The A-League is an Australian Federation league. The Asian Confederation is just a body representing a collection of federations. By the logic you've offered, we could easily interchange the word and we have: "Whoever let Wellington stay in a FIFA comp should walk".

I would prefer a 20 team first division with no second division, than 2 divisions of ten teams (regardless of whether or not P&R existed). This is because financially, crowds will be bigger for first division matches, television rights will massively increase for first division matches (especially seeing there would now be 10 a week), and sponsorships for both those reasons would also drastically increase for every club. This extra income that every club would thus receive I feel would raise the standard of football to a far higher level than splitting the clubs between 2 divisions and competing for P&R. The extra money would allow clubs to import better players, keep better Aussie players, and spend more on coaching, facilities and the like (which wouldn't be happening to the same extent over 2 divisions due to reduced money). Having 10 first-division matches every week and 20 first division sides throughout Australia would also provide a saturation level that couldn't be matched, meaning more and more kids will grow up supporting the A-League, more and more articles will be written about the A-League (and thus in time again more money coming in to the clubs through sponsorship, viewers and gates; as well as likely improving our playing stock by encouraging more kids to grow up playing football).

Australia is a member of the Asian Football Confederation.

Which means that the A-League, is a league of the Asian Confederation.

Thus, New Zealand, an Oceania confederation nation, is participating in an Asian confederation competition through the Wellington Phoenix.

Wollongong would be an awful place to expand to
Final series should be longer
Wanderers would be a Perth/Adelaide size club if they didn't have an amazing first season
Soccer fans are some of the most easily offended people on this planet

Holy shit. You've gone from 'unpopular' to 'completely unreasonable' in 0 moves.

CCM winning the league changes nothing. Australia winning the cup changes everything. I know this thread is a bit of a safe-place-confessional-box right now but FMD, that's just not on mate.

I've no idea which Asian confederation comp you're talking about either.

Additionally:
- Club football is so much more important to me than rep football that I'd prefer the Central Coast Mariners win another Premiership than Australia win the World Cup (You didn't say I had to be realistic :) - about either :) )
- The club I support probably shouldn't have been granted a licence in the first place but I'm really glad it was
- Whoever let Wellington stay in an Asian confederation comp should walk (Perhaps not so controversial?)

You can follow the A-League and the NRL (no comment on the AFL though ;) )

agree with all of these

Some truth in these comments.

If the NT were allowed to move to level 3 then I'd back that. Right now it's awful watching games from level 1, even with the seats in.

10 team competition with no promo/relegation is good enough

[quote=jlm8695]Haven't had one of these for a while and I'm bored as shit.

-I think Spiranovic is our best Socceroos defender

Fair call, but IMHO in his absence he's fallen behind the pecking order. Sainsbury is our leading CB now and has been even when Spira fit. Sainsbury in his 1v1s, last man, adjustment and general physical capability, agility and positioning - He doesn't get caught out nearly as much as others, including Spira. Spira has a bad habit which I think is due to his relative lack of pace, where he commits alot of fouls, desperate fouls, because he's beaten by his man or struggling to keep up. He draws cards for this and I swear has even given a penalty or two away in the G&G. He's a quality CB, but I think this slight weakness can catch him out against short, quicker and more agile AFC and WC attackers. Sainsbury on the other-hand is our best CB by miles, in his impressive capability to remain composed and re-adjust when facing quick transitioning opponents who stretch our organisation. Not trying to talk him up too much, but even witnessed it again these last two matches.

Wright hasn't been too bad either, though his distribution needs to improve, be sharper and he needs to be wary of being caught out too and some of his 'Championship-level challenges' at International level too. But for a relatively young man, Bailey Wright has been very impressive and Spira has some work to do to win his place back! In all this, it's great to see such competition at CB for the Socceroos these days.

-Jamie Young is one of the best 3 keepers in the comp with Eugene and Birra and has been better than Sorensen.

He's with one of the A-League's leading teams this season and in his absence Theo has shown mixed form with many calling for Young's return. Pundits more well informed than us have commented on Young's form this season. So agreed, he would have to be.

-Vedran Janjetovic wouldn't start for any other team bar CCM (maybe not so unpopular)

I doubt this is a minority view. ;) He may actually be amongst those he may be facing an uncertain future at SFC too, their squad is due to see a massive overhaul.

- I like the finals series (but understand why we should recognise the 'league' champions as our proper champions rather than the winner of the finals

Not a minority view either - I think many here would advocate that first-past-the-post are, traditionally, the more 'worthy to be recognised' Champions. But it's a good commercial compromise to have both and I'm glad, through the AFC, that both are recognised and the ACL places are awarded in that way.

Football is the biggest sport, it is the only WC that involves the World!

The Final Series Cup pre-season is far to long. Time to cull the pre-season games back from 27 to 18, so to stop the Final Series Cup clashing with the bigger sports.

You might be surprised. We signed a MOU with the DFB in 2013 and they have been helping us on the issues of player development, technical issues, coach development, the exchange of information and best practices for football management etc and in our preparations for running the Asian Cup last year.

I agree with MacDaddy, as long as he has an afro

true but it almost works

reminds me of this

I could never invent a sandwich like this, Lister. You see all the ingredients are wrong. The fried eggs: wrong; the chutney: wrong. The chilli sauce: all wrong. But put them together and somehow it works. It becomes right. It's you -- this sandwich, Lister, is you.

Just so many players out of position :lol:
Like... Almost all of them haha

I would say pretty top heavy on the MLS.

WOFP:

"These views were supported by a detailed analysis of the sporting landscape in Australia and internationally. Experts from around the world helped inform the Whole of Football Plan, including our peers at DFB (German Football Association) and MLS (Major League Soccer); we left no stone unturned in delivering a vision for Football in Australia."

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I agree with that... Doesn't mean that all money should funnel in grassroots, but yeah, I think that model makes a lot of sense.

I remembered putting the info on here a few weeks back lol

I think you are right with 2017 for academies.

No its National Development Training Centres, they want to create these things and be in place by 2019.

I heard that every a-league club will aim to have all academies in place next year.

Jamie Young is a better shot stopper than Ryan.

WOFP?

This is how everyone except the FFA and EG view the WOFP