Thank you
Everyone looks pretty bad this season, tbh.
I can’t put everyone last…
I might redo mine and put CCM down to win everything just to piss Mick off.
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The ultimate kiss of death!
Pfft, like anyone, let alone death, would let me kiss them!
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Truth be told, I started from last and worked my way up. It made me realise that even if I put Welly up in seventh, there’s a real possibility they will be poor for much of the season. New coach at this level, plus some key players leaving them in the off-season.
End of season standings:
1: Western Sydney Wanderers
2: Sydney FC
3: Adelaide Utd
4: Melbourne City
5: Perth Glory
6: Brisbane Roar
7: Western Utd
8: Melbourne Victory
9: Central Coast Mariners
10: Wellington Phoenix
11: Newcastle Jets
12: Macarthur Bulls
Grand final winner: Sydney FC
Grand final runner-up: Western Sydney Wanderers
Australia Cup winner (2024): Sydney FC
Player of the season: Brandon Borello
Player of the grand final: Jack Rodwell
Golden boot: Jamie Maclaren
Best new signing: Alou Kuol
Best young player (U23): Nestory Irankunda
Biggest flop signing: Daniel Arzani
SFC player of the season: Robert Mak
SFC golden boot: Fabio Gomes
First coach sacked: Tony Popovic
Random predictions for this season: Ninkovic plays fewer minutes than Rodwell. Stajcic gets Perth playing some decent stuff and makes finals. Macarthur on APL life support by the end of the season. J Hendrix puns to reach intolerable levels by round two.
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*quietly awaits cup double*
Jokes aside, I’m really looking forward to the football this season. It feels quite a bit closer, nothing really notable happening, couple of new coaches, but they’re all familiar faces, really, no real good players anywhere. Just some real nobodies with a chance to make a name in a third rate football comp - it’s got real 2011 HAL vibes on it.
Can’t wait.
End of season standings:
1: Sydney
2: Adelaide Utd
3: Melbourne City
4: Perth Glory
5: Western Sydney Wanderers
6: Western United
7: Melbourne Victory
8: Central Coast Mariners
9: Macarthur
10: Wellington Phoenix
11: Brisbane Roar
12: Newcastle United Jets
Grand final winner: Sydney
Grand final runner-up: Sydney
Australia Cup winner (2024): Sydney
Player of the season: Joe Lolley
Player of the grand final: Joe Lolley
Golden boot: Fabio
Best new signing: Gabriel Lacerda
Best young player (U23): Kealey Adamson
Biggest flop signing: Daniel Arzani
SFC player of the season: Joe Lolley
SFC golden boot: Fabio
First coach sacked: Tony Popovic
Random predictions for this season:
It’s going to be really cool and fun.
Meh, looks about the same as usual. Mostly the same players. Some of the better ones have gone overseas but new young players will come through. Some of them and some of the existing players will step up and be the above average players this season.
Don’t forget to get your predictions in as soon as possible, the first round of the ALM starts in one week’s time.
The graphic below represents the current collective wisdom of SFCU, the jinx for Sydney FC is well and truly on.
Below is the data I have entered into my spreadsheet, if you see any typos please let me know.
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I’ll need to sit down and do it this weekend. Need to go through all the clubs and their signings one by one.
What? Is this meant to be serious?
It’s extremely serial.
I’M CEREAL!
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You’re a crunchy nut.
End of season standings:
1: Sydney
2: Perth
3: Australia’s Shame
4: City
5: CCM
6: WSW
7: Wellington
8: Adelaide
9: Brisbane
10: WU
11: Macarthur
12: Newcastle
Grand final winner: Sydney
Grand final runner-up: Australia’s Shame
Australia Cup winner (2024): Perth
Player of the season: Marco Tulio
Player of the grand final: Joe Lolley
Golden boot: Jamie Maclaren
Best new signing: Hamza Sakhi
Best young player (U23): JGR, Jacob Farrell or Max Balard
Biggest flop signing: Zinedine Machach or Valerie Germain
SFC player of the season: Joe Lolley
SFC golden boot: Fabio Gomes
First coach sacked: Rado Vidosic
Random predictions for this season:
Rado Vidosic sacked. Dario takes over and is a lot better than people expect.
The sauce bottles are joined by an inflatable Air Asia jet when Tony Fernandes buys a stake in the club.
JGR moves back into midfield as a 6 when Rodwell regains fitness. Absolutely kills it and moves overseas at the end of the season.
Rhyan Grant announces his retirement, returns to his home planet of Canowindra and builds a wave pool.
Keeley Adamson to play more games at LB than any other player on our books.
