Daily Australian News 2012

[Pico]

Cheryl Salisbury named Australia's greatest woman footballer
13 Jul, 2012 04:00 AM



LAMBTON Jaffas junior Cheryl Salisbury was named Australia’s greatest woman footballer at a Johnny Warren Football Foundation awards ceremony in Sydney last night.

Salisbury, 38, is the most capped Australian footballer in any code, playing 151 A internationals for the Matildas and scoring a record 38 goals.

The winners of the Greatest Ever Australian Footballer awards were chosen by a combination of public vote and a judging panel of leading players, commentators and administrators including Jack Reilly, Andy Harper, Craig Foster, Melissa Barbieri, Les Murray, Jamie Warren, Moya Dodd and George Negus.

Salisbury’s international career began in 1994 against Russia and she represented Australia at the 1995, 1999, 2003 and 2007 World Cups, the Sydney and Athens Olympic Games and the 2006 and 2008 Asian Football Confederation Women’s Cup.

She was captain of the Matildas from 2003 until her retirement in 2009.

FIFA named her in its Women’s World XI squad in 2004 and 2007.

Harry Kewell was named greatest male footballer in a side featuring Newcastle legend Ray Baartz and coached by Guus Hiddink.

Greatest Australian team (4-3-3): Mark Schwarzer, Lucas Neill, Joe Marston, Craig Moore, Alan Davidson, Johnny Warren, Ned Zelic, Tim Cahill, Baartz, Kewell, Mark Viduka.

http://www.theherald.com.au/news/loc...r/2622927.aspx

Nice to see a couple of newy products making the lists.

[Pico]

Asian Cup snub for Adelaide Oval



ADELAIDE Oval's $535 million redevelopment was not enough incentive for the state government to secure Asian football's biggest tournament.

After cricket and Australian football received funding to re-build the Oval, the state government rejected the 2015 Asian Football Confederation Asian Cup and a chance to showcase SA to an estimated 2.5 billion viewers.

Documents obtained by the Opposition from the Freedom of Information Act revealed the Oval redevelopment announcement coincided with Football Federation Australia's Asian Cup host city deadline in 2009.

Yet the SA government ignored the opportunity after FFA chief executive Ben Buckley wrote a letter offering to help the state earn the Asian Cup.

"As indicated previously, FFA is committed to working with the South Australian Government to deliver a technically compliant stadium that supports our major event bid infrastructure strategy," Buckley penned to former minister for sport Michael Wright in July 2009.

The shadow spokesman for sport and recreation Dan van Holst Pellekaan said the state government should apologise to SA soccer fans who have also missed watching the Socceroos in official World Cup qualifiers since 2004.

"Labor chose to upgrade Adelaide Oval and ignore the offer of the FFA to deliver a compliant stadium," he said.

"And now we will miss out on South Australia's share of the 50,000 international visitors and $23 million economic contribution which this fantastic event will bring to Australia.

"This was a great opportunity for the Government to get far more value out of the $535 million taxpayer dollars for the Adelaide Oval by helping three sports rather than just two.

"There was no cost-benefit analysis done and potential benefits from this event were not discussed with the Tourism Commission before making the decision. Labor should come clean and apologise to soccer fans, the tourism industry and taxpayers for this massive blunder."

But after turning down the Asian Cup, the SA government has been lumped into a predominantly regional town fight to grab a minor slice of pre-Cup action.

Adelaide, Ballarat, Gosford, Newcastle, Hobart and Perth have all applied to host warm-up matches before the January 2015 tournament kicks off after Hindmarsh was rejected for the Cup.

The stadium's small capacity - 16,500 - lack of cover for patrons, small corporate and media facilities, and floodlighting failed to meet criteria.

And with World Cup cricket matches scheduled for the Oval in February and March 2015, the Asian Cup may have been a perfect fit.

So if the previous plans are still in place that means Newcastle won't get any AC action but Gold Coast will. Also means Sydney will have two venues. Would have made much more sense to me to have used Newcastle with its bigger venue & access to Brisbane, Sydney, Gold Coast or Melbourne.

[belchardo]

canberra has matches as well.

[Jeterpool]

It's a ludicrous decision not to allow us to have any games for the Asian Cup.

I'd enjoy goign to see Dubai v Kazikstan

[evolution]

It's a ludicrous decision not to allow us to have any games for the Asian Cup.

I'd enjoy goign to see Dubai v Kazikstan

That'd be pretty interesting, seeing as Dubai isn't a country...

[Grimario]

Neither is Kazikstan tbf...

[Jeterpool]

That'd be pretty interesting, seeing as Dubai isn't a country...

Neither is Kazikstan tbf...

Cheers guys, my bad there. Was pulling it out my ar$e but anyway.

