ALM Grand Final vs Victory 23/24

[Big Al]

Well i am going to be that arse. If anyone has a spare code ticket i would love one please 🙏

If not i understand i should have been a member.

But do you want more victory fans. No

Do you want the bloke two rows in front of me last night going go for two like he was at rugby league. No

Do you want a fan who 2/2 in grand finals. Pick me. Wasn’t a coastie on previous grand finals.

Happy to accept generosity and abuse for being desperate.

 

[bikinigirl]

If anyone is claiming conspiracy when they could have easily given Sydney a penalty or goal from Kaltaks clearance last night without much controversy they need a reality check.

. fair enough ... but i think they had already stacked the deck appointing Faghani to suit the Sydney ... ahem ... style of play *

* style of play refers to their propensity to 'push the boundaries of fair play' ... most fouls conceded (if they're given in the first place), least number of yellows - a metric they have excelled at for seasons

 

[Tevor]

If anyone is claiming conspiracy when they could have easily given Sydney a penalty or goal from Kaltaks clearance last night without much controversy they need a reality check.

Not sure I agree, Fabio was off side as the line showed and he did get in Brian’s way who was very close to clearing the ball anyway. That 1 second interference stopped Brian from successfully clearing the ball. Faghani did everything else for them but he wasn’t going to give an offside ruling like that. That’s where we were lucky. Max’s arm was in a natural position and seen plenty of them not given this season.

 

[Tevor]

. fair enough ... but i think they had already stacked the deck appointing Faghani to suit the Sydney ... ahem ... style of play *

* style of play refers to their propensity to 'push the boundaries of fair play' ... most fouls conceded (if they're given in the first place), least number of yellows - a metric they have excelled at for seasons

Fouls conceded 7 to Shitney and 12 to us. Imagine a decent ref pulling up all the blatant pushes in the back. Back to the GF, we won over 2 legs and that’s that.

 

[turbo]

Not sure I agree, Fabio was off side as the line showed and he did get in Brian’s way who was very close to clearing the ball anyway. That 1 second interference stopped Brian from successfully clearing the ball. Faghani did everything else for them but he wasn’t going to give an offside ruling like that. That’s where we were lucky. Max’s arm was in a natural position and seen plenty of them not given this season.

Faghani definitely favoured Sydney’s style and at times made some puzzling calls and non calls. I agree with everything you’re saying btw, my suggestion was that if there was an agenda against us either of those, especially the offside would have been an easy way to push it.

 

[Capn Gus Bloodbeard]

Fouls conceded 7 to Shitney and 12 to us. Imagine a decent ref pulling up all the blatant pushes in the back. Back to the GF, we won over 2 legs and that’s that.

When you've got players like Faz who are excellent at seeing when the opponent has overcommitted and positions his body in a way that he's going to get fouled, it's hard when you have a ref who just refuses to blow the whistle. I was a bit concerned about how much he might be affected - how many times did he cop a 2-handed push.

But I agree that there was no agenda. I think he definitely had some bias against us at some point, but not intentional agenda. If there was, the Max handball would 100% have been given.

Also, remember at the start of the game when 2 players came together in our box and no call was made? Yeah, if there was an agenda it 100% would have been given.

Sure, you could claim that the agenda didn't involve him but was in appointing him, and that's just speculation, nobody can really say anything convincing for or against that.

But, I think we all know that Faghani is considered one of the top refs (which is ridiculous, of course), so he was always going to be involved in this part of the season.

If he was on the other game, MV would have benefitted from his idiocy (and Elder had a very poor match there as well)

 

[turbo]

For me (and Macca based on the hot mic footage) King should be getting the GF. Hopefully him being rested this week is a sign the others were getting their chance at a finals match before the big game

 

[FFC Mariner]

Hearing 2 tickets per member.

 

[bikinigirl]

1 discounted + 7 full price apparently

. any word on when codes will be available?

. logistic exercise underway to coordinate if we can't just buy our 'usual' seats (I'm hoping they are just sent out at 9am)

 

[AJames]

Hearing 2 tickets per member.

 

[PatientMariner]

Temporary stand in front of the palm trees?

 

[Corsair]

If anyone is claiming conspiracy when they could have easily given Sydney a penalty or goal from Kaltaks clearance last night without much controversy they need a reality check.

Yeah watched a few things back today, basically the ref's a numpty.

 

[Corsair]

. any word on when codes will be available?

. logistic exercise underway to coordinate if we can't just buy our 'usual' seats (I'm hoping they are just sent out at 9am)

We don't get our member allocated seats for the GF. I hope the codes are out well before 9, today would be better.

Any guesses on what ticket prices will be?

 

[Tevor]

We don't get our member allocated seats for the GF. I hope the codes are out well before 9, today would be better.

Any guesses on what ticket prices will be?

Expensive as APL needs to cash in.

 

[JoyfulPenguin]

Hope the ticktek password system works, was dodgy for the ALW Victory game. Will be very disappointed if I can't get a ticket after being a member for nearly a decade and flying in.

 

[Allreet?]

Expensive as APL needs to cash in.

Whatever it is will be cheaper than buying a reasonably priced ticket but having to travel to Sydney.

 

[ccf]

A question regarding tickets. Are kids under 4 free, do you need a ticket for them? Thanks aLl

 

[LFCMariners]

If anyone is claiming conspiracy when they could have easily given Sydney a penalty or goal from Kaltaks clearance last night without much controversy they need a reality check.

Talking to somebody who knows a few things last night, they said the APL are big fans of CCM and what they've been doing in recent times.

If anything, I would think they'd back us to win the treble to they can turn around and point to that success as proof that clubs can have their funding reduced so stop their whingeing.

Or maybe I'm just optimistic?

 

[Tevor]

Talking to somebody who knows a few things last night, they said the APL are big fans of CCM and what they've been doing in recent times.

If anything, I would think they'd back us to win the treble to they can turn around and point to that success as proof that clubs can have their funding reduced so stop their whingeing.

Or maybe I'm just optimistic?

It’s a good theory but a poor APL is all the $$$ and a sold out GF at AAMI is twice as good as a sold out Industrie.

 

[sydmariner]

Temporary stand in front of the palm trees?

Close off the bridge or video screen on the warmup field?