Yes, I would like to openly declare that I no longer have any affiliation to AUFC and that I will not be going to ANY of their games, or let my family attend, until the A League becomes less plastic.

If and when SMFC and my old club of West Adelaide join with Adelaide City and enter the A League, then I will re-engage.

Until then, c'mon West Adelaide in the NPL and our ally Adelaide City!

The plastic AUFC logo is also gone and replaced with the non plastic West Adelaide logo!

I really do not give a shit.

Onya Crackers

State League

I hope you realise that 442 forums is plastic and that you should feel encouraged to extend your noble gesture of boycotting all that is plastic.

I fully support you in your lifelong endeavour.

No wind up. I am being serious. Don't really care who get's upset or not. They shouldn't get upset at all, but some people just have no clue.

If people don't do things like this, or express their opinions openly and freely, then the FFA will not know that there are issues out there and that the Football Community is divided. These sentiments are hardly uncommon.

No 442 forum is fine, and I enjoy being here.

It's interesting, to say the least...

how much less ?

I too support you!!!! If only Greece qualified for Euros, so you could watch some football, no A-League, no Greece, must be lonely place. I feel for you.

No I watch the Euros. That's not plastic.

Doesn't matter if Greece didn't qualify. Maybe they will qualify next time. They aren't exactly excluded from the competition. It's merit based.

Love the European Cup.

The NPL, European Cup and EPL is my Football fix.

They are more metallic, probably close to Titanium or at the very least GOLD! :lol:

Wow, a plastic starts a thread to complain about plastics. Truly bizarre.

What seems to be the problem?

You shouldn't be concerned with the threads I start, and steer clear if you don't like them.

Edited by Aikhme: 22/6/2016 12:10:43 PM

The gif isn't quite right!

The white corners weren't cut out. Where is the attention to detail? Plastic! :lol:

Some things never change.


Edited by Aikhme: 22/6/2016 12:11:17 PM

I'm not that concerned, it's genuinely funny that the truest kind of plastic is whinging about plastics.

Then how is plastic suppose to lift its game and lift the bar if no one is allowed to complain about plastic?

Plastic argument there! :lol:

Let's check the facts here:

Number of Clubs "supported": 4
Numbers of Countries you "support" clubs in: 4
Number of clubs outside of top division: 1 (25%)
Changes "support": Yes

Definitely a plastic. None of them on their own mean much, but having 4 clubs, and changing one suddenly for a weak reason (to do with the league as you put it), suggests that you're as plastic as they come.

This is either brilliant satire or you're a self hating plastic.

I don't discriminate against countries nor exlude others from competition.

It took me 12 years to attend an A League game, and boy, what a mistake that was.

I went looking for my Ithaca and found a plastic factory! :lol:

You mean you're a plastic.

12 years to actually attend an A-league game though, why even bother with a thread like this if you were only ever a plastic keyboard warrior?

12 years means I'm definately not plastic or a little sheep.

I say what I mean and do what I say! :lol:

Plastic straw man argument! :lol:

12 years to attend a League that 11 years old

Wait... so you're saying that taking 12 years to actually attend a game for Adelaide meant you weren't a plastic.

Boy, plastics have weird logic at times. The odd part is they're usually complaining about "plastics".

Anyhow, have a nice day Plaikhsticme.



Give the plastic the benefit of the doubt, Adelaide United existed before the A-league.

Edited by Someguy: 22/6/2016 12:32:49 PM

Adelaide City and West Adelaide allies? I think you got your wires crossed a bit matey.

Also United was created by South Australian football to represent South Australian football specifically cause city wasn't able to play NSL anymore. So before the aleague era. I guess some people a too young to remember that though.

Edited by capac: 22/6/2016 12:34:21 PM

I remember the good old days. There was never anything malicious between Adelaide City and West Adelaide. Just some on field rivaly.

The 2 committees, regularly had joint meetings, functions, and everyone would visit the home teams bars, players including. Spirits were always good.

A League was established in 2004.

12 years of not attending a game because of the plasticness which continues till this day!

lock+ban+purge the forum

I've not watched the HAL for over 40 years

Shame to lose a real authentic Everton supporter, who obviously grew up in Merseyside supporting the local club of his boyhood, who is such the real deal he refuses to buy Everton strips as now it's just a big commercial money making exercise aimed at people in places with no real connection to the club

you could've taught us so much...

From 1st May, 2016



Lock and ban.

I got 3 Everton strips.

And I have been to more Everton Games than plastic AUFC. :cool:

I go every year btw!And I go for free. :cool:

Shame so many people want to silence points of view they don't like!

