Grand Final - FFA will do it again

[MrCelery]

Should we smack the Scum and make it all the way to the Grand Final, this from the 4-4-2 site:

"Championship favourites Central Coast Mariners will almost certainly play the grand final in Sydney again if they qualify for a home game as happened in 2008, au.fourfourtwo.com understands."

 

[Golly]

GF in syd
That's so f**ked
If we make it it should be at bt

 

[LFCMariners]

Unless the game was against Sydney or the Scum, BT for sure. A full BT would look much better than 25k at the SFS.

 

[tim...]

Was reading an interview in FourFourTwo today regarding innovations from this year and what the FFA are looking to implement next season for the A-League in general.

The bad news... there was a footnote in the article which stated...

* Championship favourites Central Coast Mariners will almost certainly play the grand final in Sydney again if they qualify for a home game as happened in 2008, au.fourfourtwo.com understands.

Article: http://au.fourfourtwo.com/news/228558,new-a-league-innovations-in-pipeline.aspx


One can only hope that if this complete and utter bulls*** is forced on us again that we take it to ANZ rather than the SFS. I don't want to see us host a GF at another team's home ground again.

 

[dibo]

FFA will get my size 12 in the cloaca if they f**king try it.

Club's not keen either:

@NedNegus: @thurbs62 @ccmariners @Aidothejourno the club certainly doesn't support this and nothing has come across mine or our CEOs from FFA.

@NedNegus: @aarondibdin @thurbs62 @aidothejourno would be a great spectacle and one @CCMariners is very much hoping to see in Gosford - long way 2 go

 

[dibo]

If they try it: http://www.shitsenders.com

I'd be happy to see people sending various gallons of shit to the FFA.

Or we could do as was done in Barcelona while I was there by a bunch of lefties with the shits at the Banco di Espana - dump 5 tonnes of horseshit at the door to tell them what we think of the idea.

 

[shipwreck]

I'll worry about it if we get in the grand final, let's just focus on keeping roar under control, Broich is back...

Minor premiers guarantees us a second acl stint, would be great IMO especially with arnie, one game at a time boys

 

[LFCMariners]

It seems obvious that the FFA are doing all the can to grant the Mariners no favours. Take it from me- they will do everything possible to gift the Championship to the Melbourne Heart. They would dearly love to create publicity for the Melbourne derby. That is far more important to them than seeing the Mariners faithful rewarded...

 

[bikinigirl]

It seems obvious that the FFA are doing all the can to grant the Mariners no favours. Take it from me- they will do everything possible to gift the Championship to the Melbourne Heart. They would dearly love to create publicity for the Melbourne derby. That is far more important to them than seeing the Mariners faithful rewarded...

. although we are obviously not a huge focus for "them" (considering the relatively small central coast market) ... i wouldn't take the conspiracy theories too far (and i love a good conspiracy theory)

. "their" issue is their delusions of grandeur ... they insist they have a 'spectacle event' which draws in thousands (or tens of thousands) of random people that just want to be part of the event ... apparently sydney is a market full of them that don't care who is actually playing (this was proven to be bullshit last time)

 

[dibo]

It seems obvious that the FFA are doing all the can to grant the Mariners no favours. Take it from me- they will do everything possible to gift the Championship to the Melbourne Heart. They would dearly love to create publicity for the Melbourne derby. That is far more important to them than seeing the Mariners faithful rewarded...

You of course say this from a position of intimate knowledge of the FFA's motivations, and a fine record of making sensible, parsimonious predictions in the past.

Remember this?

But the FFA does NOT want us in the GF. They want an all-Queensland GF. Every A-League decider since V1 has either been a big rivalry (Sydney vs Melbourne) or a derby (Us vs Scum, Tards vs Adelaide), and there is little doubt the FFA want it to be different this time around. The FFA want to sell the most tickets they can, and in their opinion a Brisbane- Gold Coast decider can do just that. The Broncos are coming off their worst season in the NRL, with the club beset by internal strife (just like the Knights in the 2007 off-season and guess who won the subsequent A-League GF?). The Gold Coast now have the Suns on the market so a Championship for GCU would be VERY nice timing right now. Don't be surprised if the FFA ensures they get the Grand Final they have had planned for a while now. We don't figure in their plans. They hate our success. We have been the spanner in their works since day 1, and they already screwed us over once.

You have been warned...

and my personal favourite:

If you like a bet, I strongly recommend you put good money on Adelaide to win the toilet seat. I am near certain the FFA have already decided on it.

We should accept that fact that the FFA sees our club as somewhere in the realm of the "bad guy" teams in sports movies or the team that plays the Harlem Globetrotters. As long as that stays the case, success will always be more difficult for us to come by.

OK, here's what we've got: the Rand Corporation, in conjunction with the saucer people, under the supervision of the reverse vampires are forcing our parents to go to bed early in a fiendish plot to eliminate the meal of dinner.

We're through the looking glass, here, people...

 

[tim...]

