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HonestSpursFan said:
THIS is why we need pro/rel in Australia.
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Difference is the UK are a football country and we are not.

None of the various leagues be it the A-League, Aus Championship/NPL are that well attended, pro/rel in Australia would be a total disaster.

As I've said elsewhere in this forum, the only sport in Australia where pro/rel would've worked was Aussie Rules in the 80's prior to the introduction of generic clubs like the West Coast Eagles, Brisbane Bears, Adelaide Crows & Fremantle Dockers.

The SANFL & WAFL had crowds that rivalled the then VFL at the time.

Football doesn't have that in Australia and never has and never will.
 
Sharkman84 said:
Difference is the UK are a football country and we are not.

None of the various leagues be it the A-League, Aus Championship/NPL are that well attended, pro/rel in Australia would be a total disaster.

As I've said elsewhere in this forum, the only sport in Australia where pro/rel would've worked was Aussie Rules in the 80's prior to the introduction of generic clubs like the West Coast Eagles, Brisbane Bears, Adelaide Crows & Fremantle Dockers.

The SANFL & WAFL had crowds that rivalled the then VFL at the time.

Football doesn't have that in Australia and never has and never will.
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Fiji (a rugby-crazy nation) has pro/rel with the top two tiers (the Premier League and Senior League) and it works fine. Their leagues have even worse attendances.
 
HonestSpursFan said:
Fiji (a rugby-crazy nation) has pro/rel with the top two tiers (the Premier League and Senior League) and it works fine. Their leagues have even worse attendances.
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Silly comparison,

We have enough problems with football in this country that bringing up that tired old argument and it needs to end and end now.

Using Coventry a club that has been around for 142 years as to why pro/rel needs to be brought in here is dumb and absurd.

Coventry City are the main club in their city, no other sports club there comes close.

None of the NPL teams are the main teams in their various suburbs/cities and don't have wider support of their area bar the various migrant communities they were founded on or bar those who play for them.
 
melbcityguy said:
But they don't have as much travelling to do we're a bigger country init
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Correct, one can do Suva to Lautoka in a 4 hours drive.

The country we compare to is the US, another country where football of the round ball kind is a minor sport and pro/rel is not done over there.

Bar the brief period that the old NSL had it, it simply isn't part of Australian sporting culture.

Australians generally don't bother with second tier leagues.
 
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