A-League Off Air

Send us a textThe A-League Off Air boys smash the swear jar one more time for the good of the local game... No football gods here, just some good ol' fashioned home truths...Stick your nostalgia and your romanticism where the sun don't shine and face the facts: You have to win it on the pitch...That said, the semi-finals served up some of the best football we've seen this season. So enjoy your Grand Final ALOA fans...This farken A-League might just farken peak!

Send us a textSurprise muthaf*ckas! The finals are back and so is A-League Off Air! Robbie and Macca shook the dust off the mics to record a quickfire, hot-takes episode to wrap up the elimination finials, have a laugh about Michael Ruhs getting stuck in and about SFC missing out and we give you the TimeOut tour of Tarneit! Farken!!Explicit language warning!

Send us a textIt was another bumper weekend in the @Aleaguemen with goals galore and the pressure mounting on a couple of high profile clubs! Someone is gonna miss out on farken finals! The managers merry-go-round is also in full swing and the A-League Off Air boys drop a coupla farken bombshells out of Adelaide and Gosford! All that and more! We even answered a couple of your questions, farken! #AgentOranje #ALOA #soccer #football

Send us a textTo celebrate a record-breaking 33-goal round of @aleaguemen's action, Robbie and Macca thought they'd swim against the tide and get a goalkeeper on to talk about conceding 5.5 goals per game... An extra long episode to keep youse busy for the international break until the best league in the world returns in two weeks!Save farken!#football #soccer #aleagues

Send us a textA-League Off Air chatted to reformed psychopath and Australia U20 GK coach Liam Reddy about the Young Socceroos continental triumph before turning attentions to last round of the @AleagueMen where we ask the eternal question: Are you seeing Tiger Striped Fishes? Or the Grey House Opposite? Is your team flying or f*cked? Spoiler: We all know the farken answer!*Language warning, F*ckheads*@aleagues #soccer #football

Send us a textRobbie and Macca managed to get their shit together just long enough to record another episode of A-League Off Air... inspired by Aideen Keane and Maja Markovsvski's choregraphed celebration, the deconstructed Dadaist poetry of Andy Harper and Macarthur FC's vagina jerseys, we leave no stone unturned in our weekly game by game review of the Isuzu Ute A-League - warts and all! It's even got - porca miseria - a BBQ chicken pizza!#soccer #football #aleagues

Send us a textRobbie and Macca take a deep dive into how our two NZ clubs are boring the league into farken submission! Jacob Spoonley joins the discussion with plenty of chest puffed ramblings from across the ditch. All that and more, farken!

Send us a textWestern Sydney's biggest Sky Blue Alex Brosque joins Robbie and Macca to discuss all the real and the surreal from the weekend's @AleagueMen including Wellington Phoenix's second-half kick-off and the Sydney Derby! Before the trio of CCs explore the idea of designated c@#ts in the A-League. Forget your marquees, get the C@#ts out there!#soccer #football #aleagues

Send us a textAfter a pretty abysmal effort last time out, Robbie and Macca bounce back this week with former Adelaide Utd midfielder Cameron Watson for a comprehensive, two-footed lunge at Round 17 of the Isuzu Ute A-League season... No state of the game, existential BS, you won't find anything here about boutique stadia, or AFC coefficients or pathways, or transfer systems... This pod reeks of deep heat... keep it off your privates, and out of your eyes... you'll be fine! ALOA is back muthf@#kers!#football #soccer #aleagues

Send us a textApologies in advance for this weeks episode of A-League Off Air which, much like the on pitch action in week 17, was more than a little flat. In fact, don't bother. Robbie and Macca are in total agreement that this is the worst episode in the pods short history. Feel free to give this week a miss. Even forgot the WTFAI?…

Send us a textRobbie woke up on the wrong side of the bed, full Cranky C*@t episode with Macca and special guest Taylor Regan. One Cranky C*@t and two Crazy C*@*ts. Three CCs reviewing another spectacular round of the greatest league in the world: The Farken-A-League! Not for kids, not for prudes. Not Farken Dogshit#football #soccer #aleague #peakaleague

Send us a textAfter a few weeks of morbid train wreck fixations, A-League Off Air changed tack faster than Cheify changes formations and with the help of Socceroo legend Tommy Oar, Robbie And Macca focus on the beauty of our local game and celebrate some fantastic football over the weekend! Sounds weird? Utter Woke Nonsense? Have a listen... and then tell us we're shit! Farken!#aleague #soccer #football

