Ahahaha you’re joking right? All your brexit players arr rubbish, they’re the reason your team is average

lol break out player of the year (hes almost 22 years old? in what category? height? lol hes a
glorified water carrier. He wouldn’t even make the top best young players in the league

tassie is ripe for the picking from a football point of view. I would not be surpised if the FA is using
westerns games there to guage what sort of crowds they get before looking at getting tasmania im the
comp. There is no AFL/Rugby teams that play there, im not sure if theres basketball/cricket played there,
but tasmania is virtually untouched.

canberra should’ve been the other club in this league from day 1, they have too much of a rich
football history to not be in the league

If theres something you disagree with what i wrote, (which you probably did because you commented) thats
fine; you’re allowed to disagree. We’re on a forum, and the thing is, i’ve never ran away from any
comment (even the most blatantly obvious troll comments aimed at me from the east coast mafia recently).
I’ll still give a retort

I look down this thread and i see people agreeing with what i wrote. I didnt say anything remoteley
extreme or far out there. I think the longball brisbane thing has really got alot of posters on here
shook, not all teams can play attractive football; thats not an insult in the slight. Different
horses for different courses as they say

Lol, some of you guys on here are funny.

You honestly disagree with what I wrote? Which bit?
It can’t be the first part, because another VIC/NSW is not what the league needed.
It can’t be the 2nd part about the 2 most over rated coaches in Australia, because they have been talked up non stop for years by the media/public and won diddly squat. A couple of NPL titles, nothing too major. There are lower qualified coaches in Australia then these 2 that have coached more successful teams. (my current coach and Australia’s highest domestic goal scorer, Adelaide legend Damien Mori has won more and still haven’t been offered a long overdue a league head coaching role yet)
Maybe you disagree with what I said about there playing styles, because you’re a roar fan and seem to think long ball football is actually entertaining lol. Macarthur are horrible to watch, that is a team that makes you fall asleep. Western tactical foul too much to have any flow to their game, yes, they score goals; but they’re not a team to watch because of how they are coached.
You surely can’t disagree about this imaginary stadium western are building? Have they started it yet? What’s the delay now? All promises have been broken. They may as well move to Tasmania (since they’re going to be playing games there) and re brand and become the Tasmanian team the league needs
No way you disagree with my view of gentrification for Campbelltown?, yes it’s very multi-cultural but it’s also a very poor area and was a bad choice even with the covid times to have a team staged there. I have no doubt the area will boom in the next several years, that’s maybe when they should’ve looked at a team there.

Another Victorian & NSW team were not needed in the league, this is why you dont allow
your broadcaster any say in where any new teams are based.

Both teams are coached by 2 of the most pretenious over rated coaches australia has ever produced.
One is an extremely arrogant lout and the other has the personality of a door knob.

Macarthurs style is an absolute languid snoozefest and although western score goals, there constant
tactical fouling make them hard to watch. Neither team will be gaining many new fans with how they
play.

The fact western haven’t got a permanent ‘home base’ is almost as much of a concern as the mythical
imaginary stadium they’re meant to be building. Macarthur on the other hand might’ve been ok to enter
the league in several years time when the gentrification of campbelltown is complete, awful
choice/location for a new team to enter (especially in these covid times)

thank you foxtel & old regime for these 2 wonderful parting gifts

Id be more concerned from a wider a league view about the fact your chairman (who might i add is the
most powerful chairman in the league) didn’t make any form of statement in relation to the racial abuse
of a potential future African Australian socceroo. Surely a chairman of that stature wouldn’t miss the
opportunity to have his ‘respected’ voice heard and the amount of PR acclaim that egotistical eastern
staters love; on the sensitive racial issues that are effecting the a league, right? Especially when it
would also be a shot at a rival elite club (victory) what did we hear?….. crickets. Barlow could’ve
set an example here and did nothing!

I appreciate the attempt at a troll, you must be a little disappointed to only have 2 likes on it; (we
all know the ego you Sydney siders have.) You should probably want to get your own house in order; which
hasn’t had any African Australian players play first team football in years and a coach that’s well known
to prefer a certain skin color rather than others in players he recruits/plays.

Being the biggest club in the league (some could argue Melbourne) you had a chance to say something
about the issue, but you didn’t. Given your club culture; is it really a surprise nothing was said?

best to keep flying under the radar Franko, I’ve talked us up enough this year and people still don’t give any form of credit. They can’t get past the east coast

how is longball football “nice”? we’re in the entertainment business people, Brisbane roar and their fans don’t seem to realize this still lol

massively over achieving, its not a matter of if; but when they fall from there lofty heights.
That squad should not be in first place, on paper that is one of the worst squads in the league. Still
managed by the same coach that took them to rock bottom last season. There is no one that tipped them to
finish higher than 11th this season (newcastle were obviously favourite to finish bottom because of
there off season). How they are where they are, makes absolutely no sense.

