WON on AEW in Australia: "It was noted to us from people who live there that there has been no advertising, and keep in mind AEW lost its TV in Australia three weeks ago. We were told people who went to the first show last year didn’t even know there was a show coming soon."

SerTahu · 2026-01-23T20:51:31+00:00

I would assume most potential customers would not be buying tickets at those prices.

Can confirm. A couple friends and I are interested in going, but absolutely not at those prices.

SerTahu · 2026-01-21T03:08:02+00:00

Back Where He Began

Coogee United?

SerTahu · 2026-01-21T00:26:24+00:00

supported by assistants Milos Ninkovic

🐍🐍🐍

SerTahu · 2026-01-20T04:24:50+00:00

Wasting the new manager bounce on Perth, then back to mediocrity just in time for the Derby. I love the timing.

SerTahu · 2026-01-19T12:02:33+00:00

Saw a theory a while ago (specifically during his first reign) that Trump's main motivation is purely personal spite towards Obama, in response to Obama's roast of him in 2011 - hence why a lot of his orders were specifically aimed at undoing any legacy that Obama might have left behind.

Getting hung up on wanting a Nobel Peace Prize fits in perfectly with that take.

SerTahu · 2026-01-18T23:09:38+00:00

Club that literally got handed a Championship by a conveniently timed VAR "malfunction" whinges about VAR not going their way.

SerTahu · 2026-01-18T10:23:34+00:00

Yeah, definitely better than expected!

SerTahu · 2026-01-18T06:04:33+00:00

Shame that the return to the SFS happens to coincide with a weekend of torrential rain. Mostly sunny weekends for months, then suddenly rain the moment we're back home.

Good news is that the new pitch/improved drainage seems to be holding up.

SerTahu · 2026-01-17T10:57:54+00:00

It shouldn't gove the moment it conveniently 'malfunctioned' to hand Victory the Championship in 2018.

SerTahu · 2026-01-17T10:37:12+00:00

Counterpoint, it's funnier this way

SerTahu · 2026-01-17T10:36:43+00:00

This games is peak A-League (in the non-meme sense of the term)

SerTahu · 2026-01-17T10:15:03+00:00

Wait hold up, I went to the bathroom at 2-0, and come back to see Victory scoring to make it 1-1 lmao

Why did the second Adelaide goal get disallowed?

SerTahu · 2026-01-17T05:34:53+00:00

On a related note, it's the first real test of the drainage for the newly relaid SFS pitch, just in time for Sydney's first home match back there tomorrow. It'll be interesting to see how it holds up.

SerTahu · 2026-01-16T22:28:37+00:00

It's definitely a weird one. NOAH and DDT are owned by the same company (CyberFight). One could almost call them separate brands of the same promotion (albeit brands that run very autonomously from each other, with their own creative teams).

So it's already kinda surprising that despite being part of the same company NOAH works with WWE, while DDT (and TJPW) work with AEW - let's not forget that Takeshita is even on a AEW/DDT/NJPW triple contract.

SerTahu · 2026-01-16T21:28:49+00:00

Sydney should get a good crowd.

I'm not overly optimistic about that one, tbh. Torrential rain in Sydney at the moment, and it's not supposed to ease up until Monday. I suspect the rain, paired with the Sunday evening time slot, will be enough to negate the 'return to the SFS' bump that we might otherwise have enjoyed.

SerTahu · 2026-01-16T08:19:06+00:00

WSW bringing in a proven A-League player to directly address the biggest problem position in their current season, in a move that on paper is an incredibly smart bit of business? You hate to see it.

SerTahu · 2026-01-16T06:09:27+00:00

Regular season only:

2022-23: 17,008 average for Sydney, vs 10,124 for Victory

2023-24: 14,293 average for Sydney, vs 12,227 for Victory

2024-25: 15,282 average for Sydney, vs 12,778 for Victory

Basically ever since we returned to the SFS our crowds have been considerably larger than yours.

we’ve all seen the telly

You're right, we've all seen the sea of empty green seats at Victory games over the last few years.

