-------------biz
neville--tiago--mitchell--goodwin
-------rubes---jobe
chile------brown-------ryu
-----------heskey
ribs
kanta
regan/pepz
4-2-3-1 for the point
-------------biz
neville--tiago--mitchell--goodwin
-------rubes---jobe
chile------brown-------ryu
-----------heskey
ribs
kanta
regan/pepz
4-2-3-1 for the point
I hope he likes prison food.......and penis
Anti Soccer brigade don't eat cornflakes, it's usually a steak and warm VB before hitting the Herald website to remind everyone that "ZOMG Sokkas is fagzzzzz"Originally Posted by MFKS
My mistake forgot they aren't normal people who do normal things!!
this is the a-league - form means nothing
OK
**** that was a funny, garry with his chicken dance
OK
Our front 4 has to be
Brown----------Ryu----------Goodwin
--------------Heskey
Who cares who plays behind that, we will just score more goals than they will!
If Brown is fit enough to start then we should definitely start like this.
----------------Biz
Nev------Tiago-----Regan-----Mitcho
-----Wheelhouse--Ladkovich
Jim B----------Griff----------Goodsy
--------------Hesko
-------------bizzo
nevo-----torago------mitcho-----Goodo
------wheelo-----zadko-----------
chillo-----griffo-------brown-eye
---------hesko
we will loose
I dont mean just this weekends game. I just more mean in general, when we have a fully fit first 11.
Goody has been a left wing all his playing career, it was only at Heart did he excel at Left Back. But great to have him being so versitile. Perth will find it hard to tag him at left back though.
bit concered with mitchell at cb
Just watched the game again on Fox from last Friday. If we had all blokes available this week no National Yoof Call Ups/Injury worries Mitchell wouldn't/shouldn't be picked. Gave the ball away stupidly on 3-4 occasions.
Also have some severe doubts as to how we can play such a high line in defence and have him and Tarago as CB's when both aren't exactly fast. Poor bloke got done for pace by Flores of all people
**** off you ****SWESTERN Sydney Wanderers have turned down an approach to sign Joel Griffiths, with coach Tony Popovic refusing to be bounced into signing another striker by the club's early scoring problems.
An agent representing Griffiths has been exploring the possibility of the striker returning to the A-League, although Griffiths is believed to be undecided on his future and eyeing a new deal in China.
Wanderers were approached this week to see if Popovic was interested in recruiting the forward who has played alongside Nicolas Anelka and Didier Drogba at Shanghai Shenhua, and become a cult hero since switching to China from Newcastle in 2008.
But The Daily Telegraph understands Popovic declined to open talks, not least because of the limited amount of playing budget left after the signing of Shinji Ono.
Griffiths played three times for Australia but was effectively frozen out by former coach Pim Verbeek after one appearance in a training squad in 2008, the year he helped fire Newcastle Jets to the A-League title.
He scored 19 goals in 56 games for Beijing Guoan before earning a $1 million contract at Shanghai but despite their exalted squad this season, they are 11th out of 16 with one game to go.
Griffiths has had a frustrating season, kept out for almost three months with a mid-season knee injury but also playing alongside two Premier League winners.
His one-year contract expires at the end of the season, but it's believed there is the possibility of a new deal in Shanghai or a move within the Chinese Super League.
There was interest from Newcastle in signing him early in the last A-League season, but the salary Griffiths will command in China is beyond the reach of most of the A-League clubs.
How's about you open up avenues for clubs to make money instead of slamming shut entire industries like the alcohol industry.Round-ball game cashes in on TV deal
November 1, 2012
Television's love of live sport has another happy union to announce as Football Federation Australia is set to trumpet a four-year $160 million broadcasting rights deal with Fox Sports and SBS, beginning on July 1 next year.
Football is the third code to cash in on TV's need for live action, following last year's $1.25 billion AFL contract and this year's $1.02 billion NRL deal.
