Good choice. Stickied threads tend to slowly die.

Leckie's backheel and finish. =d> =d>

Yes good job. I couldn't find it before I realised it was stickied.

Great highlights form Leckie. Did anyone watch the game? He seemed to be playing as a winger but was often starting quite narrow.

It was to keep you out, but you found us. :lol:

I provide this forum with endless entertainment.

It would be sadder were it not for my world class posting.

Unfortunately this forum's format it pretty terrible at telling you when a thread has a new post other than it being at the top so stickied threads are often ignored.

On this topic though I think there is still problems with Aussies abroad being a thread. Firstly there is still less discussion than there is interest imo. Mat Ryan's Europa league performance was posted in here and at it's own thread. On it's own it had enough for a second page. Here, virtually nothing. Now this may be down to a the people who see the individual thread just go in and post repetitive shit about Milligan > Ryan (that's right I think) but I still think discussion is a good thing.

The thing with an individual thread is there is no knowing about what is being discussed inside. This is fine for Club threads as a club is pretty specific and fans want most news about their club. Aussies abroad talks about various players in different times in there careers at different levels and so often people may come in and the discussion is on someone they are not interested in, once this happens a few times they will stop coming. This isn't to say it isn't popular, this thread it gets more than twice the amount of replies of the next most popular thread in Australian football (MV supporters) in the same amount of time.

Now I know I am a lowly pro but I would like to put forward the idea of Aussies Abroad getting it's own subforum inside Australian Football. Firstly because there is demand for this news and a subforum provides much more appropriate functionality/visibility compared to a thread. It would stay in a similar spot to a sticky but it is still easier to see when there is a new post and it also tells you what thread the post is in so someone in Australian football would know what the discussion is on.

In terms of format instead of having every news article posted as a new thread we could have threads for each major player (players around socceroos), youth/reserve players, rumors of players going overseas/transfer rumors, region threads for players possibly not meeting other requirements (ie Asia) and a match day thread for during and immediate post game discussions. Now especially around Socceroo matches there will obviously be discussion about Aussies abroad in the main Australian football forum so the subforum will be more to do with club new which already happens with this thread. Having individual player threads would also help people who do not visit daily missing news on a player they are interested in which may be buried normally if it is more than one page back and in the middle of a couple of other stories.

tl;dr lets get our own subforum

Definitely played winger, but kept switching flanks so he ended up with a lot of runs through the middle. Also made a lot of runs to the back post which I like to see.

i agree with this enormously.

there should also be a socceroos/NT sub forum which covers all national teams.

if EA sports can get its own subforum --when no one uses it--- then I think we have a case.

Edited by inala brah: 30/11/2014 12:44:50 PM

This Aussies abroad thread is my favourite part of this site. Putting anywhere else however will mean I will just miss any new posts. Similar sort of problem when threads get stickied.

Alarmingly concerning that most of our players are either are in the bench and not many are starting.

This has been by far the most informative and favourite thread.

Aussies Abroad doesn't get much of a pissing match that other topic gets (good) if their was more discussion, then it would turn it to a pissing match real fast

i like Aussies Abroad, because it update me on players who are playing, that i can easy forget about , like yesterday, Tim Cahil MSL match

Best thread in the forum. Love everyone's work here.

This Aussies abroad thread is my favourite part of this site. Putting anywhere else however will mean I will just miss any new posts. Similar sort of problem when threads get stickied.[/quote]

Sainsbury and Ryan both start for their respective sides. Big games for both.

definitely my favourite thread on the site.

does that zwolle guy with the wayward volley still get an assist for that?

its hard to tell with this stream, but it looks like sainsbury has spent most of the 2nd half as RB

Amini played 88 minutes

Ryan doing pretty well. Could've done better for Anderlecht's 2nd goal.
Just made a top save

Brilliante not in squad. Anyone know if he is playing for their reserves?

I don't think he's allowed to in Italy, the "reserves" there is the Primavera, the U20's, and there's nothing in between that and the first team. From following Lazio's Primavera games for Ikonomidis I don't think they're allowed to play overage players like they are here in the NYL, so I guess it's bench, loan, or go home for Josh.

Edited by paladisious: 1/12/2014 02:19:36 AM

I know most new players get a press conference etc but it's surprising how much promotion he got in pre season only for one mistake to see him practically fired.

hopefully he gets a loan in the next window to rack up the minutes

Ryan made a good 1v1 save and Brugge equalized in the last few minutes. Entertaining game.

Ryan save the game for them..Brugge 2-1 down, save that 1v1

Dortmund down 1:0 in Frankfurt after 4mins. Weidenfeller couldn't do much but his defence is woeful. Langerak would get a workout too.

That's surprising to you? It's been happening for eons.

clean sheet for sainsbury. zwolle hammered the shitty excelsior defence 5-0. sainsbury had a few hairy moments but was solid in defence. sainsbury came off at 70 mins. he was the first of 3 quick subs after goal number 5.

zwolle are moving along the table and are only a couple points behind a europa spot next year. it will be huge if they pull it off.

sainsbury's replacement was the guy I saw on RB.

Edited by inala brah: 1/12/2014 12:12:01 PM

Underage/nt/Aussies abroad. Would be huge.