It is a shame that the only news in Brisbane today on the Melbourne match this weekend is bletting my Robbie Kruse. It is hardly likely that the Roar will doom their hopes by using the same approach twice. Click to continue reading...

There are only a handful of home games left. Currently sitting equal bottom means they are all must win for Brisbane. Not just for this season but for the future of the club. I am sure it will continue next year. But in what form is unclear. With much of the squad coming off contract and Melbourne Heart targeting players like Luke Devere, anything is possible for next year. Click to continue reading...

Brisbane are using a Wally Lewis voice over for an Ad for Saturday's 6pm game v Melbourne. I saw it watching the Oman game. Very effective cross-over in this local market. I hope they are getting it out beyond Fox.
Melbourne is lampooned as the Latte capital. Click to continue reading...

Well you wouldn't have expected this. Coach McKinna asked Kwasnic, Simon and Mijra to all step up and score and they did.
On Friday night, Adelaide's Coach Vidmar joked that his side needed to play 4 up front to score. Well, once his side was down 0-1 to Kwasnic's cracking half bicycle, Melbourne's Coach Merrick tried just that. Click to continue reading...

Marco Bresciano has been recalled for the Asian Cup qualifier against Oman at Sultan Qaboos Sports Complex in Muscat on November 15. Bresciano returns to the squad after a knee injury prevented him from the recent international friendly against the Netherlands in Sydney and the Asian Cup qualifier against Oman in Melbourne last month. Click to continue reading...

'Brisbane boss Ange Postecoglou was frustrated to leave with a point after watching his team control large portions of the match. "We certainly had enough of the ball and we moved it quite well"'

Mate, the fans were just bored with the training ground - obvious and predictable passing, that gave Newcastle no trouble.

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Melbourne coach Ernie Merrick has described Saturday's 3-1 win over Adelaide as his team's best 90-minute performance of the year and a shining example of the depth the club has at its disposal.Melbourne's new-look side featured two players who had never started a game for the club before in Sutee Suksomkit and Mate Dugandzic and both played major roles as the Victory recorded an eighth straight success over the Reds. Click to continue reading...

My guess is Melbourne or Sydney now. Melbourne have been able to bar far too many good players. How do they get them all within the cap. Well of course they don't. Special deals to allow Muscat to be paid outside the cap because he is really a or the coach - or neither. $1m transfer deals. And wow 2 great Asian players. Click to continue reading...

Josh Kennedy and Lucas Neill in Melbourne, October 14, 2009. Image copyright Getty. Click to continue reading...

The Board and the FFA made the decisions that impacted the Roar's crowds. The ill disciple against Melbourne had nothing to do with it! How could it? The poor crowds had already happened.
Why did the crowds fall:
1. Gold Coast - split the Roar crowd and have no fans of their own (FFA have admitted this with typical club fisted approach ). Click to continue reading...

Asian Cup Qualifying 2011 Group B :- 14th October 2009 Final score :- Australia 1-0 Oman ( Tim Cahill 74′ goal) Everton's Tim Cahill scored in the 74th minute to allow Australia to beat Claude Le Roy's Oman in Melbourne. Cahill had also scored a late equaliser against Oman when the two sides met in 2007, and [. Click to continue reading...

The 23-year-old just had the wildest ride of her soccer career to help claim the inaugural Women's Professional League title in American with Sky Blues FC, and now she's back in Australia trying to get Perth Glory into its first W-League finals campaign. The Scottish born midfielder has a killer kick from set pieces, hence the corner she took last week against the Newcastle Jets that ended up going in for the matchwinner. Click to continue reading...

How can you not love these guys? That run in the '06 World Cup was a blast.
And led by awesome-dude Tim Cahill the team is going to help out the earthquake and tsunami victims in Samoa and Indonesia.
Not just a neat goal celebration.

Football Federation Australia (FFA) said it will donate one dollar for every fan who attends the Socceroos' matches against the Netherlands in Sydney on Saturday and against Oman in Melbourne next week.

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It was all done in about 4 minutes. 3 Great goals.
Melbourne had their big game last week. And in front of over 30,000 they just were not there. Kruse lasted 30 minutes and didn't do much. Towards the end Melbourne gave them a barrage, particularly Thompson. But Simon Colossimo showed he has earned Craig Moore's Socceroos spot. Click to continue reading...

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When: Today, 5pm
Where: University Field, St Leo
This game is the first half of a Lions-Panthers doubleheader at St Leo today. The men from the two schools will kick off at 7:30pm.
The Lions (3-1-1) have had a long layoff since pounding non-conference Clearwater Christian College 13-0 on September 25th. Click to continue reading...

It seems things are finally clear.
Although the whole process has made the FFA look both clumsy and devious, the ultimate decision to delay entry for a Western Sydney team is undoubtedly the correct one. 2010/11 will give the national body a chance to see how the two-teams-per-city dynamic will work in Melbourne, where the market is similar, though not exactly identical, to Sydney's. Click to continue reading...

5,065 turned up in prime game time last Saturday night. Around 2,000 seemed to be supporting Melbourne. My guess is that most of the others are former Queensland Roar fans that used to travel to Suncorp.
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After a poor start to the season, we can breathe easy again. Two wins on the trot has put Melbourne a point from first place, though the A-League is so tight this season that we're still only in sixth place. But it's good to see the team hit some form at last.

