Randomish Pictures

It's been a while since these:

Random Pictures

More Random Pictures

Even More Random Pictures

No So Random Pictures

so here a some more pictures:

Moorabbin City 1995. I have a better quality one without the labelling, but it's too big to upload. 

Moorabbin City, possibly 1976, maybe 1975. Same as above re quality and labelling.

The first regional club to win the Victorian top flight was Yallourn in 1951. I love a great big championship pennant.

Preston Lions 2005, taken from one of those poster/calendar/advertising things. I like those things as well.

Future Richmond coaches Futera trading cards part 1, Dougie Hodgson.

Part 2, the back of the card.

Part 3, Michael Chatzitrifonos.

Part 4, the back of Chatz's card.

An early Australian Soccer Federation emblem.

Richmond 2010 at AAMI Park before a friendly v Melbourne Heart.

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Even More Random Pictures

First, a photo of the German team from the junior/reserves edition of the 1958 Laidlaw World Cup.

Back Row: Werner Klein, Werner Bormann, Matze Landherr, Ralf Eggert, Franz Marth, Guenter Weiland, Guenter Gerick.
Front Row: Bodo Bormann, Kurt Goettlicher, Erich Bartkowiak, Heinz Duecker.

Your 1994 VPL Champions - Preston Lions. From the short-lived Shoot Australia.

Frank Juric, also from Shoot Australia. Shoot Australia was 4 or 8 pages of Aussie content tacked into the middle of the regular UK edition of Shoot! magazine.

Wynton Rufer, from a proper vintage UK Shoot!

Two class acts, Milan Ivanovic and Josip Biskic. From Shoot Australia.

Mark Bosnich answers some questions for Shoot! And disses Billy Ray Cyrus.

Coin toss before a Laidlaw World Cup clash featuring Germany at Olympic Park. In the background is the Eastern Stand before it had a roof put on it.

Craig Johnston, about to surf for England. From the Classic Headliners section of 90 Minutes magazine.

And the final picture is also another 90 Minutes Classic Headliner:

                                                R.I.P. Johan Cruyff 1947-2016


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Random Videos II: Less Random, More Videos

Both legs of the 2002 World Cup Qualification Play-Offs from November 2001. Narrow win at the MCG, disaster in Montevideo. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.

VPL action from 2003. The late Whittlesea Stallions (including cut-off interview with Phil Stubbins) against Preston Lions (future Socceroo Sash Ognenovski with a goal) at Epping Stadium (with a crowd).

There is footage missing in the Essendon Royals v Bentleigh Greens clip, but the goals are repeated in the post-game review. Played at the old Reggio Calabria Club.

Great crowd at Jack Edwards Reserve in 2003 for State League Division One action between Oakleigh Cannons and Heidelberg United. The second video sees Western Suburbs take absolute liberties with Kingston City in the same league.

The Scottish pop classic this time around is Aztec Camera's Somewhere In My Heart. Black and white retro in the 1980's was the epitome of artistic.

It's Wednesday night, it's Box Hill Indoor Soccer Night

Not amateur Hammond organ recital night. After more than a decade, I have made a return to playing indoor soccer, with Blue Steel in the Wednesday Night Division Three competition at the Box Hill Indoor Sports Centre. Last night saw the second-placed Steel notch up a comfortable 11-4 win over last-placed Unatletico Madrid to pretty much seal a place in the top four Finals series (with only six teams in the competition, it's a bit like the A-League in that regard). Scored twice and did not further injure myself, so good result all round.

http://boxhillindoorsports.com.au/results-fixtures.html

It meant not keeping up to date with the rapidly changing NPLV landscape. We've now had Hume City, Preston Lions, Cairnlea and Altona Magic declare they will not submit EOI's. Dandenong Thunder will submit an EOI, but seem lukewarm on making a final submission, perhaps sensing they are about as welcome as Eddie Maguire at a corroboree.

http://humecityfc.com/

https://twitter.com/AltonaMagic

https://twitter.com/BreatheF00tball

https://twitter.com/CairnleaFC

http://www.mfootball.com.au/thunder-submit-npl-interest-amid-indecision/

Not much has been mentioned about the involvement of Melbourne Heart Youth and Melbourne Victory Youth in the NPLV. It has widely been assumed they will play in the senior competition, but will they have to meet all the other criteria other licensees must meet? Maybe more will be revealed when the list of clubs to have put in the EOI's is announced.

I notice the FFV VPL website still has a link to the long departed VPL Live TV to the right of the links to the club websites. Sure it is nice to have a link to the videos of games from previous years, but perhaps a bit disingenuous to keep the link there when there is no longer any more actual VPL Live TV broadcasts. It was interesting to note on the VPL Facebook page earlier in the season whenever anyone posed the question which was to be the VPL Live TV game that round, or if the current match being updated was on VPL Live TV, there would be no response from the FFV. Whilst it may be embarrassing for the FFV to admit they could no longer afford to service, and therefore admit they were reducing their service to the clubs and league in promoting the competition, it was downright rude not to make a statement and answer poster's questions.

Whilst on the VPL Facebook page, you can almost set your watch to the weekly "South Melbourne for relegation" post from Chris Margaritis and Michael Italiano coming on to pump up the tyres of his son Lewis in the Oakleigh goal. I've heard of club's having to "please explain" comments posted by their players, a bit rich coming from the organisation which failed to answer enquiries from the public. At least we get an idea on how the staff of over 60 at FFV HQ are spending their time.

Another matter to arise on the discussion on the NPLV on the various forums and Facebook pages is the number of times someone argues that the NPL has already been implemented across the country. The FFV's criteria means the NPLV is a vastly different beast to the versions currently underway in other states. Once again, to claim otherwise is ignorant at best and disingenuous at worst.

If you think things are getting absurd, then check out this beauty:

http://www.goalweekly.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=6894%3Apre-adult-teenagers-continue-to-pay-the-price-for-ffv

I would love to hear more about this. I'll assume two yearly increments in those age brackets up until the Veteran's League begins at Under 35's. So that could be Under 18, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 30, 32 and 34's. Someone start making some more pitches, I'll try and round up enough referees.