A-League Round 24 - Behind Closed Doors!!

[giggler99]

A-League Round 24 and due to the CoronaVirus all matches will be played behind closed doors! we also have a couple rescheduled matches due to Wellington and Melbourne Victory being in quarantine as well as one match from round 26 brought forward.

A-league Round 24

Friday 20th March
Central Coast Mariners V Melbourne City, Central Coast Stadium, 5:30pm ESDT
Brisbane Roar V Newcastle Jets, CBUS Stadium, Gold Coast, 7:30pm ESDT 6:30pm EST

Saturday 21st March
Western Sydney Wanderers V SydneyFC, BankWest Stadium, 7:30pm ESDT

Monday 23rd March
Perth Glory V Western United, HBF Stadium, 9:30pm ESDT 6:30pm EST

A-league Round 26

Monday 23rd March
Newcastle Jets V Melbourne City, McDonald James Stadium, 7:30pm ESDT (*rescheduled match brought forward)

All matches to be played behind closed doors!

Bye: Adelaide United, Melbourne Victory (in quarantine) Wellington Phoenix (in quarantine)

Predictions: City 3-0 Roar V Jets 1-1 SyndeyFC 1-0 Perth 2-1 City 2-1

Enjoy watching sport on TV this weekend it's gonna look weird and stay safe!

 

[acm21]

City will put 4 or 5 past central coast, I think the roar should win 2 or 3-1 (but a close game), derby will be a multi goal affair (either 1 goal difference or a draw). All the other predictions seem about right.

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[Elmer_Judd]

Interesting to see how the Sydney Derby/battle of the harbour ? Goes behind closed doors ?

I can the Smurfs being a proud and understandably arrogant group of players wanting to get some payback on The Unicorns, could see them easily put 3 or 4 goals past time in a rout.

 

[gaskin]

The one game I have been looking forward to all season and I can't go. ******* Corona.

 

[Zidane98]

Kinda glad our game is postponed, we are a shitshow atm.

After this round I say end the league, give it to Sydney FC and give us the wooden spoon. Starting season 20/21 in Oct is going to be a godsend for the A League.

 

[Elmer_Judd]

Calling it now, it's a Smurfs vs City Slickers Grand Final. Both teams are a tier above everyone else this season (with apologies to Welly and Perf)

City are Melbourne and Victoria's only hope to stop the Smurfs from establishing a dynasty, just remember that Victory Oompa Lumpas.

 

[Colonial]

Calling it now, it's a Smurfs vs City Slickers Grand Final. Both teams are a tier above everyone else this season (with apologies to Welly and Perf)

City are Melbourne and Victoria's only hope to stop the Smurfs from establishing a dynasty, just remember that Victory Oompa Lumpas.

Whatever you are drinking I want some.

You belted the Mariners not the Nix, not Perth not Brisbane.

So calm down. Your club has a habit of not handling the limelight very well, if at all.


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[Zidane98]

Im predicting a 'Nix vs Sydney FC Grand Final played in Wellington in front of 30k sheep.

 

[acm21]

Whatever you are drinking I want some.

You belted the Mariners not the Nix, not Perth not Brisbane.

So calm down. Your club has a habit of not handling the limelight very well, if at all.


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I wouldn’t call 4-2 a belting (even though from the parts of the game I’ve seen it’s been easy). But your point does stand very well. Im not sure who will be in the gf, but I have a strange feeling the smurfs wont be there.


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[Greenery]

Calling it now, it's a Smurfs vs City Slickers Grand Final. Both teams are a tier above everyone else this season (with apologies to Welly and Perf)

City are Melbourne and Victoria's only hope to stop the Smurfs from establishing a dynasty, just remember that Victory Oompa Lumpas.

Yeah City were really good in the 2nd half against Perth

 

[Elmer_Judd]

Yeah City were really good in the 2nd half against Perth

It is what it is, especially behind closed doors,the cream rises to the top.

It's a SydneyFC v Melbourne City titlr decider this season.

 

[tigs2010]

City guaranteed to make it. Would be a monumental balls up not to from here.

 

[Greenery]

Oh come on Nux, Perf and City are all very hard to split wouldn't right any of them off. And they can all beat Sfc on their day.

 

[Borough Blood]

Yeah City were really good in the 2nd half against Perth

City are massive chokers so the fact Perth couldn’t at least peg back a draw is embarrassing.

 

[Greenery]

City are massive chokers so the fact Perth couldn’t at least peg back a draw is embarrassing.

You're right but their keeper and the posts had a good day

 

[ioppolo]

Oh come on Nux, Perf and City are all very hard to split wouldn't right any of them off. And they can all beat Sfc on their day.

I'd right us off, we looked cooked

 

[gaskin]

I'd right us off, we looked cooked

Hardly. The 2nd half against City and the performance last week against Sydney suggest otherwise.

 

[Greenery]

I recall Roar being mooted as a Dark horse in the pre season. With Mcdonald banging them and their defensive solidity they could be hard to beat.

 

[nobbyiscool]

giggler99 can you please edit the title to say "behind closed doors"? It's bothering me every time I get a notification.

And this is only day 1 of quarantine for me

 

[giggler99]

giggler99 can you please edit the title to say "behind closed doors"? It's bothering me every time I get a notification.

And this is only day 1 of quarantine for me

Done!

What's happened mate?

 

[nobbyiscool]

Done!

What's happened mate?

Just came into close contact with a confirmed case earlier this week, so I'm now in lockdown for 14 days

The good news is that after dealing with anxiety for 20 years, I feel like I've been training for this my whole life

 

[nobbyiscool]

I'm seeing all these Americans tweeting about AFL because it's being shown on Fox Sports over there.

It got me thinking that if the A-League has any marketing budget yet, it should be looking to sling some high profile football personalities in Europe a few dollars to get them to live tweet A-League games in the absence of any other sport in the world. It could bring a lot of eyeballs, and could be significant in terms of attracting players as much as fans.

 

[Greenery]

I'm seeing all these Americans tweeting about AFL because it's being shown on Fox Sports over there.

It got me thinking that if the A-League has any marketing budget yet, it should be looking to sling some high profile football personalities in Europe a few dollars to get them to live tweet A-League games in the absence of any other sport in the world. It could bring a lot of eyeballs, and could be significant in terms of attracting players as much as fans.

You'd hope so, SFC and WSW is a good game for the profile of the league as well in terms of quality.

 

[giggler99]

I'm seeing all these Americans tweeting about AFL because it's being shown on Fox Sports over there.

It got me thinking that if the A-League has any marketing budget yet, it should be looking to sling some high profile football personalities in Europe a few dollars to get them to live tweet A-League games in the absence of any other sport in the world. It could bring a lot of eyeballs, and could be significant in terms of attracting players as much as fans.

The A-league twitter account has been encouraging it!

 

[Greenery]

Could get some Eurosnobs on board too