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The Australian men’s national football team played their first full international, a 3-1 loss, against New Zealand on June 17, 1922. On June 17…
Is this an indication that he might be looking to switch his international allegiance at senior level?
Irankunda sensationally turns down Olyroos spot in baffling update - and Vidmar left in lurch on eve of qualifying
I loved it!
Cancar showed great smarts and Mak showed foolishness.
This gamesmanship is a part of football that is loved by many millions of us the world over and I would never want to see it taken away.
Simulation crackdown: If they like the spotlight so much, put A-League actors up before the Match Review Panel
The best system would be a normal league where each team plays each other home and away, and the team that finishes top is champion with no need for finals. This works in ALL of the top domestic leagues in Europe.
However, if we want to keep the AFL/NRL type system of finals then we should have a format that actually makes some sense to determine the finalists. The best system would be to split the league into 2 “Conferences” of 6 teams each. Allow each team to play 3 matches against the other teams in their conference and 2 matches against the teams in the other conference. This means 27 matches per team. Then have the top 3 teams from each conference make the finals. It is similar to the top 6 currently, but at least there is some fairness in that the teams that qualify will have had a more fair draw.
A-League’s compromised draw has whacked Melbourne Victory, but they will fight it out to the end
Really, once the decision had been made to expand to 48 teams there could never have been any other way forward other than this idea of 12 groups of 4 teams.
Any ridiculous 3 team group proposal would have been open to match fixing and would have required every single group match of the tournament to also include a “just in case” penalty shoot out either before or after that match.
Look, the current 32 team format was ideal, but now that they’ve gone to 48, this proposed format is the only fair way to do it.
Sublime to ridiculous: The money-grabbing move that helps Socceroos, but could destroy the greatest show on earth
I’m jumping in the car now to go and see the Victory v Western match live.
I reckon it will be a good watch.
A-League Round 20 talking points: Goodwin masterclass, and where are the crowds?
To me, Goodwin has been a player over the last 10 years that I always thought could go to the highest level, except he seemed to have spells or periods of inconsistency during seasons where he dipped below his average level, and for me, the difference between his best and his worst is HUGE.
If he was as consistently good as he has been this season throughout his career, then i reckon he would’ve been a Premier League level player. He is just so good to watch.
A-League Round 20 talking points: Goodwin masterclass, and where are the crowds?
There’s EVERY guarantee a second division WON’T prove more popular than the A-League.
We’ve seen the NPL clubs struggle for crowds and interest every year. Their ‘supporters’ would rather spend their time and money going to watch AFL or NRL matches.
The NPL clubs refuse to try to be real football clubs and instead focus on being social clubs, who just happen to field a football team. They refuse to become full time professional clubs and even NOW are trying to make the proposed NSD a ‘semi-professional’ competition.
Until they commit to full time professionalism and putting football above the social club, there’s not much point in actually having a second division.
A-League has shiny new Socceroos-bound star but faces threat from within as 'rival' league looms
For me, I’ve signed up with Paramount, as the A league is the number one item that I watch on t.v.
I’ve kept Kayo as I also like to watch the few Celtic games they broadcast, and watch a lot of La Liga, South American WC Qualifiers, and South American matches they have like the Libertadores.
I had Optus, but really I’m not that into the Premier League, apart from Liverpool, and I can watch the replays on Kayo.
I don’t think I’ll be expanding or buying any other products as i have too much football to watch!
Optus Sport secures six-year extension to Premier League rights, warding off rivals
I have a theory that if you are a goal scorer, you are a goal scorer.
Sometimes, at lower levels in juniors, I think we sometimes overlook players who don’t look good technically, or who don’t work back, or who look unfit in favour of other players, who are the opposite, even when we need a pure ‘poacher’ type.
The importance of selecting pure goal scorers in the national team
First of all, good on Josh and good luck to him.
Secondly, I am constantly disappointed that stories like this need to be even occurring. Who cares what sexual orientation a consenting adult has and we really need to get to a point where it is not even a story.
Thirdly, there are many polyamorous heterosexual men who are able to feel love for a number of different women at the same time and also have either separate or united sexual relations with more than one woman at a time and this sexuality is also ‘normal’ and should also be accepted by society as a whole without trying to stigmatise people.
Fourthly, There is nothing wrong or unusual with consenting adults having multiple sexual partners and it would be great to see everyone also celebrating football players who regularly enjoy having different partners rather than constantly seeking to ‘shame’ those players.
Fifthly, We MUST change the law to stop discriminating against polyamorous people and recognise marriages between any number of consenting adults of any combination of genders.
In 2021, an A-League player's announcement of his sexuality should not be seen as courageous
I’m just interested to know why the author of this article supports the Saudi government by purchasing Netflix, Uber, Facebook, but is upset when Newcastle fans do they same when their favourite football team is purchased?
Is it some sort of hatred of football?
Quid game: Why Newcastle’s Saudi takeover turns my stomach as much as the Netflix classic
Hang on.
There was zero movement for a couple of years on the planning permission for the stadium, but then there was a secret rushed amendment to the Wyndham Planning Scheme pushed through by the Minister earlier this year.
The pace has actually picked up exponentially this year in terms of stadium approval and construction and there is now more hope than ever before on this front.
Football Australia needs to acknowledge two big mistakes
The way I see it, there are two issues with regard to revenue for football.
