melbourne_terrace wrote:miron mercedes wrote:This thread is funny....I don't know how Victory fits everyone under the cap either (and don't really care as long as its legal) but I was rolling on the floor at someones suggestion that one of the reasons players want to play at Victory is because they get to live in Melbourne ...... seriously ????
Yeah everyone loves getting up to cold rainy 5 C degrees every mornings for six months of the year.
I love visiting Melbourne...it is truly an interesting city ..... only place you can have three different seasons in the one day.
I live in Brisbane so i like it enough but in no way is it an attractive enough city that living there could be considered one of the perks for signing with the local club.
And if the weather is really going to play a significant effect on a players decision to sign, then the prospect of playing Football in Brisbane's summer is a hell of a lot worse than a few mildly cold mornings in Melbourne's winter.
I think you are right and wrong. Ive spent a fair bit of time throughout Europe, and have found trends in terms of Brisbane/other cities reputations.
Germans fucking love Brisbane/SEQ and Adelaide and arent that high on Melbourne or Sydney in my experience. Similar with the Dutch. British people were all about Perf/Syd/Melb. Italians and Greeks love Syd and Melb. Obv generalising but were a few obs I made.
Some people literally dont care and think Aus is a big beach covered in Kangaroos and Koalas and Sydney is maybe the only place they know, predominantly due to the recency of the Olympics.
Melbourne is one of those cities that has a reasonable reputation, but Victorians cant imagine it as anything less than it being the greatest place on the planet, like a Skip version of native New Yorkers.