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A-League 2023/2024 Round 27 (Unite)


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Talay has made a poor shirt selection for this weather.

Just saw Veart made the same error.

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Have to say all of the games so far have been absolute crackers. Perhaps with a modicum of marketing and allowing the use of memberships from any club for entry in future, this Unite thing might not be a complete disaster after all?

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32 minutes ago, Potkorok said:

Have to say all of the games so far have been absolute crackers. Perhaps with a modicum of marketing and allowing the use of memberships from any club for entry in future, this Unite thing might not be a complete disaster after all?

Saw lots of positive comments from Sokkah Twitter faithful that it was good to be able to meet fellow A-league fans for the first time and the general experience had been good.

Was also comment that after the two years of contractual obligation in Sydney would be good to see it played elsewhere but also the issue of suitable ground availability was raised. How many cities actually have enough suitable football venues? Not many.

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Smurfs win only thing, attendance at 11,918

Our game was recorded as 7,117

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5 hours ago, Paul01 said:

Smurfs win only thing, attendance at 11,918

Our game was recorded as 7,117

They were helped by the fact that there were Adelaide brought more than City (not that that is hard). But in general, yeah it seems like our fans didn't really get behind it. Hopefully that changes, I do like the idea if it is done properly.

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1 hour ago, nmh94 said:

They were helped by the fact that there were Adelaide brought more than City (not that that is hard). But in general, yeah it seems like our fans didn't really get behind it. Hopefully that changes, I do like the idea if it is done properly.

And Melb  Victory as well

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10 minutes ago, alexd said:

Well it did UNITE everyone into telling esfc where to go.....

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C2CYOlvByvm/?igsh=MTJibGZtcW9qYTBlbQ==

I saw some pictures of the Red Army banner being hung upside down in the Cove; was this photoshopped or were Sektion 22 up to their childish tricks again?

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9 minutes ago, MartinTyler said:

I saw some pictures of the Red Army banner being hung upside down in the Cove; was this photoshopped or were Sektion 22 up to their childish tricks again?

From what I could find, it was a banner they pinched on a previous trip to Adelaide

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20 hours ago, Carns said:

Saw lots of positive comments from Sokkah Twitter faithful that it was good to be able to meet fellow A-league fans for the first time and the general experience had been good.

 

Prior to last night's games there was a bit of consternation on Twitter about 4 'active' groups being at the same stadium at the same time. A bit OTT as it's not quite like West Ham, Millwall, Chelsea and Arsenal converging on Wembley simultaneously.

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Absolute thunderbastard by Susnjar to bring Perth level.

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Eh, IDK, I kinda liked this round :unknw:.... it helps that we won of course, but watched WU v Macarthur before our game, atmosphere a bit different from the usual... the lads put in a good shift, we sat right near the RBB for that authentic away bays experience :lol:... whats not to like ^_^

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Nix retake the lead and Carluccio scores a banger to bring Perth level again.

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And Barbarouses immediately scores again. 4-3 Nix.

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2 hours ago, MartinTyler said:

Prior to last night's games there was a bit of consternation on Twitter about 4 'active' groups being at the same stadium at the same time. A bit OTT as it's not quite like West Ham, Millwall, Chelsea and Arsenal converging on Wembley simultaneously.

If anything it brought everyone together....

In giving ESFC **** 

 

 

 

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11 minutes ago, Davo said:

Also only one man managed to keep a clean sheet. Daniel Margush.

And Simmons, Marcello, Bonnetig and Clisby.

Should I include VAR?

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The Unite Round has been an interesting experiment but I feel that it was rushed and not a great deal of thought put into it. Early January in Sydney isn't really the right time and another thing that pissed me off was that most teams didn't play in their 1st strip.

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Well first Unite round and considering how rushed this was, and it was announced long after memberships were provided I can see the value in unite round if the persist. I think the best thing is the additional round we all get of the A-league to make it 27 rounds. 2nd was basically cussing out the Smurfs, I could also see this being the case in Melbourne against the Victory.

The multicultural theme they were going for was great but again no announcement and Food trucks. They need to build on the atmosphere both in and out of the stadium making it a whole event. Its promising but APL needs to learn from this quick setup and make it an entire event.

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Part of the reason for it being in January was trying to take advantage of school holidays. But it's unrealistic that families will travel interstate for this. So you've either got to market the **** out of it to local families (including e.g. coasties etc) and make it cheap to attend, or target other groups such as young(er) people with disposable income and less commitments who can afford to travel for football. A large percentage of families with school age kids are away at this time of year anyway so it's shortsighted.

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Another thing was the live sites only showing cricket on Saturday night and not the Socceroos game. Or at Commbank where they only sold Wanderers stuff but not merchandise of other clubs that were present. Just like little stuff like that. But its probably more a reflection of how ad-hoc this all was. I optimistic in seeing an improvement next year.

But it was fun seeing everyone chant against the Smurfs. So it has potential

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