Yeah I hate that crap. 

Did well for the first five minutes now we just turn it over. 

Cheers blud. I have apologised for the use of that word. Should have used a better adjective. Can see how it was misinterpreted but no excuse on my end. 

Results matter but sometimes some of the people on here need to realise in youth football the score isn't the only result. 

That said at u-19 level the scoreline does matter a lot. They should be doing better, this side is really struggling to put balls in the back of the net.

Fuck these scum that lie down at every opportunity.  3 minutes for the stretcher to come out.  Would love to see a ref have the balls to add 10 minutes injury time one day.

Disgraceful gamesmanship from Laos , this really gives our game a bad name and the AFL/ NRL wankers something to bag shit of Football .Refs need to stamp it out with card or extended xtra time

Funny how you can call Asians 'scum' and no one cares.

Throw down 'retard' though and the place goes into meltdown.

I'm thinking this will be a cracking game , hopefully Optus can afford to get a proper fcun commentator for semi and final , the bloke they got atm makes me want to puke big time :(

Yeah that's just as bad.

Call them scum is fine. Calling them Asian scum is not. Imo. But I was the only one who kicked up a fuss about the use of the word retard. That South Park thing makes a good point. And I reckon many people who are intellectually disabled or have loved ones who are would not be opposed to throwing words around like that. But I don't know that. And I can also see how it could be very offensive (even though it's a word I used to use a lot).

I'm at a bit of a loss as to whether it's good to be laissez-faire with these kind of things. It probably depends on the context. But without a specific context which makes it inoffensive, I think it's better not to use such terms because there will be some who, undoubtedly, would be hurt.

If you constantly worried about somebody who 'might' be offended about something you might say then you'd never open your mouth. And that's no way to live your life.

But anyway here's the thing.  I could call you c#nt and no one would care.

Call you a faggot however and you're looking down the barrel of a ban.

Will cease posting about this because it's way off track.  Apologies for the sidetrack.

I'd just like to throw my two cents worth in here, but recently, I'm sure many of you are acquainted with 'A-League memes' on Facebook, (hoping no one is an admin of that page on here) but the other day regarding Melbourne City's 4-0 loss to Newcastle. The post (piss-take) basically connoted prior to the match the line up of city being a mixture of experience and youth whilst Post match the City twitter page said that their youthful squad was humbled by a full strength Jets squad. covering up the disappointing result with lack of experience.

As a result the keyboard warriors, 'A league memes' came alive bagging out Melbourne City (and basically their youth team), obviously the admins being so deluded in their apparent humour, don't fucking realise that half the kids that were playing that day were under 20 and most likely follow/like if not know about the page. So my question is. Do you think kids read into this and take it personally, I mean they can either strive for more success or completely give up due to the backlash they receive. but I feel fuckin annoyed when us Australians take the piss out of their own youth structures (youth teams) when the meme pages supposedly have a passion for covering the game as a whole.

Obviously I realise it is a memes page but come on, know when its suitable to do so and know when it isn't. And just because I'm a city fan I would've been pissed if it was any other club as it just degrades the development of the game as a whole.

Sorry. just an issue I thought apparent to youth development. Media.

1stly have to say that a league memes seems to be run by melbourne city supporters.

2nduly i think you need thick skin if you are going to have a public profile.

Results matter but sometimes some of the people on here need to realise in youth football the score isn't the only result. 

That said at u-19 level the scoreline does matter a lot. They should be doing better, this side is really struggling to put balls in the back of the net.

On another day than the one against Laos, they could've put 6 in  the back of the net from the chances created.

The Australian performance in this game, was a lot better than the result.

The point made by FFA is that a high component of results are attributable to chance - approximately 40%. Yet some get so upset by losses that can be considered an upset. FFA boffins, led by Berger citing European scenarios, also conclude that many Aussie star youth players in tournaments fade out,  or become mediocre pro footballers, not fulfilling  early promise.

 Sometimes overage cheating occurs. This was apparent in most of the Nigererian team who just won the order 16/17 World Cup. The only definite way to ensure it doesn't  occur is playing senior football.

I've also read other articles where stars in underage World Cups fade out from  countries all around the world - not just Kaz Patafta.

We've all seen upsets. Particularly in recent times where  a few NPL teams have been fortunate to defeat  HAL teams in the FFA Cup.

Decentric, normally your analysis is good but I think your stat on chance appears wrong because in effect you are saying every team wins 40% of their matches just on luck, which really sounds a lot like a good excuse for losing against the better team on the day. 

Football is a results game and anyone who thinks they dont matter is kidding themselves. If we arent concerned with how the U16 go in this tournament and their results dont matter, why did we bother sending them, surely the money could have been better spent on other development activities in Australia.

Decentric, normally your analysis is good but I think your stat on chance appears wrong because in effect you are saying every team wins 40% of their matches just on luck, which really sounds a lot like a good excuse for losing against the better team on the day. 

Football is a results game and anyone who thinks they dont matter is kidding themselves. If we arent concerned with how the U16 go in this tournament and their results dont matter, why did we bother sending them, surely the money could have been better spent on other development activities in Australia.