Roar Rookie About
- Member Since:
- October 2010
Latest Articles
Please, no more with the LA Galaxy visits
7 Dec 2011With any luck last night’s friendly between Melbourne Victory and LA Galaxy will be the last Australian football fans see of the MLS side for a while. Over the past four years the Beckham road show, sorry the Galaxy team, have played three exhibition games against A-League sides in front of a combined crowd of [...]
Delay FFA Cup: Smith Report
3 Dec 2011Socceroos’ World Cup qualifiers being removed from the federal government’s anti-siphoning list and the FFA Cup being delayed are two of the findings from the Smith Report. The findings of the review into football in Australia by Warwick Smith was released today (Thursday) and included 11 recommendations. With Football Federation Australia (FFA) expected to finalise [...]
A-League needs to scrap midweek games
10 Feb 2011Midweek games need to be scrapped from the A-League next season after some disastrous crowds in 2010-11. There have been 30 matches played on either Tuesday or Wednesday nights this season, with the latest attracting just 1,003 fans. Obviously there were a lot of factors that led to the lowest crowd in the A-League history [...]
One World Cup still coming to Australia
9 Dec 2010A group of Australian supporters will stage a pub World Cup on home soil following FIFA’s decision to award the 2022 tournament to Qatar. Australia was knocked out in the first round of voting by FIFA executives in Zurich last Friday (AEST) to decide the World Cup hosts, despite having one of the strongest technical [...]
Base FFA Cup on Champions League
25 Nov 2010Football Federation Australia should base its Cup competition next season on the UEFA Champions League, if it is going to include a group stage. If there is an 11-team A-League next season, that would leave 21 spots for clubs from the state and territories. That could be four each from NSW, Victoria and Queensland. Western [...]
Promotion, relegation system is a pipe-dream
4 Nov 2010There has been a lot of discussion on The Roar about the prospect of Football Federation Australia (FFA) introducing a national second division in the future. One article even debated whether this national second division should be called the B-League or A2-League. But a lot of discussion has overlooked the fact that Australia simply can’t [...]
THE ROAR ON