It is understood Fox Sports will pay about $32 million a year and SBS $7 million to broadcast the A-League's five games a week, including one free-to-air game on SBS, together with World Cup qualifiers.
The FFA's existing seven-year TV deal is worth $19 million a year, meaning the round-ball game has doubled its broadcasting revenue, eclipsing the AFL's 37 per cent increase but short of the NRL's 250 per cent rise.
Football fans will see Socceroos' World Cup home-and-away qualifier games live on Fox Sports and on one-hour delay with SBS. Although the contract officially applies from July 1, four Socceroos World Cup qualifiers - against Oman, Japan, Jordan and Iraq - will be played before that date next year and shown on SBS on one-hour delay.
The new deal allows SBS, which has paid $25 million for all quadrennial FIFA World Cup tournaments until 2022, more than just four weeks' coverage every four-year window. It can now pitch to advertisers its year-round coverage of the world's most popular sport, produce preview and review shows and cement a relationship with the FFA as well as FIFA.
The new Fox Sports-SBS arrangement is a minor technical breach of Senator Stephen Conroy's anti-siphoning laws, which insist that the Socceroos must be shown first on free-to-air TV.
However, the one-hour delay is a realistic solution, given the fact the Minister for Communications was forced to grant the sport a dispensation in 2005 because pay TV was the only broadcaster interested.
The FFA's windfall comes after record TV ratings and crowd figures, following its decision to start the A-League season in October, clear of the shadow of the AFL and NRL finals series.
Fox Sports is convinced it can convert those AFL and NRL fans uninterested in cricket to continue their subscriptions over the summer, rather than churn and renew with the enticing deals Foxtel offers in March.
''Soccer can become a summer sport in Australia and give pay TV year-round consistency of football,'' one analyst said.
The fact there are two teams each in Sydney and Melbourne means the biggest cities in Australia now host a game a week, plus they produce derbies.
TV ratings have risen this season from an average of 65,000 viewers a game to 95,000. The match between Sydney FC and Newcastle, featuring the A-League's two highest-profile drawcards, Sydney's Alessandro del Piero and the Jets' Emile Heskey, was the most watched A-League game ever, with 164,000 viewers, confirming football's boast that the superstar with the ball on his foot can bring a city to its feet.
A-League ratings are still small compared with NRL and AFL but the FFA and TV chiefs are confident they will rise as more young players develop, international stars are signed as marquee players and popular Socceroos return when their careers with European clubs conclude.
''It's an investment for the future,'' one executive involved in the negotiations said.
The record broadcasting deal was the final task of outgoing FFA chief executive Ben Buckley, who switched across to football from the AFL, where he was a pivotal figure in the AFL securing its previous $780 million deal over five years.
Buckley will be replaced by former NRL chief David Gallop, who will start at FFA headquarters on November 13. Gallop faces an immediate challenge reconciling the monetary demands of A-League clubs with the ambition of his hands-on chairman, Frank Lowy, who believes TV revenue should sustain the FFA, while the privately owned clubs must fund themselves.
The gap between the FFA's annual distribution of $1.9 million to A-League clubs and a salary cap of $2.5 million is already narrowing and, with crowd figures rising by 20 per cent, private owners have the confidence to invest in the sport.
Brisbane Roar has become a commercial success, following two premierships and the investment of an Indonesian owner. While Melbourne Victory has had a dismal start to the season after last year's Harry Kewell lift, Heart's form offers promise.
Unresolved before an official FFA announcement next week is the programming of SBS's one A-League game a week.
The FFA is tempted to follow the lead of the AFL and NRL and schedule its free-to-air match of the round on Friday nights but Saturday evenings have been the A-League's big ratings winner.
http://www.smh.com.au/sport/football...#ixzz2AubjTDUM
Also its worth pointing out that without these private HAL clubs you'd only be able to sell a few national team games and some junior rep games, the HAL delivers much more content and in a period which is sparse for sports action, why would these clubs not deserve their fair share of the profits they generate.
