At the conclusion of today's Grand Final, I will be hanging up the boots indefinitely, if not forever.
I've lost a lot of the spark I had for this place when I returned. The media landscape is pretty stagnant, the rookie recruitment rate is in the gurgler, and honestly, 5 years of doing SFAEW...
Does this count as a Monday match thread?
Anyway, get in here:
SQUAD:
0) Chief
1) A Swallow
2) DJ75
5) Blaze Storm (LG)
6) Ge3ks
7) Pie 4 Life (C)
9) T2B_ (C)
10) Mooresome
11) freo84
12) DragoDelph
13) BringBackTheAnchor
15) Strigoi
16) Hatchy1992 (VC)
18) Purple Jesus
20) Knifey Spoony...
To kick off this momentous anniversary season of the Sweet FA, we here at #PhenoMedia would like to celebrate this anniversary by making all the OPs of Round 1 throwbacks to previous Match Threads and Media pieces made by us.
This game's throwback is to Season 25: Clickbait V1...
To kick off this momentous anniversary season of the Sweet FA, we here at #PhenoMedia would like to celebrate this anniversary by making all the OPs of Round 1 throwbacks to previous Match Threads and Media pieces made by us.
This game's throwback is to Season 26: Doc Phenom...
To kick off this momentous anniversary season of the Sweet FA, we here at #PhenoMedia would like to celebrate this anniversary by making all the OPs of Round 1 throwbacks to previous Match Threads and Media pieces made by us.
This game's throwback is to Season 26: Video Game Week...
To kick off this momentous anniversary season of the Sweet FA, we here at #PhenoMedia would like to celebrate this anniversary by making all the OPs of Round 1 throwbacks to previous Match Threads and Media pieces made by us.
This game's throwback is to Season 37: PhenyomenyawV2...
To kick off this momentous anniversary season of the Sweet FA, we here at #PhenoMedia would like to celebrate this anniversary by making all the OPs of Round 1 throwbacks to previous Match Threads and Media pieces made by us.
This game's throwback is to Season 39: PhenomenalV1 - Private Eye...
To kick off this momentous anniversary season of the Sweet FA, we here at #PhenoMedia would like to celebrate this anniversary by making all the OPs of Round 1 throwbacks to previous Match Threads and Media pieces made by us.
This game's throwback is to Season 26: FrenchnomenalV1...
A lot can happen in four and a half years.
Five admins have been in the hot seat.
Multiple big-name reinstations and permabans have rocked the league.
An expansion bid succeeded for once, and we came very close to having a club shut down.
When I posted the first SFAEW thread back in...
Wally Centre of Excellence, 29th June 2025
Two-time East Side Hawks premiership ruck-rover PhenomenalV1 made a shock announcement just minutes after winning back to back Grand Finals that he was leaving the very club he'd helped to win two flags.
According to sources close to Mr. V1, he was...
My dear fellow citizens of Sweet.
There was much to celebrate on field today for the East Side Hawks. We won after trailing for most of the match, and we're only a game out of the 8.
However, during that game against the Mount Buller Demons, there was one piece of play had my monocle popping...
From the files of PhenomenalV1: Private Eye
The Case of the Infuriation of the Card Hawks
Friday night was my favourite time of the week. For 6 hours, I can forget about the underbelly of Sweet that I've found my professional life unfathomably entangled in and relax with my oldest...
From this files of PhenomenalV1: Private Eye
The Case of the Lizards from Hell
My favourite vacation destinations aren't always the most obvious ones. A Private Eye needs to think outside the ordinary: no crime in this city would go solved if it wasn't for a little creativity, and my...
From the files of PhenomenalV1: Private Eye
The Case of the Regal Rodents
I never liked heading into the sewers of Sweet. It wasn't just the foul stench of decomposing sewage and the occasional mob hit corpse, it was the shanty town my street rat informants had set up in the depths...
From the files of PhenomenalV1: Private Eye
The Case of the Bootleggers and the Mayor
I always walked through the streets of Sweet at midnight. There's no better time to follow the off-key warbling of the city drunkards in search of the best local watering hole. This damned prohibition...
From the files of PhenomenalV1: Private Eye
The Case of the Ultimate Gladiator
It's never a good time when the cops show up at your apartment at 2 AM. Even less so when it's the Chief of the Sweet PD.
