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Justin Tickner @justintickner.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Paartalu saying the crowd noise after Eli Adams' equaliser was like nothing he's ever heard before. Which is a hilarious thing for the guy who scored the most famous finals equaliser in #ALeagueMen history to say 😂 #NEWvSYD

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Justin Tickner @justintickner.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Every year I have to look up the coding rules for penalty shootouts in @ultimatealeague.bsky.social . And every year I think to myself, "I should really document this somewhere". And every year I obviously don't do that. Rinse. Repeat. 😂

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Justin Tickner @justintickner.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

A Sydney draw/loss means Victory are guaranteed to finish in 4th place, securing a home final. A Sydney win would push Victory into 5th & an away final. Victory cannot finish 3rd or 6th. The #MCYvADL result is already irrelevant to Victory's position. 😂 #SYDvAKL #ALeagueMen

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Justin Tickner @justintickner.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Mata on the bench in Western Sydney tonight. About par for the course, really 😏 #WSWvMVC

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Justin Tickner @justintickner.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

That's three incidents in the last week where a player was allowed to continue playing after a head knock, and then being concussion subbed and/or missing a game due to concussion protocols afterwards. Something's gotta give. It's simply not good enough. #NEWvADL #ALeagueMen

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Justin Tickner @justintickner.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

The sheer cojones to pull an offside trap in that moment. Best league in the world 😂 #SYDvNEW #ALeagueMen

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Justin Tickner @justintickner.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

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

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Justin Tickner @justintickner.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

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

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Justin Tickner @justintickner.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

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

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Justin Tickner @justintickner.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

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

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Justin Tickner @justintickner.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Long with a brain fade of a challenge, and Bayliss secures the points for the Jets almost immediately after. Shot. Chaser. #NEWvBRI #ALeagueMen

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Justin Tickner @justintickner.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

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

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Justin Tickner @justintickner.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

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

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Justin Tickner @justintickner.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

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

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Justin Tickner @justintickner.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

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

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Justin Tickner @justintickner.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

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

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Justin Tickner @justintickner.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

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

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Justin Tickner @justintickner.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

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

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Justin Tickner @justintickner.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

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

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Justin Tickner @justintickner.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

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

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Justin Tickner @justintickner.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

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!? 😂 #CCMvWEL

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Justin Tickner @justintickner.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

They might want to turn down the effects mics near the benches 😆 Some very colourful language being thrown around when that goal went in. #PERvMVC

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Justin Tickner @justintickner.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

One inexcusably lazy touch by Jackson near the halfway line => turnover => counter => goal. Just diabolical stuff. #NEWvMVC

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Justin Tickner @justintickner.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

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. 😆 #BRIvMAC

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Justin Tickner @justintickner.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

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

Collegians-X celebrating winning the Metro 1 hockey premiership

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Justin Tickner @justintickner.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

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.

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Justin Tickner @justintickner.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

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 😆 #NZLvAUS

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Justin Tickner @justintickner.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

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

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Justin Tickner @justintickner.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

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

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Justin Tickner @justintickner.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

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

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Justin Tickner @justintickner.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

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

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Justin Tickner @justintickner.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

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

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Justin Tickner @justintickner.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Look, not sure it was enough of a clear and obvious error to overturn that. But given the history of VAR in this fixture, I think we can let this one slide 😉 #MVCvNEW #ALeagueMen

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Justin Tickner @justintickner.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Quite incredible that Adam Taggart managed to get to 10 goals this season, given the *entire* Glory team managed to score just 22 times in 26 games. #WELvPER #ALeagueMen

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Justin Tickner @justintickner.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Well, unless Kosta Barbarouses or Eli Adams go on an absolute tear tomorrow afternoon, we're heading for our first joint Golden Boot in the #ALeagueMen since Berisha/Maclaren in 2016/17

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Justin Tickner @justintickner.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

As a resident of Deakin, I will say this: F***ing finally!

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Justin Tickner @justintickner.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

4 home teams registered wins this round in the #ALeagueMen. That is the first time this has occurred all season. #WSWvWUN #ALeague

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Justin Tickner @justintickner.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Suncorp Stadium PA playing "I can't wait for the weekend to begin" before a Friday night Brisbane Roar game says all you need to know about how their season is going. #BRIvMAC #ALeagueMen

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Justin Tickner @justintickner.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

The two highest #ALeagueMen seasons for goals per game have been this season and last season. And you can't separate them right now! #ALeague

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Justin Tickner @justintickner.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Last 10 games: 56 goals, and ~16 minutes per goal. Still the best league in the world. #ALeagueMen #ALeague #MVCvADL

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Justin Tickner @justintickner.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

The last 9 #ALeagueMen games have seen 48 goals scored at a rate of 5.333 goals per game. That's 1 goal every ~17 minutes. Best league in the world. #ALeague

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Justin Tickner @justintickner.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

And with Kosta's VAR-confirmed goal, we hit 33 total goals at an average of 5.5 goals per game — eclipsing the previous record of 5.4 (2014-15 R15) Source: ultimatealeague.com/statistics/s...

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Justin Tickner @justintickner.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Commentators need to put away the abacus and use either mental arithmetic or a calculator. It aint 29, guys. 9+6+4+4+7* = 30 #NEWvWUN

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Ultimate A-League @ultimatealeague.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

What we *almost* had at #ADLvMAC last night, if Luka Jovanovic's goal hadn't been ruled out by VAR: - Equal most goals in a single #ALeagueMen game (10). - Equal most unique goal scorers in a single game (9). - A "scorigami", with the first ever 5-5 result. 😔

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Justin Tickner @justintickner.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

We were just a heel away from a scorigami 🥺 #ADLvMAC #ALeagueMen

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Justin Tickner @justintickner.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Craziest weather delay I've ever personally sat through at a sporting event? Easily this one from 2013 — and, yes, I reacted to it pretty much exactly like the players did 😆 www.youtube.com/watch?v=eI53...

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