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]

Tom’s weekly outlook on the A-League After the break involving Australia defeating Paraguay and the inaugural Melbourne Derby, the A-League returned as the top footballing code in the nation. This is the time of the season where FFA should look to capitalize on their position in the sporting landscape. One thing that is important and [Read more]

Tom’s weekly outlook on the A-League Ever since the A-League started, I have wanted to be able to realistically compare aspects of it to the English Premier League. Hopeful, yes, but although most is incomparable, one is now not. The standard of the games – incomparable, crowd figures – some teams yes, but on a [Read more]

Tom’s weekly outlook on the A-League Last season, we saw the first of mid-week games having a bad effect on the teams who play in them. Melbourne Victory faced Asian Champions League and Hyundai A-League committments towards the end of last season, creating the “Continental Hangover Effect” often seen in Europe. The Victory felt that [Read more]

Tom’s weekly outlook on the A-League This A-League season continues to throw up surprises and upsets every weekend. Last season’s dominance of Melbourne Victory and Sydney FC is now a thing of the past, with Sydney winless and rooted to the bottom, and Melbourne on just 5 points from as many games. Last season’s two [Read more]