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Gosh, they’re all coming out of the woodwork to write something about the terrible FIFA and their horrible World Cup.
You guys just stick with the cricket and MeIbourne RuIes.
The FIFA World CUp, love it or hate it, is the biggest sporting event on the planet. Its even bigger than the MeIbourne RuIes grand final. Can you believe it.
The 48-team FIFA World Cup will be a good thing
Well done Adelina
At the halfway point Adelaide United turn their season around and make a mad dash for the finals.
Where have we seen that before.
Adelaide United vs Melbourne City: A-League live scores, blog, highlights
I think Mister “Football” and his associates take that honour.
Is it ever okay to stop supporting your team?
Depends what you mean by “support your team” Mike.
Attendances aren’t the only measure of a team’s support and its human nature for attendances to increase when your team is winning and attendances fall when they are not doing so well.
Look at the number of memberships versus attendances each week in the A-League. Club revenues are a lot more than home game attendance X avge ticket price.
The A-League has over 100K fully paid up members, Wanderers have nearly 19K members and avge attendance of about 13K, if you exclude the record breaking derby.
Is it ever okay to stop supporting your team?
If you take out the best attendances from your figures, the average attendance would be less of course, as it would be for any sporting code.
What is that supposed to prove?
Is it ever okay to stop supporting your team?
Yes, how quickly we forget they are the current Australasian football club champions and the flagship of Australian football clubs in Asia in 2017.
We wish them well.
The Boxing Day massacre was the reality check Adelaide United needed
In many ways 2016 was the most interesting and noteworthy year ever on this planet, in various aspects of life, not just sport as you point out.
The real analysis now begins of what we have learnt from it and what actions we can take from so much that has happened before our eyes.
I am quietly optimistic in 2017, but if the trends continue without correction, this could only help to galvanise some of the less desirable sections of our society and lead to more local and global conflicts.
Peace, love and true happiness to all in 2017.
2016, sport's most surprising year
I like it.
The Australian Elvis League – the AEL
“Well its one for the money, two for the show . . . ”
Its all about the money, stupid.
What the A-League can learn from other sports
When you consider Foxtel and Rupert Murdoch had the FFA over a barrel and they were the only bidder for the Pay TV rights for the A-League, to get an 80% increase over 6 years over the previous deal, its absolutely fabulous.
The 6 years is not an issue and is in fact a big positive, because it shows the faith Foxtel have in the A-League and how much money they are making out of it.
The new A-League broadcast deal is good for all of us
I think this is a very good deal for football in the current economic climate and the very competitive Australian Sports market.
There are a lot of positives to come out of it and lets not forget its only the Pay TV rights, which is already nearly $60M a year.
When the other components are negotiated the FFA are expecting double the previous amount which takes it to the $80M a year mark and what the FFA were hoping for.
That means Fox sports have committed to broadcasting the A-League for nearly 19 years since its inception in 2005. That’s fantastic for a domestic football competition like the A-League.
I’m glad that it has now been decided and Foxtel continue to showcase the A-League.
Its laid the foundations for further growth and more exciting A-League competitions that we can all watch from the comfort of our own lounge rooms or the excitement of being at the game.
Well done to all concerned. Fantastic result.
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FFA announces bumper six-year, $346 million A-League broadcast deal
If those figures are to believed, then its very disappointing from FFA’s point of view.
Obviously based on advertising revenues and when football doesn’t show ads during live play it does cost them.
Compared to that other sport that tries to call itself football, has 100 goals a game and an ad break at every opportunity.
They even have their own brand of peanut butter and chips.
As a hater of ads, I know which sport I’d rather watch.
Those figures are only for A-League pay TV and one FTA game and don’t include FFA Cup and Footballroos games.
Channel nine paid a lot of money to show the Footballroos WC Qualifiers for one year. It also doesn’t include digital content for online streaming etc. and international broadcast rights, with the A-League shown in over 100 countries around the world.
Also if the A-League expands during that period there would have to be a clause for additional revenues for the additional teams, you would think.
