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With all A-League teams into the thick of their pre season training, how many more signings do you think your team will make before Round 1 & where do you believe they need to strengthen or how many would you like?

As a Perth Glory fan we need to look at a visa winger that has good pace & end product. I think we will at maximum only sign 1 more player.

(Also aware currently we just need to just focus on paying everyone on time)

Via ESPN/AAP

Another Aussie set to play in League One

1 year deal for the Aussie keeper with the Owls

Streets won’t forget Perth Glory era Chris Ikonomidis

From Football Supporters Association Facebook page (article in link):

Yesterday, Channel 7 dropped a promotional clip for their coverage of the 2026 Rugby League World Cup.

To sell their broadcast, they needed vision of raw passion and matchday energy....

So where did they look?

They raided footage of active football supporters.

Immediately after the match in Scotland, Milan will fly to the other side of the world for a tour spanning Oceania and Asia. However, before facing Inter in the derby on August 5, they will add a friendly match to their schedule against Perth Glory on August 1, with kick-off set for 12:20 PM Italian time. While TV coverage remains to be confirmed (the match is expected to be played behind closed doors, though potential coverage by DAZN and Sky needs to be clarified), the strong summer bond the *Rossoneri* club has forged with Australia in recent years is evident.

PS: Bring back the membership tracker on the A-League website!

With the final tomorrow morning of the World Cup, from an Australian football perspective what have you loved & what has been a bit of a let down over the past 5 weeks?

Could be players, coaching, broadcasting, shows, fan interactions, social media or viral clips, etc.

For me:

Successes
- SBS’s coverage of the World Cup & its platform of highlights, etc has been great. They’ve done extremely well out of it at a time where its existence has been questioned by parts of the country.

- Kevin Prince Boateng as a really strong football analyst, would love him covering the A-League

- Patrick Beach taking his opportunity with both hands when thrown into the lions den. Was already tracking well at Melbourne City but take away the US first goal, I think he’s boosted his stocks massively.

- I never tire of seeing the scenes from the live sites, and I feel like each time the amount of people wanting to get up at stupid o’clock or binning off work/school to feel part of something with mates & strangers gets bigger. I love the unity, wish you could bottle it up.

Disappointments
- How quickly most of the bandwagon have fallen off. Saw so much amazing coverage from the time Australia were in it but that’s cooled off massively, even as we approach the final. It’s great if there’s a few more people interested in attending A-League or local games now but I don’t expect the various media personnel, creators, journalists & radio presenters to be doing reels or in the stadium for say Adelaide v Brisbane round 1 (and I get it)

- Cup Fever. Yes I loved it massively many years back & perhaps I am just stuck in nostalgia or my comedy tastes have moved on, but I don’t know it’s just not felt the same. Complete respect to both Ed & Santo for backing up each match day, but yeah just found after a couple weeks I fell off watching it.

- The Hisense Hangout, cause I wasn’t invited 😤

Good write up by Sacha Pisani on the recent moves around the NPL