A-League Finals - The Semi Finals

[giggler99]

Semi Finals week in the A-League and we have two cracking matches for the right to play in this seasons Grand Final Will we get a repeat of last season Grand Final? Or could Adelaide or Macarthur pull an upset?


Semi Final Two
Saturday 19th June
Sydney FC V Adelaide United
Jubilee Stadium, 7:05pm EST

Semi Final One
Sunday 20th June
Melbourne City V Macarthur FC
Netstrata Jubilee Stadium, 4:05pm EST
(change of venue due to Covid19 restrictions in Greater Melbourne)

Predictions:
Sydney 2-0 Melbourne City 3-1

Enjoy this weeks semi Finals action​

 

[gaskin]

Sydney 3-1
City 2-0

 

[acm21]

Both games going aet. Adelaide or Macarthur will win one, if not both.

 

[Colonial]

Sydney 3-1

MacArthurs 1-0

All Sydney final and no wanderbabies

 

[acm21]

Sydney 3-1

MacArthurs 1-0

All Sydney final and no wanderbabies

But play the game at bankwest?

 

[AJ_2000]

Crowds unlikely at AAMI with the AFL fleeing town.

Macarthur are a huge chance. Could host the semi, and playing a city side minus 3 best players.

 

[giggler99]

Crowds unlikely at AAMI with the AFL fleeing town.

Macarthur are a huge chance. Could host the semi, and playing a city side minus 3 best players.

If no crowds allowed game should be moved to Sydney or Canberra not a good look to play a final with no crowds.
City can forget about hosting the Grand Final if they win, guaranteed now it will be played in Sydney!

 

[Colonial]

If no crowds allowed game should be moved to Sydney or Canberra not a good look to play a final with no crowds.
City can forget about hosting the Grand Final if they win, guaranteed now it will be played in Sydney!

Im not getting over confident as Adelaide looked great in the weekend.

But what a great Grandfinal it would be for the Skyblues against the Bulls at Bankwest.

 

[Colonial]

 

[giggler99]

Seems positive by that tweet question would be what capacity 10% 20% 25% still wouldn't look good for a Final. Its your average City home game through lol

 

[AJ_2000]

It's the average a league crowd this season!

 

[AJ_2000]

I'm hopeful we'll get some sort of crowd allowed even if it's capped at 4-5k. Not enough for the AFL but suitable at AAMI.

 

[giggler99]

It's the average a league crowd this season!

I guess but it will turn a lot of people away in which they would have attended.

 

[Colonial]

It's the average a league crowd this season!

Look at the crowds we have had in the 2 finals games though.
Plus the Sydney game is already 80% sold so you would think with good weather it’s sold out.

 

[AJ_2000]

APL has put forward 3 plans to Dept of Health for 25% 40% and 50% attendance. So between 7400 - 14800 attendance.

Even a 25% would be a good outcome.

 

[AJ_2000]

Maybe the A League should run 26 weeks of finals to get the crowds in

 

[AJ_2000]

No ticket sales this morning for the city game, pending further information from the department of health.

7k at Geelong tomorrow night, but not Melbournians can attend.

If they allow a crowd at AAMI it might be as low as 3-4k.

 

[acm21]

No ticket sales this morning for the city game, pending further information from the department of health.

7k at Geelong tomorrow night, but not Melbournians can attend.

If they allow a crowd at AAMI it might be as low as 3-4k.

They aren't allowing any fans. I assume they are allowing them in Geelong due to Geelong being regional. I suspect they will move the game to Sydney.

 

[AJ_2000]

Sad that we're not going to get the chance to play in front of the home fans.

Mind you, Sydney is on the doorstep of its own outbreak....

 

[giggler99]

Sad that we're not going to get the chance to play in front of the home fans.

Mind you, Sydney is on the doorstep of its own outbreak....

They ain't as panic stricken in NSW as the Victorian Government are so are unlikely to go into a full lockdown.
will most likely be played at Bankwest if moved anyway away from the current outbreak at Bondi.

The Grand Final will be the big concern at this point.

 

[acm21]

They ain't as panic stricken in NSW as the Victorian Government are so are unlikely to go into a full lockdown.
will most likely be played at Bankwest if moved anyway away from the current outbreak at Bondi.

The Grand Final will be the big concern at this point.

Kograh and Leichhardt are also put of the way from the current outbreak. Semi should be fine, final is a wait and see.

 

[Colonial]

 

[giggler99]

Update.. not really but…

 

[Elmer_Judd]

I can understand having the GF in Sydney if we make, but being forced to play our home semi final against a ratchet team of peasants that finished 6th in the league, in front of their inbred mouth breathing flog fanbase would be an utter joke and abomination.

#DeathToTheALeague
#StandBySMFCMike

 

[acm21]

I can understand having the GF in Sydney if we make, but being forced to play our home semi final against a ratchet team of peasants that finished 6th in the league, in front of their inbred mouth breathing flog fanbase would be an utter joke and abomination.

#DeathToTheALeague
#StandBySMFCMike

It's a difficult decision either way. If the game is moved to Sydney it would likely not be at Campbelltown but instead at kograh or leichhardt (Campbelltown is pretty far away from Sydney proper so it would be quite a neutral venue)