The Supporters Club is organising a Sportsman's Lunch. We have been able to organise with the club to supply at least 6 players including Jason Culina. Here is the flier, so if it interests you, drop us a line and make arrangements to pay up. Click to continue reading...

Last week, we reported on exhibit A in how to alienate fans in Australia by A-League expansion team Gold Coast United's billionaire owner Clive Palmer. The club closed three sides of their stadium, Skilled Park, and capped capacity to just 5,000, forcing supporters out of their usual position in the stadium.

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It is now up to the Gold Coast Fans to get off your bums, buy a ticket and come and support a really good football team. Our team has a real chance of actually winning this competition. I am not saying we will, but we have a great chance. Click to continue reading...

"Scrap the Cap", "Fans not $$ ", "Greatest Team Never Seen", "Football is for the fans, not greedy hands, Justice for the GCU", "Want bigger Crowds Clive, Ask us How". Click to continue reading...

Clive Palmer, owner of Gold Coast United

Gold Coast United, an expansion team in Australia's premier A-League, have already generated negative headlines it takes some teams decades to generate: "A-League may hit rock bottom thanks to the Coast," says Adrian Musolino in today's Roar, which also features another piece titled "Gold Coast "United" – How to lose fans and alienate people".

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Clive Palmer, The owner of new Australian A-League club Gold Coast United, is sick and tired of people not coming (they have the smallest average attendance in the league at 4,500) to see his team play in the 27,400 seat Robina Stadium that he's overpaying to rent for home matches, so he's opted to go with perhaps the dumbest PR move a club owner has ever attempted by closing all but one side of the stadium and only allowing a maximum of 5,000 people in for each game.

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Will Clive Palmer limit crowds to 5000 at Skilled Park? "We believe Clive's financial resources will support the bid – there's no question about that," Buckley said. "More importantly there's a demonstrated commitment to engage with the Gold Coast community. That's a very important part of the proposal as well" Courier Mail, June 3, 2008 "the club informed [. Click to continue reading...

They Think It's All Over... is sick of seeing Wellington Phoenix draw - it's time to get the best out of Chris Greenacre. Click to continue reading...

Round 4 of the Hyundai A-League wrapped up yesterday, with the round producing some mixed and surprising results.

Adelaide United vs North Queensland Fury

Hindmarsh Stadium 10,733

3-3

10,733 people braved the rain, and the majority watched in horror as North Queensland went ahead first after Robbie Fowler timed a run perfectly to score off a James Robinson wonder-cross, to the delight of the captain.

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Before our first home game a couple of weeks ago a 60 minutes crew joined our Supporters Club at the Dog and Parrot. They were there as part of a story on Clive Palmer, our club owner. We were filmed singing our chants and then a few of us were interviewed by Charles Wooley. It was a fun afternoon. Click to continue reading...

Adelaide v Gold Coast United, Friday night.
Should be a cracker and a great test for both teams.
I'm expecting a fast-paced game with the Gold Coast forced onto the back foot in front of the Hindmarsh faithful.
But will Jason Culina, Shane Smeltz and Joel Porter pounce again. Click to continue reading...

Thanks to Dirty Tackle to bringing this to our attention, because it's simply fabulous. Watch as Robbie Fowler attempts to decapitate his opponent and then marvel at the way the striker didn't even get a caution! Boy, Australian Football must have a whole set of different rules when it comes to cautions and red cards.

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Undefeated after 2 Matches With a 3-1 win in our first ever Derby in Brisbane and then a 5-0 win over fellow newcomers, NQ Fury, we are so far undefeated with 25 matches remaining. Can we go the distance?? A big ask in any competition. I don't know what Professor Clive was smoking at the time but [.. Click to continue reading...

That's Robbie Fowler pulling off a gymnastic Chuck Norris move in an A-League match to kick Gold Coast United's Anderson in the face in the 85th minute of his North Queensland side's 5-0 loss on Saturday.

Despite the awesomely vicious nature of this impressive maneuver, Fowler did not get booked, nor did he get punished afterward by the match review panel because the referee ruled that it did not warrant punishment.

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Well what does Shane Smeltz have to do to be man-of-the-match?
Scores 4 and Porter gets the award!!
And was it a goal for every thousand fans!
The Fury got 8,900 on debut, Gold Coast with Jason Culina and all the hype for 7,000 on home debut.
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"It was brilliant to hear them out-chanting the Roar fans even though they were outnumbered and that's a great sign for the potential atmosphere at Skilled Park. They really made themselves heard which is what you want from your fans." Click to continue reading...

We're only an hour or so away from the first match of A-League ver. 5 and already it's promising to be a cracker of a year!
Two new teams in Gold Coast United and North Queensland Fury, new and "unique" kit designs, a host of new faces from local and abroad, ex-socceroos and marquee talent the likes of Robbie Fowler, Jason Culina, Mile Sterjovski, Chris Coyne, Jacob Burns etc. Click to continue reading...

We're only an hour or so away from the first match of A-League ver. 5 and already it's promising to be a cracker of a year!
Two new teams in Gold Coast United and North Queensland Fury, new and "unique" kit designs, a host of new faces from local and abroad, ex-socceroos and marquee talent the likes of Robbie Fowler, Jason Culina, Mile Sterjovski, Chris Coyne, Jacob Burns etc. Click to continue reading...

