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Newcastle has the knights/ jets stadium upgraded by state government not to long ago
The no 2 Newcastle sports ground used for women’s jets and Maitland sports ground are fantastic new top class regional facilities . The jets train at Maitland .
Pretty sure the state government built the knights a centre of excellence which the nrl should pay for.
I’m sure Maitland would love Arnold and the Roos to adopt it as the home of the Socceroos. The wallabies adopted Coffs Harbour at their most successful time, so why not .
Football in Australia must never stop fighting for its fair share of funding
Brett
Quite the opposite in Newcastle and the Hunter where rugby league doesn’t need half the fields they used to despite population growth. Much worse in country nsw for rugby league. Dire times unfortunately.
Football in Australia must never stop fighting for its fair share of funding
The olyroos were Olympic semi finalists in Barcelona. Not sure we will reach those heights again.
Football in Australia must never stop fighting for its fair share of funding
Buddy
The anti football was imo a racial thing. I grew up hearing only w .. s play soccer etc. even if most of us played both soccer and league .
I agree with your main post. Government should not be funding these stadiums or centre of excellence etc for any sport. This country needs houses hospitals , environment money and cheaper education in universities . Stadium for professional athletes should not be a priority.
Football in Australia must never stop fighting for its fair share of funding
Spot on Buddy
Football in Australia must never stop fighting for its fair share of funding
It’s really depressing news about the jets but not surprising. I have stated a few times that I less optimistic about the clubs survival and the a league in general. Such badly run organisations. Ive seen k b united and the Newcastle breakers collapse previously too . 40 years of hurt and one grand final win and one grand final loss by var .. sucks to be a jets fan.
Watching a team scrape 4 wins a season every year is not great fun .
Unfortunately having a big amount of junior players does not mean that a professional club or competition will be viable long term.
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It’s a violent incident with no attempt to play the ball.
Football will never get anywhere in Australia until it presents a united front
I thought Stanton got it wrong. Goodwin needs to start . But it obvious that city second goal was coming and the jets coach reacted too late. Same old jets
Football will never get anywhere in Australia until it presents a united front
No problem. Let’s see a free for all of high shoulder charge tackling against Brisbane and you’ll be ok with that luonheart .
Football will never get anywhere in Australia until it presents a united front
Fair comment Chris
Football will never get anywhere in Australia until it presents a united front
It happened right in front of me. He coathangered the 18 year old kid and made no attempt for the ball.
A similar off ball high contact incident in rugby union would see a likely red card , but apparently not the a league
Football will never get anywhere in Australia until it presents a united front
It has to be a send off otherwise anyone can now run 30 metres and batter someone over without any attempt at winning the ball
Such a poor decision by the referee, especially as var told him to reconsider. Just another kick in the guts as a jets fan. The Melbourne city coach should have replaced young as a statement that not’s acceptable, But Just smash the 18 year old kid is ok apparently.
Football will never get anywhere in Australia until it presents a united front
Attended the jets game yesterday. I’m really disappointed in the standard. Both teams were poor. The jets look like a team that would struggle in the npl Comp apart from Archie Goodwin .
The crowd is getting smaller, down in the 5000s on a perfect day . Soccer will always have big player numbers in Newcastle but it really feels like the jets are unviable, season after season of poor performance.
As for Jamie young. Hang your head in shame, he ran 30 metre out his way to grab and half shoulder a 18 year old running down towards the sideline , that’s a rugby league move , but soccer says that’s ok , yellow card Jamie and stay on the field. Imagine if everyone on the field just decided they could do what Jamie young did.
A league continues to struggle and I can’t see the optisim others have. It’s a poor standard comp in stadiums that are way too big .
Football will never get anywhere in Australia until it presents a united front
Herald sun , the age. Who are they appealing to these days ? Rusted on dinosaurs from the other codes. Their memberssio or readership has declined for years . The money that nrl and afl are making is not directly from media but from gambling companies via the media . Those companies and sports are closed shops and appear to those within to be big business, but they have hardly grown over time, in fact in Nsw there are real problems with rugby league and clubs dying off . I guess the point is , everything is not always as it appears and don’t expect that the age or herald sun represent or report accurately or without bias . They are stakeholders in those sports .
