Seeing as my Brisbane is in for another bleak season....is it ok to support the new boys after their 2-0 win ? Lol
guess it's on Ten Play as well, but I can't stand the ads.
No issues.
If ya issue is a terrible watch on paramount why would you not?
I mean I never had a issue on tenplay
But I digress this thread is just full of the same issues with streaming and nothing about the games.
And just like that 2-1 Sydney FC
Atmosphere looked great on TV.
It is amazing how much atmosphere adds to the games when on tele.
Could be a riveting game & no one there & it shows....or be a ok game & full house it's just different.
This is game was good tho... entertainment then some.
Enjoying the new season.
Been plenty of good matches to watch.
But is it ok if I ditch Brisbane....I mean I can only take so much yea?
Anyone know the crowd last night?
CCM mirror image of last season tho confident they won't 3peat in 2025!
bring in Pro/rel as then the ladder decides.
Why is stupid idea always floated around.
It's not for Australia and would kill the game real fast.
The AL struggle as it is....never mind a healthy club that has 1 poor season & that's them gone...nah great idea mate!
League & AFL has way more chance of a promotion slash relegation & they are not that foolish or stupid to even float that idea!
But then we have no right to complain when our national team sucks and the rest of the world with their competitive football pyramids move further and further in front of us.
That has nothing to do with promotion mate!
Clubs struggle so you want them to die basically?
Let's see a Melbourne City have a poor season relegated loose all sponsorship have to off load players etc...just because it works in alot of other countries don't mean it will here.
Other countries football is their sport....here in Australia it's what...some would argue 5th in line...?
So it simply don't and wont work.
The national team is another issue so keep it for the national team thread. That's political the reason the National team suck.
We keep making excuses about where the sport sits, In Japan football wasnt even top 2 in the 90s. It was wall to wall baseball, the J League didnt even start until the 90s, look what they did in 30 years.
AL is so much better then the NSL and that's been 20 years. Def agree to some points but again look at each country as a individual!
What do Japan have other then nothing basically! What Iron Chef?
I see ya point don't get me wrong.
Just pro & rel will never ever work and all we do is waste time on this issue.
As it stands the entire league is being carried by the derby games
Agree. Agree with transfers as well.
30,777 Brisbane v Adelaide & Sydney FC V Western Wanderers
Alot would of been for the derby.
Entertaining game enjoyed it.
Less about Brisbane please the better.
Why where both Brisbane & Adelaide in horrible colours was both playing as away?
just a pity that off the field, the NSL failed.
I do agree to a large degree.
½ the issues was change...every dang season a new structure...be it 1st past the post or a play off...points structure if I recall (may have it wrong) recall a season where it was 4 for a win but we had penalty shoot outs for draws to get extra points & the loser was still awarded points....just one instance of just a chaotic structure of the NSL.
But do agree tho with alot of the post.
Very bad news, not just for us MV followers, but for the A-League as well.
Only so long a business can bleed that much money!
Same ole same ole tbh...crowds are pitiful apart from derby games hence once source of revenue can not be relied upon.
Melbourne & Sydney always struggle due to the NRL & AFL
Qld just don't like football either it seems.
Thousands of people go to meaningless football games when an overseas club visits Australia.
Where are they when the A-League sesson is in full swing.
Your talking about the Euro snobs & I am with you as well that's the issue....I enjoy the AL and while I have followed Liverpool FC my whole life I do also support "cough" Brisbane Roar & generally get to at least 1 game at home a season (live Central Qld) and I like the games in Redcliffe as easier to get to & even with a small crown it don't seem like your the only person in the stadium tho I think they not play there this season?
Anyways agree with all you say in general!
This Auckland side ain't too shabby
Who would of picked them to be five and 0 at the end of five games.
What would be fantastic for the game in Australia would be for a all New Zealand grand final how good would that be!
Edit: ok so the goalkeeper 5 games clean sheet what is the record for the A league and what is the actual record for professional league anyone know because it's their defense that is winning them games and at the moment they're winning late but winning well
MCY blunder at home
Honestly they did not look like scoring a goal and they had fair share possession as well.
one touch & stuffs it up completely….sums up the league & the Socceroos strikers….
That was a horrendous miss, how he missed that goal well.....you summed it up best!
especially with the weather the way it was.
Considering the weather was shizenhausen the play was outstanding tbh.
Not sure how many own goals ya wanna score tho lol.
