Subject: »[Cup] S20 - Australia Cup

Another red card for me....this time my new signing in the first minute! The SK gods are really pi55ed at me for some reason.

Ouch! Comets get their chance for junior humilation revenge. Next season I'll have to get that top 16 spot to give myself a chance to go a bit further.

oh yay, I get to play an A-league side in the final 32. This must be the first time this has happened before

Aren't 9 men enough to play a match? Would have stood a chance of winning as well. *sigh*

Edit> I don't even get training as well, don't I? :(

Edit2> And no wonder I get a sense of deja vu. This happened last season too.
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You don't need top 16; I wasn't and after 3 rounds I'am in it... teams will drop by the time you get to round4.

Good draw, personally... not easy but I have a chance to reach round5 this season again. I hope I don't waste it.

Aren't 9 men enough to play a match?

Need 10 minimum.

looks like I've got a fellow A Leaguer...Achmids for second time this season.....might as well play my reserves me thinks?

Tribe's season goes from bad to worse.

Cometer smashed me. Too much class in that team. Good luck for the rest of the cup...

Tribe's season goes from bad to worse.

Would hate to see that fan mood right about now after that defeat. A very unlucky defeat by the looks of it too.

Cometer smashed me. Too much class in that team. Good luck for the rest of the cup...

Cheers. Yeah I did everything but smash you on the scoreboard. Necevski 2 from 13 was a disappointing return and to some extent so was Alagich's 2 from 13. Willis deserves to go up a keeper level after that performance. Some brilliant saves, especially the one where he was out of position and Necevski received a pass from Alagich and slammed it at the goal only to hear NOOOOOOOO in slow motion as Willis dived across to make the save.

I'm at a stage now where my backup midfielders are better than the majority of II's first choice midfielders which makes cup runs fairly routine until the late stages. Aiming for my 3rd cup final in a row but all it takes is one dodgy draw and I'm playing Krayzees next week :p.

One of the best saves I have seen. He flew across the goal from miles away. I thought my tactic did well to restrict your chances to shots from outside and from angles. Your strikers were unlucky though.

1 nil up with 11 players..
2 nil up with 10 players..
3 nil up with 9 players!

I ended up winning 3-1 in the end, pretty happy considering the ratings involved and the 2 red cards.
Bring on Rd5... again :)

Well, bugger.

Parker was meant to be on instead of Christie, but to be honest I thought I was lucky to be in the game by the time my conditional orders came on. Durquet missing a tap-in with the keeper completely out of position in the dying minutes was the icing on the cake.

Congrats Josh, I hope you have a great run.

Safely though. Dominated with the 2nd XI. Another reminder to sell some of them off for a younger batch.

Bad luck naph. Just when I thought Tribe was invincible... A-League title in doubt as well.

Geez that was a great game to watch! I honestly thought I was going to get raped so I played a pretty much full strenth lineup. Awesome to see my third-choice striker nab two early goals!

Another fe&&ing red card early doors....that's something like 2 in last 3 competitive games & 4 in last 6....SK is taking the p155!! All in the first third of the game....at least this one was in the 5th minute & not the first, as was the case in the previous league match.
Still....down to 10...0-0....then 1-0 up....& hung on to oust Achmids....some revenge for the league fixture in round 1.
We live to fight another round in the cup.

1/8:
Jyuukenbu F.C - The Comets
Melbourne Magpies - The Black Flashes
Da Minkees - Chelsea.F.C
Losers - Team Moose Power
FC de BEARS - Frogmeisters15
Krayzee Coconuts - Cumlionibus
Baldivis FC. - Roar FC
Gondor Guardians - Snappa Serpents

It's getting interesting.
I'm happy with my draw as it's the kind of team I need to benchmark myself with to see if I can make it upstairs...