The Glorious Derby Returns
Staff
Tuesday, 4 January 2011
One of the if the biggest derbies in Australian football returns in a friendly pre-season match on Saturday the 5th Febraury at Knights Stadium.

Sydney United have started pre-season training in there hunt for success in the 2011 NSWPL with new coach Jean Paul De Marigny excited about being the First Grade coach in 2011 for Sydney United, in one of there first real test for the 2011 season Jean Paul is taking a full strength squad in Melbourne as not to give the bragging rights to United's, Melbourne arch-rivals the Knights.

The Knigths are hoping for a very large home crowd with club officials expecting somewhere close to 5-7 thousand in attendance for the big clash, this one will bring back some memories for the Knight fans, in the stands special guests will be Knights favourites Mark Viduka and Danny Tiatto who recently retired.

Kick off is at 6.30pm, entry is $10 and all 2011 Knights members get in for free.

http://www.therealgame.com.au/news/state-league/102/the-glorious-derby-returns

What a massive stretch to call this a derby. Rivalry yes. Derby no.

Two geographically diverse Croat teams /= derby.

Also, there /= their.

Kthxbai!!!

what crowd do we reckon theyll be?

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Derby


You fail again.

guest, who did you support before the HAL?

Parramatta Power from the age of 9 till 14 when they were disbanded.

Always watched family friend playing Premier League for Melita as well so I guess I support them

Not that it matters. New fans to the game are just as good as NSL fans.

Edited by guest: 5/1/2011 10:52:42 AM

So your anger is because in old football you never got your way and now with new football you still not getting your way, fair enough.

Well enjoy parramatta eagles at the bottom of the NSWPL ladder in 2011

:-s :-s :-s

How did I not get my way? What was my way.

I got to enjoy quality football, watching a family friend captain my team to the last NSL grand final. It was wonderful.

Parra Eagles will do the club proud no matter where they finish this season and I can't wait to get along to Melita Stadium to watch some games as well as King Tom Stadium again this season.

The funny thing is all your hatred and spite of me for enjoying and supporting football in this country I am a paid member for a Victorian club (most succesful in Australia) who I like to support through membership because there fans aren't idiots and they are making steps forward and working with the FFA and A-League.

How so? Unless you're talking to Alex/Paoktzi/alter ego #7 ??

This. Though by appearances this might not actually be a Paoktzi multi :shock:

This "glorious" derby pulled a magnificent crowd of 1,876 the last time they clashed in Sydney in a NSL game...:)

i reckon theyll hit around 4k without publicity

times were different, the end was near for the NSL, the Crawford knives were out for all.. now in 2011 everyone gave the HAL a chance, and another, and Lowy a fistful of government dollars for a disgrace of a World Cup bid.. people are tired of the FFA's rubbish.

Instead of fixing the problem they replaced dumb administrators with malicious administrators.

People still love football and these traditional clubs and rivalries will be their voice, this is how the common man will stand up to the yoke of modern football and its soulselling epic-loss-making franchises

times were different, the end was near for the NSL, the Crawford knives were out for all.. now in 2011 everyone gave the HAL a chance, and another, and Lowy a fistful of government dollars for a disgrace of a World Cup bid.. people are tired of the FFA's rubbish.

Instead of fixing the problem they replaced dumb administrators with malicious administrators.

People still love football and these traditional clubs and rivalries will be their voice, this is how the common man will stand up to the yoke of modern football and its soulselling epic-loss-making franchises

The thing is, even at the height of the NSL, during its so-called golden years of the early nineties, the "glorious" derby between Melbourne Knights and Sydney United never attracted particularly large crowds. You can check the attendance figures on the ozfootball website to confirm this.

I'm sure two or three thousand people would be interested in attending a friendly between two state league clubs, and paying homage to their ethnic traditions at the same time... particularly if it were linked to a Croatian food and drink festival (I know I would be interested in that!)

But this no longer has anything to do with the elite level of club football in Australia, or the way the game is administrated at the top. Administrators may be still dumb, but... malicious(!?) Current day administrators are certainly no worse than the incompetents who ran the game in the past.

Of course people are still interested in keeping an interest in grassroots football alive... that is why there are hundreds and hundreds of amateur and semi-professional teams playing in the amateur and state leagues of the major Australian cities. Many of these teams exist purely because people want to play the game, and their only supporters are friends and relatives of the players.

Sydney and Melbourne Croatia, and Sydney Olympic for that matter, are of no more importance than hundreds of other clubs around Australia, which also have long traditions.

And, yeah, it's nice to make the odd quixotic gesture against "soul-selling franchises":lol:
But I don't think the formation of FC United in Manchester has had much effect in reducing Manchester United's crowds....!

localstar its this arrogance that will see sydney city lose $6million at season end and more people walk out and melbourne heart lose more than that and face extinction, good luck to your plasticity that your preaching b.s about

I'm talking about grassroots amateur football, and you are calling me plastic and arrogant!:lol: :lol: :lol:

You will notice that I didn't once mention the A League in my post above...

Feel free to bandy figures around, like some sort of amateur accountant, if it will help promote your paranoia...

You really need to take a long hard look at yourself and maybe seek medical help....



Edited by localstar: 6/1/2011 04:18:13 PM

what do you mean returns? It never left it, happens every year at Australian cro tournament

Shhhhhh! ultragirl is just learning about research and the internet. Next lesson is doctoring wiki crowd figures to back arguments.

cool story bro.

enjoy it when they smash olympic and your revolution fails again

relax son, u supported the rovers they died before they started now you want to support a club with 300 fans, come over to the blue and white and experience a match day experience that is called "real football"

hahahah you are a laugh. i grew up playing for melita. i grew up supporting them in the nsl days. so i dont 'now want to' support melita. i have my whole life. my favourite player growing up was jeff gunning who played for melita. RIP. and i have watched olympic every time they have played against blacktown city away and there was no experience from your away support. i would love to see you lot put on an experience, but no way in my life will i ever go for olympic

cheering. and LOL sydney rovers sydney what?

top blokes at Melita atm it was bs the way they got relegated. I wish the club well plenty of good memories at melita stadium

CMON OLYMPICCC

Olympic will be travelling in much bigger numbers, for the record i hear the club has booked two 72 seater buses for the first game Wollongong away

Also Bosnian tourneys! I was at one two weeks ago!

Oh my lord this should be a great match! I am looking forward to this one.
Atmosphere should be amazing.

who are the knights main players? i can tell you for Sydney United they are:

Luka Glavas
Jacob Timpano
Tomi Cirjak
Roger Galayani
Peter Markovic
Steven Hayes
Michael Cindric
Elsid Baksouird
Vedran Janjetovic
Damon Collina
Shane Lyons

Around 30+ United fans will be travelling for this match...

Should be good cannot wait...