Least saved Brisbane from the dubious honour of 5 losses to start the season.
Apparently the all time record straight losses is 13 Canberra Cosmo's during the season.
What craps me is Campbeltown is not embracing a team build for the region! Know the weather was shitzen but still.
Hence why I will never fathom why Wollongong was shunned. 30 min down the road.
Anyways enjoying the season tbh plenty of goals & Brisbane just make me so proud.
Is MAC even in a growth corridor to the same extent as WU?
Absolutely not!
MU should be getting good crowds when the weather is fine...for them 6000 be a good crowd & they can't get anywhere near that.
But depends what ya class as their corridor as well.
I guess AL was hoping Liverpool would feed down to Campbelltown but IMO the AL missed a golden opportunity to have Wollongong! That's gone for good imo.
Wow....they say ya don't look a gift horse in the mouth...not sure how you don't score from that....shows the poor finishing we have in the AL
wonder if this change of foxtel ownership will benefit the A-League.
Foxtel sees the writing on the wall tbh.
Sold while the going was mediocre I guess.
Be worth nothing soon enough n
Four 1-0 losses in the last 5 for the Roar. Thank god we have a bye next round. Something has got to change!
Hoping.
I really don't want us to be the first team to win 0 games in a season.
About time the Roar won.
Sydney 3 Brisbane 4
Lucky never ended 4-4 tbh.
But a exciting match & finally Brisbane on the march to championship glory.
Been a good game Sydney V Adelaide just when ya think SFC walks away 2 goes in the opening 4 min of the 2nd half.
Imagine being so fragile that you bottle it leading 3-1 after being so comfortable all game.
Always happens...teams lead by 2 & shut up shop & defend....we see it in RL all the time & SFC has done it a few times this season.
Lesson is keep looking for goals...no matter how many ya lead by.
revamped nsl I've been longing for.
I really hope this works.
So how many clubs that website like anything football related is all sorts of confusing.
The ten network and P+ better put more cash on the table, no other sport in Australia has so much to offer.
Be lucky we get 2 games on FTA ATM.
Unfortunately football is not in the Aussie vocabulary. 20 years ago we could not even ride the coattails of the WC.
Shame as the AL is decent been some cracking rounds this season. But people just don't watch it.
Darwin Nuñez – Liverpool
2 barns In Darwin's case. Luckily Liverpool has the league wrapped up now.
feel bad just watching it.
Yea that's not good lol
What does that mean.
Can't make the finals sorry mate.
Enjoyed the game tho I think we'll believe this season has been the best for game play for many a season .
Still 8 minutes of stoppage time left.
4-4 !!!
90'+8 them the killer ones especially when you thought ya got the winner at 90'+2 lol
with one of the worst performances I've seen in the history of MV
Brisbane craps me...beat Sydney FC & Victory then play crap for another few weeks...grrrr
Edit....double grrrr 1-1 For F....SAKE
Can't fill the ground? Go to a smaller field. I'd rather see 5k in a ground full than 10k in a stadium 25% full.
Always good about Brisbane until this season...or was it last....they played in Redcliffe and I actually got to 2 games a season.
Now playing in a soulless stadium with 5500 in a 52000 capacity stadium is so meh. Don't know why they changed.
ethnic based clubs in to the A-League, instead of giving new licences to new clubs without support.
Get rid of the name A-League, new name should be, Australian Premier League.
Maybe others have a better plan.
As much as I was against this many years ago....today I have changed my mind.
No need to play out of huge stadiums...just good smaller stadiums – lets face it they know how to run a club.
APL has a better ring to it.
What the heck has happened to Adelaide? Was they not 2nd til they fell of this chasm?
I have enjoyed the season even if Brisbane was shite.
Another season where the top team crapped the bed when it counted.
I must be the only person who really don't care about the grand final this week. I could not care what side won this week.
And I really don't understand why we have the finals the way we do.
Congrats to Melbourne City it was very much a boring game in my opinion anyway the better team won on the night but I can't help but think Auckland will kick themselves.
With everything going on in the league I do fear for the AL to be honest.
It is almost turning into a East coast league take out Brisbane.
Anyway congrats to the winners let's hope next year or next season it improves because it's not looking good.
shame that a lot of people come out for just a visiting team, which is not really a team that is on everyone's lips, no offence intended towards Wrexham
Always been that way ..will never change either.
Look at the EPL thread....tells you all ya need to know.