Hyundai A-League 2015/16 (+Fantasy)

[Luigi197]

Thought I'd start a thread to get the A-League discussion going for the upcoming season.
(FoxSports Fantasy A-League is imminent. Might as well keep discussion for that game here as well when it arrives)

News websites to check out for all the latest A-League news:
http://www.foxsports.com.au/football/a-league
http://www.a-league.com.au/home
http://www.theroar.com.au/football/a-league/
http://theworldgame.sbs.com.au/league/283/a-league/latest
http://www.goal.com/en-au/news/4021/a-league
https://www.facebook.com/ALeagueReviewsAndUpdates?fref=nf
http://www.smh.com.au/sport/soccer
http://www.news.com.au/sport/football/a-league
http://www.espnfc.us/australian-a-league/1308/news
http://www.newsnow.co.uk/h/Sport/Football/Oceania/Australia
http://www.fourfourtwo.com/au/league#:zsOoc7ibjWdEUA
http://supercoachhq.com/category/football/fantasy-a-league/
http://www.sportal.com.au/football/a-league
http://www.ultimatealeague.com/
http://outside90.com/category/features/a-league/

Fixture: http://theworldgame.sbs.com.au/sites/sbs.com.au.theworldgame/files/hyundai_a-league_2015-16_season_draw_document_-_final.pdf
Transfers: http://www.foxsports.com.au/football/a-league/a-league-squads-ins-and-outs-across-the-10-a-league-squads-for-2015-2016-season/story-e6frf4gl-1227419632660
Pre-Season Friendlies: http://www.fourfourtwo.com/au/news/league-pre-season#:y8yy3hCmg1TUpA

ICYMI:
- FFA Cup finals.
- Jets currently owned by the FFA.
- Brisbane Roar having big troubles with owners, licensing and payments.
- Wanderer's RBB having a legal fight against NSW Police.
- Michael Turnbull, ex Victory GK, is on The Bachelorette.
- There is a pay dispute between the FFA and PFA.
- A-League now has first full-time referees.
- Adelaide, Roar, Jets and Mariners have new coaches.
- Australia had a lot of European Clubs get down for Friendlies and other competitions earlier in the pre-season.
- Marquee and Salary Cap changes announced.

My Predicted Ladder:
1. Victory
2. Sydney
3. Adelaide
4. City
5. Wellington
6. WSW
7. Perth
8. Roar
9. Jets
10. CCM


Feel free to post comments, predictions, news and banter!

PS: Am a Melbourne City supporter  ;D

[Luigi197]

FoxSports Fantasy A-League is OPEN
http://aleaguefantasy.foxsports.com.au

FanFooty Classic league code: 62-73

Season starts Thursday 8th October

[teckert]

http://aleaguedreamteam.virtualsports.com.au/
League code: 139808

Draft League - http://aleaguedreamteamdraft.virtualsports.com.au/
I have set up my own private league.. Code: 832213
Live draft: 5th October 8.30pm EST (TOMORROW NIGHT!)

[teckert]

also http://fantasy.a-league.com.au
code: FUEZRY7L

[Luigi197]

http://aleaguedreamteam.virtualsports.com.au/
League code: 139808

Realised there were no prizes for Foxsports :/
And i didn't really like the prizes for official A-League, all centred around tangible prizes rather than money.
So have joined up for the Real Dream Team one to test the waters.

[elephants]

Pretty keen for this! All kicks off on Thursday! Don't have hugely high hopes for Glory, but I'm always keen this time of year nonetheless 8)

Stole this from the EPL thread...

Title Winner: Victory (as much as it disgusts me to say)
Bottom Place: Newcastle Jets (just cant get their shower together)
2015/16 Overachievers: Wellington (always seem to do better than everyone expects)
2015/16 Underachievers: Melbourne City (sorry MCFC fans!)
Signing of the Season:
Predicted Golden Boot winner (highest goalscorer):
Predicted Golden Glove winner (GK with most clean sheets):
Predicted Player of the Year: O.Bozanic (I overrate so much haha)
Predicted Breakout Player: O.Bozanic I guess haha

Go, go, go lads!

Also, tipping a 2-2 draw in the first match of the season ;)

[shaker]

http://aleaguedreamteam.virtualsports.com.au/
League code: 139808

Realised there were no prizes for Foxsports :/
And i didn't really like the prizes for official A-League, all centred around tangible prizes rather than money.
So have joined up for the Real Dream Team one to test the waters.

P.S looked at rdt wow they barely have prizes as well fantasy soccer seems to be going backwards

They have had prizes every other year Luigi maybe they think more people will play with no prizes  ::) seriously thinking about giving it a miss this year , i will look at RDT now mate  ;)

[Luigi197]

Title Winner: Melbourne Victory (balancing AFC only concern)
Bottom Place: Central Coast Mariners (Jets and Roar won't do that much better)
2015/16 Overachievers: Western Sydney Wanderers (I like Popovic and the squad isn't bad. will recover from last season)
2015/16 Underachievers: Adelaide United (Though i rate them, there is every chance they could flop)
Signing of the Season: Vukovic to Victory will give them some much needed reassurance down back.
Golden Boot winner: Besart Berisha (hard to go past him)
Golden Glove winner: Janjetovic (usually pretty solid)
Predicted Player of the Year: Mooy (will shine bright like a diamond. not a doubt in the world)
Predicted Breakout Player: Jimmy Jeggo (has a solid A-League foundation and may have just settled comfortably in to the Adelaide side)

[Luigi197]

http://aleaguedreamteam.virtualsports.com.au/
League code: 139808

Realised there were no prizes for Foxsports :/
And i didn't really like the prizes for official A-League, all centred around tangible prizes rather than money.
So have joined up for the Real Dream Team one to test the waters.

