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2025 Australia Cup final rounds thread

tsf said:
Ws listening to abc radio in car before.

for three days in a row they've been talking Australian cup. Interviews with Avondale coach etc

Then talked about Preston one day being able to join the a-league

yesterday a segment on the bergers. I can't remember that coverage in previous years.

PR team working at it?
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maybve, but also the feeling about the cup is growing around grass roots football to as they see some improbable clubs go on cup runs... A decade on and it seems to be growing every year...really pleasing to see.
 
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Monoethnic Social Club said:
maybve, but also the feeling about the cup is growing around grass roots football to as they see some improbable clubs go on cup runs... A decade on and it seems to be growing every year...really pleasing to see.
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Go back and watch state league games from 10-15 years ago and you can really see the massive improvements in professionalism that have been made in that time
 
Monoethnic Social Club said:
Not really an anomlay mate, I think every city in Australia is wonderful especially Adelaide (even though Ive never been to Darwin, Im sure it is fine too)... everywhere has its pros and cons...

Wherever "home" is today is the best of the best because thats were family and friends are, otherwise who really gives a shit which city is "better" than the others?
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Darwin is a great little city, very cosmopolitan, so close to Asia, great food & great weather apart from the wet hot season.
 
GDEATHE said:
Since for a few of the A league clubs treat this cup as a preseason kickandgiggle, do you think the championship foundation clubs will feel the same way next year?
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GD
I tell you one thing that separates the boys from wannabees.
Every single npl club has something to lose every single game and every game is taken seriously no matter the game and that will always be their way at looking at it.
Honour for the club and being on top of your rivals Oz Cup no diff.
 
Monoethnic Social Club said:
Not really an anomlay mate, I think every city in Australia is wonderful especially Adelaide (even though Ive never been to Darwin, Im sure it is fine too)... everywhere has its pros and cons...
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I tend to agree. Like you, I've visited all of our capital cities (except Darwin), and I've never once thought "hope I never come back here again". All our cities are pretty damn good. All have plenty of great places to eat and drink and most importantly I can get a great coffee pretty much anywhere in Australia. I will say this though, none of our cities are what you'd call pretty, beautiful or even unique. Sure we have plenty of natural beauty, especially our coastlines, but our cities themselves are a bit meh when compared to cities around the world.
 
someguyjc said:
I tend to agree. Like you, I've visited all of our capital cities (except Darwin), and I've never once thought "hope I never come back here again". All our cities are pretty damn good. All have plenty of great places to eat and drink and most importantly I can get a great coffee pretty much anywhere in Australia. I will say this though, none of our cities are what you'd call pretty, beautiful or even unique. Sure we have plenty of natural beauty, especially our coastlines, but our cities themselves are a bit meh when compared to cities around the world.
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Interesting if you exclude natural beauty? What do you qualify as a beautiful city?
 
Robbos said:
What do you qualify as a beautiful city?
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I'd say it's about how the buildings and structures fit it with each other. Example, when you visit some of the old European cities like Prague, Copenhagen, Bruges (to name a few), it feels like when a building is built, careful consideration was taken to how it fits in with the surrounding buildings. Can't say that about any Australian city. We just build whatever we want regardless of what it looks like. We also have a bit of history of tearing down the old. Just need to talk to people in Brisbane about that one. I'm sure part of that is due to Australia being so young, but we could do a heck of a lot better.
 
Robbos said:
Darwin is a great little city, very cosmopolitan, so close to Asia, great food & great weather apart from the wet hot season.
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Can confirm. Lived there for 4 years. You blokes that haven't visited there are missing out.

Also as an aside there's quite a large Greek contingent up there. Estimated at 10 thousand or so and all, mostly, from Kalymnos.

www.abc.net.au

NT-born Greeks head back to Darwin amid eurozone chaos

As Greece considers whether it should leave the eurozone, thousands of Darwin-born Greek Australians are returning to the Northern Territory.
www.abc.net.au www.abc.net.au
 
Robbos said:
Interesting if you exclude natural beauty? What do you qualify as a beautiful city?
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Paris, Rome, Barcelona, Prague, Budapest, Vienna for a start. Sydney might have an amazingly beautiful coastline, but even cities like London and Berlin have a lot more man-made beauty if it can be called that.
 
Kitwally said:
Paris, Rome, Barcelona, Prague, Budapest, Vienna for a start. Sydney might have an amazingly beautiful coastline, but even cities like London and Berlin have a lot more man-made beauty if it can be called that.
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Correct. The harbour and the CBD are nice but other than that, urban sprawl as far as the eye can see.
 
Christ comparing cities started since Rome to a colony that got a British flag down in 1788.
Now that’s good comparing fellas.
No doubt those really really really old euro cities are jewels we’d never compare to that for yes I agree not much was well planned as we progressed and have no history like those mentioned but the Rocks area and Sydney harbour is our jewel to tourists world over and it is what it is.
 
Ok I accept all of you who look at man made beauty as opposed to natural beauty, yes Sydney does fall behind some of these great historical European cities, but as far as natural beauty, there are not many cities as beautiful as Sydney, just look outside the window when you flying into Sydney when coming in at dawn & this is far beyond just the Sydney harbour & the CBD, go to West Head, have a look at Hawkesbury river, Cronulla beach, the blue mountains just behind Penrith aint bad either.

I do love Europe, but maybe I just travelled from Darwin to Broome & this country's natural beauty & history (yes I know some only think we started in 1778, well they wrong) is just as good as anything anywhere in the world.
 
tsf said:
Listening to SEN would be torture :ROFLMAO:
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Oh, I haven’t listened to it in years - but I know what they yap on about thanks to their Twitter accounts.

Truthfully, it’s better this way as whenever the station-jocks did pretend to take an interest in the game, it always ended in tears one way or another ie. their lack of ⚽️knowledge/unwillingness to learn was glaringly obvious..and in the station’s early years I recall hearing bogans ringing up the talkback-line complaining to the effect of “why’re youse talking about this w0gb@ll sh1t for, this is 🇦🇺“
 
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