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The FFA has moved a giant step closer to honouring it's promise of paying all of the A-League club's salary cap costs. The A-League…
Doesn’t matter who he picks. Lets be serious, we haven’t got a hope of scoring a goal, let alone getting any points in the Brazil WC first round.
Might as well stuff the squad full of young A-League players and hope for a miracle.
More importantly lets ask ourselves why our national team has not improved (or even gone backwards) in the past 10 years and why there was no succession plan to phase out the golden generation with a strong young team.
Ange has A-League players in sights
He’s right of course, he’s not going to stop the A-League because of the cricket.
16 games in seventeen days, not one game a fortnight which takes 5 days to finish.
A-League is unstoppable: Gallop
The main problem is that the clubs don’t let them play in friendlies and tournaments – the Young Socceroos, the Socceroos and the players miss out.
Even though they are only playing youth team or reserve or third grade. The players get scared into thinking it will ruin their chances to make the top grade so they withdraw from Aussie teams. Meanwhile they sit on benches and go nowhere.
If he stays in Australia he can play for the Young Socceroos.
Borussia have already told him he can’t play in the Asia U21 tournament early next year. So he misses out on game time and international tournament experience – wasted. The Young Socceroos and maybe the Socceroos lose another exciting prospect.
He also doesn’t ever get picked for Australia, because he can’t be relied on to play when needed and will rather take the money sitting on the bench back in German second division than play for his country.
Chris Herd is a classic example. Always wanted to play for the Socceroos, but always put Aston Villa first so he didn’t lose his spot. He’s been dropped by Villa and out on loan to a third division team now and will also never be picked for the Socceroos.
Yeboah to Germany as Roar face Jets
2 out of 3 commercial TV stations (and their affiliated radio stations) are showing cricket, so they are flogging it to death because of their vested interests and greed.
Until the A-League and the Socceroos are shown on 2 out of 3 commercial stations then you have no hope.
I haven’t seen or heard one ad for the A-League all year. I know the FFA are tight for money but with a highly competitive sports market in Australia you need to do some marketing.
With a player base approaching 2 million, surely they could work out some deal for all the registered players to get cheap or some free tickets to A-League games as part of their rego. There are plenty of other ways to promote yourself that don;t cost much money either,
If they continue to sit there doing nothing then A-League crowds will continue to fall while the cricket is on.
Expanding Australia's football culture begins with the foundation
Good luck, shame you are leaving.
Looked like an exciting prospect and should have got more game time for the Roar.
Will you become another unknown statistic, playing in youth leagues and then reserve and third grade for the rest of your life?
We have no answer to the Australian football talent drain and the damage to our national youth teams and Socceroos of the future.
Yeboah to Germany as Roar face Jets
Australia’s culture, racism and bias will ensure that football is never going to be the most popular sport in this country, there are way too many things against it and even Gallop can’t change the world.
Cricket, cricket cricket till its coming out your asre here in Sydney at the moment.
Even FIFA, the footballing Gods and the rest of the football world are against us.
http://www.theguardian.com/football/interactive/2013/dec/18/world-cup-2014-draw-strength-of-schedule
Expanding Australia's football culture begins with the foundation
Trying very hard to be positive:
3 games against top class competition to warm up for the Asian Cup.
We will learn more form getting beaten than a lucky win.
Lots of publicity for football and the Socceroos for a week in June.
The other 3 teams in the group are very even, so might be lots of draws in our group.
We get $10M just for turning up.
The boys won’t be away from home for long and can have nice summer holidays with their families.
Quick exit, more time to prepare for the Asian CUp and less chance of injuries.
We’re not expected to win anything.
Our FIFA Rankings won’t get worse from being beaten by higher ranked teams.
Ummm . . . .
2014 World Cup Draw: Full results, groups, analysis
Complete Nonsense?
1. Andrew Demetriou said the use of the MCG would be the “end on the AFL season” and wanted over 1 billion in compensation – Justin is correct on that one.
2. The 50 million HKD is just one bookmaker – the total of all bookmakers in just Asia alone would easily be over 50M
Don’t be so rude and go back to the AFL Media Department where you came from @Australian Rules.
Could the A-League become a plaything for match-fixers?
Wouldn’t it be great if the Giants could win the AFL flag this year.
Don’t ever say never.
Giants chasing Buddy for profile or titles?
There is no honour among thieves.
We should never have bid in the first place and pulled out of the running when fat Africans with cheap suits, halitosis and syphilis start asking us for money in brown paper bags for them to vote for us – and then they don’t vote for us anyway.
Decent English speaking countries should pull their teams out out of every FIFA tournament until Blatter resigns and FIFA cleans up its act.
