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matchu

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Member Since:: October 2011
Based In:: Queensland
Favourite Sporting Team:: Port Adelaide Football Club
Favourite Sports:: AFL, Tennis,

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Is the Gold Coast a fickle sporting market?

25 Jun 2012

With the Titans’ well publicised troubles, Gold Coast United folding under crowd pressures, and the Suns’ inability to draw a crowd (and/or win a game), the question must be asked “is the Gold Coast a fickle sporting market?”

ACL aside, Brisbane Roar still have a chance for Asian silverware

12 Apr 2012

Followers of the 2012 AFC Champions League will be able to tell you that Brisbane Roar’s campaign hasn’t got off to the start they would have liked.

Where should the AFL expand to next?

25 Oct 2011

Western Sydney is the latest location to be verified by the AFL as a new expansion market. But where will the AFL go next?

The AFL expansion experiment

6 Oct 2011

It began at the end of 1981 when the South Melbourne Football Club decided the best option for the debt ridden club was to play all 11 of their homes match in Sydney. Instant success followed in 1982 as the newly named ‘Sydney Swans’ won the night premiership.

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ACL aside, Brisbane Roar still have a chance for Asian silverware

Thanks for the reply. The last I heard was they were deciding whether or not to invite Australian and Japanese clubs to compete in the tournament. I would really like to see both an A-league and J-league team compete in the 2012 ASEAN Club Championships, with a J-league team present the competition could become quite prestigious and a real challenge for an A-league club. I believe I also read something about the winner of this competition gaining direct entry into the next Asian Champions League to make it worth much more than it would have been without it. I presume this would work the way they do it in Europe where if the winner of this competition has already qualified for the ACL the next highest finishing team in the domestic competition (Sydney FC in this case) qualifies for the 2013 ACL. I personally think the more exposure to Asian competitions for A-league teams is key to the development of domestic football as well as preparation for young players when they move to Europe.

3 May 2012

The AFL expansion experiment

The reason I used the word experiment was because when the Swans decided to play their homes games in Sydney it was seen as a trial/test that was not necessarily a permanent move. The following expansions were obviously planned and weren't ever seen as tests. GWS could be the spark the AFL needs to be truly accepted as the number one sport in Australia by all Australians so I wish them the best of luck..

7 Oct 2011