So plastic and salty! :lol:

People make mistakes. It was a great day, but also very plastic!

So what exactly is so plastic about the A-League?

Assuming from a few comments about "merit" that you'd like promotion and relegation. Fair enough, but this is an economic sustainability reason, nothing to do with being plastic. How many seasons did the NSL have promotion and relegation?? (Believe most the time it happened during the NSL era due to financial constraints / admin more so than merits, I think this is what the FFA are trying to avoid ... hence for the recent consolidation of the league instead of rapid expansion).

The club's logo was another I think you mentioned as plastic ... well considering the age of the competition it would be expected most have fairly modern logos (slowly teams have been changing this over time, e.g. Roar, Melbourne City). Hardly a reason to support or not support a team though.

I think both his parents are from there

Yes to promotion and relogation. That would be a good start.

Something about 10 team leagues too.

Oh, and I think clubs like SMFC have their right of place. West Adelaide and Adelaide City too and others.

Many things can be don't to reduce the amount of plastic! :lol:

Edited by Aikhme: 22/6/2016 01:03:42 PM

Cousin use to play for the club! :cool:

I thought this day would never come!

Thank you Aikhme, you can start posting on your main account again <3

On your way then. Seriously don't understand why you would think anyone would care or be 'upset'? If you can only support football if it waves the flag of where your ancestors used to live then you really can't be much of a football supporter

West Adelaide Soccer Club. Soccer to me is as plastic as it gets. If I were you I'd ditch West Adelaide before Adelaide United :d

How does that stop you supporting Adelaide United though?

Why do SMFC have a "right"?? Souths have won the Vic NPL twice since 2004 (start of the A-League). They aren't exactly banging on the door from a merit based POV.

Sure it would be great to have more teams in the comp but due to economic stability and the popularity of the sport in Australia (and the size of the nation) it isn't feasible atm. Shouldn't therefore your impetus be to support the single team representing your area?? If Adelaide were getting sell outs each week, had a huge supporter base etc. etc. wouldn't this be the best way to highlight the credentials of Adelaide to support a second team??

Don't particularly care to be honest.

I am just trying to help you be less plastic!

The West Adelaide and Adelaide City merger will address this small aspect of leftover egg ball plastcness in due course! :d

It is not my team. It's too plastic,

I support West Adelaide in the NPL.

And yes, SMFC has a greater birthright than any club in Australia!

Which one - mum or dad?

Yes you've said they are plastic, but I am asking why?

Cousin re. You should read the club's history and perhaps make the connection to the other big non plastic club I support. :cool:

No A League is plastic with only ten teams. How plastic?

Plus I got a signed shirt which I have framed and hung in my Billiards room. :cool:

Edited by Aikhme: 22/6/2016 01:30:37 PM

Benefit of the doubt gone, you're such a plastic that you don't even know that the first A-league match was in August 2005, not 12 years ago yet.



Wowzers!



Wouldn't call Mommy and Daddy paying "free".



The amazing part is a parent from Cyprus, a parent from Liverpool and a parent from Rome.



Why do plastics have things against small leagues?



I've been trying to brush over this because I'm sure it's just satire, but really... how does the merger of the traditional Greek and Italian clubs of the city reduce their plasticness. I'd say that traditional rivals merging would be the very essence of plastic.

What, like the SPL with 12 clubs including Celtic, Rangers, Hearts, Hibs and Aberdeen?

Or how about the Swiss Super League with only 10 teams? With Young Boys, Bern, Basel and Grasshopper?

Like the Bulgarian league with 10 teams? Including Plovdiv, Levski Sofia and CSKA Sofia?

Or the I-League with 9 teams, including Mohun Bagan?

How about Ligat HaAl with 8 teams including Maccabi haifa and Hapoel Tel Aviv?

Go away.

NPL is front of 500 people, I follow Manly United. Enjoy EPL on Optus, European cup, wow, that's going back in time, you'd have to break out the videos.

does npl stand for non plastic leagues

Posting in Aikhme shittheadzzzzz



-PB

You can't compare NPL crowds to A League. Apples and lemons.

But at least its not plastic and is the grassroots.

Good one! I like that! :lol:

Oh so you definately are scraping the bottom of the barrel by making that comparison. #-o

So plastic!

What, are yous saying no Greek Players have ever played for Everton.

What a plastic outlook! :lol:

Didn't Recoba say something similar about Uruguay's chances in 2005. We all know what happen there!!!!

Birthright is such an old way of thinking!!!!

My grandfather was in the army, my dad was in te army, my brother is in the army & hence I will also join the army!!!!