They have had prizes every other year Luigi maybe they think more people will play with no prizes  ::) seriously thinking about giving it a miss this year , i will look at RDT now mate  ;)

P.S looked at rdt wow they barely have prizes as well fantasy soccer seems to be going backwards

$1000 for RDT, get around me fellas this one is mine.

A real shame about Foxsports though :/

[Luigi197]

It's all happening tonight! A-League kicks off so I thought i'd put through my predictions for Round 1 lineups that DO take into consideration injury and national duty. Obviously final cut will change, especially regarding fringe bench players and formation chosen by respective coaches.

Western Sydney Wanderers v Brisbane Roar

WSW
Redmayne
Neville, Alberto, Topor-Stanley, Jamieson
Dimas, Andreu, Nichols, Vidosic, Castelen,
Piovvocari
(Bouzanis, Hamill, Pepper, Sotirio, Baccus, Macdonald)
Injured: Cole, Bridge, Santalab, Mebrahtu

Roar
Theo
Polenz, North, Hingert, Brown
Corona, Broich, Lustica
Maclaren, Petratos, Borrello
(Young, Bowles, Clut, Lambaridis, Brady)
Injuried: Stefanutto, Donachie, Devere, Henrique, Solorzano
National Duty: McKay

Will post rest of the predictions later on!

[Luigi197]

Adelaide United v Melbourne Victory

Adelaide
Hall
Marrone, McGowan, Malik, Goodwin
Isaias, Carrusca, Jeggo
Cirio, Babalj, P Sanchez
(Solari, Ochieng, Warland, Mells, Dugandzic, Djite)
Injured: La Rocca, Elsey, Kamau
National Duty: Galekovic, Elrich

Victory
Vukovic
Murnane, Delpierre, Broxham, Gerogievski
Finkler, Bozanic, Valeri
Berisha, Khalfallah, Barbarouses
(Thomas, Deng, Mahazi, Makarounas, Howard)
Injured: Ansell, Thompson
National Duty: Geria, Galloway, Gallifuoco, Pain

[Luigi197]

And here are the rest of my predictions!

Central Coast Mariners v Perth Glory

CCM
Reddy
Roux, Bosnar, Posceleiro, J Rose
Caceres, Montgomery, Austin
Fitzgerald, O’Donovan, Ferreira
(Pearce, Neill, Ashcroft, Trifiro, Kalik, Bingham)
National Duty: Izzo, L Rose

Perth
Covic
Risdon, Djulbic, Thwaite, Golec
Sandor, Garcia, Marinkovic
Castro, Fernandez, Harold
(Tyson, Warren, Collard, Ferreira, Oxborrow, Gligor, Sidnei)
Injured: Zadkovich, Grant

Sydney FC v Melbourne City

Syndey FC
Janjetovic
Ryall, Faty, Anderson, Gersbach
Dimitrijetvic, Ninkovic, Tavares
Brosque, Holosko, Smeltz
(Necevski, Grant, Jurman, Calver, O’Neill, Stambolziev, Simon, Blackwood)
National Duty: Hoole, Naumoff
Injured: Abbas

Melbourne City
Sorenson
Retre, Kisnorbo, Chapman, Zullo
Paartalu, Mooy, Koren,
Fornaroli, Williams, Kuzmanovksi
(Velaphi, Clisby, Retre, Zinni, Melling, Dekker)
National Duty: Hughes, Mauk
Injured: Franjic, Garruccio, Novillo, Gameiro, Brown, Marino

Wellington Phoenix v Newcastle Jets

Phoenix
Moss
Fenton, Sigmund, Durante, Muscat
Riera, Rodriguez, Bonevacia, McGlinchey
Krishna, Sarpong
(Italiano, Doyle, Gulley, Ridenton, Lia, Appiah, Powell)

Jets
Birighitti
Hoffman, Mullen, Boogard, Lee
Poljak, Kantarovski, Carney
Leonardo, Alividovic, Haliti
(Kennedy, Muata-Marlow, M Cooper, Watson, Trifunovic, Brennan, Lundy)

[tbagrocks]

How good a quality was that Roar v WS match Thursday? Really had me excited for the new season! (Meant to post Thursday but got distracted)

United v Victory never got going but it was still high class football which is the main thing imo ;)

In short, the AU to go undefeated all year!

[Luigi197]

How good a quality was that Roar v WS match Thursday? Really had me excited for the new season! (Meant to post Thursday but got distracted)

United v Victory never got going but it was still high class football which is the main thing imo ;)

In short, the AU to go undefeated all year!

A lot of errors in the WSW v Roar game, but there was a lot of quality too from the Roar.

The CCM v Glory match though. Mariners played surprisingly well!

[elephants]

3-2 :( missed the game, will watch a replay. Not great signs though!