1. The need to grow the total amount of revenue across the whole sport across the whole country. (Grow the pie)
2. The need to use revenue to create more professional players to give more improve the standard of play in the domestic game and produce more quality players for the national team. (Share the pie more fairly)
For me, the biggest barrier to both of these issues is the curse of semi-professionalism. Semi-professionalism does nothing to grow the pie. It also does nothing to share the pie more fairly with players and create better players.
No-one outside of the NPL clubs wants to watch semi-professional clubs play.
If we want to use the broadcast deal money wisely, we need to focus on A and W league teams and promote and market the competition as other sporting codes do. The cross promotion and marketing available to the A League now is better than ever before and must be used immediately and fully.
I would argue that aside from the promotion of the top tier, the goal for football in Australia must be to get rid of semi-professionalism and force clubs to either be amateur or fully professional clubs. This would drive money towards the bigger NPL clubs who could become fully professional clubs and allow for the struggling smaller clubs to become amateur clubs with much lower running costs. The result would be that we have more fully professional clubs able to have young players training and playing full time at big NPL clubs and smaller clubs being financially viable real community clubs.
How should Australian football use the new media deal to grow the game?
There’s even more reasons why A League clubs should look at SE Asian leagues for players.
These players play in hot humid conditions and will be acclimatised to playing in a summer A League.
It’s likely that you can get an up and coming younger player for a relatively low wage compared to a European journeyman.
A-League clubs should recruit South-East Asian players
Georgia Yeoman-Dale was a really good commentator during the Olympics. I enjoyed the tactical analysis she brought to the commentary.
I look forward to her hopefully commenting on some of the A League matches.
Simon Hill interview: 'Now is our best chance to break football's glass ceiling'
Check your junk mail. That’s where mine went.
Network Ten/Paramount+ had better get this right as football in Australia depends on it
In other news, woke mob demands people from New Zealand must also stop culturally appropriating avian culture and stop referring to themselves as “Kiwi’s”.
All Whites nickname under review as NZ Football reflects on 'cultural inclusivity'
At present, there are 6 FIFA confederations.
Asian Football Confederation (AFC; 47 members)
Confederation of African Football (CAF; 56 members)
Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF; 41 members)
Confederación Sudamericana de Fútbol (CONMEBOL; 10 members)
Oceania Football Confederation (OFC; 13 members)
A more logical organisation would be to combine the AFC and OFC and combine the Conmebol and Concacaf federations to reduce this to 4 Confederations as follows:
Pan-Asian Football Confederation (PAFC; 60 members)
Confederation of African Football (CAF; 56 members)
Confederación of the Americas (AMEBOL; 51 members)
Union of European Football Associations (UEFA; 55 members)
Is the AFC experiment over?
Either of these teams would have wiped the floor with Italy and England.
This match was probably a preview of the next World Cup final.
Messi FINALLY claims international trophy with Argentina's Copa America win
Finals are rubbish, but if we must have them, at least have a system that is more aligned to football rather than AFL or NRL.
We could have a 22 round season where every team plays every other team home and away and then declare the winner the champion. This team qualifies for the ACL.
This could be followed with 10 teams participating in a ‘finals’ series. The system below guarantees the top team gets a double chance, qualifies to at least the semi finals and plays a minimum of 27 matches. It also ensures the Grand final winner at least 28 matches to comply with the AFC Champions League requirement of minimum matches. It also means you could have the bottom 2 teams “relegated” if a second division ever came in.
Week 1
Allocation Final (match 23) (to allocate home ground advantage if both teams make GF)
A 1 v 2
Elimination finals (match 23) (losers out)
B 3 v 10
C 4 v 9
D 5 v 8
E 6 v 7
Weeks 2 & 3 are two legged qualifying final ties. (matches 24 & 25)
F 1 v lowest ranked winner
G 2 v 2nd lowest ranked winner
H other winning team v other winning team
Weeks 4 & 5 are two legged semi finals. (matches 26 & 27)
I Winner F v Winner H
J Winner G v Loser with highest ranking from regular season
Week 6 (Grand final ) (match 28)
Winner K v Winner L
Impact on playing time:
This system results in 2 teams playing 22 matches, 4 teams playing 23 matches, 2 teams playing 25 matches, 4 teams playing 27 matches and 2 teams playing 28 matches.
Impact on broadcasts:
You get a regular season of 132 matches of content over 22 match days, which could run to 25-26 weeks with international breaks.
This is followed by a 6 week finals series with 16 matches.
I’m sure it would be attractive for broadcasters, as it allows a good length of season and you can schedule finals in primetime.
Should the A-League keep the finals?
I predict that in the not too distant future, as home consumers, we’ll be able to buy individual games from any league in the world.
eg I might pay $5 to watch a Liga MX game today and tomorrow pay $6 to watch a La Liga match from Spain.
Why Paramount+ is a potential game changer
I predict the VAR will miss more obvious errors, just like it missed Bale being clearly offside at the corner that lead to the goal.
The Roar's Euro 2020 expert tips and predictions: Match Day 2 (part two)
Gareth Bale is offside at the corner. The goal should not have stood.
Gareth Bale makes amends for "extraordinary" penalty miss with amazing corner trick play
Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Colombia, etc etc all say hi.
Simulation crackdown: If they like the spotlight so much, put A-League actors up before the Match Review Panel