Yep and I'm OK with it as he's on absolute fire and not some half hearted 'he's got passion' based selection. I feel Taggart has been handy recently. Just don't want Maclaren. 

JMac couldn't possibly get picked. Doesn't bring enough to the table, even when he is in good form, which he is not currently.
Bruno should get the call up. However Arnie might have more eyes on the future in which he may want players that will be options over the next 4 years. 

CCM never get a decent crowd on a week day. It has something to do with being a commuter area for Sydney. People are still travelling home  

Sydney FC only got 8,006. So it's a trend everywhere.  

Any team can beat anybody no idea who's going to win this season 

Agree but Arnold won’t be NT coach forever so if he wants to win some silverware next year then he must pick and play Fornaroli

They always talk about 'clean air' in relation to the other codes, but Dec/Jan is so busy for everyone and it has nothing to do with sport. Fortunately my team was playing away this week, but I had my work end-of-year function on Friday, a friends birthday Sat night and a Xmas get together with another group of friends this arvo. If MV had a home game this weekend I would have missed it for sure. I have commitments like that every weekend in Dec, then travelling in Jan. I'm sure there are plenty of people in the same boat. Worst time of year to have a football league. 

It just doesn't compute tbh.
Its bad enough playing pre season warm up games through Feb/March for all how humid/or still warm it is at times let alone past Saturday here in Syd was 43 ! and the humidity was rife.
Who even wants to attend watching a damn game.

1 game in the last 3 rounds has drawn a crowd of over 10k, and it was the biggest derby in the league (Syd vs WSyd)

This is so grim.

Just move the league to Winter. The crowds will 100% not get worse. The code is simply not big enough to be hunting for "clear air"

Wellington, MelbC, Bris, Newcastle all need stadiums of 10k capacity to increase the match day epxerience.

This is last straw type stuff.

No owners, terrible squad, apart from Taggart nobody really knows any other players, literally zero advertising.

To be honest still surprised theres 5k turning up. 

In saying that, once there are new owners, who are willing to spend, interest in the team will come back. 

Have always been against it - but i'd say it's time to make each team get a proper marquee.

The support/fans are there as we have seen in the past but there is literally nothing to get excited about.

Generate interest, get people to the game, get people talking about the game and then somehow attempt to convert the people in to long term fans. No other way. 

Yeah not a fan of summer football either.. Even back in the NSL days, missed many a match because it was too hard to leave the beach or was out enjoying the holidays... 
Once South was back in the state leagues and shifted to winter comp we all grumbled quite a bit at the weather and the cold but to be honest I much prefer the thick jacket/scarf/beanie and gloves wrapped around a nice warming scotch that winter football brings now :)

There ARE plenty of long term fans of the game, in every city, mate.  They are just either watching Euro leagues on tellie or too involved in their own local grassroots stuff.
Glory, like the other franchises, needs to give them a reason to be connected to the club... Results are great, marquees are "interesting" but fans need to feel a part of something, not just a resource for merchandising and viewership.... 

Proper marquee is no longer realistic. When Sydney got Del Piero it only cost them $4 million apparently. Given Saudi Arabia and all the money in the game now, that would cost a minimum $40 million if not a lot more.  

Exactly. There's that Norse proverb, "There's no such thing as bad weather, only unsuitable clothing".
Doesn't even get that cold here. Even down here in Melbourne it rarely drops below 10 during the day in Winter. Not like other nations where it is genuinely cold and it actually snows in the Winter.

Community engagement. Heard CCM do this well, don't know what other clubs are like but at the moment there is absolutely zero from Perth. 

One other thing is ticket prices. During NSL, Perth tickets were $10, these days $40, its fucking insane. Don't think AFL/NRL even charge this much.

Dont know about that mate ... Try playing away to Hume City on single digit temp night with the wind and rain coming in sideways. hahahah it can get bloody cold sometimes :)

Yeah I suppose ticket pricing is a factor, especially these days... a fourfold increase in 20 plus years is pretty much on par with everything else in life from back then (petrol, groceries, bills etc) and crowds were better then. 

Not gonna lie, the wind does suck. Makes it feel like it's way colder than it actually is.

This.
I reckon this is the single biggest issue hurting Glory crowds.

I used to frequently bring my "non hardcore-soccer-followers" mates to the Glory when tickets were about $20.
It's just cringeworthy these days saying to a mate "Hey, wanna come to the Glory? It'll cost you $40 for a ticket. (Oh, and we're near the bottom of the table yet again)". 

Obviously I'm not privy to the accounting behind the scenes and I'm oversimplifying things, but surely a crowd of 12K paying $20 for a ticket is better than a crowd of 5K paying $40 for a ticket?

Is it just a way of getting fans to buying season memberships?

GA tickets are $32.50, which is on a par with every other team in the league.
To use a comparison, Orient played Derby in league 1 on Saturday, adult tickets started at GBP 30, roughly $60.

Thanks for the all the match reports, particularly Roar In My Blood.

+$5 handling fee or whatever it is that ticketmaster adds on.

While I'm whinging;
Other gripe of mine is the shed access.
It used to be a case of just buying a GA ticket, and if you wanted to go in the shed, you'd line up at the shed entrance for a wristband. Yes, there could be a line to get into the shed, but it wasn't particularly onerous.
Now you have specifically purchase a shed ticket and have to enter thru gate 1.
You can no longer enter the ground and then decide on the spur of the moment to go into the shed.

Maybe that is to stop random bastards from just walking in, starting trouble of some sort, and have the whole Shed labelled dickheads or something...?

Annoying, but perhaps reasonable to protect active support from those who would damage the reputation of active support even more.

Just a thought.

Glory fans also get a raw deal when it comes to memberships. Most expensive in the league by far. Standard adult GA membership cost $350. To put that into perspective, that's $50 higher than MV and $100 higher than CCM.

Well Mv are giving away tickets lol

You can get cheaper tickets to attend a Dockers, Eagles, Scorchers, Wildcats match.

Doesn't seem right.

How many home matches does that give you access to? Not sure how the league is scheduled but surely there are more than 10 x home matches?

WU was paying people to come to games at one point. HAHAHAHAHAAHAHAAHAHAHA