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On the flip side FA are probably never been in a better place especially after a successful women’s World Cup which means more energy and resources spend on the national teams and other larger issues in the game such as the needing more facilities.
I think the old FFA focused too much on the aleague and then the owners wanted more power or in this case independence that Congress thing broke out so the game has never been without its issues forever it seems.
In terms of the GF decision it’s too little too late and it will take awhile for fans to get over it but I don’t mind the magic round it’s a better alternative than selling out the GF and not reward doing well in the aleague table.
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Sad to see this manoeuvre sucking people in yet again
1. Start with terrible option
2. People freak out
3. Offer alternative that is claimed to be not as terrible
4. Freaked out people, grab at alternative for comfort
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+xSad to see this manoeuvre sucking people in yet again 1. Start with terrible option 2. People freak out 3. Offer alternative that is claimed to be not as terrible 4. Freaked out people, grab at alternative for comfort LOL so true.
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So Code Sports/Fox (Slater and Peacock) seem to be alluding to the suggestion that the AL might be returning to being run by FA. Interesting times. +xMore than one team in Victoria paranoid android. No, you're just salty you may be forced to travel if your team makes the GF. Must be a tough reality for you.
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+xSad to see this manoeuvre sucking people in yet again 1. Start with terrible option 2. People freak out 3. Offer alternative that is claimed to be not as terrible 4. Freaked out people, grab at alternative for comfort Political tactics in a nutshell
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+xSad to see this manoeuvre sucking people in yet again 1. Start with terrible option 2. People freak out 3. Offer alternative that is claimed to be not as terrible 4. Freaked out people, grab at alternative for comfort accurate. But its pretty obvious people would accept a Magic Round in Sydney over the GF being in Sydney. And if its a success, it could be rotated around the country in future years. The only thing i ask is that teams are not penalised by losing a home game. Make this a 27th match with no home game rights for all teams.
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+xSo Code Sports/Fox (Slater and Peacock) seem to be alluding to the suggestion that the AL might be returning to being run by FA. Interesting times. +xMore than one team in Victoria paranoid android. No, you're just salty you may be forced to travel if your team makes the GF. Must be a tough reality for you. I think that was more Slater's opinion more that what might happen (unless Peacock has mentioned it somewhere else?) Slater just likes to sensationalise and highlight old problems that everyone already knows about.
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+x+x+xGoing against the group think here but the NRL magic round is great. It's a massive event for the NRL. It's a whole weekend of football with all the fans mixing together in the one place. I know we're copying the NRL but in this case it's a great idea. The A Leagues did it a few years ago when they played every fixture one after the other on a single day but in different cities and that was good. Follow your team to a city and go and watch 2 or 3 other matches while you're there. It's a thumbs up from me. but doing it with the Australia Cup, could be interesting, 10 games in a weekend in one city/state Even Worse Fundamental feature of the cup is the chance to take on a big team at your home ground Well the reality is these games are few. The overwhelming majority of games are just small clubs playing each other - or do only a handful of NPL clubs count? I am not saying do it, but it could be interesting.
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Monoethnic Social Club
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+x+x+x+xGoing against the group think here but the NRL magic round is great. It's a massive event for the NRL. It's a whole weekend of football with all the fans mixing together in the one place. I know we're copying the NRL but in this case it's a great idea. The A Leagues did it a few years ago when they played every fixture one after the other on a single day but in different cities and that was good. Follow your team to a city and go and watch 2 or 3 other matches while you're there. It's a thumbs up from me. but doing it with the Australia Cup, could be interesting, 10 games in a weekend in one city/state Even Worse Fundamental feature of the cup is the chance to take on a big team at your home ground Well the reality is these games are few. The overwhelming majority of games are just small clubs playing each other - or do only a handful of NPL clubs count? I am not saying do it, but it could be interesting. Bit rough to deny a small club (any club not just NPL) their one and only chance to make a bit of coin from gate takings in my opinion... Northcote City last month, for example, had a boost to their gate takings and food sales which, if they were forced to travel to Sydney for a kumbaya round, would have been denied them. I get what you are saying though, perhaps a better idea would be to do a football carnival type thing in the earlier parts of the cup, perhaps, for example all Victorian games (before the national NPL clubs are combined) matches are played over a weekend at AAMI park for example,
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+xSad to see this manoeuvre sucking people in yet again 1. Start with terrible option 2. People freak out 3. Offer alternative that is claimed to be not as terrible 4. Freaked out people, grab at alternative for comfort Hahahaah classic "Sales 101" trick What the reality is however is that the alternative option is NOT really that alternative, infact, Destination NSW now have APL over the barrel having to "justify" the spend and cater for 6 matches instead of a GF and an Allstars international....
