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What the A-League needs in Season 8.
1. We need 10 teams including Newcastle Jets.
2. We need two more players a la Kewell and Emerton to build the hype. Who? Only Tim Cahill could
spark the media if not the fans but he's a long way from coming home. Dwight Yorke not Robbie
Fowler?
By Chris Wright
Brisbane Roar secured their second A-League title on the bounce on Sunday evening, though the
manner in which they did so will make your mind swim as your synapses struggle to comprehend the
weapons grade 'what the f**kity' on show.
With the score level at 1-1 and the last few seconds of normal time ebbing away, Brisbane
striker Besart Berisha blustered through the Perth area to find himself clean through, swung his
leg at a bobbling ball, missed entirely and then fell on his arse to cap off the show.
The Australia Nike 2012/13 home jersey was launched on Tuesday. The new kit will be the Socceroos'
first choice uniform for the next stage of Asian Qualifiers for the 2014...
RIP Gold Coast United Well, the FFA showed their gutless side today by announcing that Western
Sydney will be the 10th team in a 10 team completion next season. Not one mention of GCU and our
fate. I have been a season member for 3 seasons now and an active agitator to get palmer to [...]
Shane Smeltz stole the headlines as Perth put a strangely negative Melbourne Heart to the
sword.
Perth aren't pretty for the neutral and with Liam Miller off his game it was dire stuff. A strange
second "goal" that clearly wasn't killed the game all hats off to Smeltz for celebrating early -
did he influence the Perth-based linesman who gave a goal.
Defending Australian A-League champions Brisbane Roar FC have unveiled PUMA home and away kits for
their 2012 AFC Champions League campaign. Both kits feature the PUMA King shirt design used...
The Australia Nike 2012/13 away jersey was launched on Sunday. According to the Football Federation
Australia website: Nike have designed a new away kit for the Qantas Socceroos to celebrate...
It's the vibe of the thing, your Honour. Dennis Denuto summed it up in the classic 1997 Aussie
movie, The Castle. It is that something that is hard to convey to non-football people, but we all
know what "the vibe" is. Last night I went as usual to watch and support my Gold Coast United [...]
We knew the Melbourne Victory defence, central defence was too slow, too fragile and lacked
Muscat.
And in midfield the pairing of Leigh Broxham and Grant Brebner could never control the game in the
Asian Champions League games - at times the Victory were embarrassing - and these our Aussie
Champions - and this season they've never had the ball, kept the ball or enabled the style boys to
get on the ball.
We're a small city in a region of 700,000 people. Not a professional mens football team worthy of a
mention, not now, not in living memory.
And yet we still produce quality - quality footballers and in the case of Joe Simunic, Carl Valeri
who are both still playing, star Internationals.
Throw in excellent A-League stalwarts, Nikolai Topor-Stanley, Matty Kemp and Brisbane Roars Kofi
Danning and we've almost got a half a team.
Fantastic the football on the weekend.
Tucked into two games. Victory and Adelaide and Brisbane v Sydney.
What treats.
Harry Kewell turned back the clock with a wonderful performance, again. If Archie or Danny could
have finished one or two of their Harry inspired chances Victory would have won.
Robbie Slater has taken Craig Foster to task over Fozzie's article/analysis of Melbourne Victory's
Coaching appointment.
Fozzie's article is intelligent, well thought out and something we need in this country - even if
you don't agree with it's sentiment.
It adds to our football intelligence, it makes us think.
He's been here a week - who knows who the better Coach is - but football is often about bluff and
baloney and the man from Belfast has it in spades...or so it seems.
Memhet has a deep rich voice but his media efforts were poor, didn't inspire or excite the fans. He
couldn't explain his vision, looked frozen before the camera and when things got tough he had no
bluster or baloney to fall back on.
With Victory showing sides of improvement last week, and Harry Kewell turning in another quality
performance tonight's game should be a belter.
Big crowd, great stadium and lots of footballers on the park.
If Victory can seal their defence, the team could gain some serious confidence and climb the
ladder.
Rini from Adelaide he's gone, Branko from Newcastle he's gone, Mehmet from Melbourne already
gone...
A-League winner Vitaslav is surely going...The Jets give Championship winningrecently appointed Van
Egmond a guarantee, Fergie is he really still there? and Miron draws 2,000 a week, crowd not
dollars, and now is set to wear a mic in the half-time dressing room.
Dear Clive, once again you have proved you have little or no respect for active support at Gold
Coast United home games.
A little over a decade ago, South Melbourne FC took part in the FIFA Club World Championship as
champions of Oceania, trying their luck in a group containing England's Manchester United, Brazil's
Vasco da Gama and Mexico's Nexaca. South Melbourne could then claim to be Australia's most
successful club, winners of four National Soccer League titles.
By Eric Beard
The idea of community, however tangible or intangible, real or imagined, flourishes at the very
core of football. Without fans, football doesn't exist. Similarly, without readers, AFR would have
died a long, long time ago. Conversation is the greatest source of sustenence in the beautiful
game.
7:1 win vs Adelaide last night. Oh yes oh yes oh yes. Ra ra ra. We actually are the best in the
World and everyone else is, slowly but surely, learning to live with it.
The question being repeated everywhere is, how come only eleven and a half thousand people saw one
of the greatest football spectacles we might expect to see in club football?
When Dario brilliantly hit the back of the net on 5 minutes it looked as if at last Brisbane's time
had come. Broich had said earlier in the week that they had been lucky. Perhaps that had run
out?
