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    Del Piero scored after a penalty miss rebounded to his feet to give Sydney FC a 1-0 win in the first ever A-League Sydney Derby.

     

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    The Italian fell after Aaron Mooy left his leg trailing behind him while in the box. Strebre Delovski, in the biggest match since his long injury lay-off saw Del Piero trip and awarded penalty. Del Piero took the penalty but was ordered to re-take his successful first attempt. Covic once again proved the hero by saving the penalty but Sydney FC gained another huge stroke of luck with the rebound falling to the feet of the Italian striker. Del Piero managed to get the job done this time around and Sydney FC took the lead and held it for the remainder of the match.

     

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    In front of 19,126 passionate fans the Wanderers had 19 shots at goal in the match but only put 3 on target, a very worrying sign for manager Tony Popovic as the Wanderers head into a tough away clash in Brisbane next week. Sydney full back Fabio started off the match with repeated fouls but referee Strebre Delovski failed to issue a yellow card. The first shot of the match fell to ex-Newcastle Jet Ali Abbas but put it wide right. Seb Ryall and Brett Emerton continued the pattern of Sydney FC fouls and Delovski finally ran out of patience and handed the Sydney stand-in captain a yellow card for delaying a restart, to applause from the RBB.

     

    Del Piero skied the free kick from an Aaron Mooy foul on Kruno Lovrek, and followed that with a shot from outside the box that gave Covic his first real work to do in the match as he made a smart save down low. Minutes later Labinot Haliti took one of the first shots by the Wanderers but the effort was tame and well wide. Mitch Malia and Ali Abbas again wore the patience of the referee but he was lenient yet again and did not hand out any yellow cards. The failure of Devloski to punish the Sky Blues enabled them to press and tackle much harder than they otherwise might and I would hope that Popvoic is on the phone to the referees boss this week to ask why Strebre was so lenient to the away team.

     

    The 17th minute started a period of domination for the Wanderers with a D'Apuzzo shot which resulted in a corner taken by Shinji Ono. After the ball was cleared Polenz was fouled by Fabio, who again escaped sanction. Kresinger took a header chance but it was off target, then Ali Abbas fouled Aaron Mooy. Time and time again Sydney FC fouled to break up the Wanderers momentum and time and time again Delovski failed to give any yellow cards out. The game entered a battling phase once Kresinger was flagged offside. Fouls accumulated from both teams, and as usual the referee decided to keep the cards in his pocket for the persistent Sydney foulers. With 32 minutes played a well worked throw-in allowed Bridge time to shoot just outside the box, only for the shot to flash past the far post. After several fouls from Abbas and Del Piero the referee finally gave Abbas a yellow card shortly before half-time. The free-kicked awarded was taken by Aaron Mooy and his strong free kick stung the palms of Necevski in the Sydney FC goal. Mark Bridge was lurking for a follow up attempt with his head but the ball was deflected out for a corner which came to nothing to end the first half.

     

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    The first chance of the second half fell to Mark Bridge after a good run by Adam D'Apuzzo. The fullback cut inside and laid off a simple pass that Bridge ran on to and side footed towards goal. It was blocked by the Sydney FC defenders and went out for a throw-in. Poljak lofted a shot over the bar then came the crucial award of the penalty in the 55rd. Del PIero picked up the ball at the edge of the box after a 50/50 was lost by the Wanderers. Del Piero then dribbled into the area then cut the ball back. The Italian's legs tangled with Aaron Mooy's and Delovski award the penalty instantly. Del Piero slotted the first penalty in the right corner, but was ordered to retake it after his fellow players encroached. Covic heroically saved the second penalty but luck was with Sydney FC as the rebound fell straight to the feet of their marquee and he converted the simple 1 on 1 chance.

