Tom’s Weekly Outlook on the A-league After a long season, we are finally at the Grand Final, and after Brisbane emphatically destroyed every team in the competition, it came down to Central Coast and Gold Coast to decide who would take on the title favourites. Central Coast hosted Gold Coast on a beautiful Saturday night [Read more]

Tom’s weekly outlook on the A-League Week two of the finals series was full of goals, despite there being just the two games. The total goals scored was nine, following a 2-2 draw on Saturday night at Suncorp Stadium and a 3-2 win to the Gold Coast at Hindmarsh on Sunday evening. The weekend started [Read more]

by Tom Riordan Tom’s weekly outlook on the A-League The first week of the finals have come and gone, with all 3 matches ending in somewhat predictable results. The first of them was on Friday night from Hindmarsh Stadium in Adelaide, where the Reds hosted Wellington Phoenix. With Adelaide finishing 3 places higher than the [Read more]

Tom’s weekly outlook on the A-League The last gameweek of the 2010-11 regular season kicked off on Friday night from the Adelaide Oval, and had finals contenders Adelaide United hosting Melbourne Victory. Paul Reid opened the scoring 6 minutes in for Adelaide, capping off a flying start for his side. Reid was awarded a free-kick [Read more]

Tom’s weekly outlook on the A-League Thanks to another exciting round of A-League action, the top six is now decided, and teams that have made the finals can now start planning ahead for a successful campaign. One of the teams that have just made it into the finals, are Wellington Phoenix, who, not as I [Read more]

Tom’s weekly outlook on the A-League With just a couple of gameweeks to play, desperation is showing in teams who have a lot to play for. An example of this, is when after Miron Bleiberg’s Gold Coast team unleashed at Melbourne Victory, after his team were clearly outmuscled by the finals contenders. His main point [Read more]

Tom’s weekly outlook on the A-League The horrendous Kevin Muscat tackle from the 3rd derby last Saturday night is still clear in my mind; Heart youngster Adrian Zahra advancing forward on the right with the ball, but, just as he skips past Grant Brebner, Kevin Muscat literally jumps studs up in the air at Zahra. [Read more]

Tom’s Weekly outlook on the A-League With the finals series approaching, many teams are now scrambling to get points to launch themselves up a few places on the table. Teams that have their position on the table wrapped up are Brisbane to finish top and North Queensland to finish last. Every other team can either [Read more]

Tom’s weekly outlook on the A-League The Christmas period can bring joy or suffering for clubs, with the busy schedule not helped when it’s just over halfway through the season, and everyone is vying for finals or premiership honours. Ladder leaders Brisbane came through their festive season undefeated. They managed to draw 2-2 with Gold [Read more]

Tom’s weekly outlook on the A-League As the A-League reaches the end of a year, we can begin to clearly see the way the final positions on the table may turn out. Brisbane look the goods for the premiership, and confirmed that on the weekend by defeating a struggling North Queensland on their home turf [Read more]

Tom’s weekly outlook on the A-League For Melbourne Victory, Melbourne Derby #2 was all about revenge for when they suffered a 2-1 loss at the hands of Melbourne Heart earlier in the season. For Heart, this match was about redeeming themselves as a finals threat and half decent team, following their fall out of the [Read more]

Tom’s weekly outlook on the A-League Week after week, A-League matches are affected or decided by refereeing decisions or the lack of them. To be honest, I’m not sure how to fix the problem, but it needs to be addressed quickly by the FFA. This weekend, Brisbane Roar travelled to AAMI Park to face Melbourne [Read more]

Tom’s weekly outlook on the A-League There is no doubt in my mind that Brisbane Roar are the best team in the A-League. Week after week they score goals and do not lose often at all; in fact they haven’t lost a game for 14 weeks, when they went down 3-0 to Melbourne Victory at [Read more]

Tom’s weekly outlook on the A-League They say that the ladder never lies, and I agree. This season’s A-League is just past midway through, and like in the EPL over their Christmas break, you’ll often find that the table doesn’t change too much from halfway until the end of the season. But this season in [Read more]

Tom’s weekly outlook on the A-League This week, the A-League returned to its goals. Not only did we see more great games and goals than last week, but we also experienced a few upsets as well. With no draws and no less than 3 goals in any of the games, it was arguably the best [Read more]

Tom’s weekly outlook on the A-League Gameweek 13 in the A-League certainly wasn’t one of the goal-filled entertaining weekends that we’ve become accustomed to this season, but instead, it was a round where 4 out of 5 matches finished 1 goal to nil. These weren’t necessarily boring games of football, but just games where both [Read more]

Tom’s weekly outlook on the A-League In another week of A-League action, we saw a goal fest of a round. Not one game had less than 2 goals, with two having two, two having three and one having five. It has been a good trend this season, which has hopefully improved the reputation of Australian [Read more]