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2026 Hahn Australia Cup

Zelen Fc said:
South is next
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I'm not confident about Adelaide next week. Truly hope I'm wrong. Our mid season signings have done well, but Retre and Juach need more time to get match fitness. We will take it up to Adelaide. Just need to get an early goal and then we'll have a fighting chance.

The NPL teams are showing that the gap to the A League is not that large as it used to be.
 
Certainly I think SU58 looked the better, more likely to score for most of the match. A couple of coast boys with a point to prove against the Mariners as well. I thought for a very young team (minus Redmayne and Roux) CCM looked hard to break down. They do need more going forward though. Lavale tried hard but had little support up front
 
patjennings said:
Certainly I think SU58 looked the better, more likely to score for most of the match. A couple of coast boys with a point to prove against the Mariners as well. I thought for a very young team (minus Redmayne and Roux) CCM looked hard to break down. They do need more going forward though. Lavale tried hard but had little support up front
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Bit concerning for you guys moving forward for your respective A League season that Redmayne wasn't able to get near one penalty.
 
erogenouszone said:
Would be nice if Marconi took the Australia Cup a bit more seriously, however considering their performances the past few years it's obvious they don't. APIA certainly do.
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But as far as I can see they do take it seriously. They just keep losing. To be fair apart from this years bad loss to Olympic the two before that we’re both v APIA in the final nsw round, both away at APIA, that’s always gonna be a flip of a coin. Unfortunate because it would be good for the club and comp to have a good cup night at Marconi
 
Beretta said:
These cup competitions need a Marconi, Rockdale or even Sutherland.

not SD fucken Raiders
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Marconi deserved to lose fair and square this time. But it always seems like in nsw “big” clubs end up being drawn against each other and there’s always atleast one spot that goes to some random “minnow” who played only other “minnows” ….Make the draw live in future
 
Glenardo said:
Marconi deserved to lose fair and square this time. But it always seems like in nsw “big” clubs end up being drawn against each other and there’s always atleast one spot that goes to some random “minnow” who played only other “minnows” ….Make the draw live in future
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yer that true - were/the usual suspects always have a harder draw that others don't consider enough.
Middle of title contentions makes for hard choices on starting line ups plus injuries whereas the AL clubs have time and many Youth play.
I can't recall APIA having minnows much since its start.
Glenardo as you recall last year at Leichardt you sneaked through by pens skin of your teeth that’s the ball game but I agree with you, don't think Marconi take it lightly.
 
erogenouszone said:
Bit concerning for you guys moving forward for your respective A League season that Redmayne wasn't able to get near one penalty.
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TBH he doesn't have great record for pens. The wiggles move for the Grand Final and Peru. A couple before that over the years for SFC and one for us on debut.

The Peru gambit was a bluff. Maty has played 10 shoot-outs in his career. Lost the first two for CCM then won the next 7 before Egypt.
 
patjennings said:
Certainly I think SU58 looked the better, more likely to score for most of the match. A couple of coast boys with a point to prove against the Mariners as well. I thought for a very young team (minus Redmayne and Roux) CCM looked hard to break down. They do need more going forward though. Lavale tried hard but had little support up front
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I was surprised this young Kuol was actually on the turps and before walking around with a SU bucket hat on most of the night.
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Beretta said:
hope to see you guys get through and send anotherAL team packing.

love the excuses from some of the AL fans whose club have been knocked out, "not taking it seriously, its only the Aus Cup" 🧂
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A Preston or Sydney United in mid season beating an Aleague team one week in to pre season isn't really a surprise, and probably expected (Sydney United were betting favourites against CCM).

Its difficult to say the gap is closing when one team is half way through a season, and the other is one week in to pre season.

But this is why the cup has been set up this way, gives the state league teams geniune chance of winning against aleague opposition.

I do think they gap is closing though, not because the NPL is getting better, but because the level in the Aleague is dwindling, and is atrocious at the moment.
 
Beretta said:
To many of those SUS "nazis, racists" around, so he needed to go undercover.

in all seriousness, i thought it was just Farah Koko's relatives, as he brings his whole family (10+) weekly.
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Redmayne was copping heaps last night no undercover for him lol
 
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