About this Site
This site was opened in May 2005 for two main
purposes. One was to put together many years of data collection from Australian
football into one collection which can be used as a reference work by anyone and
the second was to provide UK pools punters with accurate and up to date
information on the games thereby helping them forecast results more accurately.
The pools page has been extremely successful again
during 2007 and has provided every Saturday morning results as the games finish
instead of having to wait for the Sunday newspapers. The pools page is updated
every five minutes during the 12 weeks or so that Australian matches appear on
the UK pools coupons starting from around 8.00 am when games end in Victoria
until around 10.45 when the scores have come in from West Australia. The main
results and tables pages are also updated on Saturday mornings so punters can
use them to help their selections for the following week.
In the UK very little information is available from
newspapers apart from the excellent Racing and Football Outlook, published
Tuesdays, to help the forecasting and the pools becomes a bit of a numbers
lottery.
Another good site is Soccerlotto which has many stats and
pools plans and tips. This is a paysite but the small annual subscription is
worth it for the serious punter.
Socceraust has
had to the end of October 2007 over one million hits from a great many
countries around the world in the previous twelve months.
Additions for the 2007 season included enhanced
reporting of the major leagues with more match details and reports than ever
before – many thanks to the clubs and individuals who contribute to this.
New areas being covered for the first time on a
regular basis are Far North, Sunshine Coast and Gold Coast Zones in Queensland
and in NSW many of the district federations below Football NSW. All of which
have not before been covered on a regular basis before.
The historical sections are ever expanding as I
computerise the vast amount of paperwork I have collected over the years and
the past seasons will continue to grow slowly over the next year or so as I add
missing results and tables. All of the data has been checked, where possible,
with at least two sources but inevitable some errors do creep in. In compiling the tables I have tried to keep
track of the name changes and mergers which occurred and where it is uncertain
I simply list the outgoing side as withdrawn and the incoming side as a new team.
Any help to clarify mergers and name changes is appreciated.
The lists of past champions are the most complete ever
published and are, again, being added to all the time. The champion’s lists
include the Minor Premiership winners (first in the regular league season)
along with the Grand Finals which decide the actual Champions for the season.
Most States, like other sports in Australia, have adopted the playoff system
over the past few years and it is therefore possible for a team who finishes
fourth or even fifth in the table to win the title! However the South, West and
Tasmania have now reverted back to a normal pattern with no playoffs which to
me seems a much better and fairer system.
The club directory lists the home ground, contact
address and date of foundation, where known, and I am expanding this section to
include more detail such as emblem, honours etc. Club websites have, so far,
been ignored for the very basic reasons that a lot of clubs do not have them
and those which do are not updated on a regular basis (in some cases for years)
or they contain little more than a home page. Even the big clubs sites in
Victoria and NSW are not brilliant.
So who am I? Well my name is Alan Morley and I live in
Staffordshire, England and have been a keen football statistician for around 35
years with huge collections of detail from around the world, some of which is
computerised but most of which is piles of filling in our large garage.
Finally I welcome comments, good or bad, about the
site and anyone who has noted an error or can help fill in missing details is
most welcome to email me. Please
note that any info you supply may not get on to here straight away.