If the Matildas can draw sell-out crowds, why can't the A-League Men?
I didn’t realise Clare was born in Coffs. She did however come through the famous Adamstown rosebuds club as a teenager, the club that produced greats like Ray Baartz and a few other Socceroos.
If the Matildas can draw sell-out crowds, why can't the A-League Men?
No double faults or missed line calls , well done roland garris umpires
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It’s hard to know if Newcastle Jets crowds are good , because neither our men’s or women’s team have played at home in the first 3 weeks. It’s ridiculous, imagine if they made the Sydney teams wait for hone games .
East coast bias much , where are you secret scout ?
Nice to see Newcastle girl Clare Wheeler with a goal for Australia.
If the Matildas can draw sell-out crowds, why can't the A-League Men?
“ Beckham was a pretty ordinary footballer “ yikes. Was he as good as some others , no of course not.
Was he ordinary, far from it unless you define ordinary as being a regular strong performer for Man United England and Real Madrid. A strong performer in a united team that won a Champions League.
Methinks people like to be a contrarian towards Beckham because his celebrity grew because of his wife’s fame , but Beckham the player was not ordinary.
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Nick A
I’m not convinced these days that many people culturally identify with rugby league either, certainly not the same as 30 ago . It’s a bit of a dip in dip out following, which I find rarely do people talk about the game like they used to .
Most nrl crowds are not big. Quite a few under 10000 each round. The tv ratings are only exceptional for 10 games a year , the so called fan fare is mostly a lot of media dribble these days, the so called best athletes etc , when everyone can see their are some great players and a lot of ordinary players making up the numbers. The gambling industry is undoubtedly underpins the tv sponsorship of nrl and this suits the tv networks and so the cycle continues…
I also believe that a huge amount of people do identify with football. The game in Australia is older than it is in Argentina etc. the fact we have so many clubs and players makes it harder for people to identify with a a league club.
My sons local second tier club in northern Nsw got 1000 to its grand final and those people are local club supporters not necessarily a league supporters …. and that is the case for hundreds of clubs around Australia.
'If fans don’t come, how can the product improve?': Socceroos implore fans to back A-League after Matildas’ breakthrough
Rabbits
I aggree with most of what you said. Although I’d like to know what sport appeals to the greater population.
Sports ratings are in multiple hundreds of thousands for some footy codes, Out of 25 million, that’s a small percentage that any sport appeals too no matter what people say.
The Matildas at the recent World Cup are the only team in Australia that has a major part of the population interested at all .
'If fans don’t come, how can the product improve?': Socceroos implore fans to back A-League after Matildas’ breakthrough
Owners sell players not supporters. Would have loved Nabbout to stay .
Papps not playing Goodwin was ridiculous.
'If fans don’t come, how can the product improve?': Socceroos implore fans to back A-League after Matildas’ breakthrough
Good article, games won by 1-4 points with very evenly matched teams, someone had to be in front at the end and not sure that Ireland going all out 4 weeks prior was a disadvantage
. Emotional drainage maybe a week later but not a month .
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I follow an A league club that has finished in the top 6 just once in 12 years. Wins about 3 home games a season ,
might not see a home goal in months .. only one season of winning more than 7 games in 12 years.
. Moneys tight , have to take days of work to get to a game they are probably going to lose 0-2 to an opponent team that’s not exactly that entertaining either ….
But somehow I owe them , so I should turn up to help them earn their pay … unbelievable .
In all seriousness the Newcastle jets are employing about 8 players each season who should not be getting paid to play soccer at this level.., the 4-5 good players will be gone by the next season.
'If fans don’t come, how can the product improve?': Socceroos implore fans to back A-League after Matildas’ breakthrough
Good comment scouse
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I agree punter. Re Southgate. With another coach does England win the last euro or World Cup. England has never had so many players of this high calibre. Foden Saka Kane stone’s Bellingham grealish rice Maddison Alexander Arnold
Get off the Socceroos' backs! One training session, a win against Lebanon and still people fail to understand Asian football