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Humble pie is never easy to swallow, but you have taken to it with the gusto of a starving glutton. Thank you Mike for continuing to tell it as a mature football nation’s media should.
Mature discussion is the only way to combat the ranters.
Arnie will always have his critics, but this is his moment to savour
Another good piece Stu. The problem at present is desire and determination, the two most integral ingredients for a player to succeed, have no KPIs, they are innate and something only experienced communicators can determine. The textbook coaches we have created in recent times appear not to have a way of measuring these things. There are no drills to measure determination, no videos that show desire.
Cristian Volpato and Josh Nisbet: Does Australian football even know what talent is?
This week has seen two NBL players release from their contracts because of their vaccination status and their resultant inability to traverse state borders. If the league is not granted the same rights as both the NRL & AFL and players are unable to travel, then I have no doubt that clubs will be hesitant to keep them n the books. Travel is part and parcel of the sporting landscape and if a third of your season will be curtailed because of a stance against vaccinations it will be an interesting face off. Does a club simply stand a player down for those games and carry the cost, or do they release them. Interesting times indeed.
Will idiotic anti-vaxxers delay the A-League?
Thanks Mike, my Pa was 16 when he found himself in France in WWI. As kids you never even consider talking to your Grandparents about their lives so I guess it is no wonder that they never got into the habit of talking about it. Because he lived well away from our home I rarely saw him more than once every couple of years so only found out late in his life that he had been fighting his own battle with the DVA about the effect he suffered from Mustard gas. He was only ever interested in to talking to the kids about kid things and sadly as an adult, I was robbed of the chance to talk to him about adult things. It is only now, in later life, that we regret these things. Cheers, Greg
Why Anzac Day will always mean something to me
It was a truly magical night. I love seeing old friends and adversaries reunite at events like this, rekindling past passions and reliving them as if they happened only yesterday. It was the perfect storm with stars of the game mixing it up with mere bit players and all for a good cause. I have not doubt that this will be the first of many to be held around the country over ensuing years and all in the name of such a worthwhile cause. In the past few years after such a tragic run, the survival rate and awareness of heart health issues has turned 180deg with stories of survival, such as those heard on the night, more common than the stories of loss.
The night old soccer came home
Maybe Stuie, just maybe we need to follow the Trump model an create our own media (fake or otherwise) to build numbers and chatter into the accounts of those cemented to OS clubs & leaguers.
Canberra minus cable television equals an invisible A-League
Possibly the most vital point Waz, we need to focus on grabbing the nextgen through social media not relying on a media that never has nor will ever give a damn about us. However, old media is where the money comes from and with the HAL now controlling its own purse strings we must find a way for the game to fund itself and the only truly international program in Australian sport.
Canberra minus cable television equals an invisible A-League
And none of those 6000 seats were GA, half were members and the other half corporates. For an A-League game there are rarely more than 5-700 members except when the blow-ins appear on grand final day. Does my head in, but I always have the best seats in the house, though this season there will be no such thing.
New stadiums alone won't solve attendance woes
The stats back up your opinion Guru.
Mothering the Matildas: The trailblazers who kickstarted Australian women's football
Nice piece Paul. There was a 4-team league playing out of the Bankstown district pre-WWII, which is the earliest I have encountered. Also a game in 1917 in Brisbane pre-LaTrobe between South Girls School & Harlaxton
Mothering the Matildas: The trailblazers who kickstarted Australian women's football
Bang on Texi. However I have figured out the disparity with the numbers and it lies in the number of unsold, or unsaleable, limited vision seats. The entire front row around the ground remained vacant and my best guess is that from those seats the height of the hoardings at pitch side blocks any view of the game. Add to seats behind the benches and my best guess is 3k remain unsaleable. There was also a vacant block, there always is, in the corporate level and surprisingly many empty boxes. Based on this every seat available to the punters, was sold and filled.
Lost in the void: Muted performance in the stands and on the field as Stadium Australia's flaws exposed