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No need for such a reaction. Fussball is the elder statesman of football on The Roar, and many of us are attracted by everything he has to on the game because he writes with authority and complete knowledge of the game. I can think of no one else more competent in all footballing matters on The Roar than Fussball.

History says Australia will host the 2022 World Cup

10 Nov 2010

I don't think there is any shame in the A-League attendances being equal 6th with Netball in this country, afterall, netball is a very popular game. As I have mentioned elsewhere, the key point is that the A-League has achieved huge growth since the end of the NSL, including a tripling of memberships from 20,000 to around 60,000. Now yes, that might be well short of the AFL's figure of the current 600,000, but crucially, we are the ones with room for growth, not just nationally, but globally. Anyway, it only represents and extra zero. We have a real chance to make the A-League the eminent football league in the Asia-Pacific region - and that will mean big dollars in future years - dollars that we can barely imagine today. Once we win the WC bid rights for 2022, watch for another tripling of our figures in the next decade, and another tripling in the following decade. By the end of the century, we will match the AFL's membership numbers, guaranteed. This is the sort of growth we can all look forward to.

Who is the best code manager?

10 Nov 2010

TC We are all competing, increasingly so. As the football league gradually turns into a 10 month season, with three divisions, there will be very, very littls media space left for other codes. This is the new sporting order Australia is entering, soon to be given a turbo boost by a successful WC bid. With Football's global reach, we will soon be attracting investment from billionaires from around the world, everyone wants a cut of the action, we are seeing this already with the sales of the Jets and AU. Money is pouring into the game, and this will continue at an ever increasing rate. Other sports cannot compete. Cricket's Twenty20 is a flash in the pan, football is here for the long haul.

Who is the best code manager?

9 Nov 2010

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