Macarthur FC

[GE942150]

This foxtel created club has now won 2 fa cups before us. Bloody frustrating.

[mack]

In addition to just being crap for 10 years, we also get awful cup draws. This season was the best we've got in a while, and it still ended with an away game to another A-League team in the Quarters. We don't seem to ever get that lucky draw where we get one of the qualifier A-League teams and then all NPL teams to make a final, and had multiple times where we did get NPL teams and lost.

[Unlimited]

42 minutes ago, mack said:

In addition to just being crap for 10 years, we also get awful cup draws. This season was the best we've got in a while, and it still ended with an away game to another A-League team in the Quarters. We don't seem to ever get that lucky draw where we get one of the qualifier A-League teams and then all NPL teams to make a final, and had multiple times where we did get NPL teams and lost.

there's always next year!!

[StringerBellend]

1 hour ago, mack said:

In addition to just being crap for 10 years, we also get awful cup draws. This season was the best we've got in a while, and it still ended with an away game to another A-League team in the Quarters. We don't seem to ever get that lucky draw where we get one of the qualifier A-League teams and then all NPL teams to make a final, and had multiple times where we did get NPL teams and lost.

It's not the draw it's us being ****. Losing to a bunch of hospitality workers and uber drivers at Leichhardt for example 

[sonar]

43 minutes ago, StringerBellend said:

It's not the draw it's us being ****. Losing to a bunch of hospitality workers and uber drivers at Leichhardt for example 

Yep. 100%.

If you're good enough you win these games.

We were not.

Simple as that.

[BoyFromTheWest]

One of the challenges for us has been the constant turnover of players. Macarthur, this year, are still the core of last year. They are able to build on what they had in FFA Cup, whilst we are always trying to work out who we've got.

Not an excuse, just reality.

[StringerBellend]

Why is Jurman not totally **** for them as he was for us? 

[pseudonym]

20 minutes ago, StringerBellend said:

Why is Jurman not totally **** for them as he was for us? 

Macarthur beefed him up

[mack]

19/20 Jurman wasn't the problem, the problem was everyone around him in defence constantly getting hurt, and at the end of the season the club got rid of Lopar and bought in that awful bloke who got chipped by Diamanti multiple times.

[sonar]

50 minutes ago, mack said:

19/20 Jurman wasn't the problem, the problem was everyone around him in defence constantly getting hurt, and at the end of the season the club got rid of Lopar and bought in that awful bloke who got chipped by Diamanti multiple times.

Tristan Prendergast

[MartinTyler]

5 hours ago, sonar said:

Tristan Prendergast

Wasn't he just a temporary signing?

[StringerBellend]

47 minutes ago, MartinTyler said:

Wasn't he just a temporary signing?

Yep that's what I thought injury cover. Who was 2nd goalkeeper back then? 

It's all a blur of poor goalkeeping decisions to me, Vedran running out of his area waving his arms around v Sydney like a man who has just realized he has left his iPad on the train, Margush crash tackling people in the box, Vedran giving a corner away in injury time as he couldn't be bothered to bend down and pick the ball up etc.

[mack]

24 minutes ago, StringerBellend said:

Yep that's what I thought injury cover. Who was 2nd goalkeeper back then? 

Prendergast came in as an injury replacement for Suman when Suman got another bad concussion during an NPL game in early 2020. Kalac was on the bench for one game, the next week Prendergast took the sub spot for the 1-1 behind closed doors derby in March 2020 at Parramatta. During the next week the competition shut down.

When it came back for the last handful of games Lopar had refused to accept a pay cut so he was gone, Suman was going to Macarthur next season so the club didn't want to risk playing because of the conflict of interest that can happen in that situation but he stayed on the bench over Kalac who was too young to be considered over Prendergast.

[StringerBellend]

1 minute ago, mack said:

Prendergast came in as an injury replacement for Suman when Suman got another bad concussion during an NPL game in early 2020. Kalac was on the bench for one game, the next week Prendergast took the sub spot for the 1-1 behind closed doors derby in March 2020 at Parramatta. During the next week the competition shut down.

When it came back for the last handful of games Lopar had refused to accept a pay cut so he was gone, Suman was going to Macarthur next season so the club didn't want to risk playing because of the conflict of interest that can happen in that situation but he stayed on the bench over Kalac who was too young to be considered over Prendergast.

He wasn't great from memory 

[Davo]

So they've added a white and black away kit to the black and white home kit? Is their third kit going to be grey?

[Davo]

FIFA bans Macarthur from signing players until Yorke is paid compensation

[Sithslayer1991]

Pub club

[Kotallo]

Say what you will about Macarthur but they've guaranteed we aren't Sydney's biggest basket case club 

[StringerBellend]

1 hour ago, Kotallo said:

Say what you will about Macarthur but they've guaranteed we aren't Sydney's biggest basket case club 

They just won something and will play in Asia again next year.. We haven't won anything for nearly 10 years and our last go in Asia we had a useless Spanish defender (who I can't be bothered remembering his name) and Brendan Hammil getting absolutely torn to shreds 

I'm not giving up the basket case crown until we actually start playing some decent football.

[Kotallo]

1 hour ago, StringerBellend said:

They just won something and will play in Asia again next year.. We haven't won anything for nearly 10 years and our last go in Asia we had a useless Spanish defender (who I can't be bothered remembering his name) and Brendan Hammil getting absolutely torn to shreds 

I'm not giving up the basket case crown until we actually start playing some decent football.

You're not wrong but it's weird - somehow for me, them winning the Aus Cup diminishes the prestige of that comp rather than enhancing the prestige of their club.

[WSWJACK]

Aw we are little bit entitled to have a small chip on our shoulders, after all we do have a Gold Star on our chest 😉

[Davo]

 

[Paul01]

17 hours ago, Davo said:

 

And having less fans at a Cup Final than an NPL team (SU58)