A-Leagues & Football Australia General Chat and News Thread

[giggler99]

Rudan extends contract with WSW

Marko Rudan signs Western Sydney Wanderers contract extension: Full details

Marko Rudan has committed his future to Isuzu UTE A-League side Western Sydney Wanderers, it has been announced.

aleagues.com.au

 

[Zidane98]

Plenty of good news recently.


Just need Glory to find a new owner. Maybe someone can hawk the Glory to Gine Rinehardt?

 

[AJ_2000]

Plenty of good news recently.


Just need Glory to find a new owner. Maybe someone can hawk the Glory to Gine Rinehardt?

She just writes letters and takes the kudos for "saving" sports like netball and the comm games without actually spending money.

 

[gaskin]

Plenty of good news recently.


Just need Glory to find a new owner. Maybe someone can hawk the Glory to Gine Rinehardt?

We were supposed to have had an owner lined up and announced sometime in the new year.

 

[Zidane98]

We were supposed to have had an owner lined up and announced sometime in the new year.

Any ideas on who is buying? Enormous potential to be unleashed with the Glory if the right owner steps in. If I bought the joint I'd go on a marketing blitz with community clubs in Perth. Bring back the Glory days of the late 90s early 00s!

 

[gaskin]

Any ideas on who is buying? Enormous potential to be unleashed with the Glory if the right owner steps in. If I bought the joint I'd go on a marketing blitz with community clubs in Perth. Bring back the Glory days of the late 90s early 00s!

No idea. They have kept everything extremely close to the chest this time around.

 

[Zidane98]

Quiet transfer window so far.


Central Coast Mariners are surely cashed up. Rumors they are about to buy an English striker but nothing yet. Maybe they are getting Cumdog back from India? Wasting his career there and destroying his Socceroos prospects. Can't imagine the lifestyle is great either even if the dough is good compared to CCM.

 

[Zidane98]

Bernardo looks like he is leaving AUFC




Wonder which A League team is signing him?

 

[gaskin]

Not us. We aren't allowed to bring anyone in despite McEneff going back to Ireland, Bozanic back to WSW, and Beavers out for 6 weeks.

 

[Elmer_Hauser]

Bernardo looks like he is leaving AUFC




Wonder which A League team is signing him?

Smurfs would be my guess.

 

[Elmer_Hauser]

Tragic news

Tragedy as Socceroos star Stephen Laybutt's body is found in bushland

Stephen Laybutt, 46, was reported missing near the NSW/Queensland border on Saturday morning and his Mercedes was found by police soon afterwards.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[Andonis1997]

This would be out of the blue - wow!

Wow! You're full of shit. That account hasn't posted in 6 days, and an account like yours popped up in the Nix's Yellow Fever forum too.

 

[gaskin]

 

[Elmer_Hauser]

Remember When everyone said that things would improve once the A League was run by an independent body away from the FFA ?

That is really disheartening news.

Gutted for the staff who lost their jobs.

I feel like domestically it's one foot foward, two steps backwards in a never ending cycle for football in this country.

 

[Zidane98]

Hate to say it but the Football Australia did a better job of running the league.

 

[giggler99]

Hate to say it but the Football Australia did a better job of running the league.

The model is correct its just the people running that model

 

[Couch Coach]

Hate to say it but the Football Australia did a better job of running the league.

For a country that loves sport and produces more quality athletes in a range of sports than it should it is strange that we seem to have the worst sport administrators:

• FFA - Frank Lowy
• PFA
• Netball Australia
• NRL during Covid
• Etc.

 

[Elmer_Hauser]

The model is correct its just the people running that model

The same Sydney centric flogs who run the FFA appointed their 'puppets' onto the APL board.

We need passionate football people and straight shooters like Mark Viduka running the game, with no hidden agenda or blatant state/city centric bias.

The Sydney centric directive from all at board governance levels from FFA downwards is really hurting the game here

 

[madjoe]

never good thing i took my gf to her first a league match at aami, she enjoyed watching oakleigh cannons play in the middle of winter over the A league , like wtf are you doing as a league to get that result?


now i won't pretend to know the money bit but why did they over look south melbourne entering the A league over a country team Western United who have zero fans in the country?

regulations need to happen i reckon the 26 rounds are to many, so many games mean zero.

 

[gaskin]

never good thing i took my gf to her first a league match at aami, she enjoyed watching oakleigh cannons play in the middle of winter over the A league , like wtf are you doing as a league to get that result?


now i won't pretend to know the money bit but why did they over look south melbourne entering the A league over a country team Western United who have zero fans in the country?

regulations need to happen i reckon the 26 rounds are to many, so many games mean zero.

South Melbourne were overlooked because of their strong ethnic ties. Part of the reason the A-League came about was to separate the top tier of the sport in this country from the racist ethnic elements that were sullying the sport.

 

[deedog2]

South Melbourne were overlooked because of their strong ethnic ties. Part of the reason the A-League came about was to separate the top tier of the sport in this country from the racist ethnic elements that were sullying the sport.

Yet these clubs are allowed to compete in the Australia Cup...

 

[Elmer_Hauser]

South Melbourne were overlooked because of their strong ethnic ties. Part of the reason the A-League came about was to separate the top tier of the sport in this country from the racist ethnic elements that were sullying the sport.

No, it was the ethincs and ethnic that built the game in this country. Ange Postecoglu is a proud South Melbourne Hellas person.

There are 'Ultras' in every football league worldwide, I should mention that Melbourne Victory fans have brought the Australian Football Community into disrepute far more than any so called 'ethnic club" ever has (aka that infamous Christmas Derby 2 years ago with the Tom Glover bucket incident)

Australian Football and The Socceroos golden generation would never have happened without The Hellas and other so called 'ethnic' clubs...

South Melbourne certainly would provide a lot more value and bigger crowds to the A League than say Western United or Macarthur.

Frank Lowy and his Westfield Cartel whitewashing of the old NSLand the ethnic community that built the game in this country still ijsses me off to this day.

 

[burge13]

For a country that loves sport and produces more quality athletes in a range of sports than it should it is strange that we seem to have the worst sport administrators:

• FFA - Frank Lowy
• PFA
• Netball Australia
• NRL during Covid
• Etc.

We have the worst administrators in the world running our sports. If you met someone in sports admin you'd assume they failed year 10

 

[Elmer_Hauser]

We have the worst administrators in the world running our sports. If you met someone in sports admin you'd assume they failed year 10

John O'Neill was our last great football administrator.

We got to bring him back to the fold somehow, desperately.

 

[burge13]

John O'Neill was our last great football administrator.

We got to bring him back to the fold somehow, desperately.

Anyone that puts the league first with a long term view over worrying about their individual bonuses doing short term solutions that band aid over cracks.

Paramount deal has absolutely cooked the league, the NSW centric focus, the 2 terrible expansion clubs, etc. It's very bad, most fans would have done a better job than the current crop of idiots