the last 2 posts you guys, yer I concur - its so convoluted here its not funny.......
Not sure I'm going on the right path but going by my train of thought.
This place is so mixed up due to its early origins followed with migration its like the place wanted growth/expansion but only on our terms.
We love having migrants but dislike them not being brain washed aussies.
I recall compared to the young fellas here we prided on being miles and miles away from the rest of the world and it was football meat pies and holden cars and drink beer only.
Football meaning eggball, well mostly the southern states, north the other eggball.
Sockah the wogs mostly yet there were plenty good anglos playing so it don't make sense, well you keep to yourselves your only allowed to roam free if you follow eggball, when we went to the pub you wouldn't talk about soccer for a group of bogans would likely call you poofs and pick a fight, did other countries behave similar in their early days ?
Who knows but they have crasped many sport codes whereas here its run by 2 the rest are minnows and demonised, well thats the DNA of the past that still prevails due to the foundations laid.
So the past did create the sporting backwater ?

I don't care hearing about the NSL failure, the past is the past, the failure of modern football has been appeasing to the mass's that has fallen off the cliff.
As has been mentioned of late - the sooner the FA and all wake up and just appease to the real football family first and foremost we might get somewhere in the future.
Funnily without understanding the whole AL package that was to become originally I had high hopes we finally get out of the back water as well, its model was wrong but its direction was right going Pro and getting the needed sponserships/$$$$, hindsight is a wonderful thing.

Well Simon Hill came on to promote that show that runs Tuesdays and the people presenting are obviously NRL/Cricket people heck they even talk about NFL more than A-league. 

They then asked Simon about the crowd numbers, he fired back saying "why doesn't the NRL fill their stadiums? considering they get all the media coverage." The SEN guy started back tracking and Simon just had enough and said he is sick of being asked about crowds. Then went on to stay soccer does not get the coverage it deserves considering there's a world cup around the corner. The callers then started coming in to say the NRL was "TV game" and that they dont care for crowds. A soccer bloke then called up and asked whats the tv viewing rights on the Rugby League world cup and how do they compare to the soccer World cup? SEN then went and changed the subject lol 

I have also noticed that the SEN guys seem to treat anything soccer related as a joke and they never take the presenter seriously that is informing them of weekend scores.. etc. 

Its not until the main guy tells them "hey they actually sponsor us" that they change to be more respectful. Why is the A-League sponsoring these idiots?

The presenter in question was Simon O'Donnell, BTW.

Nooooooooooooooooooo
He was my idol when I was like 5 years old aha

Well Simon Hill came on to promote that show that runs Tuesdays and the people presenting are obviously NRL/Cricket people heck they even talk about NFL more than A-league. 

They then asked Simon about the crowd numbers, he fired back saying "why doesn't the NRL fill their stadiums? considering they get all the media coverage." The SEN guy started back tracking and Simon just had enough and said he is sick of being asked about crowds. Then went on to stay soccer does not get the coverage it deserves considering there's a world cup around the corner. The callers then started coming in to say the NRL was "TV game" and that they dont care for crowds. A soccer bloke then called up and asked whats the tv viewing rights on the Rugby League world cup and how do they compare to the soccer World cup? SEN then went and changed the subject lol 

I have also noticed that the SEN guys seem to treat anything soccer related as a joke and they never take the presenter seriously that is informing them of weekend scores.. etc. 

Its not until the main guy tells them "hey they actually sponsor us" that they change to be more respectful. Why is the A-League sponsoring these idiots?

Once an AFL dickhead always an AFL dickhead.

I think, from memory, he was a half decent AFL player before he picked cricket.

Ha ha no idea but all I know is him and Dean Jones were my two favourites.

I was born in '82 so I was super young but they are the two I would pretend to be when I'd bowl/bat against myself in the back yard within 5 overs of every game.
I even got a Dean Jones book for Christmas that I was clearly too young to read.

It's funny that I genuinely haven't watched a single game of cricket in about 15 years

Ha ha no idea but all I know is him and Dean Jones were my two favourites.

I was born in '82 so I was super young but they are the two I would pretend to be when I'd bowl/bat against myself in the back yard within 5 overs of every game.
I even got a Dean Jones book for Christmas that I was clearly too young to read.

It's funny that I genuinely haven't watched a single game of cricket in about 15 years

We had a Melb. equivalent of the above incident yesterday:



The presenter in question was Simon O'Donnell, BTW.

Clownish comments like his really come from a deep sadness and jealousy that afl and cricket jocks will never have their favorite sports on a massive stage like the fifa world cup, or the EPL 😆 even the tour de france has a bigger global audience than cricket and afl 👏

Clownish comments like his really come from a deep sadness and jealousy that afl and cricket jocks will never have their favorite sports on a massive stage like the fifa world cup, or the EPL 😆 even the tour de france has a bigger global audience than cricket and afl 👏

Clownish comments like his really come from a deep sadness and jealousy that afl and cricket jocks will never have their favorite sports on a massive stage like the fifa world cup, or the EPL 😆 even the tour de france has a bigger global audience than cricket and afl 👏

You can understand if the clowns were from AFL, some of those commentators really think AFL is a huge game, not just a huge game in 4 states & that's it!!!!
But coming from a cricket commentator, who has traveled the world & knows how big football is worldwide is very surprising. However Simon O'Donnell only played a handful of games for Australia, so maybe he didn't travel that much.

You can understand if the clowns were from AFL, some of those commentators really think AFL is a huge game, not just a huge game in 4 states & that's it!!!!
But coming from a cricket commentator, who has traveled the world & knows how big football is worldwide is very surprising. However Simon O'Donnell only played a handful of games for Australia, so maybe he didn't travel that much.

You can understand if the clowns were from AFL, some of those commentators really think AFL is a huge game, not just a huge game in 4 states & that's it!!!!
But coming from a cricket commentator, who has traveled the world & knows how big football is worldwide is very surprising. However Simon O'Donnell only played a handful of games for Australia, so maybe he didn't travel that much.

Just to clarify, is anyone who follows AFL a dickhead who lives in a monoculture where nothing else matters? Because I know many  AFL fans who also are members of Victory (mostly) and City (some), or have an EPL club they follow (typically Liverpool).

There's actually a difference between the attitude of the AFL organization and the media who are connected to it and the actual fans. 

That's the difference between NRL and AFL blokes though. NRL blokes might give soccer a bit of (generally good natured) stick but they'll watch the EPL and other sports like Union and Hockey. AFL dickheads live in a monoculture where nothing else matters.

You can understand if the clowns were from AFL, some of those commentators really think AFL is a huge game, not just a huge game in 4 states & that's it!!!!
But coming from a cricket commentator, who has traveled the world & knows how big football is worldwide is very surprising. However Simon O'Donnell only played a handful of games for Australia, so maybe he didn't travel that much.

The issue at heart is that most of those fans' first-loyalty would still be to Aussie Rules/AFL, and as such seldom go in to bat for ⚽ in any dispute between the two. Trust me, I know firsthand all too well😔