SBS Doco on tonight 24/06/2026

[LFC]

I thought it was interesting but all over the place went from immigration to Craig Johnson to Matilda's to the a league then John safron. Almost like they got scared to ask the big questions and sidestepped

Yes mate agreed.
It just went too fast and missed heaps in between.
Better than nothing but needs to refresh and set decade by decade.

 

[Robbos]

Well dropping in Hanson and then kids time just isn’t on the subject at hand but I’ll forgive you.

As for ‘74 well that who we grew up with so naturally we lived it.
A older player from my local club was selected and benchy - played some games.
Unlike you with no club my dad was taking us to games so many were already hero’s before we qualied.
Apia naturally and many St George games because my Nonna Nonno lived at Blakehurst.

I did sort of followed St George at that time, my NRL team was St George and my favorites then was Atti Abonyi and Johnny Warren were my favorite players and they played for St George.
But Blakehurst might have been Manchester, too far away for a little boy.

 

[Monoethnic Social Club]

Interesting doco, craig johnstones story stands out as muvh as i heard it before

Interesting that in all these years sbs have never published a critical line about the a league model and the marginalization of ethnic clubs

Very good point... It crossed my mind watching ti last night too.. Not suprised that that bloated prick LaPaglia would think Lowy was a saviour, it let him pretend to own a football club and live out his fantasies for a few years.

 

[Monoethnic Social Club]

I thought it was interesting but all over the place went from immigration to Craig Johnson to Matilda's to the a league then John safron. Almost like they got scared to ask the big questions and sidestepped

Agree completely. It tried to appeal to everyone and come out being pretty bland...

My one confusion was why that little boy from the Office was trying to blame NSL clubs for not having women's football teams when the APL cubs are doing the same thing?

 

[Son of Sam]

Agree completely. It tried to appeal to everyone and come out being pretty bland...

My one confusion was why that little boy from the Office was trying to blame NSL clubs for not having women's football teams when the APL cubs are doing the same thing?

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So there WAS an Anti-NSL element to the 'documentary'?!!

Arseholes!!!

 

[Monoethnic Social Club]

So there WAS an Anti-NSL element to the 'documentary'?!!

Arseholes!!!

Are you suprised? There was even an anglo women Matildas fan calling people Malaka...

 

[LFC]

So there WAS an Anti-NSL element to the 'documentary'?!!

Arseholes!!!

yes in the end there was, the Lowy approach to Lapaglia new comp no ethnic names and sell to families blahblah.....
Con man - LaPaglia only saw $'s to be made.
Loads of press interviews on the streets asking about immigration for or against etc.

 

[LFC]

I did sort of followed St George at that time, my NRL team was St George and my favorites then was Atti Abonyi and Johnny Warren were my favorite players and they played for St George.
But Blakehurst might have been Manchester, too far away for a little boy.

well even though far away living on the northside the main relos lived there.
Sunday fam gatherings a plenty hence the ol bloke with his bros/Nonno would take us to the games.
Mate, also Schaefer, Dougie Utjesenovic < legend, indigenous Williams, GK Jimmy Fraser - icons as far as I'm concerned pity they played for St G mind you hahaha

 

[Son of Sam]

I am going to call the lingering support for the concept of the A-League the Adelaidisation of the sport.

And guess where La Paglia (pronounced with the hard g ..... got to assimilate, right?) is from.

So why did the arsehole not invest in his own home town?!!

I guess he is like that other arsehole Aurelio Vidmar, who had the gall and temerity to piss on his own people back in the day. What was the term? Pissant?

 

[LFC]

I am going to call the lingering support for the concept of the A-League the Adelaidisation of the sport.

And guess where La Paglia (pronounced with the hard g ..... got to assimilate, right?) is from.

So why did the arsehole not invest in his own home town?!!

I guess he is like that other arsehole Aurelio Vidmar, who had the gall and temerity to piss on his own people back in the day. What was the term? Pissant?

Way back in time I actually didn't mind LaPaglia due to his acting success but that interview exposed his greed like Lowy.
Rich boys not giving a f as long as they could make a $ but turn on their heritage and spit on all the players they admired who went through all the anglo white policy crap served out back then.
Water under a bridge now.

On the positive note so good seeing the great big crowds back in the day despite so much against the game back then.

 

[Son of Sam]

I am going to call the lingering support for the concept of the A-League the Adelaidisation of the sport.

And guess where La Paglia (pronounced with the hard g ..... got to assimilate, right?) is from.