Trying to say that two lower level Asian countries playing a trial here isn't really going to inspire me to go and watch.

[Grimario]

Cheers guys, my bad there. Was pulling it out my ar$e but anyway.

Trying to say that two lower level Asian countries playing a trial here isn't really going to inspire me to go and watch.

I got what you were saying. It would be like the farcical situation at the Olympics where 74 people rock up to watch the 400th and 270th ranked players in Badminton or something.

Reckon we would get more than a few thousand though... certainly more than GC will get. What a joke.

[Jeterpool]

Reckon we would get more than a few thousand though... certainly more than GC will get. What a joke.

I agree

[Jetmaster]

Some pressure needs to be put on FFA and get Gold Coast switched to Newcastle - it's a no brainer as to who would get the bigger attendances.

The landscape was different when the original decision was made.

[GazFish35]

Some pressure needs to be put on FFA and get Gold Coast switched to Newcastle - it's a no brainer as to who would get the bigger attendances.

The landscape was different when the original decision was made.

not nailed on though.

theres little cahnce Austalian games will be played in Newcastle, and if you put Japan's pool games on the Gold Coast, youd get a decent travelling crowd as GC is such a popular tourist desitination.


could we also be let down by not being all seater?

[BodyNovo]

could we also be let down by not being all seater?

this is what i have always seen as the biggest problem in our attempt to attract the top events. Sure we can hold a "b" rugby international and some cool dirt bike events, but the chances of anything better in the future are a long time away unless the state government tenants get some cash from tinks or some other third party and don't over budget the stands like the eastern and western rebuilds

[goaliepersempre]

needs a terrace imo

[q-money]

all you had to do was finish the ends and it would be the greatest stadiyum in lyk da whole werld

lyk dis if u cry every time wne u thnik abo4t it

[MFKS]

not nailed on though.

theres little cahnce Austalian games will be played in Newcastle, and if you put Japan's pool games on the Gold Coast, youd get a decent travelling crowd as GC is such a popular tourist desitination.


could we also be let down by not being all seater?

For Newy to be considered under AFC regulations our southern and northern hills would have to be converted to minimum all seater.

I fear that we are gonna continue to miss out on being involved in these type of big events due to our stadia. I can't see the Hills being turned all seater any time soon. The Knights don't need the capacity and we are far from needing the capacity. The only logical reason to to so would be for a big ticket event. Australia won't be getting the Olympics or WC anytime soon.

I also feel our stadium capacity is a little too high. At present we can fit in 30k plus on the two hills and two stands. Putting decent stands behind the goals should bring our capacity up to around 40k. Neither Knights or us would get close to filling it. If the goal had of been more of a 30k stadium and we had our two stands in place on the sidelines as we do the need to push on and complete the ground would be there. I reckon we are gonna be stuck with the status quo at Stade de Newy for a long while now

[Grimario]

We could just put seats at one end, a fence and some palm trees at the other and look shit on TV like the gypos do.

[Bon]

We could just put seats at one end, a fence and some palm trees at the other and look shit on TV like the gypos do.

But then we would have to give up our jobs, steal caravans (or corrugated iron) to live in, and start fingerblasting our relatives.. Lets just keep the stadium as it is..

[Grimario]

But then we would have to give up our jobs, steal caravans (or corrugated iron) to live in, and start fingerblasting our relatives.. Lets just keep the stadium as it is..

Some days, Maitland is just like this anyway

[Pico]

For Newy to be considered under AFC regulations our southern and northern hills would have to be converted to minimum all seater.

I fear that we are gonna continue to miss out on being involved in these type of big events due to our stadia. I can't see the Hills being turned all seater any time soon. The Knights don't need the capacity and we are far from needing the capacity. The only logical reason to to so would be for a big ticket event. Australia won't be getting the Olympics or WC anytime soon.

I also feel our stadium capacity is a little too high. At present we can fit in 30k plus on the two hills and two stands. Putting decent stands behind the goals should bring our capacity up to around 40k. Neither Knights or us would get close to filling it. If the goal had of been more of a 30k stadium and we had our two stands in place on the sidelines as we do the need to push on and complete the ground would be there. I reckon we are gonna be stuck with the status quo at Stade de Newy for a long while now

I doubt you'd increase the capacity by switching from standing room to seated. Hell the bundesliga with their kombi-seats increase capacity when they change to a standing area. You also wouldn't go crazy and do two tiers, you'd just extend the lower tier from the south western corner and add some corporate boxes and some new video screens at either end, I'd say at best it would stay the same capacity worst case would be a couple of thousand more.

[Guerny]

STANDING on the hill drinking beer is way better than sitting in the stands IMHO...
I wouldn't say no to a roof over the hill though.
Bring on the terraces!

G