Source: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/picture/2025/apr/11/david-squires-on-heard-island-and-mcdonald-islands-a-league-penguins-expansion-bid

Auckland need 6 points from the next 3 games to claim the premiership with 53 points. They can also win with 5 points from the next 3 games, as long as City doesn't win all 3 as well as manages to close the GD gap (unlikely for city). We can assume Auckland will probably take 3 points against...

POS CLUB MP W D L GF GA GD PTS PPG FORM 1 Auckland FC 23 13 8 2 44 23 21 47 / 50 2.04 ⚪⚪🟢⚪⚪ 3 Melbourne City FC 23 13 4 6 34 22 12 43 / 46 1.87 🟢🔴🟢🟢🟢 2 Western United 23 12 5 6 49 33 16 41 / 44 1.78 🟢🟢🟢🟢🔴 4 Western Sydney Wanderers 23 11 6 6 52 37 15 39 / 42 1.70 🟢🟢⚪⚪🟢 5 Melbourne...

Thursday 17th April 2025 Brisbane Roar vs Western United FC 🗓️ Thursday 17th April 2025 ⚽ 19:35 🏟️ Suncorp Stadium 📺 Paramount+ Friday 18th April 2025 Adelaide United vs Wellington Phoenix 🗓️ Friday 18th April 2025 ⚽ 19:05 (SA Time) / / 21:35 (Kiwi time) / 19:35 (Eastcoast Time) 🏟️...

Looking at the Transfermrkt values (obviously not the best source but it's an easy metric to compare), the top valued A-League side is SFC @ €9.38m and the lowest is BR @ €4.65m. From a value perspective that puts the top A-League sides in the bottom half of League One. However the bottom valued...

The whole "rich clubs will always win" thing also is a bit interesting when you start digging around at the numbers. It would have been about 10 years ago, I was shown a spreadsheet of salary dollars spent vs competition points earned in the A-League. I'm pretty sure this data was confidential...

It's not that they aren't bothered, it's more about why would they spend more. Just because an owner is wealthy, doesn't mean the club is. These are businesses like any other and have budgets like any other. I remember back in the Arnie era of SFC, he said they had a combined marquee budget of...

Could still be a good game. City v Roar are nearly always good games. City still technically a possibility for the premiership and even if they can't quite get there, they will want to shoot for that 2nd spot and ACL spot. Other games should all be good. Nix v MV - MV could still drop out of...

Has any professional sport in Australia even attempted to make it work? I can't think of any. There is P&R in the NPL. Doesn't seem to be a problem there.

To his credit, it seems like he has definitely learned from past errors in his coaching career. It's so often we see coaches just dig their heels in and refuse to change, but JA seems to have taken the right approach and actively worked on improving over the years. Back when he was rumoured for...

POS CLUB MP W D L GF GA GD PTS PPG FORM 1 Auckland FC 22 13 7 2 42 21 21 46 / 49 2.1 ⚪⚪⚪🟢⚪ 2 Western United 22 12 5 5 49 31 18 41 / 44 1.86 🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢 3 Melbourne City FC 22 12 4 6 31 20 11 40 / 43 1.82 🟢🟢🔴🟢🟢 4 Western Sydney Wanderers 22 10 6 6 50 37 13 36 / 39 1.64 🟢🟢🟢⚪⚪ 5 Melbourne...

Friday 11th April 2025 Melbourne City FC vs Brisbane Roar 🗓️ Friday 11th April 2025 ⚽ 19:35 🏟️ AAMI Park 📺 Paramount+ Saturday 12th April 2025 Wellington Phoenix vs Melbourne Victory 🗓️ Saturday 12th April 2025 ⚽ 17:00 (Kiwi Time) / 15:00 (Eastcoast Time) 🏟️ Sky Stadium 📺 Paramount+...

Salary cap (in it's current format) is dumb. Salary floor is even dumber, especially now that the grant money was reduced to $530k.

It's a bit of a weird situation that you don't see that often. On one hand, they have scored the 3rd highest number of goals at 48 which is only 2 off the highest (WSW 50). On the other hand they have conceded the second highest number of goals (also 48), which puts them between Roar and Glory...

Jack Duncan is missing from that list. He played the first 13 games for MV before Langerak arrived.