Send us a textRobbie Thomson and Daniel MacBreen are back after a short break to chat all things A-League, including Zadkovich' s plan for the Roar, Sydney on the slide, and do Nix have a comeback? Featuring Brisbane Roar Legend Erik Paartalu.#football #soccer #aleague 

Send us a textFrom Tomoki's F-Bomb to Carl 'the Human Chernobyl' Veart, via the baby-faced assasin and the masked crusader... and Perth won... yes, that's right... Perth farken won! It's a Christmas Special with all the bells and whistles and we celebrate everything that is A-League Off-Air about our beautiful game! 

Send us a textIt was a farken tumultuous weekend in the A-League and instead of averting their eyes and casting judgements from pedestals on high horses in ivory towers, Robbie, Macca and special guest Simon Hill leap two-footed into the abyss, into the dark soul of humanity, and a place where the A-League flourishes... Off Air...

Send us a textIn the latest episode of A-League Off Air, Macca & Robbie are joined by old school Kiwi enforcer Chris Zoricich to discuss what the farken went down in the tunnel after the NZ derby and whether or not Newcastle Jets will be punching their way into finals contention this season or will they be resigned to the history books? There was a contender for miss of the century and plenty of rumours, allegations and unsubstantiated shithousery to get your fill for the week! So have a farken listen!

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Send us a textOxygen! Oxygen! As the dust settles on Unite Round, Robbie and Macca are joined by Dinamo Moscow and Socceroo legend Luke Wilkshire to discuss the winners and losers from Round 5 of the A-League. While Sydney FC made it two from two in the derby, Brisbane Roar are in the cross hairs and the Kiwi's are proving us all wrong - we thought they were flightless birds (they are still ugly!).

Send us a textIn an odyssey-esque episode of A-League Off Air, Robbie and Macca are joined by renegade player agent Fahid Ben Khalfallah to talk about things ALM Rd.4... yes, that's right... run for cover people cause the shrapnel from this loose cannon of a podcast is gonna hit everything in it's farken way! No fqrken fucker is safe!!

Send us a textAussie football fans can tell you to get f@#ked in many languages! It's football's gift to us! Robbie and Macca discuss that and all the Round 3 talking points with former Kiwi international Ben Sigmund! The NZ derbyReno PiscopoMariners shooting blanksRef lost the whistlePlus prizes to be won! Give it a farken listen!

Send us a textA-League Off Air's Daniel McBreen and Robbie Thomson look back at all the weird, wonderful and farken surreal of Round 2 of the Isuzu Ute A-League with special guest, former Socceroo and 600+ gamer James Meredith. From Campbelltown to Tarneit, we leave no stone unturned!

Send us a textThe A-League is back muthafuckas and so is A-League Off-Air! Macca and Robbie give the opening round of the season the ALOA treatment, match by match: Luckily that wasn't the GF!! How shit were Perth? Are the Bulls the farken real deal? Sydney Derby firing!Kiwis showing rugby how it's done! Plus there's the regular "Who the Fuck am I?" and "Shat-a-stat" and new segment: "Hit or Shit?" All that and more!5-stars or die!

Send us a textPart 4 of our 2024-25 A-League Men's season preview has arrived as we take a deep dive into our final 3 teams prospects as 3 more 1-League champions join Robbie and Macca to talk shop! And then, as a special bonus, our two hosts do their best Statler and Waldorf impressions as they put their own season predictions out there for public humiliation and ridicule!  

Send us a textTime for part 3 of A-League Off Air's Sensational Shit-hot Season Preview as we get a Rocket, a Mayor and a red card specialist to run the rule over the next batch of contenders for the 2024/25 crown! What more could you farken ask for?!?!?

Send us a textListen up A-League football fans! It's time for Part 2 of A-League Off Air's 2024-25 season preview and this time Robbie and Macca got two more A-League champions and one farken legend to help out! All three are gonna tell you everything you need to know about this 20th anniversary campaign... but also: The man that didn't rate Ange... Arnie's little pet... and life across the detch! Drink it in, farkers!

