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Which major club football stadiums in Europe host major concerts outside of summer. Because it doesn’t happen.
'Nothing short of a disgrace': Lack of football-specific venues is holding the A-Leagues back
Why on earth would it be helpful for fans to know the venue of the grand final in advance when you still don’t know if your team is playing until after the semi final. It doesn’t matter if it’s in Perth, Townsville or Wagga Wagga, you are still stuck waiting to book flights and Accom until the game is over.
And if you think neutrals are gonna book months in advance to go to a Grand Final without knowing their team is playing I have a Monorail on Darling Harbour to sell you.
APL should feel ashamed with its touted 'Festival of Football' looking very thin on the ground
Yeah I’m sure people working extra hours at Woolies are totally keen to at the idea of putting hundreds aside for a trip to Sydney rather than paying their rent and grocery bills right now.
APL should feel ashamed with its touted 'Festival of Football' looking very thin on the ground
If the whole of SA and WA can’t each manage to keep a single competitive team in a 16+ team league whilst NSW and Vic have 8 combined then tough luck, they need to get their act together clearly.
It’s time there was actual consequences for failure now then just the nothingness of “missing the 6” which is little more than “oh no gee whizz we’ll get em next year boys!”
If a NSD club can come up and actually threaten the cushy existence of some of these permanent basket case teams then fantastic.
The problem with a national second division
This is quite possibly the worst decision in A-League history, up there with Gallops handling of Active Support and the inclusion of WU and Macarthur. Winning the right to host the GF is possibly the one thing everyone in the country supports, even if they don’t like finals.
I haven’t seen fans this mad since the fan protests under gallop and yet again fans are going to be walking out of the ground this weekend. Townsend must go, he has been nothing but a deceptive snake since getting the job and has now clearly lost the plot if he thinks labelling fans as emotional is the right way to handle this.
Hosting A-League grand finals in Sydney for three years is a terrific idea… For some
Sod that, every other league in the world has a break for international rounds so the best players can play. Why does Australia constantly have to be different?
Good for one, good for all: A-League coaches call for international breaks
Did Frank give you this hot gossip as well janakan? Give it a rest, you are just grifting again even though your name is mud now. It’s clear as day that the club’s have zero interest in a champions league format and will not bother going ahead with it if the FFA insist on it.
NPL 'Champions League' format likely to be initial second division structure
You’re talking smack. Just because they’ve not objected allow W-League and Y-League games doesn’t mean they don’t have a ironclad veto right against A-League clubs set out in the contract.
South Melbourne slam Western United for Lakeside Stadium plans
Oh great. Another terrible format that’ll become instantly boring. Let me know when the penny finally drops and we walk away from NZ fo a competition that isn’t compromised to the point of being pointless.
CONFIRMED: Key dates and format for 'Super Rugby Pacific' announced with extra 'derbies' flagged
Every single celtic manager since Martin O’Neill has been signed on a one rolling contract. It’s not a snub or a sign of caution, they gave the same contract to Brendan Rogers.
How Ange won over Scotland and Instagram
Yet another stupid format that will lose interest rapidly. Just move on from this farce and have domestic competitions.
RA and NZR agree new Super Rugby format with one major sticking point over 'integrity'
Its a stupid reason to do it but honestly does it matter if the the is just referred as NZ rather than needing a official nickname?
All Whites nickname under review as NZ Football reflects on 'cultural inclusivity'
Lol at the court threat, the OFC can’t open its doors without heavy subsidies from FIFA, NZ Football can’t even afford to host All Whites friendlies in NZ and the other FA’s in the OFC can barely afford proper playing kits and a decent grass surface for their grounds. You’re dreaming if you think any of them have the funds to waste on an expensive court case in Australia that will go nowhere.
Thankfully we can happily avoid all that when they go bust after being told to relocate for a second bubble and you will be able to go back to GCU instead of pretending that you’re from NZ.
Is the AFC experiment over?
