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Absolute football tragic, I like a single AFL club and hate the rest passionately, I love Test Cricket, don't mind ODI's and can't stand T20. I also like Basketball and Ice Hockey.
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Thanks mate excellent post and good comparison, it’s one that I don’t think many Aussies would understand (supporting a team you know will never win) I spent the first 10 years of my life supporting Fitzroy and I supported them just because they were my team and never felt inferior about it.
SW&P’s dispite being a great read is now just an insight into an Australia that doesn’t exist anymore, it is (fortunately) obsolete so I can understand how it might seem alien if you’ve only been here for 10 years.
But yeah the question is and always will be why wouldn’t you prefer we dominate the rest rather than admiring the rest? football is the ultimate and perhaps final frontier for Australia in sport.
The funny thing is that the game improves inspite of these supposedly insumountable challenges, it’s almost funny how the doubters have continually fueled the fire of Australian football.
Australia must lose its footballing inferiority complex
Disagree, it’s more that the other mobs are getting better at football.
Australia must lose its footballing inferiority complex
Surely it cannot be that inferior, we’ve just shown that we can adequately compete with our own continant and if you were to ask me I would tell you this is start and not the end….
How much is enough?
Are you only going to support the game locally when we are good enough to dominate the world?
So we produce a team from a-league capable of winning the Asian Cup and what’s the first thing you hear…
“Well you’re still not good enough to beat CAF teams”
First thing first, yes we are good enough, second why does it matter?
It’s completely irrelevant unless we get drawn against them at the Confeds or World Cup but right now isn’t it enough that we’ve shown through some amount of concerted effort and determination that we’re capable winning within our own parameters?
I mean what isn’t admirable about that?
Australia must lose its footballing inferiority complex
Maybe read the whole article, I mention that not long ago the Chinese teams were nobodies it hasn’t happened completely overnight but it has happened as they say success breeds successs.
Melbourne Victory and the awoken dragon
Well said Indio
Thanks to everyone that added a comment and shared my article around it created discussion and got way more coverage than I could’ve imagined when I was putting it together.
There will be more to come on this as I feel the crux of this issue is not greatly understood by the greater MVFC and a-league community.
There are issues no one is denying that, but overall the penalty never matches the crime and more than often people like me are treated as guilty by association even though I do not even know who or why someone may commit a trespass.
We have a situation that (despite Fussbal ist unser laben’s protests) is at boiling point I’m also an 8 year member who will not be renewing for the next season if the issues are not resolved fairly and justifiably.
Cheers.
Have Melbourne Victory become the Colorado Rapids of the A-league?
Excellent post couldn’t have said it better myself.
Have Melbourne Victory become the Colorado Rapids of the A-league?
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In denial much champ? Maybe you weren’t paying attention when I pointed out that MVFC abide to any and all critics of active support, the media are only at the forefront of that.
But hardly point of the article which as Fussball ISL seemed to miss is only to show comparisons with other similiar circumstances in football.
Clearly there is a ‘problem’ otherwise I wouldn’t be writing an article things have happened fights/incidents whatever way you like to put it, but they are not a reason to persecute the majority that haven’t done a thing wrong.
Everyone who’s not an active support expects a silver bullet from active supporters as if there’s some magical solution to us controling a fight that happened 5kms from where most of us were at the time.
So yeah get all 1984 on everyones ass and expect that to change an issue that is firmly societies issue that is young men acting out for whatever reason.
Seriously champ I’m aiming for intellegent discussion here not to argue with conservative retards.
Have Melbourne Victory become the Colorado Rapids of the A-league?
@Fussball ISL
It’s pretty common knowledge but if you need me to vouch for Patrick Hargreaves version of it.
Have Melbourne Victory become the Colorado Rapids of the A-league?
Sorry about that Fussball ist unser laben, didn’t realize that speaking with MVFC was a requirement, this is just an opinion piece based on what I know of MLS and it’s history and it’s parallels with the a-league.
I didn’t think speaking with MVFC, FFA, Police, and stadium management was necessary as their stances have been well publicized recently.
Although perhaps it would have been prudent for me to have researched further the MVFC stance on the issue.
My objective however was to show that similar actions to what Melbourne and the FFA are doing have led MLS franchises downhill.
Have Melbourne Victory become the Colorado Rapids of the A-league?
Measuring stick, plainly because every tosser that ‘only wants to watch the best football in the world’ seems to think that equates to EPL.
So as the most common measuring stick for Australian football I felt it necessary to level a relevant criticism at it so as to prove that nothing is immune from criticism, I gave examples of common critisims of Australian football and thought that an example of a common criticism of English football would make for a good example of that.
Australia must lose its footballing inferiority complex