     

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    Aaron Mooy had several shots around the 60th minute but he put one wide and one was blocked. Sydney FC showed another disgraceful side of their play by beginning to time waste from the 60th minute. The first substitution of Lovrek by Antonis took an inordinate amount of time and Sydney FC did not stop their time-wasting for the rest of the match. Mark Bridge had another shot saved by Necevski then Poljak was given a well earned yellow card for a poor challenge from behind on Del Piero. Labinot Haliti was the first substitution of the match for the Wanderers with Hersi coming onto the wing. Nikolai Topor-Stanley missed the goal from a header. The oft-fouling Fabio was replaced by Petrovski, and on 75 minutes local hero Tarek Elrich came on to replace Poljak.

     

    Ivan Necevski finally earned a yellow card for blatant time wasting with 10 minutes to play, and in total their time-wasting lead to the decision to play six minutes of injury time. Mark Bridge had the last major chance for the Wanderers but his header yet again didn't trouble the keeper. The Wanderers were unable to mount any significant pressure during the injury time period and the game ended with a 1-0 loss to the Wanderers in the first ever A-League Sydney Derby.

     

    Tony Popovic will have to ring the changes, as the attack faltered yet again. The defence and midfield performed superbly but they are being let down by their point man. Dino Kresinger is consistently half a step behind where he needs to be and it is costing the Wanderers points. That match was there for the taking. No-one from Sydney FC except Del Piero showed much of a threat but Western Sydney were unable to capitalise. Kresinger will be a liability against the very fast paced Roar outfit that is up next. My choice if I was in Tony Popovic's position would be to drop Dino, and play with Kubi up front, Haliti and Tahj Minnecon on the wings. The team have played their hearts out but tactically the midfield is not linking up with the focus of the attack in a fashion that suits either group. By increasing the pace up front the midfield duo of Mooy and Ono can start to play defence splitting balls in behind the opposing defence and instead of having a lumbering target man they would have players with pace to burn running onto it.

     

    The Wanderers next match is against Brisbane Roar at Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane on Saturday the 27th of October at 7:45 Eastern Daylight Savings Time.

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    marron

    Great to see the bigotry on here, goes hand in hand with the homophobia displayed by the terrible message banner.

     

    Glad to see you're enjoying the bigotry on here, though it pales in significance when compared to the bigotry dished out on daily basis by the oh so politically correct smurfs on their own forum and 442. You should really check it out before commenting here.

    There is a saying, if you can't take it - don't give it.

     

    I've got to say that I find the gay stuff very juvenile and schoolyard... i really think we can do better.

    I do find accusations coming from the cove a bit rich though seeing as I seem to recall a very public and nasty outing of one of their own not too long ago.

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    abc123

    And no, I'm not a troll. I'm someone who is both confused and annoyed that people from a city such as Sydney would make such public demonstrations of homophobia.

     

    I'd expect it from Victory fans, not someone from Sydney of all places.

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    NorWester

    I've got to say that I find the gay stuff very juvenile and schoolyard... i really think we can do better.

     

    Nailed it. Much better. Actually took away from the card display.

     

    I do find accusations coming from the cove a bit rich though seeing as I seem to recall a very public and nasty outing of one of their own not too long ago.

     

    I can't seem to recall this. Can you enlighten me further?

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    BigDukes

    And no, I'm not a troll. I'm someone who is both confused and annoyed that people from a city such as Sydney would make such public demonstrations of homophobia.

     

    I'd expect it from Victory fans, not someone from Sydney of all places.

     

    dude it was just a piss take...**** get over it.

     

    its part of the football banter.

     

    its not different to the verbal abuse i copped on the streets after the game..**** spat at and everything from some of your fans.

     

    im not complaining about it..so if a little dig about a gay club is offensive to you then you are in the wrong sport to be active my friend

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    blameturner

    snapback.pngturnermate, on , said:

     

     

    snapback.pngabc123, on , said:

     

    Great to see the bigotry on here, goes hand in hand with the homophobia displayed by the terrible message banner.

    Mack can you expose this one too? Ill wait on the moderator subthread

     

    Boring, found his facebook in 5 seconds. He'll probably just fade away after making his point.