That is why you are so plastic and will soon be recycled into cleaning detergent! :lol:

To be fair

SMFC does have a birthright

The franchises were 2-D printed in a lawyers office



Edited by View from the fence: 22/6/2016 01:55:09 PM

No, but it's pretty plastic to just support a handful of teams because of a tenuous temporary connection.

The only recent one that comes to mind is Vellios, but he was pretty awful.

You see, even the chairs are plastic! :lol:

It's called tribalism.

It doesn't exist in the plastic world of A League.

Just wait for the 3D version.

It's not far off now.

you wont let your family attend matches? wind up or not that sounds serial killerish

Since they are young kids playing U6s, I think it's still my call to make.

I am bringing them up to not like plastic things. :lol:

Supporting a large set of successful clubs and trying to justify it after the fact, while changing alliances regularly is the very definition of being a plastic. You are the archetype case of being a plastic.

so your entire family consists of young kids who are under 6 years old? some family you got there:lol:

Wifey only wants to watch the kids play.

I haven't changed alliances regularly.

My teams have been life long.

AUFC got a brief run off the bench last season but has now been dropped because it's too plastic!

Have they now. Didn't you suggest your cousin played for Everton being the reason. Either your cousin was playing them them when you were born (I'm unaware of any Greek players for Everton in the era 25-35 years ago) or they're fairly new for your "lifelong list".

You gave so little of a care about the Hellas that you just added them today to replace the "off the bench" AUFC.

The best thing about plastics is how hard they feel they have to argue to pretend they're not. You're a plastic, there's nothing wrong with that (except by your own attacks right now), you need to learn to accept who you are.

Aikhme
you want WAHellas and Adelaide city to merge ? to what ? to form a composite team which will enter the A league
isnt that what AUFC is , a composite team formed for Adelaide ?
i dont get it... they are plastic ? if so wont the new team be plastic as well ? i

Their problem isn't plastics, it's that they want to have something that makes them feel special.

Lifelong fans usually only care about plastics if they're taking their spot, as they are generally a good thing for clubs. Plastics lead to more lifelong fans, more income for the club, and a stronger future, usually people complaining, particularly complaining about the nebulous idea of a "plastic league" are people who lack their own footballing identify and are desperately trying to denigrate something to make their own niche. Most of the time (i.e. this case), these people are plastics themselves.

Need a thread where 'plastic' is defined

I don't think a merger is on the cards. West Adelaide and Adelaide City will continue but both are looking into forming a joint venture if you like.

There is a major disconnect between the NPL and the A League.

Junior fees are at a record level. I paid $1,000 for 2 kids to play U6. And the money is being thrown at AUFC.

Many fans, have been excluded. Yes so many attend, but they don't feel the same and then there is the more hardcore that just won't attend.

The NPL is being neglected despite it being the grassroots engine room.

I also believe there will be benefits to AUFC. The rivalry will be intence, and I believe the new entity will have a big supporter base from the NPL teams.

AUFC is not popular in the NPL, or West Adelaide and Adelaide City.

I will come up with a Glossary to define the terms and I will even provide a sliding scale for you! :lol:

Stifles gonna do something? :lol:

-PB

I'm a South Melbourne nut myself now living on the sunshine coast, initially i didn't like the A league but after ten years, and despite its shortcomings, its actually pretty good. And there's hope that new-Lowy gets the benefit of integrating top to bottom through P/R so mate, drop the plastic BS and climb on board again :)

Oh for crying out loud. I've been following them for 20 odd years, and West Adelaide, Apoel, and Lazio since I was a boy.

AUFC got a run off the bench last year but has been dropped.

Absolutely!

Good luck to SMFC!

If SMFC enetr before the West Adelaide and Adelaide City going concern, then I will support them too, because they are not plastic.

Edited by Aikhme: 22/6/2016 02:46:04 PM

The NPL will cease to be "less plastic" when it introduces P/R to the leagues below it and stops demanding something from the HAL that it's not prepared to implement itself. and I watch more NPL-Q each year than i do HAL

There is promotion and relegation. At least in the NPLSA there is.

To be fair, most other State NPLs have pro/rel to at least one level below it, and some many more.

Queensland is one of only a few that don't.

The only person that seems plastic is you mate for jumping ship from one club to another just for shits and giggles.

So ur no longer supporting Adelaide United because they changed their logo?? Right oh then.

So, like a plastic you change teams that easily. Good'oh.

If by plastic you mean professional then yeah, give me "plastic" over any crap your affiliated clubs were ever able to dish up back in the "good old days".