Heat was pretty oppressive in Brisbane yesterday. Sitting at the ground I had sweat dripping down the crack of my arse and all that.Originally Posted by hawk
Whatever it was in Newy yesterday add 4-5C to that in Brisbane. Bresciano ain't no athlete and would have not been the best in that heat at the intensity the game was played
The Member bagging Juric but faps over Wilkinson and Leckie.
Cor blimey, get yourself together lad.
That said, didn't think Juric had a good game at all, still a million times better than Simon though.
Fapping over Leckie?? WTF
Time to deliver some of your fine work to justify this one.
PS Plague I have something for you I will post up either tonight or tomorrow when I get back to Newy.
You will know it when you see it
Pretty damning evidence right there Member.
Safe travels home.
Got to say, shit result aside, it's pretty ****ing wicked watching us boss a side like Korea. We were all over them, for most of the game, and aside from one or two chances it seemed to me like a very one-sided game.
Looking forward to the semi in Newy now. As good as Japan - Australia will be, Japan - China would have been a killer match too imo.
^ Agreed.
A complete reverse to almost every other Australia v Korea match I recall, as though the two sides had swapped their traditional tactics.
I sure hope the players have a different attitude towards this quarter final than what every one else does.
If it's the same, Australia won't make it to the semi final.
Japan not there yet.....Jordan could upset them tomorrow?!!!!
Dare to Zlatan
Originally Posted by Grimario
He won't make that mistake at Newcastle since our team is full of number 2's.
Benjamin Williams!!!!
Dare to Zlatan
Originally Posted by Grimario
He won't make that mistake at Newcastle since our team is full of number 2's.
Seems I can't post them. Took some photos but the mb size of the things is apparently to big for the foz
Was it more photos of poor overhead wiring?
ben Williams fks another game
Saudis should get through to the final, buying dotties is easy
We were at the Brisbane game as well and the heat was woeful. It was bad enough sitting in the stadium no breeze or anything let alone running around in it. Highlight of the night was running into the UAE team at Maccas having a late night snack and trying to use 3 different credit cards to pay for the food because they kept getting declined.. Hopefully the tickets i bought in July last year come in handy after the China game
My better half works in retail, helped a Kuwaiti withdraw cash as his card wouldn't work here on EFTPOS either. You'd think the teams would set them up with a local card or something
china were pretty poor last night. pretty sure they had a second string team out there, but north korea really pushed them in the second half.
chinese crowd were good (rumours swirling around the stadium that the chinese ambassador had bought 3,000 tickets and then given them away), but stadium exploded when north korea scored (and when they hit the cross bar).
looking like i'll get Iran v Iraq in the quarters down here.
Nice!
The Championship Chronicles - The Jetstream's review of the 2007/08 season. www.newcastlefootball.net/chronicles
You would think visa and Master Card etc would work universally around the planet like they claim they do.
Reality is the banking systems are a shemozzle. In Brazil my card would work in one machine but not the one next to it despite it being in the same bank.
I found one bank who would take my card and in the next town they wouldn't.
Absolute joke and can't be that hard to sort out
So the shit is already being heaped on Newcastle and the Asian Cup Committee for giving us an Asian Cup Semi Final...
Here's the article in the SMH (11pm 18/1/15)
"Socceroos Asian Cup semi-final won't be moved to Sydney despite Hunter Stadium limitations"
A potential Asian Cup semi-final involving Australia appears certain to remain in Newcastle instead of Sydney despite Hunter Stadium's already limited capacity being reduced by nearly a third for the tournament.
The Asian Football Confederation has an exclusive tenancy deal with Stadium Australia for the duration of the tournament and would be free to move a high-profile semi-final involving the host nation to the 83,000 capacity venue. The local organising committee in conjunction with the AFC have not looked into the possibility of moving a semi-final involving the Socceroos to Stadium Australia to accommodate up to 60,000 more fans in what would likely be a sell-out fixture.
After finishing second in their group to South Korea, Australia will play China in the quarter-final where they will have a chance to play either Japan, Iran or the UAE in a semi-final held at Newcastle, where capacity restrictions are in place. In accordance with FIFA World Cup regulations, the AFC have so far prevented the local organising committee from selling tickets to the two non-seated hills behind the goals at Hunter Stadium, which reduces the capacity of the venue from 33,000 to approximately 23,000.
Should the two organising committees of the tournament move a potential Australia semi-final to ANZ Stadium, it would likely provide the local organising committee about $500,000 in additional gate takings as well as the opportunity to allow more fans to watch a historic match. However, the short turnaround of just five days between the quarter-final and the semi-final are proving a deterrent to moving what could be the biggest match of the competition, a potential clash between Australia and Japan, or Australia and Iran.
The local organising committee claims it would be a logistical nightmare to rearrange issues of ticket exchanges, broadcasting, travel arrangements, accommodation, staff and other requirements in just five days.
Questions have been raised as to why the Hunter Stadium - the smallest stadium by capacity for the tournament - will host potentially the most high-profile match of the Asian Cup. The state governments were invited to bid for games in packages, with NSW purchasing the rights for all semi-finals, the third v fourth play-off and the Asian Cup final. The Victorian government did not bid for anything further than a quarter-final due to hosting the Australian Open, which clashes with the latter stages of the Asian Cup. The Queensland government did not battle NSW for the rights to host the final four games of the tournament.
"We had an agreement with governments that we would have a rotating draw so teams travelled, that was fundamental to the funding agreement. We made a decision to take 4 games to Newcastle, and we had 11 at Sydney, as NSW paid the most money to have the games at this tournament," Asian Cup 2015 chief executive, Michael Brown, said.
It was decided not to host more than 11 games at ANZ Stadium due to venue congestion and the organisers confirmed they did not plan for Australia to finish second in their group and face playing a semi-final in Newcastle. However, if Australia does reach that stage, the local organising committee might construct temporary seating on the hills behind both goals to increase the capacity for a match where demand will exceed supply.
"We're looking at every option for the two grass areas at Newcastle we can put temporary seating on. We're working with a couple of companies to work out costs, food, toilets, disabled seating, sight restrictions, and we have to work out if it's going to be beneficial. We'll be working through that, I'm not sure if we would have needed them if Australia doesn't beat China," Brown said.
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