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Unfortunately I agree with your last paragraph, even though I very much wish I didn’t.
I’m sure not alone in feeling that the football has fallen in standard. I have kept the TV sub I have had since season 1, but I find I am watching far fewer games.
Football will never get anywhere in Australia until it presents a united front
USBs as part of the package?
Football will never get anywhere in Australia until it presents a united front
Is this a serious comment?
Football will never get anywhere in Australia until it presents a united front
Vidmar is a mistake. He’s been in management for a long time and gone exactly nowhere. I expect him to have a one season.
You can stick your uncompetitive EPL, Bundesliga and Serie A - this year's A-League is far more entertaining
City were lucky to hold on. In the last 20 minutes they were were completely outplayed by a Japanese second division side. I guarantee that if City make it out of the group, they will go out in the first knock out round.
You can stick your uncompetitive EPL, Bundesliga and Serie A - this year's A-League is far more entertaining
But my argument is that perception and performance are linked. The salary cap is a key factor in determining performance and therefore perceptions. Performance or lack thereof necessarily limits the potential of marketing land promotion.
The ACL is an annual reminder for many that our League is substandard. This is a salary cap issue.
I’m not sure how the logic can be disputed.
You can stick your uncompetitive EPL, Bundesliga and Serie A - this year's A-League is far more entertaining
15 and 9 years ago respectively.
Because in large part other Leagues have increased spending and the cap has actually gone backwards here.
This website is an atrocity. Are other users having issues?
You can stick your uncompetitive EPL, Bundesliga and Serie A - this year's A-League is far more entertaining
Do they, though? Look at the crowds and ratings. They indicate otherwise.
ACL results indicate otherwise too.
Part of the A Leagues problem is that it is widely perceived as substandard, a view reinforced by the fact our clubs can’t compete in our region.
I would argue that the salary cap, along with the intractable stadium issue, is the A Leagues biggest problem.
You can stick your uncompetitive EPL, Bundesliga and Serie A - this year's A-League is far more entertaining
The elephant in the room, of course, is the question of why attendances are again down from last season. Let’s face it, 28000 for the the Sydney derby was awful if we look at historical figures for the fixture.
Sure, talk up the competition but only the artificial up tick after Covid has broken a decade of falling attendances and ratings.
Things are not fine and they are growing worse. Why the problem exists and what do about it are the urgent questions that need to be addressed.
You can stick your uncompetitive EPL, Bundesliga and Serie A - this year's A-League is far more entertaining
Waz, it is very, very difficult to imagine a situation where there is a valid bid for the next tv rights.
Unless a miracle appears, there is a reckoning coming and it’s not going to be pretty.
There is only ever one 'must-see' fixture in the A-League Men each week
I think there was just as much rejoicing at Fox… But to be fair, I didn’t see anyone who thought Paramount was anywhere near the desired option.
There is only ever one 'must-see' fixture in the A-League Men each week
I’ve followed the A League from game 1, attended matches when I could and have had a TV sub every season.
But I’m struggling now. Because of distance, I can’t get to games so it’s TV and I have access to the Epl, ECL la liga, serie A and the Bundesliga. I have limited time and limited capacity for football. So I what do I watch? A League in empty stadiums, often in ridiculous heat that kills the game, or the world’s best players in packed, roaring stadiums? The television experience is chalk and cheese. This is serious competition. No other code has this issue in Australia. So why, when the model has been failing for a decade, have we not seen meaningful change? There is a complete leadership vaccum. Waz and others have been ringing alarm bells for years about the lack of vision and still nothing is in evidence.
At some point we gave to accept that the summer football is failed model, due to entirely to the kick-off times demanded by television. So ironic that the goose that lays the now pewter eggs is crushing the competition beneath the weight of its counter-productive demands. Numbers have reached a point now where surely winter football must be considered. Or the network can see the light, figuratively speaking, and allow all games to played under lights after sunset, which was the originating principle of summer football, now apparently forgotten.