     

    So you are using my personal information for further background checks? As someone who is supposedly in I.T. what a disgraceful use of powers. You should know better than anyone else the absolute MASSIVE legal ramifications of doing something like that.

     

    Watch yourself, Mack...

     

    When you signed up for the website you agreed to the terms and conditions and by law using your email address to check for your Facebook is not infringing any laws whatsoever.

     

    You signing up for the website has meant that your details are not protected to Mack and myself.

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    BigDukes

    what's this banner people are whinging about ?

     

    a last minute piss take banner was made saying 'east sydney...back to the toolshed'

     

    it has obviously worked cause it has got them riled up, but to call us homophobic and what not is just stupid.

     

    i could find a number of quotes on the SFCU forums were they discriminate against the west with text that I find quite derogatory, however, this is part of football and u will find that on the forums.

     

    So whinge all you like

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    blameturner

    And no, I'm not a troll. I'm someone who is both confused and annoyed that people from a city such as Sydney would make such public demonstrations of homophobia.

     

    I'd expect it from Victory fans, not someone from Sydney of all places.

     

    Welcome to the forum. Please by all means feel free to contribute but negativity is not necessary. Voice your concerns a tad differently. We are far from homophobic. It was banter. Like we don't really care when we get called westie scum.

     

    Feel free to follow norwesters lead and take.over the Sydney fc sub thread. But don't be the stereotype of sfcu and talk **** a lot. Not.accusing...just warning. We like to keep the conversations civil here, and it isn't always but please follow suit.

     

    Now to the fact of the matter... What is your main concern with the banner itself. What gives it this apparent homophobic attitude when its clearly a tongue in cheek piece of banter?

     

     

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    marron

    I've got to say that I find the gay stuff very juvenile and schoolyard... i really think we can do better.

     

    Nailed it. Much better. Actually took away from the card display.

     

    I do find accusations coming from the cove a bit rich though seeing as I seem to recall a very public and nasty outing of one of their own not too long ago.

     

    I can't seem to recall this. Can you enlighten me further?

     

    Pm me norwester, don't want to give it any more life than it had at the time.

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    Pup55

    what's this banner people are whinging about ?

     

    a last minute piss take banner was made saying 'east sydney...back to the toolshed'

     

    it has obviously worked cause it has got them riled up, but to call us homophobic and what not is just stupid.

     

    :rofl: :rofl: gold ! Edited by Pup
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    MajorMelons

     

    Abc

     

    I'm glad you've dropped the "bigotry" argument.

    Juvenile? Yes it was.

    Funny? Each to their own but I cracked up when I saw it.

    Homophobic? Well I just read a comment from a gay person on 442 saying he wasn't offended, and unless you're gay as well I'll take his comment over yours.

    Crude? Yes, I would have written: the toolshed-connecting cove members since 2005.

     

    Get over it

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    RBBKopite

    Crude? Yes, I would have written: the toolshed-connecting cove members since 2005.

     

    Get over it

    We could use a man like you with those kind of double entendre skills.

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    mack

    snapback.pngturnermate, on , said:

     

     

    snapback.pngabc123, on , said:

     

    Great to see the bigotry on here, goes hand in hand with the homophobia displayed by the terrible message banner.

    Mack can you expose this one too? Ill wait on the moderator subthread

     

    Boring, found his facebook in 5 seconds. He'll probably just fade away after making his point.

     

    So you are using my personal information for further background checks? As someone who is supposedly in I.T. what a disgraceful use of powers. You should know better than anyone else the absolute MASSIVE legal ramifications of doing something like that.

     

    Watch yourself, Mack...

     

    ADMIN Hat:

     

    While the law is indeed very specific about privacy, Westsydneyfootball.com is not subject to any privacy laws.

     

    Specific exemptions to the laws exist. In this case, this is a site run as a hobby that isn't considered an organisation for the purposes of the Privacy act. Additionally, if it was an organisation for the purposes of the Privacy act it would be as a small business earning less than $3million. Both of these are enough to disqualify this website and myself personally from having to follow the privacy act.