So why did the arsehole not invest in his own home town?!!

I guess he is like that other arsehole Aurelio Vidmar, who had the gall and temerity to piss on his own people back in the day. What was the term? Pissant?

When I say 'his own people' I was not talking about this in the ethnic sense, but in the domicile sense. The slur was against his fellow Adelaide citizen's, not fellow Italian's.

 

[Robbos]

well even though far away living on the northside the main relos lived there.
Sunday fam gatherings a plenty hence the ol bloke with his bros/Nonno would take us to the games.
Mate, also Schaefer, Dougie Utjesenovic < legend, indigenous Williams, GK Jimmy Fraser - icons as far as I'm concerned pity they played for St G mind you hahaha

Ahhhh same name as the Doco on the 1974 team I saw, I remember Dougie, another of my fav, but could never pronounce nor spell his last name. Schaefer was a milkman & manned the Socceroos defence with Big Peter Wilson.

Rasic said Peter Wilson was 10 times better captain than Johnny Warren on the field & Warren was 10 times better captain than Peter Wilson off the field (with media, etc).

 

[New Horizon]

Agree completely. It tried to appeal to everyone and come out being pretty bland...

My one confusion was why that little boy from the Office was trying to blame NSL clubs for not having women's football teams when the APL cubs are doing the same thing?

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Spot on. Appeal to everyone, satisfy no one.
Once it reached the Matildas segment it just turned into a massive political statement

 

[ashtongate]

I am going to call the lingering support for the concept of the A-League the Adelaidisation of the sport.

And guess where La Paglia (pronounced with the hard g ..... got to assimilate, right?) is from.

So why did the arsehole not invest in his own home town?!!

I guess he is like that other arsehole Aurelio Vidmar, who had the gall and temerity to piss on his own people back in the day. What was the term? Pissant?

Hard to say why Adelaide has consistently good crowds; even when the team is crap we still usually manage at least a top half finish, and we produce all those refugee Socceroos.

I think the "United" concept appeals to many, our town against everyone else: Adelaide may be just the right size for that, with United seen as a soccer version of the Crows whose popularity never seems to diminish.

I recall going to Adelaide City's last NSL game and the crowd was about 2.5k. Football fans always felt that Adelaide could get much bigger crowds to attend national league games as soon as D'Ottavi pulled Adelaide City out.

As for Vidmar, I half agreed with his comment- there is a real undercurrent of bitchiness here!

 

[Son of Sam]

Hard to say why Adelaide has consistently good crowds; even when the team is crap we still usually manage at least a top half finish, and we produce all those refugee Socceroos.

I think the "United" concept appeals to many, our town against everyone else: Adelaide may be just the right size for that, with United seen as a soccer version of the Crows whose popularity never seems to diminish.

I recall going to Adelaide City's last NSL game and the crowd was about 2.5k. Football fans always felt that Adelaide could get much bigger crowds to attend national league games as soon as D'Ottavi pulled Adelaide City out.

As for Vidmar, I half agreed with his comment- there is a real undercurrent of bitchiness here!

Has he been involved in Adelaide football since then? Personally, I would tell him to f off.

 

[LFC]

• The Return: Vidmar returned to the club in September 2018 in an administrative capacity as the Director of Football.
• Resignation: His stint in the front office was short-lived; he unexpectedly resigned from the post five months later in February 2019.

 

[Monoethnic Social Club]

• The Return: Vidmar returned to the club in September 2018 in an administrative capacity as the Director of Football.
• Resignation: His stint in the front office was short-lived; he unexpectedly resigned from the post five months later in February 2019

Thats not a "stint" thats a long visit.

 

[BA81]

Plus, no mention of our footballing history pre-war that adds further context

There kind of was, but basically a lowkey sook that 'there were no wogs' in the 1956 Olyroo team.

No talk of Judy Masters, Reg Date or the ones who personally served as a bridge between the two eras eg. Joe Marston and Bob Bignall.

 

[ashtongate]

Has he been involved in Adelaide football since then? Personally, I would tell him to f off.

No, he is not a big deal in Adelaide anymore.

 

[BA81]

Interesting that in all these years sbs have never published a critical line about the a league model and the marginalization of ethnic clubs

There were veiled/cryptic warnings(not so much criticism, as I recall) from Les & co. on The World Game show about the dangers of the game here forgetting/further-marginalising its own history for the benefit of catering to the new-dawners' sensitivities. Realistically that was as openly as they could address it w/o risking the FFA’s wrath(though apparently that turned out to be the case anyway)