They must re-run the 2022 ballott without Blatter and administered by an independent accounting firm.
FFA demands $43m compensation for 2022 World Cup bid
Shows the maturity of the A-League – we are not desperate for money, the maturity of the CEO David Gallop and the good job he is doing and the immaturity of Phil Gould and the Penrith Panthers to try and trick us like that.
New Wanderer Juric eager to improve game
That doesn’t mean the people who do go to the games are fickle. Most of them follow their team no matter what
A lot of people in Sydney just don’t like sport, whatever it is. Probably half the people who went to see LA galaxy don’t even follow football, they just went to see Beckham.
Giant challenges ahead for Greater Western Sydney
Sydney has the highest participation numbers for all sports except AFL.
We like to play sport or watch our kids play too.
Giant challenges ahead for Greater Western Sydney
And the 2006 WC when we beat Japan and scored our first ever WC goals, the drama against Brazil and the referee, the last minute win against Croatia and THAT PENALTY against Italy which we are still arguing over today with Lippi in town and the CCM drama in the ACL etc etc
English football has drama Aussie sport can’t replicate
Of course we can.
What about the dramas of the A-League grand finals, especially when the Roar scored 2 late goals to go to extra time and the Besart penalty decision that was discussed for weeks afterwards.
And what about the great drama and Aloisi’s last kick penalty to get us to our fist WC in 32 years and the drama and tears of the late draw against Iran to deny us in 1997.
There’s plenty of drama in Australian football if you just want to look at it.
English football has drama Aussie sport can’t replicate
How am I contradicting myself?
We have so much to choose from that we only like to go to the best entertainment, whether it involves sport or not.
Giant challenges ahead for Greater Western Sydney
The fact that so many people are defending Sheedy and his organisation shows how an AFL fan thinks.
If someone from any other sport said it, it would be front or back page news and labelled racism.
Sydney Sports fans are not fickle. We have the best selection of entertainment and things to do of any city in the world, so we go for quality, not quantity.
WSW are far more entertaining than the GWS and its got nothing to do with Australia’s immigration policy.
Giant challenges ahead for Greater Western Sydney
Then why did they try and set up an AFL team there?
GWS Giants vs Adelaide Crows: AFL live scores, blog
Let’s wait and see if Masters is right.
Four years a chance to position football for the next deal
Aren’t you worried about how much money the Giants lost in their first season and how much of a drain on the AFL’s 1billion TV money teams like the Suns, Giants and Port Adelaide are?
How long can they keep bleeding like that?
Top-four finish no longer an necessity in AFL
Sydney memberships increased strongly this week on the rumours alone.
Once DP’s signing is confirmed they will continue to grow which is more good news for Sydney FC.
Del Piero announcement set for Wednesday
Tom Smithies from the Daily Telegrah will be heading out to the airport to greet DP when he arrives in Australia, with a few firecrackers in his pocket, 5 photographers and 50 riot police with batons and capsicum spray.
Del Piero announcement set for Wednesday
Sydney FC nearly blew it.
DP’s agent wasn’t too impressed when SFC chairman Scott Barlow announced to the world last Friday that he had signed DP, when negotiations hadn’t even been finalised.
Fortunately DP is a man of his word and can be trusted as can be seen by his faithfulness to Juventus sticking with them for 19 years.
Congratulations also to DP for taking the SFC offer of 2M when he was offered 8M to go to Sion in Switzerland. Shows he is not just interested in money and growing his retirement fund but is genuine about helping football to grow in Oz and leaving a legacy around the world to inspire others.
Hopefully some young Australian will watch him play and be inspired by what he has done and dare to dream to follow in his footsteps.
Del Piero announcement set for Wednesday
That’s a very hollow argument TC and you are clutching at straws.
You don’t even have to follow Seria A to know who del Piero is.
Over a billion people have watched him play in 3 world cups and actually win a world cup.
Nearly a billion people have seen him in 13 European Champions League campaigns.
Your arguments are pointless.
The story made the front and back page of the Sydney Morning Herald yesterday and again today even the Sydney Daily Telegraph ran a story about it.
Whether he signs or not, its selling more papers and internet blogs than “Soccer Holligan Ethnic Violence” stories, which didn’t help News Limited sell a single extra paper according to the circulation figures for the last 2 weeks.
Nicky Carle makes surprise switch to the UAE
Rogic has been very ordinary since he got back, losing the ball too easily and not finding his man.
He was a better player before he left than since he’s got back.
They should resurrect the team of Germany 06 with the Duke as captain – they would do a better job than the current offering.
Ange has A-League players in sights