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Chief @ultimatealeague.bsky.social Senior Engineer @ FrogBox

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At 1-0 up and dominating, I was thinking to myself "I wonder how the Wanderers are going to bottle this".

A 'late James Donachie winner' wasn't anywhere near what I had in mind, though 😳

#CCMvWSW #ALeagueMen

22.02.2026 07:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

That is "Liam Reddy trying to beat four players" levels of dumb goalkeeping from Oluwayemi.
#WELvAKL #ALeagueMen

21.02.2026 04:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hey, so analytics are all well and good, but maybe there's a *reason* the guy was playing in the J3 League ?
#CCMvMVC #ALeagueMen

01.02.2026 09:02 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

There's still plenty of football to come this season, but there's no reason this Jets team β€” if they keep playing with the kind of style and verve we've seen the past few months β€” can't do the treble.

#NEWvBRI #ALeagueMen

31.01.2026 07:57 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Long with a brain fade of a challenge, and Bayliss secures the points for the Jets almost immediately after.

Shot. Chaser.

#NEWvBRI #ALeagueMen

31.01.2026 07:53 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

First #ALeagueMen goal in almost 8 years for Lachlan Jackson. You can see why he's excited about it.
#MVCvSYD

26.01.2026 08:28 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If I had a dollar for every time a team playing with 10 men for 45+ mins had won in the #ALeagueMen this week, I'd have two dollars.

Which isn't a lot, but it's weird it's happened twice.

#BRIvWEL

03.01.2026 07:54 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Respect (or lack thereof) for refs is one of my real bugbears in football, so I'm all for how Alex King handled that β€” both the sending off of Valkanis, and getting both captains together to lay down the law.

#CCMvBRI #ALeagueMen

31.12.2025 08:52 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Jeez, if Matt Simon is trying to be the voice of reason you know it's *really* kicked off πŸ˜‚
#CCMvBRI

31.12.2025 08:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

In the space of just 3 weeks, Nikos Vergos has turned a long scoring drought into leading the #ALeagueMen 's Golden Boot.

#MVCvWEL

29.12.2025 10:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Back-to-back nights with hat-tricks. This league is very silly sometimes πŸ˜‚
#MVCvWEL #ALeagueMen

29.12.2025 09:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's just painful to watch Victory play right now.

So utterly disjointed all across the park, and besides Nish, just completely lacking a killer instinct in the front third.

#MACvMVC

05.12.2025 10:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Faghani like a frustrated parent there, dishing out the yellow card to Vrakas for refusing to put his shoes on πŸ˜‚
#BRIvNEW

09.11.2025 06:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Would love to know what happened to that whole "only the captain can talk to the ref" change introduced this #ALeagueMen season.

Haven't seen any adjustment in players' behaviour, and it doesn't seem to be being enforced by the refs either.

#SYDvMAC #ALeague

09.11.2025 05:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm going to need someone to explain to me what the point of that two-man, kneeling attacking wall was.

Because, I mean, what the hell was that!? πŸ˜‚

#CCMvWEL

02.11.2025 06:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

They might want to turn down the effects mics near the benches πŸ˜†

Some very colourful language being thrown around when that goal went in. #PERvMVC

31.10.2025 11:00 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

One inexcusably lazy touch by Jackson near the halfway line => turnover => counter => goal.

Just diabolical stuff.

#NEWvMVC

24.10.2025 08:50 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I am indeed πŸ™‚

17.10.2025 22:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Brisbane have won the Fair Play Award in 8 of the 20 #ALeagueMen seasons.

But from these first 25 mins, I think I can safely say that they won't be winning a 9th this season. πŸ˜†

#BRIvMAC

17.10.2025 10:32 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Collegians-X celebrating winning the Metro 1 hockey premiership

Collegians-X celebrating winning the Metro 1 hockey premiership

Only took me til age 38 to win a premiership πŸ˜‚. Definitely didn't think it'd be as a goalkeeper, but boy does it feel great to finally break that duck!

13.09.2025 10:28 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

No, unfortunately no master list of all games. Had to go game-by-game, round-by-round to get them processed. A bit disappointing tbh

11.09.2025 07:37 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Interesting 2025/26 #ALeagueMen 's fixture for Victory.

5 straight AAMI Park games in Dec/Jan, and then 6 of 7 at AAMI between February and April.

If they can get off to a quality start *before* all of that occurs, it'll hold them in pretty good stead.

11.09.2025 00:12 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Between the misaligned text, mishmash of fonts, incorrect playing strip colours, and unnecessary flags, this might just be the worst scorebug I've ever seen πŸ˜†
#NZLvAUS

09.09.2025 07:52 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

They're still complaining about the disallowed goal? It clearly curled out, and the linesman was in a *perfect* position looking straight across the line. Ridiculous.
#AKLvMVC

24.05.2025 08:20 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

In a season that has had more away wins than any other, it's hardly surprising that the away (or nominal away) team have won 4 of the 5 #ALeagueMen finals matches thus far.

#AKLvMVC #ALeague

24.05.2025 08:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If you're curious, since 09/10 we have gotten close to a 10th player on this list only once:
Adrian Segecic (2020/21 Semi Final)

17.05.2025 09:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Luke Didulica on the bench for Victory. If he comes on, he'll be the 10th #ALeagueMen player to debut in a finals match:

05/06 (T. Ozbey, J. Spagnuolo, G. Owens)
06/07 (T. Hearfield)
07/08 (S. Jin-Hyung)
08/09 (Henrique, Ro. Griffiths)
09/10 (I. Ramsay, J. Gibbs)

#MVCvAKL

17.05.2025 09:05 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

So if the understanding that both legs of the MCY-WUN semi will be at AAMI Park is correct, that means 3 of the 4 semi final legs in the #ALeagueMen this season will be played at that venue.

#WSWvMVC #ALeague

10.05.2025 11:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Wanderers earned the home elimination final. So APL deciding to play the away team's goal celebration song is kinda lame. #WSWvMVC

10.05.2025 10:24 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I want to hear more about his dinosaur parks and Titanic replicas... and literally nothing more than that πŸ™‚

04.05.2025 07:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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