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Loves all live sport. Played rugby codes as a youth, cricket and athletics. Threw away the golf clubs and bought two bikes. Now a gentle road and mountain bike rider and a football fanatic with age. It's so big, we've just got to be part of it. Brisbane Roar member, NQ Cowboys fan.
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Anzac Day marks the anniversary of the landing of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps at Gallipoli in Turkey on 25 April 1915.…
On ANZAC Day, 25 April we commemorate the landing of the Australia and New Zealand Army Corps at Gallipoli in 1915. The first commemoration…
good luck Mariners, I’m hoping to sleep through this one
Does the A-League have the clout to make a UK-bound event round work in season 2024/25?
Grem, I personally believe we are doing the Pacific nations a disservice by entertaining NZ in our league. They’re the Oceania big boys, they are the ones who should be developing Oceania instead of just taking all it offers, a place at every FIFA tournament. There’s much potential in those small Pacific nations, as evidenced in the Pacific Games tournament last year, with Fiji, PNG and Solomons particularly strong. We, in Asia, should focus on Asia starting with Timor Leste and SE Asia.
Does the A-League have the clout to make a UK-bound event round work in season 2024/25?
Whatever you’re smokin’ Stuart, stop it.
Does the A-League have the clout to make a UK-bound event round work in season 2024/25?
and whatmore, he linked Ange to his second club, not the one that gave him a shot
Does the A-League have the clout to make a UK-bound event round work in season 2024/25?
money’s got something to do with it too, better pay, better potential for progression
Forget those bringing down the game, what if we embraced the A-League and Australian football cups are actually half-full?
very few haven’t come through the A Leagues, a couple from Scotland of late, but most had their starts in the A Leagues.
All of the Matildas came through the A League or W League as it was known.
Without the A League many of the NT players may well have not got a start in their professional career.
Forget those bringing down the game, what if we embraced the A-League and Australian football cups are actually half-full?
somehow, I feel that dream is unachievable. The NPL clubs, from my perspective, are pretty insular and most would fail to attract anywhere near the crowds we see at A League matches. The franchises are not about to walk away from their significant investments and accept relegation. We need, in my view, a version of P/R that gives NPL clubs across the country not just Vic/NW, a go at the top division but still protects the franchises. Maybe as an interim, no more expansion other than say six spots, one for each association, to be won by playoff.
Forget those bringing down the game, what if we embraced the A-League and Australian football cups are actually half-full?
the Socceroos or Matildas won’t progress far until we sort out the A Leagues.
Forget those bringing down the game, what if we embraced the A-League and Australian football cups are actually half-full?
Good comment. Perception is everything.
On the language learning, no doubt you have experience but in my experience learning two foreign languages, it takes way more than a year part-time to become fluent. If he’s got a sense of it and a get by vocabulary, he’ll learn quickly in Germany.
Forget those bringing down the game, what if we embraced the A-League and Australian football cups are actually half-full?
Tried to add this, too late:
btw, you did say the A League’s rubbish, ‘almost embarrassed to tell people I follow the A League’. Hang in Waz, you are right and your criticism is fair, albeit the truth hurts sometimes. Tell your lads if they want to aspire to be a footballer, or want their mates to, or our NTs to improve, they need to make noises like you do so that somebody, one day, might fix a few things.
Forget those bringing down the game, what if we embraced the A-League and Australian football cups are actually half-full?
I agree, it’s nonsensical to blame fans, and I’ve no doubt you’re right, crowd figures tell a story, but there’s still a lot of people within the (so called) football community who are just blind when it comes to the A League. Many will never accept it until we are top ten or FIFA WC finalists.
Forget those bringing down the game, what if we embraced the A-League and Australian football cups are actually half-full?
The A League’s not rubbish Waz, you say it yourself often, on this tab. The management and administration is a different issue, we hear you. But on your point, a lot of the kids repeat what their Dad’s say (or their coaches, or their mate’s Dads or their mates coaches) without giving it any thought. I can give innumerable examples of kids blindly repeating exactly those words ‘A League’s rubbish’ having not even been to a game, and their Dad’s (or Mum’s) quickly jumping in to support them. Heck, I’ve even heard Dad’s blatantly lie about goings-on at Roar in front of their kids, no doubt for them to repeat later to their mates.
Good on you for using an A League goal as an example. I showed an EPL shirt wearing kid who spoke unkindly of the Roar last weekend, young Quinny’s Joeys goals, and a few from young Waddo, and told him about our kid GK at Luton. He wasn’t much younger than them but he had no idea about the steps in football in Australia. Plays for a community club on southside, must all believe in magical fairies. I assume none of your young players aspire to play as professionals in Australia, maybe you should show them the recent appearance on FQTV of Izaack Powell.
