AFC Champions League 2013

[true believer]

The winner of Jeonbuk and Guangzhou.

thank you dude

They will likely face Chinese Super League side Guangzhou Evergrande or Korean side Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors who sit first and second respectively in Group F and meet on Wednesday evening in China.
With the Australian-based Socceroos set to head to Gosford next week for a camp ahead of the crucial World Cup qualifiers Arnold sees the situation as a perfect fit for both teams.
"I'll have to maybe ask a favour off Football Federation Australia," said the 49-year-old.
"The Socceroos are in camp next week and we need a game.
"It'd be great if we could play the home-based Socceroos in a friendly game next Thursday just to keep us fit."
Arnold had already been planning for this eventuality of having to find a fixture before the first leg of a tie on either May 14 or 15 which will keep the side match fit.

http://www.footballaustralia.com.au/news-display/mariners-want-help-from-socceroos/66378


what,what,what a game against australia? where when ?
so you can bring an aussie and ccm shirt and change at half time.
please tell me we can see it

 

[true believer]

next question for you.guys fox ain't showing the
GUANGZHOU EVERGRANDE (CHN)
20:00 JEONBUK HYUNDAI MOTORS (KOR)
game.
do any of you clever people know where it can be found on the net

 

[midfielder]

Very proud of the Mariners despite the loss…
We where playing a side with maybe 10 times the budget and a coach of international fame… TBH tho the 3-0 did not reflect the game but that’s football… however we did at times control the game ….
I have two or three tho’s coming out of the game, first the big club little club things ref’s have in all sports … they had to hit us with an axe for a free to go our way and some of the free’s they got were just acting and they used the fact very effectively… second the difference in finishing they take their chances I find I lot of A-League strikers shot directly at the keeper or try for a wide angle and it misses whereas they tried to put the ball a little left or right of the keeper …. third the ball speed in passing was something to be seen and the weight on the pass as well it was impressive …
The turning point was when Pedj ran tho there team in the box and was brought down roughly 55 minutes in … IMO one of the clearest penalties I have ever seen not given [see comment big club little club for the benefit of the doubt] … two minutes latter they scored with a pass the skinned Pedj …

 

[Forum Phoenix]

next question for you.guys fox ain't showing the
GUANGZHOU EVERGRANDE (CHN)
20:00 JEONBUK HYUNDAI MOTORS (KOR)
game.
do any of you clever people know where it can be found on the net

Iraq Goals should have it.

 

[dibo]

Anyone wanna try to convince me that there isn't a quality gap between us and the Asian clubs?

Guizhou and Suwon both drew away to Kashiwa earlier in the group stage and Guizhou only lost 1-0. Suwon lost 6-2 at home missing three penalties, indicating both sides were all over the shop.

Meanwhile we weren't at the races against Kashiwa either time. We had even *contests* against the Guizhou and Suwon, but in both cases the closeness came because their quality was better but our rhythm was super.

 

[scoober]

next question for you.guys fox ain't showing the
GUANGZHOU EVERGRANDE (CHN)
20:00 JEONBUK HYUNDAI MOTORS (KOR)
game.
do any of you clever people know where it can be found on the net

I just typed in google search....."AFC Champions League live scores" and it brought up a list of sites, I selected one and was glued to it at the game when we went 1-0 down. Scores and stats only, not a stream.

 

[scottmac]

Anyone wanna try to convince me that there isn't a quality gap between us and the Asian clubs?

Guizhou and Suwon both drew away to Kashiwa earlier in the group stage and Guizhou only lost 1-0. Suwon lost 6-2 at home missing three penalties, indicating both sides were all over the shop.

Meanwhile we weren't at the races against Kashiwa either time. We had even *contests* against the Guizhou and Suwon, but in both cases the closeness came because their quality was better but our rhythm was super.

I didn't think we were that far off Reysol last night. What we were missing is quality in the final third be it a pass, a touch or the finishing. McBreen looked like something from Micheal Jackson's Thriller, poor bastard.

The gap is in the imports. Their's are quality up front. Our imports tend to be from the midfield or backs across the whole league. Berisha being the exception, but even then what has he done for Roar in Asia.

 

[BrisRecky]

ahhh...the World Game, the only place you can get pumped 3 -0 and get thru to the next round...not that i'm complaining mind you

 

[nebakke]

ahhh...the World Game, the only place you can get pumped 3 -0 and get thru to the next round...not that i'm complaining mind you

Heh... I dunno though, I actually think these comments are a bit unfair to the boys. Much as I was disappointed after the last ACL match, they're only there because they've done the required work... It's not like anyone has come along and randomly handed them the place in the next round.
We may have needed the help of Suwong last night, but arguably, two teams had to go through, for us to go through, we either had to win or Suwong had to hold Guinzho to a tie, for Guinzhou to go through, we had to lose AND they had to win, so it is perfectly reaonable for us to go through. The only reason why we were in a position to go through, after all, being that we have beaten both Suwong and Guizhou.

So, yes, it could've been prettier and we obviously needed a hand from Suwong, but it's not like it's pure luck that got us here... These are the terms of any kind of competition at the end of the day.

