2026 Hahn Australia Cup

[southmelb]

See ya Jokeleigh lol

 

[Hellenic_blue&white]

@Oakleigh ... choakleigh, choakleigh ole.ole.ole!

 

[southmelb]

Brunswick juve v bulleen for a spot in the 32 will be a good one.

As for the dockerty cup it looks like a 3 horse race between Heidelberg, Preston and Avondale.

 

[Spartan Warrior]

Its not fair when a big club beats up on a little club..

 

[rebelliousfeminist974]

Its not fair when a big club beats up on a little club..

Agree that the larger clubs getting routs on the smaller lower division sides takes away the magic of the Cup but unfortunately that's the case most of the time.

 

[Hellenic_blue&white]

Agree that the larger clubs getting routs on the smaller lower division sides takes away the magic of the Cup but unfortunately that's the case most of the time.

The bigger club being Juve!

 

[Glenardo]

Fraser park 2-3 Sydney Olympic





Tell ya what, Olympic were lucky to get out of that, geez they’re shit. For the most part, especially in the first half you genuinely wouldn’t have known that the two clubs were separated by 2 divisions. Olympic look like an under 21s team and a fairly average one at that plus Ziggy Gordon who, to use my fathers favourite phrase “turns like the titanic”. Also not to feed the conspiracies, could just be consequential but Haliti is definitely still doing something..I don’t know what, but he’s always there on his phone up in the stands for every match I’ve seen them play. Hanlin if you’re reading this, please don’t sue

Anyway, entertaining game for the neutral, good crowd and a decent little atmosphere, worth getting down to. Good on both clubs for making it a bit of an event. I know it’s wishful thinking but imo something like this would be the perfect little boutique sized venue for olympic to start to rebuild from. Still a decent size but you don’t need a big crowd for it to fill up and have a decent atmosphere

 

[Glenardo]

Brunswick juve v bulleen for a spot in the 32 will be a good one.

As for the dockerty cup it looks like a 3 horse race between Heidelberg, Preston and Avondale.

Was this the final round before the round of 32 in vic?

 

[southmelb]

Was this the final round before the round of 32 in vic?

Yes but the last spot requires an extra playoff game between Brunswick juve and Bulleen. North sunshine also play Avondale next week. Bit unlucky for Juve needing to play the extra game.

 

[Zelen Fc]

Yes but the last spot requires an extra playoff game between Brunswick juve and Bulleen. North sunshine also play Avondale next week. Bit unlucky for Juve needing to play the extra game.

Why though seems so pointless

 

[Glenardo]

Yes but the last spot requires an extra playoff game between Brunswick juve and Bulleen. North sunshine also play Avondale next week. Bit unlucky for Juve needing to play the extra game.

How do they decide who has to play an extra game ?

 

[southmelb]

How do they decide who has to play an extra game ?

Ita randomly drawn, from memory when they did it 2 weeks ago it was the last clubs that were drawn that fell into the "extra game qualifier"

 

[Glenardo]

Ita randomly drawn, from memory when they did it 2 weeks ago it was the last clubs that were drawn that fell into the "extra game qualifier"

 

[southmelb]

Why though seems so pointless

Because South took the automatic spot from the Aus championship, so they had to cull 2 extra teams that reached this stage.

 

[theFOOTBALLlover]

Fraser park 2-3 Sydney Olympic



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Tell ya what, Olympic were lucky to get out of that, geez they’re shit. For the most part, especially in the first half you genuinely wouldn’t have known that the two clubs were separated by 2 divisions. Olympic look like an under 21s team and a fairly average one at that plus Ziggy Gordon who to use a turn of phrase my father often uses “turns like the titanic”. Also not to feed the conspiracies, could just be consequential but Haliti is defiantly still doing something, I don’t know what, but he’s always there on his phone up in the stands for every match I’ve seen them play. Hanlin if you’re reading, please don’t sue

Anyway, Entertaining game for the neutral, good crowd and a decent little atmosphere, worth getting down to. Good on both clubs for making it a bit of an event. I know it’s wishful thinking but imo this would be the perfect little boutique sized venue for olympic to have to start to rebuild from. Still a decent size but you don’t need a big crowd for it to fill up and have a decent atmosphere. Seems a similar size to something like hume city’s ground from what I can tell having never been to that one or oakleigh’s new grand stand

Olympic at Fraser.. no thanks.

Isn’t this your second game at Fraser in the past week or am I mixing you up with someone else? If it’s you, might have to get you a scarf.

 

[Glenardo]

Olympic at Fraser.. no thanks.

Isn’t this your second game at Fraser in the past week or am I mixing you up with someone else? If it’s you, might have to get you a scarf.

Not at Fraser specifically, but a boutique stadium like that.

And yes, not in the past week, I went to APIA v Marconi on the weekend, but I also went to the last Fraser park cup game as well, thought this would be an interesting one. I have a friend who’s son plays in the juniors there so I went with him

 

[NicCarBel]

Ita randomly drawn, from memory when they did it 2 weeks ago it was the last clubs that were drawn that fell into the "extra game qualifier"

sounds ridiculous to me

 

[southmelb]

sounds ridiculous to me

Yep, some teams get lucky whilst a bunch find themselves needing to play an extra game.

We had this happen 2 years ago with the dockerty cup, 3 teams made the semi and South were drawn against Heidelberg to play a "semi final qualifier"...i remember our president at the time going nuts on social media over it lol. We ended up beating heidelberg and winning the whole thing.

 

[Glenardo]

Yep, some teams get lucky whilst a bunch find themselves needing to play an extra game.

We had this happen 2 years ago with the dockerty cup, 3 teams made the semi and South were drawn against Heidelberg to play a "semi final qualifier"...i remember our president at the time going nuts on social media over it lol. We ended up beating heidelberg and winning the whole thing.

Sometimes they’ll do these “unlucky extra game” draws at the very beginning of the cup so the numbers even out by the time it gets to the business end. I’m not good enough at maths to know if that would have worked here but it probably would have been preferable imo

 

[NicCarBel]

Sometimes they’ll do these “unlucky extra game” draws at the very beginning of the cup so the numbers even out by the time it gets to the business end. I’m not good enough at maths to be sure if that would have worked here but it probably would have been preferable imo

That's the easiest way to do it

The other way to do it, I reckon, would have been have your extra playoffs between the losers of the 4x quarter finals / round 7 fixtures IF South Melbourne made semis of the Dockerty Cup (or the 3 losers if one of the 4 losing quarter finalists were SMFC)