The return of a classic thread! I can’t find the template we’ve used all these years but I’ve basically recreated it below. Let me know if there’s anything obvious I’ve missed.
Fill it out and let’s all have a laugh at ourselves at the end of the season.
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Grand final winner:
Grand final runner-up:
FFA Cup winner:
Player of the season:
Player of the grand final:
Golden boot:
Best new signing:
Best young player (U23):
Biggest flop signing:
SFC player of the season:
SFC golden boot:
First coach sacked:
Random predictions for this season:
1: Perth
2: Heart
3: Newcastle
4: Sydney
5: CCM
6: Welly
7: Melbourne
8: Adelaide
9: Brisbane
10: NWS
11: Greater Union Cinemas
Grand final winner: Sydney
Grand final runner-up: Perth
FFA Cup winner: CCM
Player of the season: Ninkosex
Player of the grand final: Ninkosex
Golden boot: Jamie Maclaren
Best new signing: Ryan McGowan
Best young player (U23): Luka Ivanovic
Biggest flop signing: Radoslaw Majewski
SFC player of the season: Brandon O’Neill
SFC golden boot: ALF
First coach sacked: Robbie Fowler
Random predictions for this season: hilly will know the names of every SFC player and 5 that don’t play for SFC
A great thread to always look back on and say “i got it really wrong”
1: Melbourne City
2: Melbourne Victory
4: Sydney FC
4. Perth Glory
5: Brisbane Roar
6: Western Sydney Wanderers
7: Western United
8: Adelaide United
9: Newcastle United
10: Wellington Phoenix
11: Central Coast Mariners
Grand final winner: Perth Glory
Grand final runner-up: Melbourne Victory
FFA Cup winner: Melbourne City
Player of the season: Ola Toivonen
Player of the grand final: Fornaroli
Golden boot: Maclaren
Best new signing: Tom Aldred
Best young player (U23): Sam Silvera
Biggest flop signing: Alex Baumjohann
SFC player of the season: Ninkovic
SFC golden boot: ALF
First coach sacked: Verbeek
Random predictions for this season:
Ivanovic to move to a Danish club in January
Western and Brisbane both start strong and fade
Muscat to take over at Western United midseason
Macarthur to announce a former Sydney FC player as their inaugural signing
1: Melbourne City
2: Wanderers
3: Melbourne Victory
4: Sydney FC
5: Perth Glory
6: Adelaide
7: Central Coast Mariners
8: Brisbane
9: Western United
10: Newcastle Jets
11: Wellington Phoenix
Grand final winner: Melbourne Victory
Grand final runner-up: Melbourne City
FFA Cup winner: Melbourne City
Player of the season: Adrian Luna
Player of the grand final: Jamie Maclaren
Golden boot: Adam Le Fondre
Best new signing: Adrian Luna/Adama Traore
Best young player (U23): Luke Ivanovic
Biggest flop signing: Abdiel Arroyo
SFC player of the season: Brandon O’Neill
SFC golden boot: Adam Le Fondre
First coach sacked: Ernie Merrick
Random predictions for this season:
Western United to average crowds the similarly as Central Coast
1: Melbourne Victory
2: Perth Glory
3: Sydney FC
4: Melbourne City
5: Adelaide United
6: Brisbane Roar
7: Western United
8: Western Sydney Wanderers
9: Newcastle Jets
10: Central Coast Mariners
11: Wellington Pheonix
Grand final winner: Perth Glory
Grand final runner-up: Melbourne Victory
FFA Cup winner: Melbourne City
Player of the season: Toivonen
Player of the grand final: Castro
Golden boot: Le Fondre
Best new signing: Noone
Best young player (U23): Ivanovic
Biggest flop signing: Lopar
SFC player of the season: Brannerz
SFC golden boot: Alfie
First coach sacked: Merick
Random predictions for this season:
-Diamanti gets frustratrated and has a dummy spit about the A League and the conditions.
-Sydney FC have a slow start but get into a groove as things move on
-Calver and Tratt play hardly any minutes for their clubs.
1: City
2: Perth
3: SFC
4: MVC
5: Roar
6: Wanderers
7: Adelaide
8: Mariners
9: United
10: Jets
11: Phoenix
Grand final winner: City
Grand final runner-up: SFC
FFA Cup winner: City (the double)
Player of the season: Adrian luna @ City
Player of the grand final: Craig Noone
Golden boot: Maclaren
Best new signing: Luna / Aldred @ Roar
Best young player (U23): Ivanovic / Mcgree
Biggest flop signing: D.mcgowan / Adelaide striker
SFC player of the season: Ninko
SFC golden boot: Le fond
First coach sacked: None but Merrick moves on. end season.
Random predictions for this season:
Baujomen doesnt work and Corica is forced to fit Ivanovic in.
Babbel goes stir crazy.
Mariners generally look a solid team most of the time.
Rudans United are incredibly dull
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4: Wanderers
5: Melbourne V
6: Western Utd
7: Adelaide
8: CCM
(daylight again to dross fighting for the spoon)
9: Newcastle
10: Brisbane
11: Wellington
Grand final winner: Sydney FC (at Wankfest Stadium)
Grand final runner-up: City
FFA Cup winner: City
Player of the season: Diamanti (as jizzed over by Fox)
Player of the grand final: Andrew Redmayne
Golden boot: Jamie McLaren
Best new signing: Andrew Nabbout / Craig Noone
Best young player (U23): Riley McGree
Biggest flop signing: Kosta Barbarouses / Robbie Kruse
SFC player of the season: Rhyan Bert Grant
SFC golden boot: Glenville Adam Le Fondre
First coach sacked: Robbie Fowler
Random predictions for this season:
Ivanovic to tear shit up and take Kosta’s place in the XI around the half-way point.
