Unpopular opinion we should go back to the OFC

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Going to the world cup is 'costing us' money due to the expensive qualifying process we face in the AFC

Less players going to Asia makes ur domestic league better bcuz the quality it higher - thus the keeping out 'youth argument' has never made sense if they are good enough they are old enough

3/7 isnt a pass anywhere in the world we made almost every tournament before....

the ACL will never be a big league until the prize money is multiplied by 5 - in which i'd argue making the Club world cup would of made the AL team that participates in it a hell of a lot more money then the ACL could have (bar the year WSW won the comp). (over all the ACL participating teams are also running as a loss)

When you look at the facts how can you say the AFC has been good?

It’s costing us money to going to the World Cup via Asia but it won’t cost us to fail qualifying through OFC? I don’t quite understand? It will still cost us to play the games in OFC and then miss out against whichever nation we fail to beat in the intercontinental playoff.

The youth already aren’t gold enough to displace players currently. So even for some the ones that have cracked the first team they will struggle for spots as players come back from Asian leagues that are no longer wanted as the +1. So youth there would be less youth in the a league now. The youth are not gold enough and going back to the OFC will not fix that.

Yeah I agree now the ACL is a cash drain and a boring competition. But I think it will end up being something one day.

Aleague average age last season before COVID: 32 years per starting 11.

With the lack of teams and influx of foreign spots in key positions in the field, it’s meant less opportunities for young players to learn their craft as pro footballers unlike the NSL era where it had more teams and less foreign spots.

Clubs are just too lazy to develop young players as they feel it’s not a big enough incentive to do so which is why we see the recycling aspect to the league too.

Here is a question how many in the NSL era would have developed in the same rate in the aleague era?

a lot less becuz our development is shit and opportunities for young players to show there stuff is limited due to inability to quality for youth competitions.

Why dont we qualify now? becuz we rarely have 11 good young players and we are up against countries pouring billions into youth development and at age 16-19 that extra $$$ goes a long way - ie you dont need to worry about studying/working etc. In every generation we have 3-4 potentially really good players in the old system at least 2 of them were getting picked up every every big youth tournament we went though back in the day and being developed by good clubs in good leagues.

Now these players aren't getting picked up till they are older >22 years old, too old for a lot of clubs to try mold into a top player. They end up in spuds leagues like China, Scotland etc and go no where. The AL is terrible at developing players bcuz there isnt any $$ in it for the clubs due to the salary cap. Thus Australia is shit at football probably the worst we have ever been (in my life time) regardless of qualifying for world cups we are absolute trash

So players are still good enough to get picked for the national youth team, but because they are not playing an extra 3 or 4 games at a Youth WC all the ALeague coaches and scouts never hear about them till they are 22?
i think this says more about our domestic situation than it does about OFC or AFC?

I agree.....

But our domestic situation will always be the way it is bcuz of lack of $$$ - ppl have mentioned the lack of incentive to develop youth. The Top of Australian football the 'A-league' is 'cash strapped'

We cant change the fact that we are almost 3rd world in-terms of $$ in football here in Australia but we are a paying 1st world prices for everything like stadium hire and marketing costs etc ...

But we’re not suppose to be unique lol

You are unique, but definitely not in a good way.

Why is it that you remind me of Joe Biden?

Again must post something that doesn't involve the topic ?? If you wanna talk American politics go into extra time .

Because a person I mention is a politician doesn’t mean it’s a political discussion at all. Try your cancel culture somewhere else.

Do you actually know what you're actually posting? What's cancel culture have to do with this? Besides me asking you move all American political talk in et? Or is that too hard ??

You’re no policeman buddy.