GCU are still undefeated in the A-League – as are the Far Q Fury,

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It’s just a jump to the left and a step to the rightttt and you can loose those Blues and come and join us in a Red Wonderland

Jes … for goodness sake mate what ever happen to the positive things you used to go on with…. AU mask the problem, GC not the answer ….

Last year on a forum SBS was tagged … Sad Bitter Shits … like the A-League is not as good as the EPl … nor is it as good as the J-League … boy what a surprise … fancy that.

In NSW there is …….”"”"”150 MILLION BEING SPENT ON SKILL DEVELOPMENT ALL DUE TO OPEN WITHIN TWO YEARS”"”" … MAYBE ITS WORTH TALKING ABOUT HOW TO USE THESE FACILITIES TO THEIR BEST USE AS EVERYONE KNOWS THE FARKING PROBLEMS … BUT SOLUTIONS TAKE YEARS TO PUT INTO AFFECT INCLUDING i MIGHT AN ACTUAL KNOWLEDGE OF ASIAN PLAYERS CAPABLE OF PLAYING IN THE A-LEAGUE”"”…

Rant over but to the centres , Central Coast Centre of Excellent 80 million, NSW Football at Riverstone 40 million will aline themselves with the second Sydney Team, In and around Randwick a 30 million football training complex is being built.

Jes how about an article about the positives long term benefits these three centre will have on the development of skill in the A-League something we all know is important.

GCU will be good for HAL in that it will give the league a bit of personalities. Try imagine what it’s like if all HAL coaches are like a certain Ernie Merrick.

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As always I’m a fan of increasing the Asian base. Imagine a side with an Uzbek, an Iranian, a Thai and a Vietnamese in it. They could really generate some interest in Asia and would benefit from the marketing aspect as well as being able to source some magnificent talent from those countries. Certainly there is more than enough proven talent to recruit as opposed to a number of unproven South Americans.

An interesting argument against Asian players is that they are too expensive. So we can afford Danes and Scotts but not Thais or Vietnamese due to salary constraints? Cut me some slack.

Bottom line – it’s fun to sit, watch and listen to Bleiberg – less so Palmer.

Advice to Palmer: leave your blank cheque with Bleiberg, and go sit on a verandah somewhere in Queensland and let him do all the talking.

The club is on track with a well thought out exciting squad .. accomplished strikers an exciting midfield led by Culina and it seems a more than adequate defence playing in a new state-of-the-art Stadium .. But the question still remains has the GCU reinvented the HAL .?. well if it hasn’t yet, by the end of the 09-2010 season it may have well done …

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For a first year club I think that a mid-table finish would be ok, perhaps even a success, but with the massive expectation they have placed on themselves they really have to come up with the goods or it could all go pear-shaped very quickly.

I am really surprised to learn that Indonesian players are being taken over to Brazil. The article mentions an exchange program – why don’t we have one? A-League clubs have partnerships with clubs around the globe, yet as far as I’m aware the only ‘exchanges’ have been Romario and Diego coming to Adelaide from Miami FC.

The fact that we’ve only got two Asian players (apart from all of the Aussies, of course) in the league is baffling to me given the amount of quality players we’ve been exposed to through the Asian Cup and AFC Champions League. I have the feeling it is because clubs have this fear that the fans won’t be as excited as they would be about signing a Brazilian player – the word Brazilian immediately summons the fantasies we all have of jogo bonito. As we’ve seen, not every Brazilian player is exactly like Pele.

To suggest also that an Asian player wouldn’t draw a crowd I think has already been proven untrue. Shengqing Qu was a cult hero here in Adelaide; the fans loved him, and a few people went to their first A-League game with me because they wanted to see Qu play. I doubt any one had heard of Qu before he pulled on a Reds shirt but that didn’t stop him from being popular here. Regardless of where you are from, if you are a good player you will draw fans. There are plenty of talented footballers in Asia who have the ability to excite the crowd like Qu did, so why aren’t A-League clubs open to signing them?

All new professional sporting clubs need to establish knowledge of their existence and what they are on about. Palmer is ensuring GCU will not only have a footprint on the GC sporting scene but they will be known (and despised?move over SFC ) throughout the Oz footballing fraternity…even non footballing fans will get to know about GCU, Palmer and his ambitions and why not?
It is a crowded sporting market and important to make a mark early…as l said earlier l will be there to boo them in their first game in Melb (also look forward to seeing Culina play).

Since when is it necessary to make total sense when publicizing a club/code or talking about games. Kevin Sheedy – Martians???
l think it is great to have someone talking up his club and setting the challenge for others to try and match. Cant wait to watch GCU at the new rectangular stadium v MV and give them an earful!