     

    (See this information sheetextlink.gif at the Office of the Federal Privacy Commissioner for more information).

     

    If I felt like it, I could publish your email, IP address, and anything I found as a result of that. I won't though, because I'm not a wanker.

     

    /admin hat

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    efcso

    Meanwhile, back at the game...

     

    I was out the back at half time having a smoke & chatted with a couple of smurfs. They were asking, a little tongue-in-cheek, where all the violence was. I told them that we were too busy out-chanting them to be bothered. They had nothing but good things to say about the whole fan experience and the good-natured banter in the Western Grandstand.

     

    The only "fan incidents" I heard about was one (1) ESFC fan who had a disagreement with The Bronze in the park about something post-game, and some of the locals being asked to ease up on the "**** Sydney" etc chants whilst walking down the street.

     

    That was it. No mob violence, no rioting or looting, no pillaging or "terrism".

     

    Given my status as a "moderate" in the parents-with-kids category, I'll offer five items of feedback for our more committed brothers and sisters:

    • You were simply brilliant. The TIFO, the chants, the energy, the passion was palpable throughout the stadium.
    • Another couple of home games, and publicising some of the chants, will get the terraces & stands joining in with gusto!
    • The "**** off Sydney" [mostly] and "W*nker" chants lost lots of points with the rest of the mainstream supporters and came across as tasteless.
    • Wearing scarves/bandanas over faces presents exactly the kind of image that will repel the mainstream support and present an image of football fans as wannabe-hooligans.
    • Chucking stuff onto the pitch looks bad.

    I'm not telling anyone what to do, I'm just providing some feedback & highlighting some opportunities.

     

    I want the RBB to be the most successful Active Support in the country.

     

    I want our Wanderers to be the best-supported and most-supportable club in the country. We can't do this effectively if we alienate the mainstream support. They're the ones buying the big-dollar memberships that help fund the club. They're the ones who will purchase merchandise for their whole family, which also benefits us.

     

    They're also the members with impressionable kids who we want to become part of the Active Support as they grow older and become rusted-on Wanderers - but they'll stop coming very quickly if those kids are exposed to antics & actions that they find objectionable.

     

    I see so much wit and humour on this forum, and amongst all of us in person, that can be harnessed to achieve the same - if not better - outcome of motivating the entire supporter base to sing, chant and clap along. The masses want to join in! There were loads of fans trying to keep up on Saturday night - they just need to be led.

     

    Let the RBB lead from the front, with the whole supporter base behind you!

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    Neverbloom

    Del doesnt get all the credit, our strikers get full credit for being about as useful as me infront of goals

     

    And in late breaking new Tony Popovic is set to rush in a new signing straight into the starting line up for the clash against reigning premiers the Roar. The Goat of Doom is expected to replace Dino Kresinger in leading the Wanderers attack. Defenders are warned to steer clear of him due to his propensity to headbutt his opponents. We await news on what new chants the RBB will develop to cheer on the Goat.

    lol goats are amazing at football, heading can be a problem though :P

     

    sorry for those comments they were a bit harsh just still seething after the match hopefully our strikers can combine into something good i dont see that much talent on their own but together if they work together we can get goals, sometimes players just need time to gell

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    CaptGrumpy

    Del doesnt get all the credit, our strikers get full credit for being about as useful as me infront of goals

     

    And in late breaking new Tony Popovic is set to rush in a new signing straight into the starting line up for the clash against reigning premiers the Roar. The Goat of Doom is expected to replace Dino Kresinger in leading the Wanderers attack. Defenders are warned to steer clear of him due to his propensity to headbutt his opponents. We await news on what new chants the RBB will develop to cheer on the Goat.

    lol goats are amazing at football, heading can be a problem though :P

     

    sorry for those comments they were a bit harsh just still seething after the match hopefully our strikers can combine into something good i dont see that much talent on their own but together if they work together we can get goals, sometimes players just need time to gell

     

    I don't think they were harsh. We had 20 shots on goal to SFCs 12 and yet we only put 4 on target and one was an under10 effort from Bridge that rolled up to the keeper.

