The A-League must earn its support

Plus one....

Christ, what a stupid article.

Bondy, live on ESPN mate.

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*Sigh*. Another code war bait article. Awesome. Maybe this time we'll have a winner?? Ha!

Punter - I'm often under moderation too. I don't why in particular, as I don't think I've ever been rude or overly aggressive. It mainly happens when there is a code war article.... omg conspiracy! ;) It's true though... haha

Damo your opinions are welcome. However football fans have been bombarded with agendas posing as opinions for many years. At times in your artical its hard to tell the difference. Not acusing you of agendas, however your artical is grey in areas. The afl inparticular have strategy of putting down Football in Australia in many varied forms. The media being one of there vessels. The real strategy of not giving any oxygent to Football is true and real. My aplogies if I have mis-read your artical.

Ben, well picked up, Sherrin, next time I'll post a big tongue in cheek button.

U.K, steve. I haven't seen you on these boards for some time, are you still pretending to live in London whilst watching A.F.L. live.

I take it that Aussie pizza is awful then as we had to employ a German cook and before that a Dutch one.

Damo you lost the reader on two major counts - only immigrants like soccer and - you have never seen an A-League game. No credibility and no real sense at all in what you say. You need to be a bit more broadminded and mature about your football appreciation before you get our support..

S.B..F I've just been reading the threads and have got too pull you up, you suggest Aussie Rules is pioneerring the way in sport, you've just introduced new concussion laws were in which the club doctor doesn't know when a player is or isn't concussed. Shouldn't that club doctor be then Psychiatrially assessed. Think about it.

How affectionate of the article writer to point out that he had a soft spot for the North Queensland Fury all season though also suggest's he's never watched an A League game (though ironically he has relatives in a town were an A League club was about to fold) brilliant. I have a more pressing question why does Football taunt the Aussie Rules supporter like no other sport does?. Does the author of this article really care about the overall geographical impact of the N.R.L or Super Rugby No ,but why wouldn't he? Football is a sport were it's one of the first connection's with Parents to a sport with their children and we don't bribe them with the fake auskick gear thats what taunts the aussie rules supporter, i often think that were ever one sport is in Australia and for ever how popular that individual sport is in that region you''ll also find a pair of Football goals in that City or Town. I remember that great Philosopher Neil Mitchell from 3AW radio, on the eve of the annoucement of the World Cup on the Sunrise programme proclaiming ( his democratic right) that Soccer is not for us ,it's not in the core fibre of all Australian's thats why we shouldn't host the World Cup, he then went on to explain that his, i assume two or more of his children played the sport well into their late teens. Weird ( taunted soul ) I look at this article more as the author taunting himself rather than a roast. It's 3-0 too the Toffees agains the Wolves 15 too go.

Who said anything about being "better"? But, I applaud your example of "rice" - which may often the most basic food to keep people from starving. Perhaps, we could even say Reis ist unser leben :-)

You could live on rice, can you live on vegemite?

Rice has global reach - does that make it better than vegemite?

"But I don’t understand the concept of this article, it’s called “The A-League must earn it’s support” which is a somewhat encouraging title, and then all you write about is as if you speak for the whole of Australia in saying that we don’t have to like it just because of the rest of the world does." I believe what he's getting at is that people assume if you like EPL or any international league, you have to like A-League. I agree with the article, despite being an A-League fan. In my high school, it was either you follow football, or you don't matter. Even to most of the teachers. We were nothing if not a typical Catholic school. As for the article being degrading, I'll admit, bits were a little... Off, I suppose you could say, but the point remains that in certain parts of this country, if you don't support A-League, there's something wrong with you. In those same circles, being female and knowing anything about sport (other than netball) made you a lesbian. And actually supporting a local footy team (like my beloved Centrals) made you less than dirt. Maybe it's not just the anglo's that need to think about how they treat other leagues.

@Kasey Yes, it's definitely something I've noticed - people, who do not follow Football or the A-League always want to offer their opinions, advice and analysis. Which is strange - when I'm ignorant about a subject, I will read, listen and try to learn from those, who have expertise, rather than lecture them on the subject .... based on any scant information I may have picked up from Wikipedia! Now, I've never visited a Golf Forum (and, I've never swung a golf club ... even in anger!), but I cannot imagine anyone, who has not got a good grounding in Golf (understand the laws, the history, the culture & the techniques), ever having the temerity to go onto a Golf forum to offer their ignorant opinions to those, who do have deep knowledge and experience in Golf. Yet, time and again, this happens on any Football forum. I guess it's just another sign of the massive change to the sporting landscape in Australia - 20-30 years ago, non-football people wouldn't have even been able to name more than a handful of English football teams and English football players.

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I'll support the A-League if you immediately return the live Bundesliga matches instead of Surf Lifesaving.