh Mitchell some bloke from the Adelaide Disc Golf scene gets a mention but at the end love the Absolute beat down Josh puts on the club and our former ceo
:gent:
Josh Mitchell is quite possibly the greatest hero in the history of the universe.
http://i2.wp.com/www.brobible.com/wp...size=480%2C270Quote:
“Even guys like Robbie Middleby – I’ve a lot of time for the guy and I’ve played with him – but he’s not a General Manager. That’s not his job. It’s beyond him. And look at the coach now… I know Robbie’s gone now but he was there too long. It’s very frustrating."
The Member and Plague revisit the Middleby OUT thread.
http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/...3tamjcqbme.gif
But I remember being told that Middleby wasn't doing anything, it was all Palmer.
And Plague, I too was an advert advocate of Middleby Out too :soapbox: