Biggest Oktoberfest celebrations outside of Germany as well haha

Good. Without them and their belgian neighbours, the beer cafes in the city wouldn't be anywhere near as good.

This is pathetic :lol:

I think you are right and wrong. Ive spent a fair bit of time throughout Europe, and have found trends in terms of Brisbane/other cities reputations. Germans fucking love Brisbane/SEQ and Adelaide and arent that high on Melbourne or Sydney in my experience. Similar with the Dutch. British people were all about Perf/Syd/Melb. Italians and Greeks love Syd and Melb. Obv generalising but were a few obs I made.

Some people literally dont care and think Aus is a big beach covered in Kangaroos and Koalas and Sydney is maybe the only place they know, predominantly due to the recency of the Olympics.

Melbourne is one of those cities that has a reasonable reputation, but Victorians cant imagine it as anything less than it being the greatest place on the planet, like a Skip version of native New Yorkers.

You can't put up a stupid post and pretend you are trolling when everyone calls you out for talking shit.

a few good bites...thanks for coming

With regard to import players, I've never heard one state a preference as to where they go - it's just "are there any opportunities in Australia?"

Drop the "the"

I live in Brisbane so i like it enough but in no way is it an attractive enough city that living there could be considered one of the perks for signing with the local club.

And if the weather is really going to play a significant effect on a players decision to sign, then the prospect of playing Football in Brisbane's summer is a hell of a lot worse than a few mildly cold mornings in Melbourne's winter.

Yeah from an International perspective at least, Sydney and Melbourne are easily the most desirable/renowned cities to come to

I think you're kidding yourself if you don't think clubs in Melbourne and Sydney are more attractive destinations for players than the other cities tbh, especially if you're looking at the move from an international perspective.

Did you see any of FBK's interviews around the time he re-signed or after the Grand Final?

This thread is funny....I don't know how Victory fits everyone under the cap either (and don't really care as long as its legal) but I was rolling on the floor at someones suggestion that one of the reasons players want to play at Victory is because they get to live in Melbourne ...... seriously ????

Yeah everyone loves getting up to cold rainy 5 C degrees every mornings for six months of the year.
I love visiting Melbourne...it is truly an interesting city ..... only place you can have three different seasons in the one day.

ssh dont you know . Mv are cheating because everyone says we are

Ganble. That NEVER gets old.

Victory, over the last 2-3 years, have given an object lesson in list-management. It certainly helps that the bloke looking after squad management is both a very knowledgeable football person, AND a fully qualified accountant.

In short - they don't waste money. It's pretty easy to take Milligan and Berisha out of the list, then come up with a very realistic set of salaries that allows you to keep that squad together.

It is the rumour mill, what did you hear?

shocking if what i've heard is true

Even then though people just overlook actual exits in their haste to label a team cheats because they're seemingly too good on paper. People forget that when Finkler re-signed we lost Traore, Troisi, Rogic from the cap and when FBK signed on we'd just lost Leijer and knew that we'd probably be able to push Archie outside of the cap.

LOL great source mate. Pretty much if anyone on your twitter timeline posted that it's worthy of a thread on here.

:lol: :lol: That's going to take off like 'ganble'. :lol:

Probably not, if they were dodge they would have secured contracts ages ago for the players instead of in ones and twos over months, surely. I'd also think that knowing what happened to Storm and Glory the Victory management are smart enough to know it's not worth trying.

Occam's razor: Players are just attracted to our club's infrastructure, staff, match day experience and culture, as well as the ability to live in Melbourne.

Ange himself said this year on Fox Sports' Shootout that "there's more to signing at Victory than just money".

You support a marketing exercise, I'd say you have more important things to worry about.

Very worrying news

The fact is if you offer a player $100000 a year to play for Central Coast or Perth or $100000 a year to play for MV, then they will always pick us. There is extra benefit in joining a club that isn't a basket case whilst living in a city that isn't shit.

They may not be arriving with huge pedigrees but once they arrive and do well and get re-signed for more money, yet the club still doesn't lose any players without immediate replacements, that's where the questions start coming from.

Who cares about the cap, I just wanna watch good football.

This.

It comes down to recruitment.

Don't waste money on duds like Zadkovich etc.

-PB

Jets under Tinkler didn't spend full salary cap last season and had no marquee players

the problem is that accountants dont come under the cap. victory have the calculator messi.