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    charonis

    I see so much wit and humour on this forum, and amongst all of us in person, that can be harnessed to achieve the same - if not better - outcome of motivating the entire supporter base to sing, chant and clap along. The masses want to join in! There were loads of fans trying to keep up on Saturday night - they just need to be led.

     

    Let the RBB lead from the front, with the whole supporter base behind you!

     

    I've found when sitting in the grandstands (at other non-WSW games) that it's very hard to pick up the supporter chants from scratch. Would there be some kind of way to educate the rest of the stadium to what our chants are, or at least a couple simpler catchy ones (score a goal, c'mon wanderers, etc)? Flyers? Emails?

     

    They don't need to know all of them of course but if we can get at least some of the other supporters involved it would definitely make the chants reverberate around the stadium more (since the sound just simply doesn't carry)

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    CaptGrumpy

    Meanwhile, back at the game...

     

    I was out the back at half time having a smoke & chatted with a couple of smurfs. They were asking, a little tongue-in-cheek, where all the violence was. I told them that we were too busy out-chanting them to be bothered. They had nothing but good things to say about the whole fan experience and the good-natured banter in the Western Grandstand.

     

    The only "fan incidents" I heard about was one (1) ESFC fan who had a disagreement with The Bronze in the park about something post-game, and some of the locals being asked to ease up on the "**** Sydney" etc chants whilst walking down the street.

     

    That was it. No mob violence, no rioting or looting, no pillaging or "terrism".

     

    Given my status as a "moderate" in the parents-with-kids category, I'll offer five items of feedback for our more committed brothers and sisters:

    • You were simply brilliant. The TIFO, the chants, the energy, the passion was palpable throughout the stadium.
    • Another couple of home games, and publicising some of the chants, will get the terraces & stands joining in with gusto!
    • The "**** off Sydney" [mostly] and "W*nker" chants lost lots of points with the rest of the mainstream supporters and came across as tasteless.
    • Wearing scarves/bandanas over faces presents exactly the kind of image that will repel the mainstream support and present an image of football fans as wannabe-hooligans.
    • Chucking stuff onto the pitch looks bad.

    I'm not telling anyone what to do, I'm just providing some feedback & highlighting some opportunities.

     

    I want the RBB to be the most successful Active Support in the country.

     

    I want our Wanderers to be the best-supported and most-supportable club in the country. We can't do this effectively if we alienate the mainstream support. They're the ones buying the big-dollar memberships that help fund the club. They're the ones who will purchase merchandise for their whole family, which also benefits us.

     

    They're also the members with impressionable kids who we want to become part of the Active Support as they grow older and become rusted-on Wanderers - but they'll stop coming very quickly if those kids are exposed to antics & actions that they find objectionable.

     

    I see so much wit and humour on this forum, and amongst all of us in person, that can be harnessed to achieve the same - if not better - outcome of motivating the entire supporter base to sing, chant and clap along. The masses want to join in! There were loads of fans trying to keep up on Saturday night - they just need to be led.

     

    Let the RBB lead from the front, with the whole supporter base behind you!

     

    Nice work.

     

    Just a thought.... I saw this on Ebay http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/WESTERN-SYDNEY-WANDERERS-SUPPORTERS-SHIRT-L-NEW-DO-WE-SING-FOR-/390482857768?pt=AU_Sport_Soccer_Clothing_Boots&hash=item5aea978f28

     

    It looks like the "who do we sing for?" catch cry has caught on for some little entrepeneur.

     

    But what about getting the ground announcer before the game starts to call out "Who do we sing for?" and get the crowd to respond, much like the RBB did with our good friend Erebus on Saturday night?

     

    Efsco is right about the crowd wanting to join in, they were trying to clap along a number of times in the East Terrace.

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    Pup55

    ^ already mentioned in another thread grumps.

    i agree. let's make it happen.