Forget those bringing down the game, what if we embraced the A-League and Australian football cups are actually half-full?
Spain yes, those girls really did make their point at the World Cup.
How can the APL convince casual fans the A-League Men is worth supporting?
Skimming back through, quickly, I haven’t seen any evidence that Roar owners want to sell. Despite all the woes, they have put in and lost $4 mil or so every year for well over a decade now. We really don’t know, but there are signs they want success, they’re just not prepared to throw money away to get it. My season’s done now anyway, next live match for me West Ham – LFC.
How can the APL convince casual fans the A-League Men is worth supporting?
ABC need a bullet. They deal with complaints flippantly these days, and allow personal opinions to drive their output. Hopefully, it’s coming, soon.
How can the APL convince casual fans the A-League Men is worth supporting?
I hope you’re wrong Waz, but you’re possibly not. You’re right about the local Suncorp community. I grew up nearby (next to Newmarket SC), two of Roar’s current starting lineup (Brown, Freke) went to my old school (Ashgrove) and played in local clubs, and there’s plenty of others (Jamie Young …). But there’s no connection, not even in the halftime Mini matches. They were building one with Brisbane City a few years back but that fizzled out. Roar’s best bet would be to partner with an established club but can’t see that happening.
Still, I remain optimistic. Crowds ebb with results and I think we’re quite capable of some decent results next season, if we learn how to deal with a compressed defence and recruit a couple of key players, striker and central defender.
Every week I see new faces sitting around me so I judge there’s interest in the game, just got to turn those occasional attendees into regulars, and those Newmarket kids into fans. And those games we dominate into wins.
How can the APL convince casual fans the A-League Men is worth supporting?
I’m no sports psychologist but my advice to Nestory would be to cut the afters. He rides the emotional wave all the way, further and harder than any sportsman I’ve seen or can recall anyway. He’s doing triple tumbles when up, and hides in his shirt when he’s down. He needs to flatten the emotional curve. Get the name of Ash Barty’s sports psych, listen to her talk about her approach to her game, and where it all fits in her life. She won young Wimbledon at age 15 and rode an emotional roller coaster with every serve and return.
Macarthur spoil Irankunda's Adelaide farewell as 10-man Bulls survive last-gasp penalty in absolutely wild game
to Burundi? Tanzania? or Germany?
Macarthur spoil Irankunda's Adelaide farewell as 10-man Bulls survive last-gasp penalty in absolutely wild game
Macarthur just do this. They’re ordinary, even Davilla for much of the time, but give them a sniff and they’ll eat you up. I’ve watched Roar dominate them twice, at Suncorp and Ballymore, and both times they pounced on our mistakes to take the points. Good on them, they’ve got a great team spirit.
Macarthur spoil Irankunda's Adelaide farewell as 10-man Bulls survive last-gasp penalty in absolutely wild game
Thanks Ian, always good to hear about our juniors. Love the video of Quinn’s goal, off the keeper from Waddingham’s shot. His goals from the Joey’s match looked good, both in the first two quarters of the match which I assume was a more difficult time with better players on the field.
Youngest ever Australia Cup scorer, another electric talent from Adelaide, and sons of Socceroos: Meet the future of Australian football
Here’s a link that explains some of the strategy. My understanding is that FQ has already implemented the FA strategy, probably because Qld is the most geographically decentralised State and talent identification is so much harder.
Youngest ever Australia Cup scorer, another electric talent from Adelaide, and sons of Socceroos: Meet the future of Australian football
same as the Sydney pen last round, worse I’d say
A-League clubs air grievances after Nestory Irankunda's shock snubbing of Olyroos duty
yes and no, he’s been at Roar for a while now, they know him and his game well
A-League clubs air grievances after Nestory Irankunda's shock snubbing of Olyroos duty
Rules or not, commonsense should have been used with these selections, such a critical time of the season. Arnie used to make a lot of this when he was SFC coach and I’m sure we have restricted selections in the past, so as not to overly affect any particular club.
As an aside, young Quinn MacNicol impressed with two goals for the Joeys against Switzerland overnight. Maybe he’ll get a few games in Roar’s A League team next season, great young prospect.
A-League clubs air grievances after Nestory Irankunda's shock snubbing of Olyroos duty
rugby league world cup in England played at a few EPL club venues, Anfield and Etihad from memory, but it’s definitely not a regular occurrence. They do concerts too.
Does the A-League have the clout to make a UK-bound event round work in season 2024/25?