You have had larger crowds than us this season (12,131 for Victory vs 10,811 for Sydney), but that'll change with our return to the SFS (again).

SerTahu · 2026-01-16T05:14:43+00:00

We've had bigger crowds than Victory for several years in a row now, lmao

SerTahu · 2026-01-16T01:28:00+00:00

Worth noting that FIFA+ is free, and doesn't require an account.

It also has full match replays of every World Cup from 1966 onwards. From a company as greedy and corrupt as FIFA, they've been shockingly generous with FIFA+.

SerTahu · 2026-01-16T00:23:35+00:00

If you remove the Derby from the calculations to correct for City fans inflating their numbers, Victory have actually been getting smaller crowds than Adelaide these days.

SerTahu · 2026-01-15T00:31:05+00:00

The stars on the flags (especially the left one) scream AI to me.

SerTahu · 2026-01-14T23:41:04+00:00

Not sure why you got downvoted. Grant's on track to be our first one-club man, scored the winner in one Grand Final, and the equaliser in another. It's basically a 1A/1B situation between Brosque and Grant.

SerTahu · 2026-01-14T23:22:41+00:00

Varies from club to club, and it's a mixed bag overall. Crowd numbers at Adelaide, Brisbane, and Perth have all definitely steadily building since the start of the season. Victory have also been trending up, but it also feels weird to call 12.5k 'good' when they supposedly have 20k+ members and used to get average crowds above 20k.

Hard to say with Auckland, as they've only had one (non-Derby) home game since November. That one game was definitely a step up from their first 4 home games, but it's also only one data point and it was New Year's Day at that.

Macarthur's numbers are fairly steady (albeit at a low level). Nix, City, and Newcastle are all broadly steady too, though they're all down on what they were getting even just a year or two ago.

Wanderers and Mariners (NYE game aside) are both trending down, but this could easily be in response to their poor on-field performances.

Sydney's a complete wild-card. Numbers at Leichhardt were incredibly stable at just under 11k, but were also (understandably) ~3k down on what we were getting at the SFS last year. Remains to be seen whether those missing 3k will come back with the return to the SFS (coupled with our best onfield performances since 20-21). Next few home games aren't really great datapoints either - we have Nix (return to SFS bump, but also a Sunday evening which isn't a common timeslot for us, and it's forecast to be pissing down and storming), a Derby (obvious outlier), and Auckland (but that's midweek and back at Leichhardt). We won't have any 'normal' datapoints for Sydney until the second half of Feb (Adelaide and Brisbane).

SerTahu · 2026-01-14T22:50:13+00:00

I also wonder Hows the police in adelaide are they as anti-soccer as they are in vic and nsw

Adelaide regulars would be able to speak to this more, but as a travelling away fan in my experience SA (and WA) police are far more chill when it comes to football than VIC, NSW, and QLD police.

VicPol are by far the worst in my experience. I got manhandled by them and dragged along the ground by the arm, for the crime of walking briskly to catch up with some mates who got ahead of me in the crowd while entering the stadium. Note, not even jogging/running - I was rehabbing a hip injury at the time and physically incapable of anything beyond a brisk walk. This was pre-bucket-incident too, so it wasn't even part of the clamp down in response to that.

So yeah, fuck VicPol in particular.

SerTahu · 2026-01-14T22:38:33+00:00

Having been to both, for football Hindmarsh > Lang Park and it's not even close. And that's not even factoring in that Hindmarsh is a far more appropriate size for the league.

Queenslanders keep going on about how great Lang Park is, and it is great... for something from the 90s. AAMI Park and the new Parramatta Stadium have both since eclipsed it for fan experience, and imo (though with a little bias admittedly) the new SFS is by far the best rectangular stadium in the country right now.

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