     

     

    and Efsco.

     

    f*ck off sydney = worthwhile.

    ref is a wanker = terrible.

     

    throwing water bottles on the pitch the worst thing that happened all night. terrible terrible look

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    WSdna

    hey ppl apparently our tifo was also club funded according to the esfc fans lol funny ****.

     

     

     

     

     

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    The club did apparently pay for their card display, so that lessens the effort somewhat.

     

    No surprise to see their homophobia though, they really just need to come clean and come out of the closet already.

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    julyaugustreno

    When I saw what the banner actually said (I was holding it up so completely missed what was written on it til the next day when I saw it on the net), I literally thought it meant like 'your tifo/team is crap, you need to work harder on it/them'. It wasn't until I read that Rothfield blog that I realised it had any gay connotations. If everyone in that stadium on Friday saw it and thought 'HOMOPHOBES!!!' I'd be very surprised.

     

    Given that it was meant to be a gay thing, I do find it humorous, but at the same time, am VERY anti-homophobia, so calling other teams **** is low, immature, and I won't join in on those chants. **** off Sydney chants though? Well you give what you get...

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    BigDukes

    lol at club funded...

     

    however - it was then clarified that we made friends with a supplier for the cards in return for tickets

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    Neverbloom

    When I saw what the banner actually said (I was holding it up so completely missed what was written on it til the next day when I saw it on the net), I literally thought it meant like 'your tifo/team is crap, you need to work harder on it/them'. It wasn't until I read that Rothfield blog that I realised it had any gay connotations. If everyone in that stadium on Friday saw it and thought 'HOMOPHOBES!!!' I'd be very surprised.

     

    Given that it was meant to be a gay thing, I do find it humorous, but at the same time, am VERY anti-homophobia, so calling other teams **** is low, immature, and I won't join in on those chants. **** off Sydney chants though? Well you give what you get...

    i am very anti homophobia 1 in 10 people are somewhat gay, but i had no problem with that banner, but i wont call the other team **** either that is immature and i didnt join in on the **** off sydney chants though until they scored their goal then i felt it was appropriate

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    BigDukes

    haha mack..u funny knt.

     

    keep at em...i no longer have access to the sydney forums..but them spreading rumours that we had our card tifo funder by the club is the biggest laugh ever.

     

    The club actually offered to pay for the 4 tickets to the game to the card suppliers, however myself and the tifo crew decided it would be best if we purchase the tickets out of our own tifo funds as it would only be right.

     

    So Sydney FC - **** JOG OFF!

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    mack

    haha mack..u funny knt.

     

    keep at em...i no longer have access to the sydney forums..but them spreading rumours that we had our card tifo funder by the club is the biggest laugh ever.

     

    The club actually offered to pay for the 4 tickets to the game to the card suppliers, however myself and the tifo crew decided it would be best if we purchase the tickets out of our own tifo funds as it would only be right.

     

    So Sydney FC - **** JOG OFF!

     

    There really are some dumbasses over there. And people wonder why I want to avoid the same level of trolling and stupidity here.

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    Davo

    haha mack..u funny knt.

     

    keep at em...i no longer have access to the sydney forums..but them spreading rumours that we had our card tifo funder by the club is the biggest laugh ever.

     

    The club actually offered to pay for the 4 tickets to the game to the card suppliers, however myself and the tifo crew decided it would be best if we purchase the tickets out of our own tifo funds as it would only be right.

     

    So Sydney FC - **** JOG OFF!

     

    Just shows how good the tifo was that the only criticism they can think of is the way it was funded.

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    Burztur

    Just had a browse at the cove forum. I dont get why they are in denial about the club funded point...

     

    I guess they are the kind of people who have to diminish other people's achievements to make themselves feel better. Can't do too much about those people.

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    Davo

    I used to go on their forum a little to see their thoughts on our club. I liken the experience to punching yourself in the face. It's pointless, painful and you end up with less brain cells than when you started. Just like I have better things to do than punch myself in the face, I don't go there anymore.

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