The Football Thread (4 Viewers)

[ZaraKu]

Re: The Official A-League Thread.

I assume your referring to the Jets vs. Beijing game?

 

[blue_chameleon]

Re: The Official A-League Thread.

personally i find the a-league quite dull, ball possesion is low and quality of finishes arent consistent, i mean on the odd occasion u see a good goal and what not but yeh thats my 2cents
peace.

blackmamba.

You get that when the competition is all but a couple of years old.

...and is being viewed against the likes of the EPL, Serie A etc which have been established for over a hundred years.

 

[ZaraKu]

Re: The Official A-League Thread.

give it 5 - 10 years it'll be big, I'm personally counting down to the demise of NRL when the A-League takes over as no. 1

 

[blue_chameleon]

Re: The Official A-League Thread.

give it 5 - 10 years it'll be big, I'm personally counting down to the demise of NRL when the A-League takes over as no. 1

That's certainly ambitious.

Don't get your hopes up. I'd like to see steady growth in spectators combined with solid investment in better establishing and supporting talent through academies and foreign club partnerships over the next 20 years, then see where we are after that.

 

[ZaraKu]

Re: The Official A-League Thread.

I'm only ambitious because I hate league and afl with a passion

 

[Izzay]

Re: The Official A-League Thread.

spectators will come to games when they can be promised quality players.
you won't get quality players in the a-league when a player can fetch an entire team's salary cap and more elsewhere, like in the UAE or someshit.

that's the problem with the a-league - the players are shit.

 

[Groucho Marxist]

Re: The Official A-League Thread.

the a-league will NEVER overtake the AFL in victoria, SA or WA.

 

[Charizard]

Re: The Official A-League Thread.

not in this century.

 

[whatashotbyseve]

Re: The Official A-League Thread.

give it 5 - 10 years it'll be big, I'm personally counting down to the demise of NRL when the A-League takes over as no. 1

Haha dude.

the a-league will NEVER overtake the AFL in victoria, SA or WA.

This. Ever.

 

[Will Shakespear]

Re: The Official A-League Thread.

I give the A-league three years, tops, till it takes over

 

[whatashotbyseve]

Re: The Official A-League Thread.

A-League is more likely to fold within three years than take over the AFL. Sometimes the execs forget that Australia is the most competitive sporting landscape in the world and some three year old competition is unlikely to usurp a 100+ year old competition.

 

[blue_chameleon]

Re: The Official A-League Thread.

Sometimes the execs forget that Australia is the most competitive sporting landscape in the world and some three year old competition is unlikely to usurp a 100+ year old competition.

Bahaha.

C'mon man, do you really think that that is the strategic goal of the A-League? I certainly don't.

I think more people need to realise that EPL =/= A League. Once this debate is quashed, then we can all see the A-League with proper perspective.

 

[fredinho]

Re: The Official A-League Thread.

spectators will come to games when they can be promised quality players.
you won't get quality players in the a-league when a player can fetch an entire team's salary cap and more elsewhere, like in the UAE or someshit.

that's the problem with the a-league - the players are shit.

in season 3 juninho kept out crowds up

 

[whatashotbyseve]

Re: The Official A-League Thread.

Bahaha.

C'mon man, do you really think that that is the strategic goal of the A-League? I certainly don't.

I think more people need to realise that EPL =/= A League. Once this debate is quashed, then we can all see the A-League with proper perspective.

No. My response was to this:

I give the A-league three years, tops, till it takes over

 

[blue_chameleon]

Re: The Official A-League Thread.

No. My response was to this:

He was being serious?

I missed that bit.

Eh, either way, we don't really know what will happen.

 

[Izzay]

Re: The Official A-League Thread.

if anything, the a-league is really taking off in melbourne. average crowd numbers are double that of most teams, even triple of some.

 

[Groucho Marxist]

Re: The Official A-League Thread.

if anything, the a-league is really taking off in melbourne. average crowd numbers are double that of most teams, even triple of some.

yeah, coz in melbourne they've got nothing better to do.

 

[sk1001]

Re: The Official A-League Thread.

yeah, coz in melbourne they've got nothing better to do.

Got to love the bitterness. Big crowd = nothing better to do, who would have thought!

I suppose by the same token, Sydney has such poor attendences because they are too busy fucking other men in the asshole or fondling 13 year old girls.

 

[Will Shakespear]

Re: The Official A-League Thread.

any town where thousands of people watch ALF every week must have nothing else to do

 

[Roy9]

Re: The Official A-League Thread.

Got to love the bitterness. Big crowd = nothing better to do, who would have thought!

I suppose by the same token, Sydney has such poor attendences because they are too busy fucking other men in the asshole or fondling 13 year old girls.

I'm sure she was nearly 14 years old