It's another busy weekend of sport ahead, with the Australian PGA championship taking centre stage along with the deciding V8 supercar race in Sydney.
Add a planned walkout by A-League supporters and you have a fascinating weekend of sport both on and off the field.
John Baldock has the details.
It's been the biggest challenge Football Federation Australia has faced in the A-League's ten year existence.
Western Sydney Wanderers and Melbourne Victory fans staged walkouts last week but this weekend a number of fan groups are calling for boycotts.
FFA held a press conference looking to address their concerns over a lack of transparency in the appeals process for fans banned from watching their teams.
Sydney FC's most fervent fan group is called the Cove.
Their spokesman Grant Muir explains their anger.
"How can you possibly say to someone prove your innocence but no you can't see the evidence, you can't see the evidence we've got, you can't see the basis for your ban but prove your innocence. If some security guard who's had a bad day hears me say what he thought was a racist slur and throws me out and I get a 5 year ban, how on earth can I prove a negative? How can I prove he misheard me?"
It remains to be seen if the fans listen to FFA's call for peace.
The first match of round 9 will be broadcast on SBS when Sydney FC's match against the Newcastle Jets gets underway.
The Australian PGA championship has begun on the Gold Coast with local hope John Senden looking to take a step closer to winning the triple crown of Australian Open, Masters and PGA titles.
He already has an Open title to his name but the Queenslander is hoping to stay in contention until Sunday's final round at the Royal Pines resort, in the hope of adding the PGA title.
The highest ranked player at the tournament is Brandt Snedeker of the United States.
But he had a nightmare start on Thursday, shooting a 12 over par to fall to the bottom of the pile.
Speaking before his horror round, Snedeker explained how he felt being the man to beat.
"It's obviously an honour those guys look at me to think they're going to need to knock me off. I see a bunch of young Aussie kids that are hungry, that are great players that are maybe tough to beat as well. So the field is pretty strong, there's some great talented guys in this field so it's definitely by no means a one horse race."
Sydney's Olympic Park precinct will be filled with the roar of V8 engines this weekend with the Supercar title to be decided.
The man in the box seat is championship leader Mark Winterbottom, who holds a 179 point advantage over his nearest rival, Craig Lowndes.
And if Winterbottom is to win his first ever V8 Supercar crown, he knows exactly what to do.
"If you're on pole position you try and drive away. If you're in the pack you try and survive, you've just got to evaluate it after quality. But I just want to get out there and race, I'm really excited and I think we should have a good car and I'll either have a headache or a smile - it'll be one or the other."
And you know Christmas isn't too far away when boxers start offering fans and opponents early presents.
Last weekend Ukrainian fighter Wladmir Klitschko lost his four heavyweight title belts to British boxer Tyson Fury.
Fury offered songs to him and the fans - and now Klitschko is bearing gifts:
"Hello. I have a pre-Christmas gift for Tyson Fury and all boxing fans around the world. I'll be making use of my contractual option for a rematch against Fury. So to say, the fight of 2016 is in the making. I'll keep you posted about the time the place. And remember, failure in life is not an option."
And finally Australia's men's hockey team, the Kookaburras, have reached the semi-finals of the World Hockey League this weekend in India.
Australia faces the Netherlands at midnight on Saturday and the winner of that semi will meet Germany or Argentina in the final.
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