But no. On when the pressure. Fox had asked would Brisbane be able to chase this season, well yes.
3-0 Loss and I am Excited
Australian A-League club Newcastle Jets unveiled its 2011/12 home and away kits from from
Australian sportswear firm ISC on Friday. According to the club's website, the home kit "sees the
return of Newcastle's iconic colours, red and blue, the same colours worn by fellow Novocastrian
representatives, the Newcastle Knights.
Following the recent launch of its 2011/12 away strip, last season's Australian A-League regular
season second place finishers and playoff finalists Central Coast Mariners Football Club have
officially unveiled their navy blue and yellow hummel 2011/12 home kit and goalkeeper jerseys.
According to the Mariners' website: Central Coast Mariners today officially launched the club's
playing [.
Last season's Australian A-League regular season second place finishers and playoff finalists
Central Coast Mariners Football Club signed a two-year kit deal with Danish sportswear firm hummel
in May. Since then the Central Coast Mariners hummel 2011/12 away jersey has been unveiled and used
extensively during the club's pre-season.
The Australia A-League kit launches continue ahead of the league's early October kickoff. The
latest comes with the unveiling of the Adelaide United FC Errea 2011/12 home and away kits.
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Brisbane Roar Football Club (formerly Queensland Roar Football Club) is a professional soccer club
from Brisbane, Queensland, Australia competing in the Hyundai A-League. The Roar was the 2010/11
A-League regular season and playoff champions. As a result, the team is an automatic entrant into
the 2012 AFC Champions League.
John Aloisi: helping or hurting? - originally posted on Soccerlens.com
With A-League clubs beginning to convince the younger and fitter members of Australia's golden
generation to return to antipodean shores, the moves come with a warning from the country's
favourite penalty-taker, John Aloisi.
By Gina Baldassarre, writing from Sydney
After a tiring, drawn-out saga, a contract has finally been signed, the dust is beginning to
settle, and the prodigal son is coming home. And no, I'm not actually talking about Cescgate.
That's right my friends, those of us living down under have had twice the transfer drama to keep
us on the edge of our seats this winter.
My issue is with you and your grandiose statements to the press 3 years ago and ever since. I
jumped on board largely on the back of what you said in the media 3 years ago. Your vision for the
A-League and Football on the Gold Coast, here are some quotes from the news back then by yourself
and CEO Mensink.
With the A-League teetering along last year football was heading back to the future.
Despite the move into Asia, a successful Asia Cup campaign, the rise of the Matildas and the
increasing number of Young Guns pushing into the Socceroos and starring in the A-League moving to
Europe and Asia, football still lacked any sense of security or money for our A-League clubs to
survive, never mind to move ahead.
Entering its second season, Melbourne Heart FC will be looking to improve upon its 8th place finish
in the 2010/11 Australian A-League. Featuring several players with recent Australia junior and
senior national team call-ups, the club was recently linked with veteran Socceroo and former
Liverpool FC midfielder Harry Kewell.
The medical community of Melbourne are collectively licking their lips. For the first time in his
professional career Harry Kewell is playing club football in Australia. Melbourne Victory have
beaten supposed interest from Sydney FC in securing his signature on a three year deal. Since
emerging from the Leeds United academy in the late 90's [.
Everyone else has had their say on Harry Kewell, so I don't see why I shouldn't. I am absolutely
delighted that one of our best ever Socceroos, and one that is still playing and having an
influence at the national level has decided to join the A-League. It will be a crowd booster not
only [...]
If you have played at the top in front of the Kop when you return home you want to have some
passion, some feeling from a large crowd.
And what better team to sign for than the one with the biggest fanbase.
The Victory are already popular on the road - but the Derbies, Adelaide and Sydney games have just
gone up a notch.
Harry Kewell the man who so nearly won the Asian Cup for Australia, in January 2011 is expected to
sign for Melbourne Victory for THREE YEARS tomorrow.
This is great news for football fans, for the A-League and Australian football.
The process may have been long and arduous but Australia's greatest player will return to Australia
at just 32.
Australian A-League side Wellington Phoenix FC has unveiled its adidas 2011/12 home kit. The club
joins fellow A-League clubs Sydney FC and the Melbourne Victory FC an adidas-sponsored team.
According to the Phoenix' website: The yellow and black match kit was designed by adidas in
collaboration with the club.
Two-time Hyundai A-League Champion Sydney FC have unveiled its 2011/12 adidas home and away kits.
The Sky Blues become the second A-League team to sign a sponsorship deal with adidas along with the
Melbourne Victory. According to the club's website all three Sydney FC teams – Hyundai A-League,
Westfield W-League and the National Youth League [.
Having denigrated the A-League in its early years, SBS, the home of FTA Football has finally come
full circle.
Many football fans were sick and tired of SBS in its coverage of the A-League in those eary season.
They not only failed to promote and cover the game in a meaningful way but they stuck the boot in,
again and again, to a new professional league with all it's teething problems.
Union and Football are the two codes trying/needing to increase their foothold in Australia.
Both have seen their domestic games take a fall in recent years - first Union with the short-lived
ARC and then football with the demise of a number of A-League clubs.
Union fell first - but may have picked itself up quickest - not least with the support of the
international S15.
A-League: It's all about Harry Kewell - originally posted on Soccerlens.com
Harry Kewell.
A show-pony. A drama queen. The best football player to come out of Australia.
Just the mention of his name prompts the football fan to offer their opinions. It's impossible
not to, given his remarkably high-profile successes and failures.
