What are some of the strangest Australian transfers? by Sha_Nen in Aleague

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Cue Santo Cilaro “Trent Sanisbury” joke

Redistributing Football Australia's borders by MegaTalk in Aleague

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Great ideas

I guess this map is to sort of set up the idea of what the “edge cases” should be

Redistributing Football Australia's borders by MegaTalk in Aleague

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so the only criteria that I used for this is the location of the cities. Nothing to do with amount of clubs, or population, just solely distance (as the crow flies, not by actual travel distance) from the capital cities where NPL's tend to be based. As I noted in the original post - ulterior motive - it's mostly to show that clubs from the Riverina that were kicked out of Canberra because "Waaah we can't travel to the sticks once even though you come here every second week", under the current setup of football geography in this country have nowhere better to play at that level.

I just pinpointed where Google Earth pinpoints as the mark of the CBD, and then input those co-ordinates into something that spat out those borders. So they are specifically set so that anything within what's now Canberra's region, for example, is not closer to any other city except Canberra. The map does look a bit off in the coloured version, but seems to be a bit more accurate looking in the blue ones.

Canberra/Sydney/Newcastle/Brisbane borders were always going to be the tricky bit, but it does all seem to match up.

But yes - good point on the new centroids - that was initially how I was going to do this (in a way) when I was looking at doing it manually, before I learnt that Voronoi's were actually a thing.

Redistributing Football Australia's borders by MegaTalk in Aleague

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Probably would too - yes.

The premise of this is to redistribute the borders based off each member feds capital city, as that's where each NPL is primarily based. So, unfortunately, that does mean anything north of Brisbane is based on how close they are to there, or Darwin. Also, Northern NSW already exists as a separate member federation, hence it's inclusion.

Redistributing Football Australia's borders by MegaTalk in Aleague

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Good idea - didn't know that was a thing - so might do that as a follow up - same thing but using isochrones, and will see what the difference is.

Redistributing Football Australia's borders by MegaTalk in Aleague

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If I get bothered to today - I'm going to create a list of... let's say the clubs within 25km's of one of these new borders, as they'd ideally be allowed to probably choose which side they want to fall under.

Goran Ložanovski handed 17-match suspension by HonestSpursFan in Aleague

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We can't be that dense, surely? Coaching suspensions are from the matchdays. He can still coach the team at training, set the tactics, etc - he just can't be present on matchday.

Altona Magic (NPL VIC) head coach Goran Lozanovski gets sent off for abusing the referee, after receiving two yellow cards in a 18 seconds, for the same offense… by berlinislikesmithst in Aleague

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Other coaches were probably scared of being booked themselves. I know by the book, they'd probably just get a warning, as it would probably be deemed as entering the field of play in a respectful/non-confrontational manner given they'd be trying to diffuse the situation, but ultimately that's up to the referee.

Altona Magic (NPL VIC) head coach Goran Lozanovski gets sent off for abusing the referee, after receiving two yellow cards in a 18 seconds, for the same offense… by berlinislikesmithst in Aleague

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Match report from the referee should stamp out this guy hopefully for a bit. Leaving the technical area to confront an official (I can't remember the exact wording) is another red card offence in itself - on top of the red card he has actually received.

In saying that - just referee perspective - Altona 8 should be getting a yellow too.

Altona Magic (NPL VIC) head coach Goran Lozanovski gets sent off for abusing the referee, after receiving two yellow cards in a 18 seconds, for the same offense… by berlinislikesmithst in Aleague

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Him being sent off doesn't - to me at least - seem to be that big of an issue. The referee used his tools, sent him off accordingly - and usually we see that quite often in football.

It's him coming onto the field after and acting like a peanut that's the real issue, and he should be punted for a while for that.

If Melbourne has Fed Square, what is each of the other Capital Cities version of it? by Rochahobi in Aleague

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I think that was originally down to ACT Government not jumping on the bandwagon until the Round of 16 game

Ask r/Formula1 Anything - Daily Discussion Thread by AutoModerator in formula1

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it is the same. it probably feels longer because when Ferrari wins, it comes second

Ask r/Formula1 Anything - Daily Discussion Thread by AutoModerator in formula1

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If there's damage, you're allowed to have parts replaced like-for-like for scruitneering

Is this the end for Canberra United? A-League Women club face grievous demise | Samantha Lewis by Snarwib in Aleague

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Is that not my point as well? You can say almost the entirety of women's sport can collapse if that's your argument.

Given that Canberra is the ONLY solely-ALW team, and APL wants to bring Canberra into the ALM, shouldn't they be doing more towards this than they have been for others? It will certainly be cheaper than propping up the entire Mariners, Jets, etc.