The east coast bias with scheduling definitely has helped them with the majority of games in nsw
Travelling consistently interstate will be there undoing.

you wont see highlights from other matches due to the east coast bias

most consistent team of the past several weeks is the team in 2nd place with the longest
winning streak currently and averaging nearly 3 goals a game (including away matches)

There’s a team that has a longer winning streak then city in the a league currently, and this team has
scored more goals than the glory in the past 5 games (almost 3 goals a game including away matches). A
certain team that is still flying under the radar and gets zero credit from the east coast mafia that
runs the league. This team is not even playing there strongest first XI because of injuries currently
as well!

can we keep this banter up all season Huddo? we’ve got a game in hand and soon to be even closer to you after we win that

2 goal keeping blunders and DWH out jumping a 6’2 elsey, 3 things that definitely wont happen
next time you play us which i believe is a home match as well. You’ll be flying back to
brisbane after that match with no points and no goals scored either. I’ll make sure that charlatan of a
player, Calettis on the flight home as well free of charge.

its ok Lionheart not all teams can play attractive free flowing football with amazing youth
and score as many goals as they concede and actually entertain both sets of fans. Some teams
unfortunately have to play english lower league level long ball football. (Its what happens when you have
british coaching and british players in your team) Its exactly the same bland of football as last year,
which made Brisbane one of the worst teams to watch.

If only you could go back to those ange days of the best football in the league. Id be more worried
who your coach will be next year, because after you miss the finals this season (which you will) Moons
name will be on the chopping block; especially if he personally wanted the players that arrived this
year and not your management

I didnt say it to rile up brisbane fans either; i look at that squad and dont see who is going to score
the goals. Macdonalds another year older and i dont think DWH works in the long ball system
brisbane play. Joey C, Mebrahtu, kudo & danzaki have all been busts. Luckily at the other end of the
pitch its very measly.

Theres a few teams on paper that you look at and wonder where the goals will come from. Newcastle,
Wellington, Central Coast (are surprising everyone especially with the amount of points and goals theyve
scored, i still dont rate them and think theyre overachieving in both categories) & Macarthur.

Mauk is one of the best midfielders in this competition, he always has been and always will be. He gets goals, assists, fouls against him, travels all over the pitch etc. He had a bad time in brisbane due to the style they were playing

yes 100% is the answer, i have no idea how were people predicting that team to get in the 6? there is no
goals in that team and the fans cant even get excited because they play lower league long ball. They were
lucky to face teams who were not in any sort of form at the start of season.

I seem to have been one of the only posters who said they would comfortably miss the 6. I had them
penciled in somewhere between position 8-12 at the start of the season (check my post history to find
my predictions)

Celebration was harmless (it was an arrogant connor mcgregor or wwe vince mcmahon strut) Kissing the badge in front of that mob would be a lot worse
I was at the match; he was racially abused! Reports were made to the police by supporters in the away end after that goal. (I know the different between someone coughing and an aminol chant) Besides that, we were threated when we get out the stadium by groups of victory fans (harmless banter they might say, but when someone says we’ll see you outside is it that harmless?)
Most of us made our way out the stadium (under the watchful eye of police) after the players came over and then we got into waiting taxis or lifts and were on our merry way for the evening
You don’t understand the rivalry between SA & Vic, how passionate it always is. In my younger days the brawls marching down manton street In Adelaide and being spat at and bottles thrown in Melbourne. Its sad that racial abuse has now come into it, especially with victory having a lot of African Australian players in their team

you’ve made me take the bait, so lets do this.

Jakobsen and Isaias dirty? ahahah i always find eastern staters views on other teams hilarious, because
you’re so far from the truth

Jakobsen’s (and formerly, Isaias) been in this league for how many years now? how many cards did either
player get over the course of thier tenure/s in the league? (i think Jakos only picked up 1 yellow card
this year so far) compared to your oaf simon who’s already got several this season.

You can think what you want about Mauk, but he is without a doubt the a leagues most in form midfielder
with multiple goals and assists as well as being one of the most fouled players in the league.

i’ve heard it all now, “some of his touches have been reminiscent of Dennis Bergkamp”.
You’re honestly going to put bergkamp and simon in the same sentence hahahahahhaha

this is going to start a bigger debate in terms of grassroots football at what age is too young
to teach boys and girls technical skills? I can only use the example of Adelaide as im not
too familiar with other clubs clinics.

In the past few years most of the major clinics were run by cassio, cristiano, marcos flores & marcelo
carusca. Locally, my own club who is coached by Damian Mori (who i am shocked has not been given an a
league coaching position due to his success as a player as well as coach of Adelaide city) has
completely overhauled the coaching structure throughout all age groups to be super attacking.

Australia absolutely struggled against Thailand in that match, the powers that be in this country need
to think fast before its too late. While im on grassroots level, kids being charged $1000 a season to
play club football is an absolute travesty.

anyways back on topic, Simon is rubbish but a great club man yada yada yada lol

Vieri had technical ability, simon does not

He is a great club man and loyal servant, however that doesnt take away from the fact he’s an
archaic player who the a league refs have given far too much leniency over the years to; with his
awful tacking and leg/arms everywhere approach. He makes up for his lack of skill with his over
physicallity which would go well in the english lower leagues.
There is no way he should have been a starter for this long, it just goes to show you that kids with
more technical skills in the forward line have been overlooked for this type of thuggery. The sooner
australian footballs moves away from players of this type of ilk and more towards technically skilled
forwards, the better our football will become.
Countries like thailand, vietnam, saudi arabia etc are playing with more skilled technical attackers in
thier youth teams (which is a massive concern). Australia needs to be very careful because the money
has stagnated in football for out national teams. While vietnam/thailand have been pumping money
into there’s in recent years. In the next 10 years alot of the smaller asian countries will start
catching up to Australia

1? You mean 2 don’t you?