There is only ever one 'must-see' fixture in the A-League Men each week
It is a cycle and has been in evidence for close to a decade now. At some point the model will break.
There is only ever one 'must-see' fixture in the A-League Men each week
Buddy, good point on the lack of geographical differentiation in Melbourne. I’m up north and the Gold Coast/Brisbane rivalry had pepper from the outset. If GCU had survived, it would could have built into something memorable. What a shame.
There is only ever one 'must-see' fixture in the A-League Men each week
The old FFA was a disaster on all levels. Frank Lowy is a remarkable man but Australian football defeated him. Having said that, his poor choices of CEOs have contributed to the current situation, and arguably the turning point downward for the A League was his misconceived tilt at the World Cup windmill.
There is only ever one 'must-see' fixture in the A-League Men each week
And so we come back to continuing decline of the A League.
This is a timely and hard hitting article, Mike. Good on you for calling a spade a spade. Attendances are 4‰ down on last season already.
The optics are important. Turn on any A League game and you are confronted with an ocean of empty seats. Only Hindmarsh was more than 35% full this weekend.
How do you sell this competition to them casual fan? Answer – you can’t.
I don’t agree with you, however, on Melbourne City. What more can you do than build a consistent champion team? In my view the failure of Melbourne City to find supporters is indicative of the failure of the A League to gain any real cultural traction in this country.
More than any other factor, the failure to play out of appropriately sized football specific stadiums has undermined the competition. This in turn is part of the crippling undercapitalisation of the competition from the outset.
The next tv deal will be the crisis point. Who will bid, and what will they bid is going to be very interesting. The competition is far, far from an attractive commercial prospect.
There is only ever one 'must-see' fixture in the A-League Men each week
This article aged well.
Managers with point to prove as City take on fellow strugglers Sydney
OK well it is was inevitable, but must confess to being surprised by the speed of this. I assumed he would have leeway of 6 games or so.
Tho there was definitely the feeling on the weekend that he had lost the players, which would explain the haste.
First A-League coach axed after just two rounds: City give Vidosic his marching orders after six-goal shellacking
Agree 100 %. Watching the game , it was like watching Brisbane on the slide under JA.
I was astonished when he was got another head coach position after failing very publicly at 2 previous A League clubs.
He really has no more rope now. Even that penalty has its use by date.
A-League Round 2 talking points: Super Sunday, five-star Wanderers, Corica feeling the heat
Good to see Victory with their mojo back. There is no doubt that the A League benefits hugely from a firing Melbourne Victory.
On Sydney, it isn’t just Corica. The culture and football that goes with it is stale and needs renewal. Corica, unfortunately for him, is central to the problem. For that reason alone, he has to be moved on.
He needs the change too. He needs to go somewhere where he can build a winning team instead of inheriting one.
A-League Round 2 talking points: Super Sunday, five-star Wanderers, Corica feeling the heat
And plaudits to Carl Veart. Under him United are a veritable talent factory.
And such fun to watch.
A-League Round 2 talking points: Super Sunday, five-star Wanderers, Corica feeling the heat
What an amazing crop of young players the competition has on display this season. Let’s hope they bring some of the lost supporters back.
A-League Round 2 talking points: Super Sunday, five-star Wanderers, Corica feeling the heat
Brisbane Roar supporters with a medium term memory will see history repeating itself with Rado.
A-League Round 2 talking points: Super Sunday, five-star Wanderers, Corica feeling the heat
The Covid years are irrelevant.
The only valid comparison is that pre Covid.
The A-League's 'family-friendly' kick-off times are keeping fans away
On your last paragraph, I’ve seen no evidence of that apart from the usual suspects. Crowds are down, ratings are beyond poor. The only reason for some flicker of optimism is the fact that an Auckland club has a seriously credentialed backer. He must see something that I don’t, because on the basis of the ratings, another TV deal is almost impossible to see.
Chaos in Campbelltown, lingering lightning, Suncorp's shameful surface