Joe Novella's Contributions

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.

Women’s football is really taking off

2 Oct 2009

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

Give the fans a voice and crowds will increase

30 Sep 2009

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.

Give the fans a voice and crowds will increase

30 Sep 2009