Mike Tuckerman

Giancarlo Italiano is still the A-League's most interesting coach, even when results aren’t going his way Giancarlo Italiano is still the A-League's most interesting coach, even when results aren’t going his way, writes MIKE TUCKERMAN.

Chiefy is one of the most fascinating coaches in Australian and New Zealand sport. Do we talk about him enough?

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Moreton City Excelsior are proof The Australian Championship is working Moreton City Excelsior are the surprise story of the Australian Championship with Queensland's sole representative reaching the final four.

Has the #AusChampionship been an unmitigated success? Not exactly.

But if it was designed to showcase some of Australia's lesser-known clubs, then Moreton City Excelsior are proof that it's working.

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Opinion: A visit to the Sunshine Coast is the biggest Brisbane Roar game in years Strap yourselves in, Brisbane Roar fans, because a trip up the M1 to face the Newcastle Jets at a packed Sunshine Coast Stadium is the biggest game the men’s team has played since 2021. That was the y...

Sunshine Coast Stadium will be rocking...

#ALeague #BrisbaneRoar

Extended Preview: There’s no better test than a visit from the defending champions There was a moment in the 2-1 defeat to Wellington Phoenix on Sunday when it was hard to figure out if we were watching Brisbane Roar or Barcelona. It came in the 42nd minute when James McGarry launch...

I'm sure @brisbaneroar.bsky.social fans were frustrated by the manner of Sunday afternoon's defeat, but I don't reckon they'll fear the visit of Melbourne City on Friday night. #ALeague

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The 20-year-old giving Popovic food for thought and is Milligan the man to inspire a football mad city? Newcastle Jets' display was the standout from the weekend's A-League Men action.

I thought the Newcastle Jets were terrific on Friday night.

I won't have been the only one.

#NewcastleJets @newyjetsfannews.bsky.social

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You definitely will, Chris.

Likewise.

Cheers @11gawa.bsky.social. Good things in store for your lot this season, I can tell.

It's a tough one. I'd love to post on here more, but the truth is I have a small but rusted-on following on X.

That said, I think many of us just appreciate anywhere that lets us talk about football.

Opinion: Brisbane Roar will make the finals this season. I guarantee it There was a moment during Brisbane Roar’s 2-2 pre-season draw with Auckland FC in Newmarket when it became clear we were watching a different team to last season. It occurred in the first half down th...

Thrilled to have written my first column for Football360. In it, I guarantee #BrisbaneRoar will make the finals the season.

There aren't enough media outlets publishing content on Australian football, so I'm delighted there's at least one more.

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Twitter's degeneration is truly maddening.

There's still a critical mass of Australian football fans who want to talk about the sport on there - something you don't find elsewhere online.

Yet whenever I log in, I'm bombarded with extremist takes I didn't ask for.

The tech bros really are insane!

A new frontier: why Aussies are coming to MLS for soccer opportunity Major League Soccer is proving a fertile ground for a growing band of Australian players and coaches

Is #MLS the new frontier for Aussie footballers?

I had a chat with @nashvillesc.bsky.social midfielder Patrick Yazbek about why his move to the Music City has worked out so well - and why he thinks the league is on track to becoming one of the best in the world.

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With @fcstpauli.com and @bvbofficial.bsky.social rumored to be coming to Brisbane next year (🤞) the Tuckerman household stands united in passion yet divided by colours. Choose your fighter: me or @miketuckerman.bsky.social ☠️🐝

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Cheers @chrisjackis.bsky.social. Very much appreciated.

Absolutely insane behaviour, if it's true, given one of the league's best players was arrested last year and is facing serious charges for the exact same thing.

Cheers Chris!

Not sure what's next. There'll be plenty of football involved, I'm sure.

Melbourne City deserved the A-League title, but must win over more fans. Here's what they should do next Melbourne City were deserved winners of Saturday night’s A-League Men grand final, but the real question now is whether the club can use it…

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"It was the end of an era in many ways on Saturday, with Network 10 and Paramount+ commentator Simon Hill announcing before the grand final that he’s heading back to the United Kingdom." #ALeagueGF #MelbourneCity

The A-League Men finals are off to a flyer - but can anyone stop Auckland? The stage was set, the script was written, and we all awaited the glorious return of Western Sydney Wanderers to finals football. Unfortunately, no…

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"The stage was set, the script was written, and we all awaited the glorious return of Western Sydney Wanderers to finals football.

"Unfortunately, no one told Melbourne Victory." #ALM

The A-League Men finals are here - and they're missing a huge name The top six is set and the finals for the A-League Men kick off on Friday, but they’ll do so without arguably the biggest…

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"It’ll be interesting to see how many fans turn up in Tarneit on Friday – and how many tune in on TV, given Paramount+ have the exclusive broadcast – but it’s Saturday night’s showdown between two of the biggest clubs in the land that could set the tone." #ALM

Auckland FC are premiers - but is that a good thing for the A-League? When Marlee Francois curled home an Olimpico in wet and windy Auckland on Sunday evening, he set the seal on what has been the…

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"While Wellington Phoenix came within a game of making the grand final under Giancarlo Italiano last season, there’s always been a sense – in Australia, at least – that the Phoenix were merely making up the numbers." #AucklandFC #ALeague

The APL keeps forgetting the key group their decisions impact The APL may believe the latest round of A-League salary cap cuts will help reign in unsustainable spending, but they’ve failed to consider their…

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"And at some point you have to question just how much of a handbrake the APL can keep applying to the A-League Men before the whole thing blows up in their face." #ALeague #ALM

Are the Western Sydney Wanderers now genuine title contenders? When Alex Gersbach joined Western Sydney Wanderers in January, plenty wondered why coach Alen Stajcic would sign a player in a position that was…

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"It’s hard to count them out on their current form, with Stajcic’s side having now gone nine games unbeaten as they march towards a certain finals finish. #WSW #ALM

In the words of Kath and Kim: 'yeah noice'.

What's your favourite?

It's looking very bleak.

If A-League coaches must always front the media, then why can't club directors? If Sydney FC’s last-gasp 3-2 win over Adelaide United sounded the death knell for Carl Veart, then Reds fan would be entitled to ask…

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"Thomson and McBreen announced on Sunday they were winding up their A-Leagues Off Air podcast for the foreseeable future, joining Simon Hill and Alex Brosque’s now-departed Global Game podcast on the scrapheap." #ALM

Socceroos and Matildas games should be banned in Queensland until the state funds football fairly Football Australia should exclude Queensland from hosting any available Socceroos and Matildas matches until the state makes a genuine commitment to support football. “New…

"Which would be fine, if the point of the Olympic Games was to benefit domestic sports like cricket and Aussie Rules. But that’s obviously not the case." #Socceroos #Matildas #qldpol

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No doubt. But some of the comments you see online these days are really grating.

And there's a specific type of individual - these always-online 'shitposters' - who make writing and talking about football on the internet extremely irritating.

Will Socceroos fans ever be happy in this era of online complaining? You could hardly ask for a better result leading in to another vital World Cup qualifier than Australia’s 5-1 win over Indonesia – but…

"Maybe that’s why the clash felt more like an Indonesian home game, with the majority of the 35,214 fans in the stands wearing the red of Tim Garuda." #Socceroos #AsianQualifiers

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Massive game for the #Socceroos in front of what should be a packed Sydney crowd tonight.

Not every day Australia plays a #WCQ with so much on the line.

Will be interesting to see how the Indonesians fare away from home. They certainly proved they're no pushovers in Jakarta.

#AUSvIDN #WorldCup