Daily Australian News Thread 2016

[belchardo]

Most of those issues you bring up and benefits you bring up have **** all to do with the Newcastle Jets

I disagree

Column inches in the regional NNSW rags for football have nothing to do with the Jets

except that the jets form part of a still fledgling competition struggling to get decent TV ratings and wanting to get onto FTA

Winning hearts and minds in NNSW isn't gonna mean **** all to the Jets in the short medium or long term

i suggest that man u, arsenal, man city, everton, juventus and all the other teams that have travelled thousands of kilometres to play a couple of matches would disagree with that statement.

Winning hearts and minds in the Newcastle and Hunter community will though

I agree. why can't we do both?

You don't win hearts and minds by shafting your existing support base correction long suffering support base to appease a few hillbilly's who live in the sticks by giving them a taste of the big smoke for a day

if the price drops to reflect that there is one less game, then I don't see how you're shafting anybody. and nice work with the end of that statement, you always have such sensible arguments.

Someone thinks they are scoring a goal with this idea but they are showing how inept they are

easy to say from the sidelines. put your hand up next time there is a position going there if you think you can do better.

They can't even engage their own community properly

I agree, they need to improve, but again, why can't they do both

Why not work at fixing this rather than chasing some pie in the sky dream of engaging a community 400kilometres from downtown Newy???

if you are too narrow minded to see the potential benefit of this, then I feel sorry for you (and just so you know, the Newcastle jets need to look a little further afield than "downtown Newy". Downtown newy must have a population far less than 20,000. don't think you can sustain a football club in a national competition with a catchment of 20,000).