GOLD Coast United manager Miron Bleiberg has cast doubt upon Perth Glory's chances in the A-League claiming the club lacks depth, The West Australian has reported.
Speaking after his side's 1-0 victory over the Glory in Bunbury, Bleiberg felt the Glory's lack of dept could cost them this season. Click to continue reading...

by Usman Azad, Football Perth Editor
Perth Glory 0
Gold Coast 1 (Porter 23)
Crowd: 2985
A FIRST-HALF goal to Gold Coast United striker Joel Porter was enough for United to record a 1-0 victory over Perth Glory in a friendly played in Bunbury today.
Porter was the recipient of a defensive mix-up in the Glory penalty box and was able to slot home the goal. Click to continue reading...

by Usman Azad, Football Perth Editor
RIGHTO - Just to let you (my wonderful readers) know, Football Perth will be Twittering live updates from the Perth Glory vs Gold Coast United friendly tomorrow.
For those who won't be able to make the trip to Bunbury, the coverage will start around 1. Click to continue reading...

A ridiculous red card for Thwaite early in the second half saw GCU down to 10 men in the 48th minute. Finally GCU had a result from all their forays forward and Adama Trarore slotted one past Vukovic in the 80th minute. Then in the 91st minute, Smeltz popped up at a cross and headed one home for a 2-2 result. Click to continue reading...

The match against Fulham on Wednesday night was a great first hit out for the team and supporters at a fully open stadium. From a supporters point of view the home end was disjointed with pockets of people all over the place. Trying different chants and getting an atmosphere was difficult. But hey, it was our [. Click to continue reading...

A 2 - 1 victory over Fulham FC from the English Premier League Click to continue reading...

When Johnny Foreigner, in the shape of newly-promoted but soon to be relegated Wolverhampton Wanderers steps up in Perth on Friday, closely followed by crack EPL outfit Fulham in Melbourne (I'm joking), one of the best supported clubs in world sport Celtic (I'm not joking)in Brisbane and Shanghai Shenhua in Sydney in coming weeks the new pre-season will be in full swing. Click to continue reading...

I need to generate publicity for the Supporters Club meeting next Monday night so we can at least get a few people along and discuss what we are going to do. Click to continue reading...

We need to get the "Home End" standing and singing as one voice. Football Supporters are unique in this type of support for the home team. The more people we get and the more noise we make the better the experience will be for the entire stadium. Click to continue reading...

Our Central defenders , Bas Van der Brink and Michael Thwaite were very solid. I think Bas will be a bit of a cult figure among the GCU fans as the season progresses. Click to continue reading...

If you take out marquee Robbie Fowler and Jason Culina from North Queensland and Gold Coast United..the quality of the players being signed by the Gold Coast, compared to Townsville one can only assume that either Gold Coast have found away to smash the salary cap...or North Queensland can't afford to spend anywhere near the Cap. Click to continue reading...

Bernie Lustica enthralled us on the radio last night with his story of his son Stephen's journey to his first professional contract with Gold Coast United.
Here's a snippet:
"So Stephen came home from pre-season training (around age 12) and said my coach says I have to do 3,000 juggles by the end of the season. Click to continue reading...

The much awaited regional match has been selected to be played in Bunbury on July 25 against the... Click to continue reading...

One of Canberra's Australian Under 18's Stephen Lustica, 17, went to Old Trafford last week for the first time. Stephen was there to watch his second Premier League game. His first was the previous day...West Ham v Sunderland.
The Old Trafford game, 75,000 plus saw Man United v Aston Villa. Click to continue reading...

Nationally we talk Socceroos Matildas and A-League and we got stung by that Viduka story as well:) and Andrew Baresic from Gold Coast United, Katarina Vrkic and Christina Matkovic from Canberra FC are our special guests. For our podcasts......
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Andrew Baresic of Gold Coast United, formerly Canberra FC and to Katarina Vrkic Canberra FC on all the happenings at the club including the news Canberra FC are to join with Canberra Girls Grammar. Click to continue reading...

Nationally we talk Socceroos Matildas and A-League and we got stung by that Viduka story as well:) and Andrew Baresic from Gold Coast United, Katarina Vrkic and Christina Matkovic from Canberra FC are our special guests. For our podcasts......
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Locally we talk to:
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Andrew Baresic of Gold Coast United, formerly Canberra FC and to Katarina Vrkic Canberra FC on all the happenings at the club including the news Canberra FC are to join with Canberra Girls Grammar. Click to continue reading...

Nationally we talk Socceroos Matildas and A-League and we got stung by that Viduka story as well:) and Andrew Baresic from Gold Coast United, Katarina Vrkic and Christina Matkovic from Canberra FC are our special guests. For our podcasts......
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Locally we talk to:
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Andrew Baresic of Gold Coast United, formerly Canberra FC and to Katarina Vrkic Canberra FC on all the happenings at the club including the news Canberra FC are to join with Canberra Girls Grammar. Click to continue reading...