Comments on: Why are we ruining the A-League finals?

By: Pippinu

Pippinu — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 05:01:14 +0000

Two points:

1. Two major bits of silverware are available at the moment: the premiership and the championship – one or the other gets you ACL qualification – whether the premiership or the championship is more important will be determined by the public over a lengthy period.

2. Many other soccer leagues around the world are either comtemplating some form of finals (including the Premiership), or have introduced for relegation/promotion battles. If anything, Australia has shown itself to be way ahead of the world (yet again).

When it comes to sports administration – don’t worry – very few countries in the world can hold a candle to Australia.

By: Robb

Robb — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 04:44:54 +0000

I think this pretty much sums up the arrogance of Soccer fans – that they can impose their ideals on us.

By: gazz

gazz — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 02:41:03 +0000

agga,

that’s just it mate. i thought the same thing, but all of Tony Sage’s talk has been about moving in January. same with colosimo and craig moore. although nothing from GCU on culina moving in january. its peculiar for those reasons. surely Sage could organise something after the a-league finals rather than before, thus ruining glory’s hopes. its bizarre in my mind.

By: albe

albe — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:12:28 +0000

umm, you’re talking about rugby league and AFL, not football. Fair enough, if thats how those sports want to do things. But its not the norm in world football. Thats the ‘fantasy world’ i live in, lol…

By: dasilva

dasilva — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:09:21 +0000

I think you need to move in January if you are going to a European club. However if its an Asian club then there’s no reason why the players can’t move after the final series.

By: cab711

cab711 — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 06:51:24 +0000

Grand Finals are shit, when we have 12 teams in the HAL I would like to see the season finish with the club with most points taking the trophy.

By: agga78

agga78 — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 01:12:00 +0000

They don’t need to move in January to get a loan move, that would be for a transfer to another team, it can be set up with Perth loaning the players from March to May 2010, You can loan players at anytime.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:39:08 +0000

What fantasy world are you living in. As much as the FFA would love the “Premiership” (aka minor Premiership to Australians) to be as important as the Championship (aka Premiership to Australians) it just isn’t going to happen. In this country the team that wins the Grand Final are the Premiers/Champions – the regular season means nothing!

Imagine St George/Kilda saying “ah well – we won the regular season”.

By: albe

albe — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:38:17 +0000

The league Premiership is the big title to win … the Championship (GF) is the consolation prize of Australian football. All the players and the clubs know this.
The Finals are basically a Cup competition. It’d be ideal to have the full-strength squad. But its more important for these guys to get a solid go at selection for South Africa, than playing in a cup tournament.

By: cab711

cab711 — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:04:02 +0000

If Collosimo, and Brosque left at the beginning of next year that would destroy Sydney FCs grand final chances. I could say the same thing about Perth. Thats a lot of muscle loss in defence, midfield and attack.
Did anybody realise in order to get contracts with big name euro clubs you have to have a certain quota of national team games?