An independent HAL can't come quick enough if this is the attitude of the governing body.
Hopefully the claim about owners having more confidence to invest is based on owner feedback, it's what we need as a sport & it can help deliver stability for clubs and the league as a whole.
Also Sign Griff FFS!
Griff will go wherever the money is offered. I can still see him going to Sydney FC after the books get "fiddled".
taking 20 bucks out of their pay each week for lunch probably beats waiting for hutcho's mrs to deliver the tuna to the "bush hut"You can't see it from the road, or the nearby train line, but tucked away in the scrubland of Tuggerah is the A-League's best-kept secret.
It's a football-only oasis, a place where the round ball is king, and where the Central Coast Mariners are planning to build the best football club in Australia.
If you want to know why they're competing for the title for the third straight year, look no further.
The Mariners' Centre of Excellence was long thought of by the football fraternity as a questionable project: big on ambition, low on dollars. Supported by government, stymied by red tape. Perhaps more trouble than it was worth?
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That it may have seemed at times, but with the end product in sight, there can be doubt no longer. It is a brilliant piece of infrastructure.
No wonder owner Peter Turnbull - even as he battled to free up funds to keep the club going - never really wanted to sell his stake to a group of interested Russians last year. This was his master plan, after all.
Central Coast coach Graham Arnold raves about it. ''It's one of the main reasons I stayed here instead of going to Sydney FC.'' It's a rare public acknowledgement of investment. He is, after all, chiefly responsible for the perception that the Mariners - who play the cashed-up Sky Blues in Gosford on Saturday - exist on the smell of an oily rag.
The club built clean, modern facilities but then handed the keys to the players and coaches to let them drive what happened inside.
Wanting their own touch on the dressing room and medical facilities, the younger players went and bought the paint and brushes to deck it out in Mariners colours.
The club docks the players $20 a week to feed them breakfast and lunch. Everyone has to be present for both. ''That way we get to control two-thirds of their diet,'' Arnold notes. ''They don't even notice - and it makes them bond even more.''
They eat nearby in something of a bush hut that looks as though it should be on the banks of the Hawkesbury River. Arnold makes the new players shake the hands of all visitors to the hut, even the press. ''Respect is everything around here,'' he says. Everyone does their own dishes and volunteers are thanked for cooking the meals.
But there's still some humour about. A Western Sydney Wanderers' team poster hangs in the kitchen (the purpose left unstated) and Andrew Clarke - the club's one-man medical, sports science and high-performance unit - turns a blind eye to the scoffing of Troy Hearfield's birthday cake.
There's very little bling in the parking lot. Showing off wouldn't go down well with the senior players, who are the ones responsible for how the entire squad carries itself.
To steal a phrase from the Sydney Swans, it's clear they have a ''no dickheads'' policy. ''When I'm talking to the group, be it in a video session or a group session, I only highlight the positives,'' Arnold says. ''If I have to make a criticism to a player, I'll do it in private, and only with a view to making him better next time.''
It's why the Mariners will contend again, with another lot of young, level-headed players leading the charge.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/sport/a-league...#ixzz2AvOLQNjf
truly the peasants of the a-league
docked pay to be fed, do own dishes, pay for paint & brushes so can paint club facilities themselves - sounds more like a state league team than a professional outfit to me.
something tells me that adp didn't get the nickname "Il Pinturicchio" or "the little painter" because he took it upon himself to paint the juve dressing room.
edit: don't quote me on the italian translation, but i'm led to believe that's what it's reffering to
Last edited by pv4; 01-11-2012 at 11:17 AM.
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holding the game back in this country
I reckon it was a lot more than 3-4 occasions. Victory just kept hanging off him and giving him space to dribble into whereupon they'd take a step towards him and he'd shit himself and pass it straight to the opposition. Absolutely abysmal performance and he should've been hooked before half time (a Jesse Pinto 15 minute cameo was more than he deserved).
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