 

[dibo]

. we have been using that chant since way back in season 1 ... a good seven years before the wanderers even existed!

. i am not trying to argue that we didn't 'borrow' it from someone else way back then either ... but we certainly DID NOT copy the wanderers

. for me it sounds wrong when wsw do it because they try and cram too many syllables in

. WE SING FOR YELLOW !

Not season 1, I think season 3.

 

[adz]

Some discussion on it from way back... I remember there were youtube videos of overseas teams doing it and we had a few different versions banging around for a while


http://www.ccmfans.net/community/index.php?posts/286

http://www.ccmfans.net/community/index.php?threads/who-do-we-sing-for.313/

 

[Phish Phart]

To Big Al,

well said, I agree with most of your statements, YA and the rest of the crowd do need to work togher a bit more to get it right, however, last night was a huge step in the right direction, give it time and the songs will boom in unison, shame though that we are unlikely to see any more home game action and I hope the impetus is not lost come start of next season.

The megaphone worked well, last night was the first time in 8 years of attending games that I actually heard the chants. I truly believe it assisted in getting the masses to sing as one. I also think that most people are a little intraverted and as such tend to be somewhat reserved with their chants and sing-a-long, yet secretely they get a buzz out of it, they just need that extra drive to let their inhibitions go, I noticed this at the GF and at last nights ACL game.

So to all the YA active supporters, kudos to you!!!

Might I add that joining in the chants would come a bit easier if the chants were selected a bit more intelligently,i.e., according to the prevailing situation, e.g.,

'We're champions' when the game has nothing to do with HAL, the team is not playing like champions (at least not in the second half) and the opposition is pissing on us to the tune 0f 3 zip in our own stadium. We are nobodies in the history books of the ACL (so far) and we were well on the way to remaining thus except for the grace of others.

'singing for Yellow' when the opposition team and their travelling fans were clad head to toe in that colour.

BTW, I don't think 'intraverted' is an actual word, but if it were it would have to mean something like 'having one's head up one's own backside' or something to that effect.

 

[dibo]

that takes me back...

 

[Big Al]

http://www.the-afc.com/en/acl-news/acl-all-news/25837-guizhou-suwon.html

Guizhou - missed a close range shot in last minute - It really is our time
Suwon - Played some youth team players - It really is our time

 

[scottmac]

All this shit about the Mariners getting lucky & Suwong doing us a favour. We were in the position of qualified before the game & after the game. How did we get lucky? We earned it you f**kers!
Guizhou needed to win & they couldn't. End of.

 

[bikinigirl]

Not season 1, I think season 3.

. semantics

 

[Lowlander]

Might I add that joining in the chants would come a bit easier if the chants were selected a bit more intelligently,i.e., according to the prevailing situation, e.g.,

'We're champions' when the game has nothing to do with HAL, the team is not playing like champions (at least not in the second half) and the opposition is pissing on us to the tune 0f 3 zip in our own stadium. We are nobodies in the history books of the ACL (so far) and we were well on the way to remaining thus except for the grace of others.

'singing for Yellow' when the opposition team and their travelling fans were clad head to toe in that colour.

BTW, I don't think 'intraverted' is an actual word, but if it were it would have to mean something like 'having one's head up one's own backside' or something to that effect.

I think the point was to get more of the crowd behind creating an atmosphere, in my mind that was achieved last night. Whether the choice of songs was entirely apt I think in this case is secondary.

Personally I dont like many of the chants and rhythms all that much, no disrespect intended. Has anyone ever taken notice of the Asian team supporters songs? I kinda like what they get up to.

As for the spelling of introverted....merely an incorrect vowel movement between friends...

 

[Phish Phart]

Just been to the Reysol website and had Google translate the post-match comments. Most of it comes out as gibberish but a comment from the first scorer indicates that they thought Ryan was not always positioning himself well and that somebody referred to as chestnut-san was responsible for that bit of on-field intelligence.

Only read on if you are interested in a bit of trivia:
I was intrigued by what Reysol stood for. There were over a million references to Kashiwa Reysol on Google but no explanation not even on the club's English webpage. I knew enough about Japanese to realise that it was not a Japanese word and that in the Japanese version it reads 'reisoru' and is written in katakana, a script used for foreign loan words. Now the overwhelming number of loanwords into Japanese are from English but often they are so mangled in the process that the original English word cannot be readily recognised any longer. After wasting some time trying to trace Reysol back to English it finally dawned on me that it consisted of two words from Spanish, i.e., rey (king) and sol (sun) ---> sun king. Hence the stylised sun in the club emblem (which I hadn't paid any attention to) and the all-yellow strip which is both their home and ACL strip.

 

[BrisRecky]

I wasnt bagging the boys Nebakke, not in the slightest....

also, I must say the sing back last night was brilliant...I was so happy to finally hear it ...lets keep it up Coast

 

[nebakke]

I wasnt bagging the boys Nebakke, not in the slightest....

also, I must say the sing back last night was brilliant...I was so happy to finally hear it ...lets keep it up Coast

I know Recky Not a problem, I'd just seen a couple of posts earlier implying that it was all luck today, so yours tickled an annoyance - sorry...