AndyRoo's Contributions

Pretty empty claim about the AFL being the best comp in the world. If that is really important and people are sheep like your suggesting we could just make the A league goals a few centre metres bigger so there not FIFA compliant and call the game "tooth fairy ball" and hey presto it's the best in the world The A league draws from a much larger talent pool to begin with and only has 10 aussie teams of 11 players (usually only 7 of them Australian) compared to soon 18 of 18 from AFL .... No need for the A league to look for NRL players to make up the numbers. /end code war trolling

The winners and losers from code expansion

15 Dec 2010

I like the idea. I don’t know about Oceania anymore as they would count as foreigners for ACL purposes. Perhaps for the Phoenix there “plus 1” could be an Oceanian player. Outside of NZ I’m not sure the players are good enough for the A league, they are just too disadvantaged football development wise. Our u19 team came second in the Asian cup and half the guys in that side haven’t broken through to the A league yet. Likewise our u20 team at the world cup was no great shakes but was miles better than Tahiti who were the Oceanian rep and a lot of the Aussie boys aren’t a league regulars. China has it’s own league that pays much more $$$ wise than we do and has 4 ACl spots to our 2 (though they underperform badly), the benefit is more being in the same competitions/time zones as China so benefiting from the additional sponsorship/tv dollars around. It’s more the developing (football wise) countries that present any marketing opportunity. But if we are just looking to exploit for commercial benefit I think they will soon see through us. Perhaps at NYL level where the rule is no foreigners they could make an exemption with each team assigned a different Asean nation (plus India and Sri Lanka) where they are allowed to take on 2 players. Players at that age (18) would be fairly cheap (the Aussie kids are on less than 10k though for visa reasons might have to pay the imports more unless there is a scholarship/training loop hole) and if they don’t make it but have a good experience it’s good PR, and if they are good enough for the A league then we just uncovered a very marketable star. That seems win win for Australia and the other nations.

Ben Buckley, why won’t you wow me?

13 Dec 2010

Plus one Midfielder.

A-League revival to be led by Frank Lowy

10 Dec 2010