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+x+x+x+x+xGoing against the group think here but the NRL magic round is great. It's a massive event for the NRL. It's a whole weekend of football with all the fans mixing together in the one place. I know we're copying the NRL but in this case it's a great idea. The A Leagues did it a few years ago when they played every fixture one after the other on a single day but in different cities and that was good. Follow your team to a city and go and watch 2 or 3 other matches while you're there. It's a thumbs up from me. but doing it with the Australia Cup, could be interesting, 10 games in a weekend in one city/state Even Worse Fundamental feature of the cup is the chance to take on a big team at your home ground Well the reality is these games are few. The overwhelming majority of games are just small clubs playing each other - or do only a handful of NPL clubs count? I am not saying do it, but it could be interesting. Bit rough to deny a small club (any club not just NPL) their one and only chance to make a bit of coin from gate takings in my opinion... Northcote City last month, for example, had a boost to their gate takings and food sales which, if they were forced to travel to Sydney for a kumbaya round, would have been denied them. I get what you are saying though, perhaps a better idea would be to do a football carnival type thing in the earlier parts of the cup, perhaps, for example all Victorian games (before the national NPL clubs are combined) matches are played over a weekend at AAMI park for example, All I am saying is 90% of games (probably more), are not teams playing an a league side for takings.
Of course I support helping the clubs out but one round would hardly hinder this. It would be exceptionally easy to work money for them anyway.
Just an idea I am not saying do it. But I don’t think it’s crazy
heaps of clubs have end of year cups where sistes teams travel from around aus. The Serb ones get loose lol.
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+xSo Code Sports/Fox (Slater and Peacock) seem to be alluding to the suggestion that the AL might be returning to being run by FA. Interesting times. +xMore than one team in Victoria paranoid android. No, you're just salty you may be forced to travel if your team makes the GF. Must be a tough reality for you. Au Contraire , i love travelling. Been to all of SFC's grand finals.
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Slater behaves and talks no diff to countless ex player pundits ala Neville Carra etcetc…. Talk shit at times but I think some shit is good to stir the pot and imo this trash talk makes some sense despite it not happening it throws it out there.
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+x+x+x+x+x+xGoing against the group think here but the NRL magic round is great. It's a massive event for the NRL. It's a whole weekend of football with all the fans mixing together in the one place. I know we're copying the NRL but in this case it's a great idea. The A Leagues did it a few years ago when they played every fixture one after the other on a single day but in different cities and that was good. Follow your team to a city and go and watch 2 or 3 other matches while you're there. It's a thumbs up from me. but doing it with the Australia Cup, could be interesting, 10 games in a weekend in one city/state Even Worse Fundamental feature of the cup is the chance to take on a big team at your home ground Well the reality is these games are few. The overwhelming majority of games are just small clubs playing each other - or do only a handful of NPL clubs count? I am not saying do it, but it could be interesting. Bit rough to deny a small club (any club not just NPL) their one and only chance to make a bit of coin from gate takings in my opinion... Northcote City last month, for example, had a boost to their gate takings and food sales which, if they were forced to travel to Sydney for a kumbaya round, would have been denied them. I get what you are saying though, perhaps a better idea would be to do a football carnival type thing in the earlier parts of the cup, perhaps, for example all Victorian games (before the national NPL clubs are combined) matches are played over a weekend at AAMI park for example, All I am saying is 90% of games (probably more), are not teams playing an a league side for takings.