End of season standings:
1: Melbourne City
2: Western Sydney Wanderers
3: Melbourne Victory
4: Sydney FC
5: Macarthur
6: Perth Glory
7: Brisbane Roar
8. Wellington Phoenix
9: Central Coast Mariners
10: Western United
11: Adelaide United
12: Newcastle Jets
Grand final winner: Melbourne City
Grand final runner-up: Melbourne City vs WSW
Australia Cup winner (2024): Us (a bit late for this)
Player of the season: Tolgay Arsalan
Player of the grand final: Marin Jakolis
Golden boot: James Maclaren
Best new signing: Tolgay Arsalan
Best young player (U23): Kealey Adamson (for MCFC)
Biggest flop signing:
SFC player of the season: Gabriel Lacerda
SFC golden boot: Robert Mak
First coach sacked: John Aloisi
Random predictions for this season:
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My constant predictions of sydney/victorian teams taking up the top 6 actually comes right
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Adamson signs with Melbourne City as a replacement for Talbot whos off overseas
End of season standings:
1: Sydney FC
2: Melbourne City
3: Western Sydney
4: Brisbane Roar
5: Melbourne Victory
6: Central Coast
7: Adelaide United
8: Western Melbourne
9: Perth Glory
10: Newcastle Jets
11: MacArthur FC
12: Wellington Phoenix
Grand final winner: Sydney (Becoming the first ever club to win the treble)
Grand final runner-up: Melbourne City
Australia Cup winner (2024): Brisbane Roar
Player of the season: Joe Lolley
Player of the grand final: Andrew Redmayne
Golden boot: Jamie McClaren
Best new signing: Tolgay Arslan
Best young player (U23): Thomas Waddingham (Brisbane)
Biggest flop signing: Marcus Antossen (WSW)
SFC player of the season: Joe Lolley
SFC golden boot: Fabio (14 goals)
First coach sacked: Giancarlo Italiano (Wellington)
Random predictions for this season:
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Rado Vidosic to stand down from Melbourne City before New Year courtesy of a horrendous run of form. To be replaced by Tony Popovic. Kisnorbo will eventually be sacked by Troyes and go to Australia’s shame.
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Ninkovic to retire after sustaining a career ending injury courtesy of Luke Brattan. The challenge, which is red card worth goes unpunished as the VAR wasn’t working because the APL forgot to pay their subscription in time.
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Australia’s Shame continue their horrendous run of form off the field, with fans turning up to Goschs Paddock and disturbing the peace, causing Victoria Police to attend en-mass. In the ensuring fracas several Victorian a police officers are hospitalised.
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Newly announced Auckland franchise announce they’ll be signing a big name marquee player for their inaugural season.
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Canberra to be named ‘Capital Punishment FC’
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Newcastle to be bought by a questionable Saudi Prince.
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Paramount+ to announce the pause, rewind functionality will be rescinded due to glitches, and it just being too much hard work.
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Andrew Redmayne to retire at seasons end, transferring full time to The Wiggles
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Sydney FC matches on Channel TEN and Paramount plus to be classified MA15+ due to Steve Corica, dropping F bombs constantly during broadcast. All Sydney FC games to come with a parental warning before kick off.
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End of season standings:
1: City
2: Brisbane
3: Sydney
4: Western suburbs
5: Perth
6: Victory
7: Adelaide
8: Mariners
9: Western united
10: MacArthur
11: Wellington
12: Jets
Grand final winner: Sydney
Grand final runner-up: Brisbane
Australia Cup winner (2024): Sydney
Player of the season: Tolgay Arslan
Player of the grand final: Lacerda
Golden boot: Gomes
Best new signing: Arslan
Best young player (U23): Irankunda
Biggest flop signing: Valere Germain
SFC player of the season: Mak
SFC golden boot: Gomes
First coach sacked: Mile Stejovski
Random predictions for this season:
League
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MacArthur to implode in some way
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Crowds up and a very entertaining season with many batshit games, despite the general quality of the league regressing slightly
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Top 4 separated by 3 points with the premiership decided on the final day
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Ninko picks up a long term injury and quietly retires and no one cares
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Central coast to return to their usual level of just not being very good. Jets are even worse though which makes for some incredible f3 derbies
Sydney fc
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Gomes to become the new Bobo tap in king
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Mak goes full beast mode this season
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Rodwell breaks down several times again and the road to 828 is revived
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Injuries are the only thing that prevent us from claiming the minor premiership
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We lose two U23s to other clubs / overseas during the Jan window
End of season standings:
1: Sydney
2: City
3: Brisbane
4: WSW
5: Melbourne
6: Adelaide
7: CCM
8: Western
9: Macarthur
10: Perth
11: Wellington
12: Newcastle
Grand final winner: Brisbane
Grand final runner-up: Sydney
Australia Cup winner (2024): City
Player of the season: Lolley
Player of the grand final: Berenguer
Golden boot: Maclaren
Best new signing: Gomes
Best young player (U23): Waddingham
Biggest flop signing: Machach at Melbourne
SFC player of the season: Lolley
SFC golden boot: Gomes
First coach sacked: Stajcic
Random predictions for this season:
This season is actually fun and passes with minimal negativity (by Australian soccer’s standards…)