Frank Lowy? Oh, he completely changed the face of football in Australia for the good of the game. Introduced a brand new league, which can attract quality players, the likes of Jason Culina, Dwight Yorke, Robbie Fowler, etc. This has resulted in season with crowd averages at 10,000 or above.

Has also, lead our bid for a World Cup and an Asian Cup, qualified us for 2 World Cups, employed some very good managers in Pim Verbeek and Guus Hiddink.

What else am I missing?

THE ONYL THING FRANK LOWY did good for the game is intorduce us to asia that is it full stop.

Stop making up rumours the qualifications to the world cup were NSL squads and had nothing to do with frank lowy.

these players that have come to the a-league big deal these types of players have come to the NSL feren puskas???? Ian Rush??? and the list goes on nothing different.

Now he knows 2018 he wont get the world cup ehs moved the world cup bid over to the federal goverment what so good bout that.

Be honets and realistic dont just say shit boys

Oh yea, that I forgot. Frank Lowy got us into Asia. THE turning point of Australian football. Do you mean the qualification games where we were playing the likes of American Samoa?

"...FRANK LOWY did good for the game is intorduce us to asia" Exactly. He introduced us to Asia and that has lead us to become a dominant force in Asia and us qualifying for consecutive World Cups. Now we are not considered pushovers.

What do you mean nothing different? Ian Rush. The same player who was 40 years old and only played 2 games?

Could you honestly have seen Jason Culina coming home at the age of 28, to come back and play in the NSL? No. The only reason he did was because he knows the A-League is much better quality, with more media attention, better crowds, better coverage and because now football in Australian is considered one of the big codes. If you cannot see this, then you are kidding yourselves.

Even though there have been hints and whipsers about the World Cup going to Europe in 2018, he is still pushing for it, and if it does happen to go to England or Russia or Spain/Portugal or Netherlands/Belgium, then so be it, he will continue to push for 2022. What is wrong with that?

HAHAHA Jason culina said the NSL was of a better standard than the a-league ahhahaah it gets better and better

NSL squads got us to world cups

these a-league squads cant get us into the asain cup hahahaha

u make me laugh

IN MORE SYDNEY OLYMPIC NEWS THE CLUB IS PUMPING HARD EVERYDAY SEASON PASSES ARE GOING OUT MASSIVE STUFF

Your kidding yourself aint ya

the NSL was a joke hell even the Blue Square League is better than the NSL ever was

I would rate Kuwait, Indonesia and Oman all ahead of American Samoa, Tahiti, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Fiji, Samoa.



This was when he joined Gold Coast.



The only thing he said the NSL was superior in was that it rellied more on Aussie players whereas the A-League has a lot of focus on the foreigners.

in terms of what? crowd, quality??

cause lets face it, in terms of quality and technical ability NSL > HAL.

in the HAL if you can run fast, your more than half the player...

its fukn pathetic quality.:lol:

You've got to be kidding? NSL better quality? I watched quite a bit of the NSL and at the time I didn't realise it was so bad but when you've got something to compare it with, which is now the A-League, it looks like shit on the floor.

Media attentionL A-League shits all over the NSL, Coverage: A-League > NSL, Crowds: A-league > NSL, Players: A-League > NSL.

Why do you not like the A-League? Is it simply because you are jealous?

Just face it, football in Australia has never been better off (touch wood). We have a World Cup to look forward to, a growing league- that is just going to get better (in terms of quality, derbies, more teams, more media coverage), a successful World Cup bid to hopefully look forward to, some current Euro based Aussie to come back to Australia.

We all want to Australian football to progress, so just support it. I want every state league club to progress, I want all A-League clubs to progress, I want the Socceroos to progress.

in terms of technical ability and tactically yes NSL was better...

media attention, no shit sherlock, lock up a deal with foxsports, but then again the marketing for the HAL has been :oops: considering all the cash into it... NSL and media were never on the same page...

why do i not like the A-league?? ohhh many reasons, but the main one would be i have a club, which is now in the state leagues. and i have no desire to leave them even if they are not in the top flight, has a history for over 50 years which wasnt brought out my business man who started out this franchise with one thing on there mind..

the HAL is starting to wear off, lower crowds, FFA stepping in and taking over the financially troubled clubs. (when did that ever happen in the NSL, never) if you thing its getting bigger and better then your deluded. HAL would grow in terms of more clubs, but then crowd averages would go down. Clubs bar melbourne would be struggling to get 5k.

you say you want soccer to progess etc, what about the ex NSL clubs that were left in the wilderness? that are now into state league, that can only get $3000 transfers for players, which is a roart, how do you think those clubs will survive? and now if your going to say you dont care, they your being a hypocrite.

now finally, your a current adelaide fan, but a future Canberra fan...thats a big :lol: your probably the bloke, who has never had a club to support correct? you never had an attachment to a club? how does it feel, supporting a club and waiting for a club that is still non existant...thats as bad as the rovers fans going to the fc match...did you know what "soccer" was pre 2005?:lol:

I should re-phrase the question. Just accept that the A-league is here to stay, So why can't YOU accept it?