Of course I support helping the clubs out but one round would hardly hinder this. It would be exceptionally easy to work money for them anyway.
Just an idea I am not saying do it. But I don’t think it’s crazy
heaps of clubs have end of year cups where sistes teams travel from around aus. The Serb ones get loose lol. Yeah fair call mate... It wouldnt be the worst idea in the cup I suppose.
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+xGoing against the group think here but the NRL magic round is great. It's a massive event for the NRL. It's a whole weekend of football with all the fans mixing together in the one place. I know we're copying the NRL but in this case it's a great idea. The A Leagues did it a few years ago when they played every fixture one after the other on a single day but in different cities and that was good. Follow your team to a city and go and watch 2 or 3 other matches while you're there. It's a thumbs up from me. Whilst I 100% agree with you, many here would say it's not football 'kulcha'!
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the man who threw a bucket of sand at goalkeeper Tom Glover jailed for three months.
Wow, that's one hell of a penalty for wanting to build sand castles. Good deterrent though!
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Monoethnic Social Club
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+x+xGoing against the group think here but the NRL magic round is great. It's a massive event for the NRL. It's a whole weekend of football with all the fans mixing together in the one place. I know we're copying the NRL but in this case it's a great idea. The A Leagues did it a few years ago when they played every fixture one after the other on a single day but in different cities and that was good. Follow your team to a city and go and watch 2 or 3 other matches while you're there. It's a thumbs up from me. Whilst I 100% agree with you, many here would say it's not football 'kulcha'! Do you mean "culture' Paulie? Is that some sort of franchise marketing spelling you are using? Nothing cultural about denying passionate club fans the opportunity to watch their club play a home game by forcing them to travel interstate when the rising cost of living means many of them may not be able to afford to. Thats not "culture" thats just selling out.
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+x+x+x+xGoing against the group think here but the NRL magic round is great. It's a massive event for the NRL. It's a whole weekend of football with all the fans mixing together in the one place. I know we're copying the NRL but in this case it's a great idea. The A Leagues did it a few years ago when they played every fixture one after the other on a single day but in different cities and that was good. Follow your team to a city and go and watch 2 or 3 other matches while you're there. It's a thumbs up from me. but doing it with the Australia Cup, could be interesting, 10 games in a weekend in one city/state Even Worse Fundamental feature of the cup is the chance to take on a big team at your home ground Well the reality is these games are few. The overwhelming majority of games are just small clubs playing each other - or do only a handful of NPL clubs count? I am not saying do it, but it could be interesting. SMFC being drawn MV and playing in Perth would be a highlight
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+x+x+x+x+xGoing against the group think here but the NRL magic round is great. It's a massive event for the NRL. It's a whole weekend of football with all the fans mixing together in the one place. I know we're copying the NRL but in this case it's a great idea. The A Leagues did it a few years ago when they played every fixture one after the other on a single day but in different cities and that was good. Follow your team to a city and go and watch 2 or 3 other matches while you're there. It's a thumbs up from me. but doing it with the Australia Cup, could be interesting, 10 games in a weekend in one city/state Even Worse Fundamental feature of the cup is the chance to take on a big team at your home ground Well the reality is these games are few. The overwhelming majority of games are just small clubs playing each other - or do only a handful of NPL clubs count? I am not saying do it, but it could be interesting. SMFC being drawn MV and playing in Perth would be a highlight I reckon we would get a fair few Perth locals from clubs like Athena (and even our old foes Perth Glory) coming down to support the mighty Hellas..... :) Would draw a better crowd than Brisbane vs WU in Perth for example.....
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