A-League A-League Men Round 10 - A Festive Big Blue

[giggler99]

A League Men Round 10 and for the first time as I can remember we have a 'Big Blue' during the festive season, can Sydney FC plug their defensive holes that's seen them ship seven Goals in two matches? or can the Victory get a well earned away win in Sydney? Should be a fascinating watch.
Also this week another classic may await us at Coopers on Friday night when the inform Wanders take on the undefeated Adelaide United who will be wanting to make amends after last weeks late brain fade to draw from an assailing two goal lead.

A-League Men Round 10

Friday 27th December
Adelaide United V Western Sydney Wanderers 7:35pm ESDT 7:05pm CSDT, Coopers Stadium
Perth Glory V Macarthur F.C 10:45pm ESDT, 7:45pm WST, HBF Park

Saturday 28th December
Wellington Phoenix V Newcastle Jets 3:00pm ESDT, 5:00pm NZLT, Sky Stadium
Central Coast Mariners V Auckland FC 5:00pm ESDT 7:00pm NZLT, Industree Group Stadium (Live On 10 Bold, check local guides)
Sydney F.C V Melbourne Victory 7:35pm ESDT, Allianz Stadium (Live On 10 Bold, check local guides)

Sunday 29th December
Western United V Brisbane Roar 5:00pm ESDT, 4:00pm EST, Ironbark Fields

Bye: Melbourne City

Predictions: Adel 1-0 Mac 3-1 Nix 2-0 CCM V Auck 1-1 Vic 2-1 WU 3-0

Enjoy the football this weekend

 

[Greasyrhys]

The wanderers are guaranteed to score at least one goal tomorrow, been over a year since we last kept a clean sheet at home.

 

[nobbyiscool]

I'll never understand why we created "event" or "marquee" dates, got them to be very successful in the context of A-League crowds, then we did away with them.

It first happened with the Victory and the Melbourne Cup eve match, then probably around the time COVID started they also stopped fixturing that Victory Christmas week game on 27 of 28 December. A day at the cricket followed by the short walk over to Swan St was one of the great Melbourne sports days. It made me more likely to go to both.

 

[giggler99]

I'll never understand why we created "event" or "marquee" dates, got them to be very successful in the context of A-League crowds, then we did away with them.

It first happened with the Victory and the Melbourne Cup eve match, then probably around the time COVID started they also stopped fixturing that Victory Christmas week game on 27 of 28 December. A day at the cricket followed by the short walk over to Swan St was one of the great Melbourne sports days. It made me more likely to go to both.

They tried to pump up Western United V Melbourne Victory on Boxing day for a couple of years. That stopped pretty quick not sure why, maybe because it wasn't fair on Victory having to play two derbies in a row every year. Don't know APL are a funny bunch. Would be awesome to have our "marquee" matches back especially Cup eve against the Nix.

 

[nobbyiscool]

They tried to pump up Western United V Melbourne Victory on Boxing day for a couple of years. That stopped pretty quick not sure why, maybe because it wasn't fair on Victory having to play two derbies in a row every year. Don't know APL are a funny bunch. Would be awesome to have our "marquee" matches back especially Cup eve against the Nix.

And I'm pretty sure that at least one of the WU vs Victory games started at 5pm, which completely defeated the purpose and misunderstood the attraction for a lot of people. I guess that's FFA/APL in a tee isn't it, it's spent 20 years failing to understand its market.

 

[Punt Road Feral]

I'll never understand why we created "event" or "marquee" dates, got them to be very successful in the context of A-League crowds, then we did away with them.

It first happened with the Victory and the Melbourne Cup eve match, then probably around the time COVID started they also stopped fixturing that Victory Christmas week game on 27 of 28 December. A day at the cricket followed by the short walk over to Swan St was one of the great Melbourne sports days. It made me more likely to go to both.

A lack of a Boxing Day fixture is off too!

In the earlier a league years I found it was quiet successful.

Even if it was Macarthur v Sydney FC or something like that it would be a decent enough fixture to get an above average crowd to.