As an off season topic. Just curious to see which A - League team (if any) Collingwood fans follow. Sort of hoping Collingwood would enter their own team, but given the Collingwood Warriors fiasco in the mid 90's, I don't think that will ever happen. Anyway your thoughts.
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Opinion Collingwood Supporters and the A - League
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Collingwood Warriors? I didn't know of this.
Anyway, I go for Adelaide United. I guess. I'm not really fussed with A-League. I watch most games each weekend but I'm not hugely invested in any particular team.
Anyway, I go for Adelaide United. I guess. I'm not really fussed with A-League. I watch most games each weekend but I'm not hugely invested in any particular team.
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I do enjoy the round ball game but I don't follow A-League much. I have been to a few Sydney FC games over the years but they haven't captured my imagination yet.
I used to go to South Melbourne (Hellas) games quite a bit in the early 2000's so there may very be a Victory supporter inside me wanting to bust out.
I used to go to South Melbourne (Hellas) games quite a bit in the early 2000's so there may very be a Victory supporter inside me wanting to bust out.
It's pretty good.
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A league? Is that a remake of the A Team?Is Mr.T in the new one? my fave.
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I decided to try and watch the A-League this season, then I watched the Victory/Heart season opener and fell asleep. I follow Arsenal in the PL, and it's hard to watch their games and then watch the trash in the A-League.
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I follow the Melbourne Victory to say i love them as much as Collingwood would be a lie. If they lose I'm not sad when they win it may make my day (however unlikely), I couldn't name all the players (I do have a soft spot for a few) but I go to all their home games, and I am a northern terrace member I do enjoy the atmosphere.
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the mighty T
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South Melbourne Hellas.. But until we get our license, I follow the Heart.
The standard of the round ball game is improving here so I don't mind watching or going to games
The standard of the round ball game is improving here so I don't mind watching or going to games
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South Melbourne Hellas.. But until we get our license, I follow the Heart.
The standard of the round ball game is improving here so I don't mind watching or going to games
The standard of the round ball game is improving here so I don't mind watching or going to games
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I don't follow the A-League, but I do follow the VPL (Victorian Premier League) and go out 2-3 times every month. It's purely a social matter for me and I grew up playing some soccer as well as footy so I don't have any antagonism or hatred against soccer.
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I'm a Heart fan but I struggle to stick for a whole season.
From the inception of the A-League I really couldn't follow a team that was arrogantly named "Victory" and looked like Carlton, so I waited for a second team who are now struggling.
The level of the game is so over rated by it's fans, the W-League (women's A-League basically) has more more world class players than the mens version, which is really about a division 2 or 3 level if you know of English football.
Soccer/Football will only get bigger as time goes on though, and so will the A-League, I don't see it as a major threat to the AFL unless it becomes a winter sport too.
From the inception of the A-League I really couldn't follow a team that was arrogantly named "Victory" and looked like Carlton, so I waited for a second team who are now struggling.
The level of the game is so over rated by it's fans, the W-League (women's A-League basically) has more more world class players than the mens version, which is really about a division 2 or 3 level if you know of English football.
Soccer/Football will only get bigger as time goes on though, and so will the A-League, I don't see it as a major threat to the AFL unless it becomes a winter sport too.
Melbourne Victory are supposedly the 'Collingwood of the A-League' due to their large crowds. But 99% of Collingwood fans aren't w***ers, opposed to the fact that 99% of Victory fans are.
Melbourne Heart may be struggling at the moment but they definitely are the better team in Melbourne.
Melbourne Heart may be struggling at the moment but they definitely are the better team in Melbourne.
i dont think many have a hatred towards it - its more the craig foster types trying to portray the game in a way which is extremely misleading.......grandstanding etc.
personally i never want to see the world cup here.
reason..........
sponsors would flock to it understandably with all their monies normally set aside for other sport/activity sponsorship in this country, both in the lead up and during the event. soccer fans would argue this shows the true popularity of soccer. i argue it would however simply reflect the thinking of advertisers and sponsors in wanting to be associated with the event due to its worldwide coverage. the ~5 year period of dwindling sponsorship of other activities would force many sports to fold, would hurt AFL as well, and as such, i would never support the WC here.
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As a kid I grew up playing Footy and Cricket. I've tried with soccer but I just can't do it. I actually can't remember ever sitting through an entire match from start to finish. If I had to say, I'd probably follow the Victory. Only because they were first in best dressed so to speak. I have more interest in the NRL as an alternative sport to AFL
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A League is the worst thing to ever hit Melbourne. My dad is a Heart fan, he goes maybe once or twice live to a match.
Every time I went with him I saw a punch on of 40 little 16-18 y\o Heart fans acting tough after the game.
As for the game itself, I love soccer. I used to play it. But the A-League is such a disgrace I cant believe people pay to enter.
The strikers try dribble even the keeper before they have a shot at goal. JUST SHOOT FFS.
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Every time I went with him I saw a punch on of 40 little 16-18 y\o Heart fans acting tough after the game.
As for the game itself, I love soccer. I used to play it. But the A-League is such a disgrace I cant believe people pay to enter.
The strikers try dribble even the keeper before they have a shot at goal. JUST SHOOT FFS.
\end rant.
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