Will Wanderers Put FFA Cup Ahead Of All-Stars?

A-League changes player contracts over All-Stars fiasco.

Admin: Edited to remove quoting entire article re: Players forced to play for All Stars.

Mack, you are a wordsmith.

FTFFA

Even if the above is true, the club should put pressure on the FFA to let our star players (it's our best defender and best striker) play for our club in an important match.

Contractually obliged to play. Hands are tied. It sucks.

Well, that's just stupid scheduling on the FFA's part to have the All-Stars game and then the FFA Cup two days later.

The club will release the players as required.  End of story really.

#FTFFA #ALL$TAR$ 

The FFA have now classified their own ballyhooed Cup inferior to a flaccid who cares pre-season exhibition game. How can anyone take the FFA Cup seriously when the FFA doesn't. The guys running that organisation epitomise incompetent idiocy!

come on where is your passion for this amazing team?

Yes, it sucks. Best though to cop it on the chin because the FFA have got control and the club's hands are tied. No disrespect to Adelaide City if we are missing a couple of our best players. It will still be a great game of football regardless (the FFA cup tie-not the all-stars shite.) The Wanderers should win this one. If not, we should offer whatever Adelaide players gave us grief a contract.

Not that big of a deal given that we are playing against a state side in the cup, but what if next year we draw a good A league team instead? I will be pretty peed off if we get knocked out of the cup in the first game due to key players missing.

I usually get a good laugh out of fools posting here how FFA did this or that and **** the FFA, but in this instance i agree that the all stars is a shite concept anyway you look at it and should be scrapped asap.

Do we get compensation from the FFA if one of our boys gets injured?

I hope they pick up minor injuries which prevent them from playing in the all stars only to make a last minute miraculous recovery for the Adelaide game.

We cant do anything about but #inpopawetrust 

I am sure he will tell our players to take it easy and treat it like a warm up.

Popa will fix this.....he can say there injured or not match fit for all a$$ squad but then add such player to FFA Cup line up on match day or etc.

come on where is your passion for this amazing team?

It's got Ali Abbas in it.

Waaaaaaaaaaaaah someone called me a name.

Player availability is annoying, I'm sure FFA could have better in scheduling the FFA Cup matches - but for us with the ACL it's kind of tricky.

In terms of the All Stars match, I don't mind it. I would love for a big international team to play Wanderers as well, but why can't we have both?

Seriously, the All Stars match is like the ultimate fantasy football comp, any AL fan wants to see the best players all together in a team. I think it's a cool idea, and it's raising the profile of our sport and league, plus it's giving players international exposure and a great career experience.

This all assumes that we would roll out our top shelf to play Adelaide. Plenty of good quality squaddies could be used and then you don't risk your best players against a state side with ACL just around the corner.

So many choices to make. This is why they pay Popa the big bucks…

This all assumes that we would roll out our top shelf to play Adelaide. Plenty of good quality squaddies could be used and then you don't risk your best players against a state side with ACL just around the corner.

 

So many choices to make. This is why they pay Popa the big bucks…

The players who will be playing ACL should feature significantly in any lead up matches otherwise they will be even more underdone than they already are i.e. coming from the off-season they all need lots of game time.

Let the clubs organise their own friendlies without a fine. Honestly ***** the FFA is delusional

It's simple, if I was a player then I would just run around, pull out of all challenges and jut pass the ball around,

It's not the FFA cup that I'm that worried about, what about our champions league quarter finals??

Lobby Gombau to select a second string team so every starter in a HAL club would be available for the FFA Cup. 

Also - what happens if there is a breach of contract to not play?

What if our players are injured on day and fine the next?

If you want to have an All-Stars game, at least get the scheduling right... 

It's not the FFA cup that I'm that worried about, what about our champions league quarter finals??

Yeah, I think this is the real issue for us. In future years it might not matter so much, as we would be unlikely to play our best side anyway. This year though, it is imperative we basically have our starting ACL line up out there in Adelaide.

There was all of the off season (outside of the WC) to schedule both the All Stars match and the FFA cup, and yet they are two days apart! How hard is it? I guess the original plan was for us to play on the 19th, but still, our ACL campaign should have been considered by the FFA. Clearly it wasn't.

this is cause last year lots of players pulled out and said they were not or could not play. I remember an ex player of ours quoting to me '' if i get injured i have to make my own way to the physio and then try to recover and gain my place back in my club team, and what for? just a glorified friendly which has no impact on my club or my contract obligations towards my club/team! 

What if our players are injured on day and fine the next?

 

This. Players in all sports pull out of meaningless fixtures with "injuries" all the time. Look at the NRL with their meaningless City-Country clash. 30 pull out with injuries, and they are all back on the park for their clubs the next week. This is the easiest way around it. Spira and Juric should just say they have violent diaorrhea. No-one will check.

What makes it even more shitty this year is that the All Star friendly game will basically be just an ESFC ADP wankfest also.

Tomi guns for glory against Juventus

http://www.a-leagueallstars.com.au/article/tomi-guns-for-glory-against-juventus/kitkqmtgy0na1nyrmrcecskty

What we must do is ensure nobody we know goes anywhere near these stupid all stars games.

If you know anyone thinking about going you need to convince them this sucks balls

Time for a premier league style breakaway me thinks. :-)

By the way, why is it that this game is, as so eloquently described by WSWBroro as:

 

 

just an ESFC ADP wankfest

why then is it being hyped like some kind of amazing event when the host broadcaster (that freind of 'sokkah', the Seven Network) has consigned its broadcasting to the 7Mate channel?

Surely to **** if the FFA are going to invest all the PR and BS in such an 'ESFC ADP wankfest' they should get prime time free to air main channel broadcast slots, otherwise **** it off.

Oh wait, ADP is still seen by some of the doofuses in this country as some kind of messiah for the local game, even when the twat has been pissed off by the smurfs.

Meanwhile, Adelaide have Malaga and Wellington have got a round robin...please ***** explain?

Why wouldn't you use A-league clubs?

A-league All Stars is cringeworthy and it indicates to the rest of the world our own Governing body doesnt take our own league seriously.

You play the Wanderers, ESFC or whoever you will not only be showcasing the A-league, you will acually have a better atmosphere which will be a great advertisment to draw future fans to the game (more so then the current spectacle which just encourages one off fans) and you will have a more competitive team on the field.

But that probably makes too much sense of the FTFFA. 

What worries me is that this is a MLS concept, why are we copying the Yanks in football????