With a third of the season almost done, I thought I'd pop in to share my thoughts on how the mighty Victory are faring this year.

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Over the years he is perhaps the most influential player in the A-League. Kevin Muscat - out from the opening minutes of the season - played 90 minutes last night. And was the difference between the teams.
Sure it was a lucky goal from Ward on 6 minutes. But that made Adelaide play. And they just didn't have enough going forward. Click to continue reading...

Melbourne Rectangular Stadium, under construction Deep Cuts for Thursday, more informational than thought-provoking, though this not-really-obscure piece on diving and the psychology behind it from...

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Homeless World Cup Trophy

The US entered the 2009 Homeless World Cup ranked 32nd in the world and, after finishing 29th in the 2008 Homeless World Cup in Melbourne, the team was looking to impress this year in Milan.

The first three days of the tournament were dedicated to preliminary pool play.

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Perth were up 2-0 for most of the game. Some very poor sighted refing allowed the GC Allstars back into the game. Is Miron allowed to hung the 4th official?
We like NRL Boss Gallop's take on coaches speaking out - it is OK so long as they don't say the refs were corrupt. Under that fair rule only one team would have been fined so far and it wouldn't have been Brisbane fined. Click to continue reading...

Melbourne paid for not finishing this game off. But Newcastle have shown that Branco Culina has taken over from Gary Von Egmont as the coach who can get the most out of a team.
Just before the Yets equalised there was the question, was it a penalty? Click to continue reading...

In the SMH today: Canberra handed inside running as Meissner pulls out of FFA race for new team
Western Sydney have pulled out the day before the A-League game in Canberra. Make of that what you will, but Buckle-up Ben has hardly given us any encouragment has he. Ever?
Read his comments once more! Click to continue reading...

.Arsenal Transfered In: Thomas Vermaelen (Ajax, £11m), Damian Martinez (Club Athletico Independiente, £1.3m), Jamie Edge (Cheltenham, undisc) Transfered Out: Abu Ogogo (Dag & Red, free), Amaury Bischoff (Academica de Coimbra, free), Emmanuel Adebayor (Man C, £25m), Kolo Toure (Man C, £14m), Jay Simpson (QPR, loan), James Dunne (Exeter, free), Rui Fonte (Lisbon, free), Rene Steer (Oldham, free), [. Click to continue reading...

Good to see some more news popping up around Australia.
In Victoria, at the Geelong Advertiser, new Victory defender Rita Mankowska has been out doing player visits. She's come back from the American College system to play for Melbourne this year. More here.
Further North at the Coffs Coast Advocate, there is even an opinion piece (well it doesn't say 'comment' but implies it) about how there girls should get a shot. Click to continue reading...

Well Foxtel didn't happen last night. According to their local office the service was out for Brisbane. So much for Robby Fowler scoring a great goal from his own build up play. And a fabulous 3-3 draw between Adelaide and the Fury. So much for Perth's new players firing and winning 2-1 over Melbourne. Click to continue reading...

This news is perhaps not a surprise, but there are many ways to read it.
It is no secret that the FFA favour a second Sydney team, and preferably as soon as possible, but they have probably been wise to keep the lid on it as yet. None of the bids on the table look at all convincing, and the more general problems of a second Sydney franchise are not to be trivialised. Click to continue reading...

You might have noticed a new advert at the bottom of the page. It's for the Homeless World Cup which kicks off in a couple of weeks in Milan. 48 teams of homeless people from around the world will travel to Italy.Milan is the seventh tournament and the event has grown and grown since it sprang to life in Graz in 2003. Click to continue reading...

What a game on Saturday night! Probably the most exciting A-league match I have attended in terms of goals and attacking play. Of course both managers will need to ask some serious questions of their defences that allowed so much freedom and space to the opposition midfields.
Gary Cole will be madly scouring overseas leagues this week after Victory's defence failed miserably on Saturday night. Click to continue reading...

Gold Coast stomped their rich footprint all over the A-League with a 5-0 home win, Wellington beat Perth in front of a healthy 10,000 crowd, Melbourne came back from 3-1 to draw 3-3 with Brisbane and the F3 Derby saw the Jets draw 1-1 with the Mariners.
Sydney had a tough test against a fit, tactically sound Adelaide United. Click to continue reading...

One point from two home games is hardly something to be pleased about, but last night's comeback draw felt like a win. The revamped back line was quite atrocious at times in the first half, but tightened up considerably in the second period. Not coincidentally, Melbourne showed a lot more class going forward after the break.

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Melbourne fans have been publishing a fanzine for a while and they are now joined by the Adelaide fans.
Bill Skinner has got the Pissants organised and take a look at the first one. Some good stuff in there, particularly like the oomour...our game needs more of it methinks. Click to continue reading...

The A-League is all about entertainment. Miron said this all through his Roar tenure.
Miron and Frank embraced after the game last night. Miron would have known exactly the pressures the game would have put on the Roar coach.
Miron has proved himself to have bouncebackability. He has looked at the confinements and limitations of the A-League rules and acquired the best team in the competition - by a wide margin. Click to continue reading...