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Ah, fair enough. But we have big problems if City value a player based on their potential sell-on – and still don’t play them despite the crud Joyce was serving up.
Riley McGree finally sheds the jinx of Joyce
Hang on Waz. Your statements:
just maybe he could see what Brugge saw
and
Riley McGree has found his level.
Don’t add up.
Not being good enough for a big club in the Belgian League is one thing. Sitting on the bench in the A-League is another.
Joyce didn’t play him here NOT because he wasn’t good enough for Europe, but because he didn’t consider him good enough for City/HAL. I think you’ve muddied the issue.
Fair enough if he wasn’t good enough over there, but he’s shown he is good enough here. And that is a bigger, broader conversation well beyond McGree and his talent level.
Riley McGree finally sheds the jinx of Joyce
This is clearly some kind of business deal. Waste of a visa spot, but in reality it probably wasn’t going to be used for a genuine impact player.
You’ve pretty much nailed it Paul. It’s a transfer where football isn’t the priority. Strange but true.
On the bright side, it seems like this guy actually exists – so it’s not our worst signing of all time.
Yongbin Chen signs with Adelaide: Does anybody win?
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The Roar's A-League expert tips and predictions: Round 2
The BBL’s biggest problem is the fact it’s simply sport as entertainment. If there’s something more exciting to do or see, you’ll lose numbers.
(Interestingly, one thing I’ve not seen referenced as impacting the BBL last season is Fortnite. Late primary into high school aged boys [largely] all focused on something they generally needed a TV to play on. So no chance to watch T20 cricket).
The league doesn’t have the emotional pull of clubs like Collingwood, Parramatta, Leeds etc. It makes entry easy, with exit to do something else just as easy, and infinite growth just isn’t possible.
Why BBL08 wasn't a hit
Mike, it seems we’re stuck with it. Hopefully it keeps evolving. Two main points on VAR:
It all comes back to what is meant by ‘clear and obvious’. If play has to be stopped, and a ref consult a monitor watching one incident over and over in slow motion to make a decision…that, to me, is not clear and obvious. I’ve always though if an incident is clear and obvious, the VAR can just over-rule. Why use technology to then re-introduce human decision-making? (And using slow motion for close decisions in any sport does my head in)
I don’t think we’ve seen enough study on the pyschological complexities involved for referees. To so publically be pulled up and told to re-consider a decision you’ve just made must be loaded with pressure. Are we (globally) seeing refs watching replays in order to find reason to justify the stoppage, as a form of confirmation bias?
On a side note – why not have a monitor at each end of the pitch for refs to use as well? Would especially help for penalty decisions.
Edit – sorry for the wall of text, my formatting won’t stay for some reason
VAR has changed football, but we only have ourselves to blame
Fair point, Mike. The bigger picture is a worry though. As I said after your piece earlier this week, we need growth.
After 14 seasons FFA/HAL still don’t seem to understand what is keeping the wider football family from going to games, or they don’t understand what the feedback (and/or data) means and how to act on it.
Some level of marketing is still needed to give the A-League any chance of cutting through to potential new fans. At this stage, with brand recognition presumably pretty high in the community, it just looks like a lot of people – football and non-football – have decided they can’t be bothered.
Going to games is more important than marketing campaigns
I guess it’s a long way to the top if you wanna play in goal
Going to games is more important than marketing campaigns
Completely disagree with you Waz.
People aren’t going to one more game of football, and they’re not bringing a mate. We’re moving into season 15. I ask this genuinely: where’s the easy answer there?
Combine that with 40,000 people going to one game (given its a GF of EPL side) and not following up. Locally it’s been the same since we hosted Sydney FC at Adelaide Oval the very first time. Big problem, no easy answer.
Social media can work to keep the brand high for people whose online behaviour identifies them as football fans. But we need more than that to keep the game growing at HAL level.
Social media is one way to actually market the A-League
I think you’re half-right, Mike.
It’s a cost-effective way of targetting a receptive audience. The big problem is growth. If football fans at club/state level haven’t sampled (in marketing terms) the A-League by now, when will they? Awareness of the league in that demo will be 100%. If they haven’t bothered, they don’t care.
Grabbing the attention of new – potential – fans is the issue. And social media is one part of that but I don’t think we should overstate it’s importance.
I’ve seen 50,000+ for football games at Adelaide Oval, and the next game at Coopers is 10,000, so the problem is getting people through the gates.
Social media may catch their attention – like an A-League club hosting Liverpool does – but we need to motivate them to actually come to a game. No easy answers I’m afraid.
Social media is one way to actually market the A-League
It was a great, great goal. One of those moments where there’s a split second of hush around the ground as the crowd (yes, I know…) realises what just happened. Nikola raising his game several levels is probably the highlight of the season for me so far. His positional awareness and defensive workrate probably doesn’t come across on the broadcast, but he deserves a ton of credit for what he’s doing.
To your wider point Mike – it was a rough day for anyone but the rusted-on. Cold, wet with rain forecast to get heavier – and someone’s already said how exposed Coopers is – and a timeslot that’s never worked here, up against the Test at Adelaide Oval. On top of that, we have 2-3 weeks of the school year left, and people are just TIRED. Get the kids to bed ready for another week, get through it. That’s about the state of things.
Lack of active support isn’t the problem in this case. It’s thoughtless scheduling combined with unseasonal weather.
Also time for HAL to look at tiered tickets. Wellington, Newcastle and CCM coming to Hindmarsh? Make it Tier 2 – $10 Adults, $5 Kids for GA. Build organically so when these ‘difficult’ days come around you have a healthier ‘install base’.
The death of active support will be the death of the A-League