Send us a textMacca and Robbie talk shit for a living, so we thought we'd enlist some experts to help them preview the 20th A-League Men's season. Four clubs feature in Part 1 and there are no punches pulled as we talk life after Irankunda... Will Douglas Costa be as big a dickhead as ADP? Who will be the first pissant coach to get the boot? And **drumroll** did you know that daylight saving starts a week early in NZ? We didn't...

Send us a textEpisode 1 of the new season is finally here! Have a listen as @djmcbreen and @ronaldingo14 cast an eye over the Oz Cup final between Macarthur and Melbourne Victory as well as the mixed fortunes in the new Asian Champions League formats for the Central Coast Mariners and Sydney FC! Farken!

One more time with feeling! Robbie and Macca pick themselves out of the post-A-League celebrations gutter for one final podcast of the season! Grand-final, Gosford, Victory and the future - there even a A-League Off-Air shit-housery XI... Let us know who you would pick! And we'll see you next season... maybe!

Aussie fans didn't get to hear their parochial one-eyed biased commentary on Saturday, so we thought we'd ask Kiwi commentator Jacob Spoonley if the Nix were robbed! And THEN we talk about Sydney FC!

Former Socceroo skipper Mark Milligan joins Macca and Robbie on the pod to discuss all things Adelaide Utd, their partnership with PSV Eindhoven, the future of Nestory Irankunda, elimination finals, red cards and penalties and the Mariners Grab the Asia! Farken epic!

The referees have been in the spotlight recently, so we thought we'd go in two-footed on FA's Head of Referees Nathan Magill and see VAR had to say about it! He told us exclusively that the refs will be mic'd up and explaining on-field reviews and factual VAR rulings (off side etc) to the crowd in the stadium and the fans watching at home on the broadcast this week for the finals!

Former A-league with the Central Coast Mariners, Josh Rose joins Robbie and Macca to discuss all the action from the final round of the regular season, including great goals and shocking defence, youth development and finals prospects! All right here on A-League Off-Air!  

Swearing publicly for the first time since returning to Australia... Former Troyes and Melbourne City coach Patrick Kisnorbo joins Robbie and Macca for a look back at all the weekend's A-League Men action!  Red cards, Rufer, City, Wanderers... France and the Olyroos! 

 A pod with no friends! Macca and Robbie are on their own this week to discuss all the Round 24 action from the Isuzu Ute A-League competition and look ahead to the coming games. From a wet Wellington to Perth getting dry humped and everything in between, you'll find it all here! 

Yippee Ki Yay muthaf*@ker! A-League Off Air is back as Robbie and Macca are joined by the inimitable Archie Thompson and say what they couldn't say On Air about Cancar's histrionics, Arlsan's tanti-karma and a big win for the Mariners - it's all here and more! Give it a farken listen!

There was also some football this week.....

BONUS EPISDE: Passion is not a crime! A-League commentators Macca and Robie are joined by Joey Lynch to take a look at the relationship between the fans, the game and security around the grounds in Oz after a  number of alarming incidents were reported over the weekend.

What Round 18 of the Isuzu Ute A-League lacked in goals (14) it made up for it with 4 red cards, two screamers, an own goal, and ... JOSH NISBET! Have a listen as Macca and Robbie are joined by former A-League Champion with Melbourne City, Rostyn Griffiths, as they take the A-League Off-Air!

In Episode 4 of @ALeagueOffAir, Sokkah Twitter oracle Vince Rugari brings a touch of much-needed class to the pod as he joins Macca and Robbie to cast his refined eye over the weekend's action. From WUFC getting a rare win, a stalemate in the derby and more drama out west, if it happened in Rd 17 of the season, it's in here!

Just when you thought you couldn't take anymore, Fahid Ben Khalfallah joins Daniel McBreen and Robbie Thomson in a marathon episode of A-League Off Air as the team does their best to dissect the craziest week in the history of the A-League. Coaches, players, refs, and Pat Wood - no-one is safe!!

In Episode 2 of A-League Off Air, Wellington legend Paul Ifill joins Macca and Robbie to discuss another entertaining and controversial weekend of the Isuzu Ute A-League with a special focus on the season's surprise package the Phoenix and can though go all the way? We've also got the first Who am I? quiz of the new pod, so get involved @aleagueoffair

Renowned Football Commentators Robbie Thomson and Daniel McBreen discuss the talking points and big issues from Round 14 of the A-League.