We at BackPageLead would like to thank AC/DC for a ripping night's entertainment.

We're not the hugest attenders of live music but we're hard-pressed to to think of anything better we have seen for a long time.

In particular, we loved Angus's guitar solo and the nice tribute to Bon Scott.

So all in all, a good night out.

But we think it all came at a cost and we fear that the Melbourne Victory might be paying the price.

Because as we write, the massive stage and all the accompanying infrastructure that comes with staging such an event is being dismantled and we fear for that the Etihad Stadium surface will look like after all but a small patch near the Lockett end goals has been covered for more than a week.

We thought that four days to get the surface ready for the NAB Cup clash between Collingwood and St Kilda would have been a stretch. But then we learned that Melbourne and Sydney will be playing there Thursday night in the first leg of the A League major semi-final. So that's 72 hours to return the venue to its main purpose as an elite sports stadium and if you believe its boss and no.1 spruiker Ian Collins, one of the finest sports stadiums in the world.

So injury-depleted are the Victory that it will have little choice but to go on the attack at home and try to get two or three goals past Sydney in order to have a chance of holding on in the second leg a fortnight later, which for them, will come after a trip to Beijing for the Asian Champions League opener.

In order to play fast, attacking soccer, you need a billiard-table like surface. But we fear that the surface on Thursday night will be anything but. We're expecting bumps, vast area of rolled dirt and different shades of green, depending on how alive the grass still is.

For a first-round NAB Cup match, the aesthetics doesn't mean all that much.

But it does when you are about to play one of the most important soccer games of the year and it is little wonder that the opening of the new rectangular stadium is so eagerly-anticipated next year.