Western Utd to knock Perth off in week 1 of Finals, before we then end Berisha in the same way as Muscat and Santalab in week 2.
Perth tail off in the HAL due to ACL commitments but manage to top their ACL group.
Robbie Kruse somehow dodges injury and plays every game, yet fails to register a single goal or assist.
First RBB boycott / protest is round 4, after getting hammered in the round 3 derby.
1: Sydney
2: City
3: Perth
4: Melbourne
5: NWSW
6: Adelaide
7: Western United
8: CCM
9: Newcastle
10: Brisbane
11: Wellington
Grand final winner: Perth
Grand final runner-up: City
FFA Cup winner: Adelaide
Player of the season: Noone
Player of the grand final: Castro
Golden boot: Maclaren
Best new signing: Noone
Best young player (U23): Ivanovic
Biggest flop signing: All of the Roar UK journeymen
SFC player of the season: Ninkovic, but he’s probably not as good as recent years.
SFC golden boot: ALF
First coach sacked: Kurz
Random predictions for this season:
We get a timeline to 14 teams.
Kurz loses the dressing room early and then gets sacked.
The FTA broadcast partner does good numbers while Fox continues to flatline. There is an improvement in attendance, however, with NWSW returning to 12k+ crowds. Until…
RBB cause further trouble through flares etc and we get back into the rolling cycle of suspended points sentences and threatened boycotts.
Sydney derbies do return to their former glory, however, with all games sold out.
Western United average decent crowds in Geelong (8k) but the regional trips are a flop. Work properly gets underway on their stadium however.
Getting properly injured so that they can be replaced is probably the next-best outcome to being a fit and competent signing.
It would be worse if he had recurring niggly injuries and was always only 2-3 weeks away, meaning he could neither get replaced nor work up enough games to properly integrate and be effective. Or if he was fit but nowhere near the required standard.
1: Sydney
2: Melbourne
3: City
4: Wests
5: Perth
6: Mariners
7: Adelaide
8: Brisbane
9: Newcastle
10: WU
11: Nix Out! is back
Grand final winner: Sydney
Grand final runner-up: City
FFA Cup winner: City
Player of the season: Light of the Universe, Milos Ninkovic
Player of the grand final: Redders
Golden boot: ALF
Best new signing: Barbarouses
Best young player (U23): Ivanovic
Biggest flop signing: Wests #9 curse to infect Alex Maier
SFC player of the season: Light of the Universe, Milos Ninkovic
SFC golden boot: ALF
First coach sacked: Fowler
Random predictions for this season:
Pyro will be back, encouraged by the MSM’s hypocrisy on the matter
Jurman to be mugged by Alfie, conceding a goal in the 1st derby back at Parra
Craig Foster to challenge Corica to a ‘Silver Fox’ contest live on TV, causing irreparable damage to many people’s retinas
Major controversy at a Big Blue in Melbourne when Marco Kurz hands Michael Zullo a ball smeared in mushy potato chips to take a throw in with, with seagulls lurking menacingly. Zullo is kept out until late February as the peck marks heal
Rhyan Grant decides to stop washing in his pursuit of authentic dirtyness
Kurz to again be banned near the end of the season after a scuffle with Healthy Harold
1: Melbourne City
2: WSW
3: Sydney
4: Perth
5: Melbourne
6: Brisbane
7: CCM
8: Adelaide
9: Newcastle
10: West Melbourne
11: Wellington
Grand final winner: Melbourne City
Grand final runner-up: Sydney
FFA Cup winner: Melbourne City
Player of the season: Jamie MacLaren
Player of the grand final: Jamie MacLaren
Golden boot: Jamie MacLaren
Best new signing: Pirmin Schwegler
Best young player (U23): Tass Mourdoukoutos
Biggest flop signing: Alessandro Diamanti
SFC player of the season: Rhyan Grant
SFC golden boot: Kosta Barbarouses
First coach sacked: Mark Rudan
Random predictions for this season:
Western United to implode by week 6. Diamanti walks out, Rudan sacked and Kevin Muscat appointed as his successor.
Muscat signs Mark Milligan in January with the final derby moved to and selling out Docklands.
Wellington’s owners to return licence at end of season after getting the lowest points total in the history of the league
Canberra to join the league in 2021/22
WSW to win all 3 derbies this season and their fans to bang on incessantly about it only to lose the preliminary final due to SFC bias, obviously.
1: Perth
2: Sydney
3: City
4: Victory
5: Newcastle
6: western suburbs
7: Western Melbourne suburbs
8: CCM
9: Adelaide
10: Brisbane
11: Nix
Grand final winner: Perth
Grand final runner-up: City
FFA Cup winner: Mariners
Player of the season: Toivonen
Player of the grand final: Castro
Golden boot: Fornaroli
Best new signing: Luna
Best young player (U23): Ivanovic
Biggest flop signing: Berisha
SFC player of the season: Ninko
SFC golden boot: Alf
First coach sacked: Merrick
Random predictions for this season:
• Western United will start off slowly but end up with a decent league finish and average crowd figures of more than the mariners
• The RBB will return and in the first game there will be issues once again raising the points deduction matter.
• City will do well and no one will care.
• Buhagiar will return and absolutely kill it. His name will be mentioned as pushing for selection in the Socceroos by May 2020.
• The next round of expansion will be surprise started in the back half of this season in response to once again reducing crowd numbers.
• Perth will beat city on penalties in the GF. Castro will score the winner and announce his immediate retirement.
• We will lose to city in the semi in an error riddled, VAR infested shit fest where we are reduced to 10 men.
