Round 5 - Sydney FC vs Western Sydney - 23/11/24

Well then get on the phone to your state Labor member and tell them to give in to the union! For the football!

sorry… should have said!!!

/lighthearted :slightly_smiling_face: !!!

carry on

I am in for setting things on fire!!!

I once woke up to this outside my apartment

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Big night?

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Is this for real? Haha

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It’s hard to come up with funny stuff every week I guess

Just saw on the A-Leagues socials that both active ends have been sold out. Good signs!

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Talay just said in the press conference that Lolley is fit to play but Costa is likely out but getting close. Sena is also fit to play. Which is crazy because Costa was on the bench last game but apparently isn’t ready.

I suspect Caceres will start but he will be mostly dead

Mostly dead is slightly alive!

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They are pumped to watch Brisbane v Adelaide

Can we attend the match prior?

The ticket is for both matches.

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Earlier this week, it emerged via Instagram that players from both Sydney FC and the Western Sydney Wanderers played golf together. This would probably be fine at any other time - except this week, which is derby week. Come Saturday night at Allianz Stadium, we are to accept that these blokes hate each other, and everything their clubs stand for.

“Great day with the lads !!” read the caption from Tom Heaton, a professional golfer. And to be fair, as evidenced by the photo posted on his Instagram story, it looked like an absolute corker. Sydney FC’s English import Joe Lolley and Jordan Courtney-Perkins were tagged, along with Wanderers’ Swedish striker Marcus Antonsson, and Socceroo Luke Brattan, now of Macarthur FC.

Juan Mata was also there - and we wonder if he’d have gone golfing with, say, someone like Manchester City’s David Silva in derby week, back when he was playing for Manchester United. Or anyone from Arsenal when he played for Chelsea. At the very least, if he did, he probably would have gone to the ends of the earth to keep it secret.

In his defence, Courtney-Perkins said he didn’t know Antonsson and Mata would be there until he rocked up. Heaton, it turns out, had invited them to play - just as he does with Courtney-Perkins and Lolley from time to time.

“I spoke with a couple of people at training, and maybe the timing of it wasn’t ideal. That’s something I probably should have thought about,” Courtney-Perkins told this masthead.

“It’s a lack of judgement from me. At the end of the day, we all have our lives outside of football, and mine certainly involves a lot of golf. But that doesn’t change how I approach the game or my mentality going into the game.

“As soon as that whistle blows, I’m honoured to wear this jersey and I still hate the Wanderers.”

Nah, I don’t really give a fuck - let them play golf…

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Id be more surprised if Lolley wasnt playing golf

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Is this not part of why so many of these foreign players never leave, that we don’t give a shit about this?

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WTF is Tom Heaton doing out here?
I know it’s an international break and he’s only 3rd choice at Man United but did he just fly out to Australia for a week, mid-season, so he could have a hit of golf with his mates?

Looks like trains are back on this weekend, that’s a relief.

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People who get really worked up about this stuff, it’s a bit much for me.

Fuckin’ calm down Greg, it’s soccer, it’s soccer.

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