"Mr V1, by all rights, I shouldn't be talking to you," drawled The Filth Wizard, his...
From the files of PhenomenalV1: Private Eye
The Case of the Plasticine Casino
It was one of those nights where the city was just too damn hot. You could smell the cigarette smoke from a hundred feet away, but the acrid scent of tar and tobacco did nothing to calm my nerves.
I looked...
IT HASN'T BEEN REVOLUTIONARY IN YEARS
IT'S NOT THAT BOLD, IT'S JUST ANOTHER THREAD IN AN INCREASINGLY SPARSE MEDIA LANDSCAPE
IT'S BECOME A BIT OF AN UWILLING JUGGERNAUT
IT'S SOMETHING The Filth Wizard REALLY APPRECIATES, APPARENTLY
DON'T QUOTE ME ON THAT
IT HAS ABSOLUTELY NO SHAME...
Get out your overpriced vinyl variants, it's music week here in Sweet!
We're celebrating all the greatest artists the city's ever produced, so let's get started.
BC/DC (named after the era in which they were born) are the biggest band to have ever spawned in Abdu.
Of course, biggest...
Get out your overpriced vinyl variants, it's music week here in Sweet!
We're celebrating all the greatest artists the city's ever produced, so let's get started.
Lukewarmplay are Dragon Island's most music export.
Fronted by the sweetheart of rock and roll, Bonz Martin...OK, does...
Get out your overpriced vinyl variants, it's music week here in Sweet!
We're celebrating all the greatest artists the city's ever produced, so let's get started.
Considered by many to the the first modern day popstar, Elvis Mobbsley in the genesis point of rock 'n' roll taking over...
Get out your overpriced vinyl variants, it's music week here in Sweet!
We're celebrating all the greatest artists the city's ever produced, so let's get started.
The Las Vegas Bears gave us the bad boy of the Sweet music scene: Alvin the Chipmunk.
Virtually inventing the Chipmunk Soul...
Get out your overpriced vinyl variants, it's music week here in Sweet!
We're celebrating all the greatest artists the city's ever produced, so let's get started.
Few names are as beloved in music as Damon_Gunsbarn, Graham Phenom, Alex Porps and Tarkyn Rowntree: Blargh.
Pioneers of the...
Get out your overpriced vinyl variants, it's music week here in Sweet!
We're celebrating all the greatest artists the city's ever produced, so let's get started.
The phrase "Fab Four" is inextricably linked with Coney Island's own pop legends, The Beat-Ups.
Filth McCartney, Bob Starr...
(If someone who's better at designing logos than me is reading, please help. This provisional logo is up there with my Dragons rebrand.)
For far too long, cricket has terrorised the Sweet summer.
For far too long, we've suffered those horrifying words of "oh, marvelous effort, that" and...
IT'S NEVER ACTUALLY BEEN REVOLUTIONARY AT ALL
IT'S WAS BOLD ONCE BUT EVERY DAY IT GETS LESS POLISHED
IT'S DEEPLY MISSING Elton Johns Wig AND HOPES HE'S ABLE TO GET BACK ON HIS FEET SOON
IT'S BEEN GIVEN THE ENTHUSIASTIC ALL-CLEAR BY The Filth Wizard
IT'S SOMETHING THAT'S INEXPLICABLY BECOME A...
Well, I don't think we were expecting to see this match-up outside of the Grand Final.
It's second at home to first as the two most dominant teams of the home and away season, the Ophidian Old Boys and the Gold City Royals, clash in Spotswood.
Journey of the Old Boys
The OOBs comfortably...
Our first Prelim of the week sees the fourth placed Roys at home against the third placed Swamprats in a battle of experience over new blood.
Journey of the Roys
The Roys' finals campaign kicked off in grand fashion; they dismantled minor premiers Gold City, thanks in part to a colossal...
Following today's embarrassing loss to the Sin City Swamprats, Dragons FFC legend PhenomenalV1 has announced his intent to leave the club once his current contract expires at the end of the season.
Reports of tensions between PhenomenalV1 and current Dragons captain Greenery have dogged the...
The following match thread OP has been outsourced to my twin sister from an alternate universe where it's permanently 2009.
hai runs away <3
I'm PhenyomenyawV2, Phenyom's sistew fwom 2009!!11 So excited t-to see the x3 SFA?!?1 wowie~
Umm...I don't weawwy x3 knyow much about the x3...