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We got all the issues from Jesse Fink to Fozzie, Socceroos to Dan Silkman, Greg Baum, to Ange Postecoglou, Ben Kennedy replaces Tando Velaphi, where should Harry play, should Dario play, why Aussies are sick of the Socceroos...well the Aussie media, is the A_League boring. Click to continue reading...

Nationally download Who are the last seven teams to qualify for the last SIX world Cups (not England) and we tell you why Paddy Bordier thinks Nicky over Holman and Eamonn says no way.
Russ Gibbs W-League wrap, did they count the Gold Coast Ambo's who attended to Clive Palmer in the crowd numbers at the Roar game on the weekend. Click to continue reading...

I've never written to the Capital Football Board before, never felt the need or desire but the current debacle over "our" High Performance programs and it's ability to provide opportunities for a much broader and younger football base, boys/girls, is such a positive move that something must be done. And now. Click to continue reading...

Canberra Youth Football: A chink of light remains;
Anyone who has followed this blog will know that I'm not impressed with the lack of high level football for boys/men in this town.
And with the National Youth League up and running nothing has been organised, supported or encouraged it seems by Capital Football. Click to continue reading...

Well this has really got the locals talking. And thank god for the Nearpost; always got a solution and right now that's just what we need.
And in blogland solutions are easy.
Capital Football has put on hold, maybe even scrapped, their plans for a change from the less than equitable and limited current Academy structure to the proposed and advertised FFA facilitated Talent Id program. Click to continue reading...

As far as I know Luke Pilkington plays for ANU FC in the ACT Premier League and yet was fit enough to win a contract, through Football Superstar with Melbourne Victory.
I doubt any young 18 year old from top sides Belconnen United or Canberra FC would be fit enough to win that competition without considerable extra training. Click to continue reading...

The lads of Canberra, mates, Aussie till the end can continue to look forward to playing against their mates in the Kanga Cup, next week at 10 and then every year thru to 18 and then continue to play against their mates in the local leagues and maybe one day in the local Premier League, and then the lower leagues as they get older and finally again in the Masters. Click to continue reading...

Nationally it's a World Cup special we discuss:br /br /Socceroos..our memories down the yearsbr /The Uzbek game and why Mike Cockerill has no idea.br /And the World Cup since 1966....our greatest memories from every World Cupbr /br /a href="http://ia331429.us.archive.org/1/items/NearpostCrn31-03-09/NearpostCrn31-03-09. Click to continue reading...

Six Canberrans have training contracts with the AIS: A record for Canberra football and no doubt a record for any similar sized town/city in Australia...and yet we have no professional team, but we did introduce SSG's in 2004.br /br /A great interview tonight with John Mitchell, the man responsible for bringing Small Sided Games to Canberra in 2004 way before it was introduced nationally by the FFA. Click to continue reading...