Anyway, lets wait and see. It will be somewhere between $40M and $100M a year for sure.
A-League blockbusters on the way for FTA
I bought a Silver Reserve family ticket (2A + 2C) for the SFC v Melb City top of the table clash at ANZ for about $80 and thought that was pretty reasonable value for the most expensive city in the world, based on per capita income.
Have A-League clubs got ticket prices right?
“The Manchester United of the A-League . . . ”
He wants Sydney FC to make a huge loss, buy the most expensive, arrogant and lazy players in the world and miss out on the finals again and not win any trophies?
I want to turn Sydney FC into Man U: Arnie
Looking forward to this MeIbourne derby, both teams very evenly matched, could go either way, so I’m tipping a draw.
Referees will be closely watched, clamping down on cheating, simulation and foul play so expect a few bookings and a couple of red cards. Either way, certainly will be entertaining.
Should be another sold out game at AAMI park.
Kevin Muscat has a week to sort his defence out
From Tom Wills Biography:
” . . . To ensure the supremacy of the MeIbourne RuIes of Rugby, the first-club level competition in Australia, the Caledonian Society’s Challenge Cup (1861–64), stipulated that only the MeIbourne RuIes of Rugby were to be used. This law was reinforced by the Athletic Sports Committee (ASC), which ran a variation of the Challenge Cup in 1865–66. . . “
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No, you surely won’t hear the AFL or any Clubs referring to the game as MeIbourne RuIes, but that’s what it was called. MeIbourne RuIes of Association Rugby.
Tom Wills went to Rugby school, excelled at Association Rugby, they had the same Rugby shaped ball and the same H goal posts as Association Rugby.
North Melbourne record another profit
Another very good thought provoking article Mike.
The biggest impact on A-League attendances and ratings in the last ten years has been the “derby effect”.
I think we should be creating more derbies in the A-League and that will generate the most interest.
Sorry, but forget Tasmania, forget Canberra, add another team in either Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth or Adelaide.
Expansion of the A-League is a must - but only if it's done right
OK. So, let get this straight. You want me to believe MeIbourne RuIes is based on a mix of football and aborigines kicking around a stuffed possum held together by kangaroo scrotums.
Yet you won’t believe the relevant facts about the origins of MeIbourne RuIes.
Namely that:
Tom Wills went to Rugby School in England and was the captain of the team and played rugby
MeIbourne RuIes was played with a rugby ball
MeIbourne RuIes started off with “H” shaped goal posts with a crossbar, like rugby posts.
etc
etc
So Who is trying to fool Whom.
Remind me again.
The football founders' Australian legacy lives on
Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha
I laughed so hard my football nearly dropped off!
LoL.
The football founders' Australian legacy lives on
Most of the controversial decisions have involved the linesman too.
I used to referee my kids team and copped a lot of kicks to the shin, so I sympathise with these guys.
They are only human.
I’m just enjoying the football and take every decision as it comes.
No point arguing – the referee won’t hear you.
A-League refereeing 'best ever': A-League boss
I suspect, as usual, that discussing this with you is a waste of time.
No matter what evidence or opinions are put in front of you, you will continue to live in your marngrook, stuffed possum, kangaroo scrotum fantasy romantic world where MeIbourne RuIes is the greatest thing ever invented and will one day take over the universe.
Good night. Pleasant dreams.
The football founders' Australian legacy lives on
Its great to see you have become a spokesman for soccer fans.
Its not what the football fans think.
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I said do some Research.
” . . . [MeIbourne] Rules is actually based on an early form of rugby and formally codified in 1859 . . . “
Why boo Tim Cahill if he only responds by scoring?
I said do some Research.
” . . . [MeIbourne] Rules is actually based on an early form of rugby and formally codified in 1859 . . . “
The football founders' Australian legacy lives on
What a superbly crafted goal from Holland and Guardiola and so well taken by the youngster Ochieng.
He will remember that winning goal for the rest of his life and didn’t the fans and players enjoy it.
Great stuff.
Adelaide United vs Melbourne City: A-League live scores, blog, highlights