Bos man: Socceroo breaks Australia's record transfer fee

You’re right. I have given that advice previously and need to follow it myself.

Nope! Rugby and basketball are both great games, but also don’t draw big crowds. Why? If they knew, just like football, they’d solve it today! And basketball, like football is competing well in world competitions. Rugby will again. If he was serious about football he wouldn’t just ask the same question and he’d appear in other football articles. As I said before his “advice” is usually a backhanded swipe at the A Leagues. He’s a football troll and he annoys me greatly.

And the AFL's grand announcement of a team in Tasmania, housed in a brand new stadium funded by money stolen from those elements in society that are living in cars, can't afford to feed their kids, is receiving more resistance than a Russian in Ukraine. Difference is that football has the time and numbers to expand. There's nothing left for Cross-Country volleyball and I would suggest that with the decline in baby boomers and Gen X'ers there will be a decline in AFL popularity as kids that grew up with the A-League become ticket purchasing A-League adults. The rise of football is only in its infancy my friend and will see that with the Women's world cup.

It's harmless if correctly ignored. Besides, I'm generally in favour of letting people make fools of themselves, within reason of course, rather than giving them the satisfaction of being 'cancelled.'

the key is a number of cities. We've focused on Sydney/Melbourne largely. The rest don't matter much. Sadly, it's not a business sense but nothing less than parochialism that has driven us.

I dont understand why the editors dont ban him for all those reasons

From what I've seen, it's argumentative and sometimes unpleasant wherever it goes - bit of an attention-seeker, enjoys provoking people, has no real interest in the issues beyond its own momentary titillation. Given it clearly has no interest in a good-faith discussion, I don't understand why folk keep feeding it. Don't feed the trollops!

FIL and Grem do you think the dimwit goes on the Rugby tabs and pesters them with his "poor crowds, abysmal ratings" ...look at us in AFL" diatribe?

Para I have another post that will hopefully come up soon... But if you go to youtube and type. MLS must see goals april 2023, Hopefully a vid will come up just over 8 minutes long... Its over about 52 games... have a look to see the quality and if you have been watching a while the improved quality ...

That kinda ignores the mega amount of work done by the MLS.... I don't want to get into a debate pertaining to the success or otherwise of the US getting WC or not.... up until maybe 15 years ago the US cared SFA about Football... What I can say is MLS has been building and building and building and all the issues people highlight i.e. the retirement league etc they are fully aware of.... the starting point for Football in the US is totally different to most of the rest of the world... Football was largely mocked, the negativity in the US made the AFL Australian look like they supported Football... their was near zero money and and at one stage one owner owned 7 of the then 10 team competition... The MLS or their clubs put a lot of funding into their local areas... MLS roughly 5 to 7 years ago went looking for players from South America and Mexico with nowhere near as many retirement type players anymore... The MLS don't have P & R, and don't plan to they are very open about that and they are very open about why ... I have never suggested we follow their model, however their decision making models and structures we could learn a lot from... Just on fans this is a 30 second vid about Atlanta fans at a match 72K at the game and over the last say I think 5 or 6 years not counting the covid years average about 50K... just link the two lines together https://www. youtube.com/watch?v=bSgvF8Q7PSc&ab_channel=AlexMcGriff Whether we like it or not MLS is rapidly improving competition from a technical aspect ... starting to get some big revenues and expected to pass baseball sometime between 2030 & 2033 to become the number three code in the US... To suggest DT and APL are in this same solar system as the MLS management is wrong... but that we can't learn from the MLS is simply wrong.

This just reinforces why I reckon this website is a great place for football conversations. You just never know what somebody throws up and how people respond. Thanks for the history lesson :happy: :thumbup:

Mid - you didn't mention the US has or will have had 4 FIFA world cups by 2026. Two men's and two women's World Cups. Or was there more? This played a big part in the success of the MLS and US women's football. Australia needs to step up in the FIFA WC stakes, starting with the Women's WC in Australia. A men's WC would catapult the game in Australia as it has in the US. A true Football legacy is what is required here in Australia.

Crowds are down significantly from their peak. TV ratings are abysmal. The administration seems to be out of touch with the fans (e.g the GF decision). The “consistent movement of young talent overseas” is actually a bad thing from the A League’s point of view. Great for the Socceroos of course, but a real problem for the A League. Yeah, I think the A League has gone backwards compared to a few years ago (I’m ignoring the pandemic period of course).

but is the A-League really struggling considering the considerable increase in crowds, the pending 2nd Div and expansion and the consistent movement of young Australian talent overseas? Is it struggling only in the eyes of the backyard sport supporters? Is it perceived to be struggling because Rupert "the antiquity" Murdoch says it's struggling? Is it perceived to be struggling because it's the subject of media collaboration to lock it out and not be seen on commercial media alongside intellectually stimulating programs like MAFS and the Batchelor?

no its inept management and the over reliance on broadcast revenue and thus being held by golden chains to broadcasters wants and needs when your in no position to push for what you want... I highlight this again... MLS last year with 28 teams media deal 65 million total revenue 1.85 billion ... broadcast revenue 3.6% of total revenue... this season 29 teams, 300 million media deal expected revenue 2.3 billion ... meaning broadcast revenue up to 13%... but still only 13%... This is part of the skill the MLS management has...

you realise why the Romans built that wall don't you. The Romans were masters of structured warfare. They had never encountered guerilla warfare of an sort. The Picts were masters of the later, and the Romans had no counter to the hit and run tactics of the Picts. The Romans were losing men left right and centre. The legionaires would venture into the forest and never been seen again. Silent death. They built the wall with the view that if you jumped the wall, good luck to you, your going to be dead shortly. The Scots are frugal, and they don't accept rubbish. Tommy is a good option for any SPL Team and alternatively which SPL team would not be interested in Tilio when trying to counter Ange's Japanese hit squad.

agree and some of the plans they have in place all of which have long time lines are IMO beyond impressive... I can highlight some if you like...

My guess is it’s arrogance.

Yep, it’s very impressive stuff. I can’t believe the A League administration isn’t all over them trying to work out what they can learn from the MLS and apply here.

Keeping Hadrian's Wall clean and in top top condition :laughing: