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2026 Australia Cup final rounds thread

Beretta said:
4 NPL clubs knock out AL opposition in the round of the 32, setting a new record

Would have been unheard of only 5-10 years ago.
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This is a direct result of the increased games and professionalism of the NPL clubs and the reduced TV money and therefore the focus on academy players in the A League clubs. Money is everything in football.
 
NR93 said:
Won't happen unless it's the final.

Some Roar fans claim the club's history stretches back to the Queensland Lions because the Lions won the A-League licence. The club has occasionally leaned into that connection too, such as using the 1957 establishment date on jerseys etc.

Load of crap in my opinion, acknowledging the origins is one thing, but claiming the entire pre-2005 history as Roar's own is a stretch.
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Probably depends on how it actually happened. Was the A-League or local team a continuation of the old club? Or was it a split, with both clubs able to claim the past? Or something else?

Would it be similar to some Championship teams that have created separate entities for that tournament?
 
HappyGuus said:
Probably depends on how it actually happened. Was the A-League or local team a continuation of the old club? Or was it a split, with both clubs able to claim the past? Or something else?

Would it be similar to some Championship teams that have created separate entities for that tournament?
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Was meant to be a continuation. Lions didn’t play in the BPL (old NPL) for a couple of years as they were in the aleague. But we changed some of the primary colours, name, stadium then eventually training base.

Didn’t take long until they spilt into two at senior level. Season 2 or so from memory.

Given lions still ran as a club in its own right during this time I wouldn’t claim that history as ours.
 
NR93 said:
Was meant to be a continuation. Lions didn’t play in the BPL (old NPL) for a couple of years as they were in the aleague. But we changed some of the primary colours, name, stadium then eventually training base.

Didn’t take long until they spilt into two at senior level. Season 2 or so from memory.

Given lions still ran as a club in its own right during this time I wouldn’t claim that history as ours.
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Hmmm... just going by that I'd say that Roar does share that history, but I'll have to read into it more.

Changes of name, colours, location means nothing regarding continuation of a club, it's very common and normal actually.

Looks to me like Roar and Lions have the same history pre season 2 of A-League, then their records separate. But yeah I'll need to read more about it.
 
What a win !!!

That was one of South's best performances all season. You could see the South players were nervous early on and the mistake that Ramazani made was probably due to that. That was the only fault he made all night and it had to cost us an early goal.

Yoo and Uchida terrorised the Adelaide team all night. They are linking up so well and you can see they enjoy playing with each other. Great energy. They just kept running at the Adelaide defence nonstop all night. The South midfield was massive last night. Retre and Pasquali just bossed the midfield and provided great defensive cover but also were able to feed Uchida, Yoo, and Cocks to get the ball moving forward.

Ramazani bossed the defence and Jankovic is a better player next to him. The South defence pretty much kept Adelaide United to a few long speculative shots from outside the box. Juach's long range shot was nothing but world class giving the goalkeeper no chance. If we had conceded a second goal it would have been all over. But that great goal by Juach lifted the team and got us back into the match.

The last 10 minutes of the match felt like an eternity. We were resolute and kept fighting until the end.

I must say the crowd was good last night. It was announced at 3,080. The queues in the social club for food and drinks were really long all night. I saw on the socials that they had 400kgs of gyros and they probably sold pretty much all of it.

Great scenes at the final whistle. Finally we get revenge after 22 years for that infamous night in 2004 in the NSL finals.
 
Beretta said:
4 NPL clubs knock out AL opposition in the round of the 32, setting a new record

Would have been unheard of only 5-10 years ago.
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That was being discussed last night in the South social club during the live draw. It was good to see that 4 A League teams are playing against each other in the Round of 16.

Just shows you that the NPL clubs are really looking to improve, and the money flowing around the NPL competitions is extraordinary. And that is against the backdrop of an A League that is cutting back spending focusing on younger players. The days of the expensive international marquee players is over.
 
SMFC1959 said:
That was being discussed last night in the South social club during the live draw. It was good to see that 4 A League teams are playing against each other in the Round of 16.

Just shows you that the NPL clubs are really looking to improve, and the money flowing around the NPL competitions is extraordinary. And that is against the backdrop of an A League that is cutting back spending focusing on younger players. The days of the expensive international marquee players is over.
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Fre”O done dirty in the draw, I believe they will dick Sth Melb 5-1.
 
Beretta said:
Im just fucken bored of it. We will play each other minimum 4 times now this year.

We enter this competition to play the best sides around Australia, not in NSW.

It was a draw to save travel costs 🤐
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Pretty much all the Victorian clubs are on one side of the draw and the other side is full of NSW teams.

From a selfish perspective, I'm just glad that South doesn't have to travel interstate for the remainder of the Australia Cup.
 
Olympic were never embarrassed by us. We played a little better and got more goals but that is as far as it goes.

For us, we showed exactly where we are at this point in time.

A young side learning to play together with a long way to go.

Olympic created more team chances and played with more cohesion for most of the night as I watched it.

We did OK, but the weaknesses in both attack and defence were there to be exploited by what I will call aleague quality players. We were lucky that passes went slightly astray many times.

I am putting more detail on specific Roar players in our own thread rather than boring/annoying those of you with no interest or small screens to scroll past.
 
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