We are going through a rough patch but as I said before lots of leagues have had this. All the big leagues in Asia had this as did the MLS.

No the clubs were never run by Soccer Australia in the old NSL, instead they completely collapsed because they had NO money and NO support.

I want to football to succeed on the field and off the field and I believe the FFA should do their all to make sure this happens. This starts from the Grass roots of Junior football all the way to the Socceroos. And that includes the old NSL clubs. I want to see them in some sort of FFA cup sometime in the future and I believe the FFA should try and help these clubs off the field.

I am actually content to stick with Adelaide for the time being if that means success for football in Australia.

I re-iterate, I only want what is best for football in Australia. And the A-League is that.

i do accept it, i just dont support it.

well fair enough then, i see where you are coming from now, so what do you think about sydney olympics situation? good for the game? bad to be promoting olypmic in this new revolution because its not in the HAL??

thats the vibe you get from this place.

p.s another poor crowd in CCM v JETS match, lucky to get 4k:oops:

the forum is not about the game its about a white australia policy hahaahahaha redknecks fighting a jewish battle

Olympic wish 4000 people cared about their shithouse club

Its full of boy loving men

And that has got to be the ban. Get us some mods!

....And how good were Sydney Fc this week. It is great for a city like Sydney who are soon to have another awsome team, to see Sydney FC challenge for the title.

Obviously they are the best team the city of Sydney has ever seen, but true to the A-leagues form, all the teams are superior to what was around say 10-20 years ago. So its great to see them back in the mix for honors.

Good luck boys!

Hey did you ever notice how quick the games are becoming. Some of the counter attacks remind me of the bigger Euorpean leagues when they counter in terms of speed.

Remember all those years ago, wwhen football in Australia was amature, players would die to get out to learn some skills. Now they can stay in Australia longer, and get a shot at a larger league O.S.

I still remember when we used to cover up our lack of pace as being better players technically, but in reality we were just slow :) good times.

Our killer combination Better Speed - Better Size - Better technical play - gotta love how the A-league has transformed our game in this way

Benjamin will probably argue there is nothing anti semitic in this. They find this guy too funny to dump and it get people posting.

The White Australia Policy is not the greatest part of Australia's history. Not a fan of it being used lightly in putdowns.

"Rednecks" tag at football fans is so weak it is not insulting.

He should cop it for the jewish battle, he wont.

Its like Random Hero saying Greece is just a state of Turkey. Being either grossly provocative or very stupid (or both). Wont even get a warning for that.

The real Warning is the one Sydney FC will sound on the final siren next Sunday, they allready are the best club to play out of sydney, but will want to increase the silveware before the Rovers come in - Showem whos boss and all ;)

such a great team that cant get there nets right.:lol:

p.s your 50 years behind. try to buy that history.

:roll:

is this glenn guy for real ?? LOL FMD...

are you a advertising bot or something. cause the shit your spinning is astonashing.

Come see me in 45 years...

I think its great that you can support your team, the one you've always supported.
I think its fine that you believe that 5 years of your clubs history is not equal to 5 years of mine.
And I think keeping on topic in threads is important.
But I also know that between you 2 SydOlympic posters here %50 of you spam the A-league stories.

Now if I cant read a story with out sporadic threats and accusations of a racist nature, all while trying to skew the talk away from the topic onto Sydney Olympic - well I may as well be in this thread, talking my teams and league up as it contains the same racist comments and accusations as being posted Through out the site.

lets get one thing straight i am not a sydney olympic supporter, where have i ever stated that nor said a racist comment??:oops:

and do quote me where i have spammed in A-league threads?? why would i want to waste my time on that rubbish...

FFS:roll:

I was not reffering to yourself as the spammer.....

new sydney olympic website

www.sydneyolympicfc.com


new olympic forum

www.olympicultras.ipbfree.com

OLYMPIC IS BACK

is back?

it never went anywhere

1000 people to games is olympic on a death bed, were out of the comer and were kicking hard with a new lease on life!!!!!!!

expect big crowds

u like the new website?

yes see thats the thing, your expecting big crowds, but its another thing getting big crowds, im more of a realist so ill believe it when i see it...

and ive seen the website...nothing special in my opinion.

1000 people confirmed for todays game

going to be a big one

If I ban him for that, I'd also have to ban Random Hero for this...



Inferring that the majority of the supporters of a club are paedophiles is just as bad as anything PAOLTZI is saying.



If it was just about getting posting totals up - I assure you I could handle that myself by removing my own self-control and starting another thread on the Crawford Report. ;)