Lol its not 2006 anymore. The AFC would welcome us ditching the leaches and that agreement is not going to be enforced. We owe the OFC absolutely nothing.
Is the AFC experiment over?
Lol this is a joke right? No Mates is just another Kiwi (lol at you pretending to be Australian) that feels they entitled to have any say on the direction of Australian Football.
Oceania is a complete waste of space and New Zealand Football is little more than parasites that brings very little to the Australian football but expects to get a free ride in our national leagues instead of doing anything to build their own.
When in the Phoenix are eventually thrown out, we will have finally have nothing more to do with these leaches and can have nothing more to do with the OFC. If there is another Hub next season, hopefully the cost will finish off Wellington for good this time so we can move on.
Is the AFC experiment over?
Christ the same boring article every year. We get it, you like finals and some people don’t.
Nothing in the A-League matches the intensity of finals football
What. It’s an Australian cup, that we take the entire risk of operating and features only Australian teams apart from Wellington (until they are eventually thrown out). There is absolutely zero need to consider the constant parasites of Australian Football at all.
How to link all football through the FFA Cup
See only an overseas fan and not a local match-going resident would say this.
FSG increased ticket prices to £77 well out of reach of working class fans, they put their lowest paid employees on furlough, they continued the policy of buying up houses around Anfield and letting them sit empty to drive down prices and THEN they threatened to blow up over a hundred years of football culture and tradition that fans cherish.
A fancy training ground and a few extra seats that only tourists can afford doesn’t mean diddly squat to people who feel like they are losing their communities connection to their club.
How many times now have they stepped over the line and had to get John W Henry grovel on camera saying how sorry they are and how important the fans are blah blah blah…..
Spare me. They, like the rest of the owners that have come over from American sports, have been absoloutely awful and need to be driven out of the game.
Liverpool's owners haven’t been as bad as everyone says
Oh please, what rose-tinted nonsense. Iraq, Vietnam and even the pre-federation 2nd Boer War were nothing to do with “defence of freedom” and all to do with advancing British and American foreign agenda.
Even WW1 was hardly some noble defence of ideals against tyranny but rather an inevitable consequence of rival European imperialist powers becoming increasingly polarised and competitive.
Why Anzac Day will always mean something to me
Yeah well it was nonsense. Leagues are judged on their biggest clubs.
Has Victory's dreadful season doomed the A-League to dire metrics?
It goes without saying, the league looks a lot healthier when the big clubs are doing well.
There is a lot certainly a lot more hype and atmosphere around the competition when the big 3 teams from Sydney and Melbourne are doing well and the active fans are allowed to do their thing.
Has Victory's dreadful season doomed the A-League to dire metrics?
People can watch what they want, they aren’t obliged to follow a competition that doesn’t connect to their club like some people feel the A-League is entitled too.
Has the A-League finally converted the 'Bring back the NSL' crowd?
What a weird article. As the Melbourne Knights chairman completely fairly stated on The World Game, why would he watch the A-League when his own team isn’t involved?
Would you expect the fanbases of clubs like Everton or Sevilla to be “converted” to a European Super League if their club was permanently excluded and that they should start supporting Liverpool or Madrid?
The only way the communities are going to be reunited and everyone brought on board fully is with a connected pyramid where fanbases of clubs that are currently outside the A-League actually have a reason to be invested in the league. Until then, those fans are completely within their rights to just keep supporting the clubs they grew up with and have supported their whole lives.
Has the A-League finally converted the 'Bring back the NSL' crowd?
Of all my problems with a two legged final, thats the least of my worries. Wellington have no business in a tournament that will likely be rebranded “The Australia Cup.” NZ can have their own cup and nix can host games in that.
The FFA Cup is back, different and begging for a new name
Don’t know how to break it too you champ but those aren’t concerts.
Nor is playing one off league games in an football international window remotely comparable to the over usage of suncorps pitch.
'Nothing short of a disgrace': Lack of football-specific venues is holding the A-Leagues back