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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.
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...
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.
Dear Clive, once again you have proved you have little or no respect for active support at Gold
Coast United home games.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 [...]
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...
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.
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 [...]
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...
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?
