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"Can you smell the fear?", do the other football codes in Australia (AFL,NRL), genuinely fear football?

My Spirit link had nothing to do my CCM and Lawrie link - just happenstance.

I moved to Avoca in 2000 so naturally became a Mariner when the AL started. I met Lawrie when Mr Cleansheets came out in 2010, as I got permission to take a cover photo on the pitch at CCM for the book. I also got Lawrie to launch the book locally (at Avoca Surf Club), which was a huge farking night. We became friends after that and that's why he asked me to do his biography.
 
Interesting article, by the way. I already knew a fair bit about that from LM. His stories about how he and the players kept the ball rolling at the end of the Spirit days were harrowing to say the least.
 
Mr Cleansheets said:
My Spirit link had nothing to do my CCM and Lawrie link - just happenstance.
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my bad, assumption due to the links as mentioned understood.
Mr Cleansheets said:
I moved to Avoca in 2000 so naturally became a Mariner when the AL started. I met Lawrie when Mr Cleansheets came out in 2010, as I got permission to take a cover photo on the pitch at CCM for the book. I also got Lawrie to launch the book locally (at Avoca Surf Club), which was a huge farking night. We became friends after that and that's why he asked me to do his biography.
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No doubt - as I said local is local.
Great storey bout Mr.C mate also to get to know someone involved as such when the game is our passion after all.
Oh I imagine the launch night would have been tops !
Due to our geography my Italian ol man got behind the mariners, me and my sons would rib him greatly about this i disgust - worse when we used to go to the SFS to watch ADP v CCM - we'd give him heaps haha
 
Mr Cleansheets said:
Those of us here at the start of the AL will remember Chad Gilbert and the first ever AL advert. It was pretty cool, given there was no AL history. Now we have 20+ years and could have an ad featuring the likes of Nestory, Bos, Herrington, Toure et al doing amazing things in Europe and for the Socceroos but also showing footage of when they were emerging in the AL.

Obviously I'm the converted, but I would find such an ad quite inspiring.
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Good idea!
 
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I went to Normanhurst Boys' in the 70s. It was, according to the sports master, very much a rugby school but over my six years it was swamped by a wave of footballers. By the end of my days rugby was barely played and we won the Tasman Cup (state knock out) two years running.

Interestingly, though we all played football for the school and on the weekend, we only played league (tackle, not touch) at recess, lunchtime etc. And very brutal it was.
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I played against the likes of Robbie Wheatley (socceroo) & Johnny Martin from Normo, as I went to school at Asquith boys high.
 
NoMates said:
Well here’s the things, we have A-league players/former players at the World Cup but our ALM is on struggle street funding wise. Look at Netball is just coming off a $80m over 4 years tv deal and there next one is stated to be $160m for another 4 years. Netball can bring in good international players to the comp where as the ALM have to developed youth and bring in 3rd rate imports.
We can’t bring in more viewers or more interest on dole cheque squads. Robbie Slater said the new TV deal,is only around $18m a year and with that kind of funding there is no way u can build/promote the top league in Australia.
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If its only $18m a year then that is woeful.

I don't have the numbers at hand but my guesstimate is that in terms of TV deals and sponsorships the A-League surely has received over $1 billion over its life. After all that investment, its come to $18 mill per year TV deal..wow talk about complete and utter mismanagement
 
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kiro kompiro said:
If its only $18m a year then that is woeful.

I don't have the numbers at hand but my guesstimate is that in terms of TV deals and sponsorships the A-League surely has received over $1 billion over its life. After all that investment, its come to $18 mill per year TV deal..wow talk about complete and utter mismanagement
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A few people on the inside of Paramount posted on reddit that the actual TV deal is $45m a year with $36m of that going to the ALM and the rest is split up between the APL and ALW and %16 goes to the FA.
If u do the math with the strict $3m capt budget for the 12 ALM clubs then that works out correct.
Either way you can see that the APL have no idea on how to run a league and sell it to the public or TV boardcasters for decent money.
 
hey patj
Thinking from the NSW Qld NRL perspective.
All that money - considering we have so so many registrations - the Feds the NPL etc our FA needs to work with do you see much NRL growth ?
For I don’t even notice driving past a Jnr nrl game on weekends around my neck of the Sydney woods.
Like at lower levels it’s not much right ?
I suspect in regional areas it still has good local team support but what I’m saying the Bulk of that broadcast finds just goes to the top flight wouldn’t you agree ?
 
melbcityguy said:
So this thread has been active during the world cup but just to clarify nobody has said anything bad?
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Graham Cornes talked some insecure smack the other day, but I won’t dignify it by going into detail. Suffice to say fvck him and his inbred-looking flog of a son Kane too.
 
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hey patj
Thinking from the NSW Qld NRL perspective.
All that money - considering we have so so many registrations - the Feds the NPL etc our FA needs to work with do you see much NRL growth ?
For I don’t even notice driving past a Jnr nrl game on weekends around my neck of the Sydney woods.
Like at lower levels it’s not much right ?
I suspect in regional areas it still has good local team support but what I’m saying the Bulk of that broadcast finds just goes to the top flight wouldn’t you agree ?
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Yeah. Pretty much spot on. Football everywhere with the occasional NRL game.
 
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Yeah. Pretty much spot on. Football everywhere with the occasional NRL game.
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Yep & unlike the Melbourne media trying to portray, no AFL games (the sport) either.

As school holidays approaches as well, go to a multi sports oval & see what the kids are doing 80-85% of them are kicking a football (no not a Soccer ball), the others are skateboarding (mainly), playing basketball or playing with an oval ball.

Football is massive in these 2 states, let no-one state otherwise, it's the A-League that is not.
 
Robbos said:
Football is massive in these 2 states, let no-one state otherwise, it's the A-League that is not.
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This☝🏼

It’s a sentiment shared in the US’ case by that Ted Westervelt dude on 🇺🇸 SokkahTwitter: just because the closed-shop franchise cartel league isn’t popular, doesn’t mean that ⚽️ in general isn’t💡
 
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