Why Jim Magilton has nothing to lose

The Melbourne Victory Football Club needs a revamp and futboll people he's just another supposed big name signing really. This is futbol not a circus,if one of your sole aims is to draw the mainstream media to your club your screwd in this country if you wont attention go and do the macarena with Kerry anne Kenelly . He wont be there next year this bloke London to a Brick on .

Kasey, your outburst confirms the stereotypical South Australians! Always concerning yourself with Melbourne and highlighting everything in what you perceive to be wrong with it. Most of what you point out I simply cannot relate to nor do I think is true. Adelaide is a beautiful city with some very nice beaches, and parks around the CBD. However there is a keen sense of bitterness and hatred for anything Victorian among it's population and I don't mind it because it's normal. Naturally, like anywhere in the world, there is a rivalry with the nearest cities, there is a triangular rivalry between Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide, Meanwhile Sydney are also rivals with Brisbane. There are pro's and cons of everywhere you go. I have no idea what you are on about with London and Birmingham, size has nothing to do with anything and being the biggest is not the best, drawing parallels between Sydney and Melbourne with that I find to be very odd. I'd say a more accurate comparison between Sydney and Melbourne, not in terms of population or size but in the types of cities they are, would be LA and New York. LA is very glamorous and is glitzy, it's obsessed about itself meanwhile New York has it's own distinct culture, and does not pose to be anyone but itself. Anyway, we're both football fans, may Australian football continue it's rise, see you South Australians at Friday's game! There are not many tickets left.

axel, thank you for confirming the SA stereotype of Victorians, always envious that Sydney is the city the world thinks of when they think of Australia, so like the bully they are, they lash out at others, usually Adelaide, Perth or Tasmania. Adelaide is very comfortable with its place in the world, we are not constantly comparing ourselves to Sydney and wondering when the injustice will be reversed and the attention will be focused on us. Sydney is a pretty place, but as someone who has lived there, I can say with experience it is a terribly dysfunctional place and difficult to live in. Ironically the very thing that gives Sydney its beauty, also prevents ease of movement and a functioning transport system. I'm sure Melbourne would get more kudos from other Australians if the citizens of that city weren't so insecure and trying to ram Melbourne's "dominance" down the other cities throats all the time. Just accept that you are Australia's Birmingham to Sydney's London. you'll probably save yourselves a bunch of worry and money trying to keep up with the Jonses. At the very least you'll stop setting your Arts spire on fire when you realize you could set off every piece of EO in the ADF arsenal and the image shown around the world is still going to be the Harbour bridge all lit up at midnight.

Kasey that is fine that foreigners think of Sydney when they think the capital of Australia. I don't see though how being a tourist attraction makes a city better, you live where you live because you want to live there. Also, if you care so much on the opinion of tourists, at least they have heard of Melbourne! But I can't say the same for Adelaide. ;)

Couple of the key figures have moved on.

Lucky win agains Newcastle? Sorry you lost me from that point onwards... I think that the goal Newcastle scored was against the run of play!

Actually, I think you'll find that the majority of the board have actually been around since day one, certainly Di Pietro has, he has just stepped up to Chaiman.

I'm sorry that you view MV fans that way. In my 5 years as a MV fan, arrogance and a sense of entitlement is not something I have noticed amongst the vast majority of fans, and I'm afraid that perhaps a very small minority have tainted overall perceptions. Which is a pity.

Roger, sometimes the way MVC fans carry on, you'd think they thought they were following Reál Madrid not Melbourne Victory. Yes you get the biggest crowds in the league, no that doesn't mean you should automatically have things go your way. That is why so many fans(of the 9 other teams) have enjoyed this season, Mehm's haplessness allowed MVC fans to get a view of the bottom half of the table and we saw them spit the dummy a few times with their increasingly vitriolic tifos directed at the board and their own players. Too bad, learning a bit of humility would have been good for them IMO.

Who said anything about points on the table Kasey? Entitlement? What?

Life would be greatly improved for all Australians if we could somehow prevent all Victorians and all New South Welshmen from talking to each other. <_<

Biggest means nothing if you're not the best.

Melbourne is forever in Sydney's shadow in that whenever a foreigner thinks of Australia, they inevitably think of things in Sydney, Bridge, Opera House, Bondi Beach etc. The only notable exception are poms who have been reared on a diet of Neighbours. They might think of Melbourne first, but I still venture that most foreigners would be able to name Sydney and not much beyond that in terms of cities in Australia. Melbourne has never quite got its ego around being #2 in that regard. That's why they give themselves ludicrous titles like 'Sporting capital of the universe' ('...of Australia' most would agree), but Melbourne sometimes takes the hyperbole a step too far) and they are forever bringing up those surveys on world's most livable city in a vain attempt to validate themselves....like the nerd at high school trying to use his grades to impress the cool kids.

In what respect is Melbourne in Sydney's shadow? Sydney has a beautiful harbour, and an opera house. I'll give it that. As for the bridge, while it's symbolic in Australia it's just a typical standard early 20th century bridge. There are many thousands of these bridges all over Europe and USA. Look familiar? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jfbrug.JPG http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Nijmegen3.jpg They're two different cities, with their own identities.

Great sporting city, but as a city always in Sydney's shadow.

@Kasey "Its not the best league in the world nor is it ever likely to be, but by God its our league and there are some of us that care deeply for it and the clubs in it." This is something that really resonates with me in the short time of the HAL. Some few years ago I would watch many live EPL games on the weekend, tape a few and watch at leisure. Now, I don't get too excited apart from some massive clashes. What I wait for is the next HAL round and reading write-ups on HEART and getting prepared to make the treck to AAMI, or ETIHAD if we have to face that other team. The only parallel I have is the good old days of following the Doggies (AFL) closely and sweating on every game and hoping we turned around a loss on the replay (yeah pretty bloody sad!). So it's the HAL first and foremost.

Nathan, thanks for explaining that banner..I've seen it around the traps and I wondered what it meant...top notch terrace humour:) Look, its easy to take pot shots at GCU, and an argument can be made that the health of a competition is only as strong as its weakest link....but the numbers show that the vast majority of teams in the A-League are improving their home gates and, the numbers from head office indicate that the TV ratings are also significantly up on last year. This season has been an important season of consolidation and proof that if the head office keeps its eye on the ball, that the league can do good things. Its not the best league in the world nor is it ever likely to be, but by God its our league and there are some of us that care deeply for it and the clubs in it. That's not a bad level of connection in only 7 years. One wonders how much we'll have progressed by the time we celebrate 10 years of HAL football and invite Asia's best nations to our shores for the 2015 Asian Cup?

Definitely unlucky, QSAF, I enjoyed watching Gold Coast on the attack. I remember when GCU came over earlier in the season three supporters happened to come to the Glory supporters pre-game that I was at, we sang 'Whats it like to see a crowd' at them and they happened to have a banner which they unfurled that said "Yes, Very Nice Thank You". I've had a good opinion of Gold Coast supporters since then.

GCU fans were protesting with silence and then broke out to support the team. Really drove home the point . Crowd was 2080 odd but another home ground lock out of Bay 30 for the Beach for the next home game to come.. But the game was real cracker GCU should have won the match hitting the woodwork 3 times. Wretched luck. btw the MV player mutiny report (rumour) came from the Fox team.

Big crowds don't equal point on the table. They only breed arrogance and an overdeveloped sense of entitlement it seems.