I think bikini girl has hit the nail on the head. The A-League Grand Final isn't yet at the giddy heights in event terms that the AFL & NRL Grand Finals enjoy. Those events are spectacles, the A-League Grand Final is an even in relevant infancy, and is probably hampered in that respect by constantly moving around.

Either way, the FFA should stipulate one way or another on a PERMANENT BASIS so this region and others are under no illusion as to where a Grand Final would be played should the right to "host" be earnt.

 

[style_cafe]

I`d go anywhere to watch the Mariner`s play in a GF but "don`t piss before your water comes"..there`s still a lot of games to play.

 

[gull]

Waaaaaaaaaaayyyyy to early to be worrying about this. There's a long way to go before we get there.

 

[dibo]

No, it's not too early. The wrong thing is the wrong thing, hypothetical or not. We are playing to win the league and earn the right to host the grand final to win it in front of 20,000 of our fans, not the right to play the grand final at some cavern in front of half as many 70 km away our worse, possibly in front of a bare thousand 700 km away.

 

[true believer]

If they try it: http://www.shitsenders.com

I'd be happy to see people sending various gallons of shit to the FFA.

Or we could do as was done in Barcelona while I was there by a bunch of lefties with the shits at the Banco di Espana - dump 5 tonnes of horseshit at the door to tell them what we think of the idea.

now your talking

 

[true believer]

No, it's not too early. The wrong thing is the wrong thing, hypothetical or not. We are playing to win the league and earn the right to host the grand final to win it in front of 20,000 of our fans, not the right to play the grand final at some cavern in front of half as many 70 km away our worse, possibly in front of a bare thousand 700 km away.

absolutely .if where forced to play away from blue tongue .then we should propose a boycott or whatever hurts the FFA most .get in their face for the kind of publicity that would be toxic to the FFA.
we have nothing to lose.

 

[LFCMariners]

You of course say this from a position of intimate knowledge of the FFA's motivations, and a fine record of making sensible, parsimonious predictions in the past.

Remember this?



and my personal favourite:



OK, here's what we've got: the Rand Corporation, in conjunction with the saucer people, under the supervision of the reverse vampires are forcing our parents to go to bed early in a fiendish plot to eliminate the meal of dinner.

We're through the looking glass, here, people...

If it generates enough publicity, then at least we can pressure the FFA of going easy on us to avoid them facing accusations of bias against us. If enough publicity is generated on alleged conspiracies against us, then the FFA are (sub-consciously) go easier on us to avoid even a hint of them being against us...

 

[dibo]

Nobody in their right mind would think the FFA are actively conspiring against any side. They might prefer for commercial reasons that one thing or other happens, but they're not going to intervene one way or another. They won't want to and shouldn't look like they're either taking the opportunity to screw someone or 'go easy' to avoid screwing someone - their job is to run the comp, that's that.

 

[pjennings]

Nobody in their right mind would think the FFA are actively conspiring against any side. They might prefer for commercial reasons that one thing or other happens, but they're not going to intervene one way or another. They won't want to and shouldn't look like they're either taking the opportunity to screw someone or 'go easy' to avoid screwing someone - their job is to run the comp, that's that.

I'm not saying there is an FFA comspiracy. It is just FFA incompetence. We had huge crowds towards the end of season 3. If we had hosted the Grand Final, with a live site in the park opposite - the waterfront with a plethora of food options and a carnival then we would have had 50,000 in the precinct. If that had happened the wave of support may well have carried us through to a win as it had in the major semi. At the least it would have etched football permanently into the minds of the Central Coast. What happened though was a controversial loss, Danny's huge suspension (as opposed to what didn't happen to sackwhacker) and a huge number of fans that made the effort to go to Sydney being permanently turned off by the FFA.

Sorry - but this is a no-brainer. What is good for the FFA is for each of the clubs to be viable. If you continue to disadvantage a club in this way then they will always attract less corporate interest and sponsorship and inevitably will struggle finacially. It is in the long-term FFA interest for the Grand Final to be at Bluetongue if the Mariners win the right to hold it.

 

[bikinigirl]

I'm not saying there is an FFA comspiracy. It is just FFA incompetence. We had huge crowds towards the end of season 3. If we had hosted the Grand Final, with a live site in the park opposite - the waterfront with a plethora of food options and a carnival then we would have had 50,000 in the precinct. If that had happened the wave of support may well have carried us through to a win as it had in the major semi. At the least it would have etched football permanently into the minds of the Central Coast. What happened though was a controversial loss, Danny's huge suspension (as opposed to what didn't happen to sackwhacker) and a huge number of fans that made the effort to go to Sydney being permanently turned off by the FFA.

Sorry - but this is a no-brainer. What is good for the FFA is for each of the clubs to be viable. If you continue to disadvantage a club in this way then they will always attract less corporate interest and sponsorship and inevitably will struggle finacially. It is in the long-term FFA interest for the Grand Final to be at Bluetongue if the Mariners win the right to hold it.

. pj, please send this on to the club, ffa and any number of football related media outlets ... sums things up perfectly

. as for those saying it is too early to discuss it ... once we have made it, it is far too late - the decision would have well and truly been made