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Joe Novella

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www.twoupfront.com.au

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Published writer, football tragic and radio Host of "Two up Front"

Member Since:: September 2009
Based In:: Melbourne
Favourite Sporting Team:: Melbourne Victory
Favourite Sports:: Football,

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Media sources continue to bash football

9 Mar 2012

Major media outlets across Australia continue to bash football and the A-League. A recent Herald Sun article with the headline “Soccer in crisis” continued this trend.

The missing link to a successful A-League

2 Mar 2012

The A-League is finally commanding large chunks of real-estate on the pages of our nation’s newspapers, but sadly it’s for all the wrong reasons.

Australia's greatest sporting moment?

2 Oct 2009

The Socceroo’s defeat of Uruguay in November of 2005 catapulted the sport into the pantheon of Australia’s greatest sporting moments, capturing the imagination of a nation and changing forever the profile of a sport once considered to be the basket case of this country’s footballing codes.

Give the fans a voice and crowds will increase

30 Sep 2009

Everyone invested in making the A-League a success is looking for the ‘magic bullet’ that will translate the success of the national team and the enormous grassroots participation rates in football into bums on seats for the A-League.

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Women’s football is really taking off

Great article. You only have to go to a place like the "Total Girl" tourno in Ballarat to see just how huge Girls and Women's Football is becoming in this nation. The sport needs people like you to champion it and bring it to the attention of others, our achievements with the W-league and at a national level have been nothing short of outstanding. Keep blogging and commenting on the women's game, the sport needs people like you just as much as it does a Lisa De Vanna.

2 Oct 2009

Give the fans a voice and crowds will increase

Thanks Spanner. You've wrapped up exactly what I'm trying to get across. Couldn't agree more.

30 Sep 2009

Give the fans a voice and crowds will increase

Hi Pippinu, yep, good question. In a nutshell, when I talk about ownership and buy in I talk about kids and adults using terms like "my club is Adelaide", "Our family supports Sydney." I talk about the sense that people have of belonging to the community of a club and investing their time and emotions into the success of that club by going to fan days, matches, award nights, by creating blogs, putting pictures of their favourite A-league players on their facebook or myspace pages and so on. By doing this they have bought into the clubs future and feel a sense of ownership by using "My", "Ours". I talk to a lot of kids these days who play fooball and when I ask them who they support, they say, Chelsea, Man U etc and it breaks my heart. Even parents that are passionate about football, still haven't bought into the A-league and still talk in terms of Celtic, Juventus... There's nothing wrong with ex-pats supporting their old country teams and feeling an association to them but I dream of the day when I ask a bunch of kids who they support and they all yell out an A-league club, or when a parent says I'll always follow Celtic but now that I'm here in Australia I'll follow Perth Glory as well because they're 'My' team. cheers Joe.

30 Sep 2009

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