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The A-League has got off to a bad start in this year's AFC Champions League. The Newcastle Jets are already out and Victory lost…
Waz’s comment elsewhere under this article risks being buried but it’s spot on and worth repeating over and over again:
“Before we get to media coverage and attracting new fans, surely a focus has to be on keeping the ones we do have and bringing back the lapsed followers!”
The improvements needed to bring the A-Leagues back to prominence
There are 11 positions – just go through them one by one
Baccus, Rowles net first goals as Socceroos cruise past Lebanon but Arnie sweats on injuries
You should be ashamed of yourself
Baccus, Rowles net first goals as Socceroos cruise past Lebanon but Arnie sweats on injuries
On the evidence of last night, if goal-wards is what Baccus meant then that’s not where it would have went.
Baccus, Rowles net first goals as Socceroos cruise past Lebanon but Arnie sweats on injuries
Last night’s style was so timidly blah I am recanting my previous defence of Arnie.
Hrustic looked like he had turned up for the wrong team when he came on and tried playing forwards.
Baccus, Rowles net first goals as Socceroos cruise past Lebanon but Arnie sweats on injuries
Everybody is being very polite – we were awful. Under any pressure most of the team can’t hold the ball or pass safely.
Yengi…no
Metcalfe…why?
Baccus…gives away the ball far too often to play where he plays
Taggart…at the risk of inciting Scout, if A-League form counts why take a seventh look at an old guy when an untried young guy is doing just as well
Iredale…Bundesliga 2 and he has barely played so why??
Atkinson…permanently hesitant for some reason
On the other hand, Hrustic at least knows how to do an attacking pass (it’s too bad Taggart and Duke can’t time a run). Irvine too, he does more good stuff (attack and defence) than gets acknowledged by many.
Baccus, Rowles net first goals as Socceroos cruise past Lebanon but Arnie sweats on injuries
We can never have too much of that Randy
'Would be a tragedy': Can the Jets find a new owner, or are they about to spiral out of the A-League?
I guess you’d have to start by shutting down every other Football league in the world. Only then could Football replicate the global absence that makes AFL so marketable locally.
'Would be a tragedy': Can the Jets find a new owner, or are they about to spiral out of the A-League?
Scout, you can’t have it both ways (pardon the expression). His sexuality is part of his personal life and, as you point out, because he has been brave enough to speak about it it’s also a huge subject of interest t many people.
Someday gay footballers (male) won’t even have to come out and when they get married nobody will bat an eyelid.
Cavallo got over his problem – everybody else has to get over theirs.
The Roar's A-League Men tips and predictions: Round 21
Yes indeedy…no such problem in women’s football
The Roar's A-League Men tips and predictions: Round 21
“as usual his personal life takes preference over his actual profession, which has caused an issue within the playing group for multiple seasons now.”
Cavallo has been injured for large chunks of the last 2 seasons, so he hasn’t been part of the playing group.
Also, it’s not his fault that his PERSONAL life is of so much interest to everybody else. He’s before his time when it comes to Football.
The Roar's A-League Men tips and predictions: Round 21
Innovative coaching from Rudan sees the Wanderers to record the first ever negative score in the A-League.
The Roar's A-League Men tips and predictions: Round 21
Has he been sacked yet?
Seventh heaven for City as Rudan no-shows presser after horror defeat
“we’re left with the diehard few watching a league most casual fans abandoned long ago”
That’s weird hyperbole Mike. Aggregate attendances are only down about 10 to 25 percent depending on which of the best non-COVID prior years you use for comparison.
Your ‘diehard few’ will end up plonking their bums on seats around 1.4 million times this season. That’s a lot more bums than just a few. And the diehard few have been consistently turning up in those kinds of numbers for the life of the A-League.
The casual fans were bigger contributors when the league could afford a few big names like del Piero and Heskey. But Arab money has pretty much killed off those kinds of signings, so the casuals are probably gone until football money turns again.
But what I find most fascinating is that just a few years ago I used to read match reports in the mainstream media on the train home from a game. That is, there were journalists at the game who wrote a report and posted it within minutes of the game ending. They used to do pre-game write-ups as well.
Presumably journalists wrote up games because there were enough diehard fans who wanted to read about the games they were going to. Nowadays, there is zero reporting of games, before or after (unless there is some kind of shock-horror non-football incident to anticipate before a game or exaggerate afterwards).
Why am I surprised? Well, as I pointed out earlier, the numbers of the diehard few who might read those match reports hasn’t changed all that much over the years. So you would assume there is still a good market for journalists to serve.
So the question I have is not where did all the fans go – it’s where did all the journalists go?
Does the A-League do enough to nurture creative players?
For refs it all happens in the blink of an eye and so inevitably they will be a little inconsistent.
But the VAR officials have no excuse – they have the luxury of slow-motion replays and plenty of time to rank the current atrocity against previous examples.
If you have Paramount watch the replay – Davila’s butchery is around 21 mins into the game. No red. Compare that to Patrick Wood’s VARred red card earlier this season.
As Ufuk Talay said, where’s the consistency?
Does the A-League do enough to nurture creative players?
Davila’s tackle vs Macarthur was far, far worse than Girdwood-Reich’s.
Does the A-League do enough to nurture creative players?
I’m a very big fan of any ref who gets called over to the monitor but decides they agree with themself.
Does the A-League do enough to nurture creative players?
When I saw the tackle I was worried, when I saw the replay on the big screen I thought that’ll be a VAR red, when it looked like play on I thought that’s a let-off, so when VAR finally pulled its finger out and intervened I joined the group outrage.
My issue is not that VAR gets it wrong but that it takes the VAR so long to detect ‘clear and obvious errors’. There should a statute of limitations on the VAR process – if 15 seconds of replays can’t find a clear and obvious error then just go with what the ref said.
Victory bounce back in Original Rivalry, Mariners nab top spot, can Rudan turn it around?
Ha ha – I meant to say as long as C-P is available King is benched
Victory bounce back in Original Rivalry, Mariners nab top spot, can Rudan turn it around?
Sitting amongst thousands of usually biased SFC fans it was pretty clear nobody was comfortable with a yellow so everyone was furious at the red.
Victory bounce back in Original Rivalry, Mariners nab top spot, can Rudan turn it around?
He looked a bit lost for the first few games at left back but he’s doing all the left back things brilliantly now.
And Hayden Mathews looks a good bet too – a bit of an Alex Wilkinson clone. His tackling and positioning are spot on, although his lofted passes out of defence need work (or elimination).
Victory bounce back in Original Rivalry, Mariners nab top spot, can Rudan turn it around?
Courtney-Perkins was outstanding and has been for quite a while. Joel King has no hope of getting a game at SFC now.
Victory bounce back in Original Rivalry, Mariners nab top spot, can Rudan turn it around?
He looks unhappy mostly. When he does good stuff on the field his reaction is more ‘up yours’ than joy. But he exactly what OZ teams have always lacked – someone who shoots on sight and scores regularly
Does the A-League do enough to nurture creative players?
Lucy Zelic ‘unhinged’??? Please explain…
The Roar's A-League Men tips and predictions: Round 20
O dear
A-League avoids total embarrassment after broadcast partner goes belly up