Yes it is my point, no one gave a fuck about pro/rel when you were sailing along nicely, but now you are out of the loop , you want to change it. Hypocritical. You are 25 years too late to be shouting about pyramids, the horse MAY have bolted.
Well in a ground built specifically for football I guess that would be a nice problem to have...
They are only there as even less went to see them at Redcliffe. The same happened when they had to play games on the Gold Coast. A winning well run team will bring them back again.
I dont get this argument. Ive also heard people say that poor people would be against taxing the rich to fund a welfare state the moment the poor get rich.
Stop speaking sense to this forums version of Chips Rafferty, and other similar profiles over the years on various forums
Another hypocrite.
The Brisbane Lions women AFL side are the best supportered women's sports team un Brisbane.
Would it help your feelings if it was another, less effnik, club shouting for pro/rel?
I hope you are right, but the shouting should have been done many years before.
You lost me at “ women’s sport “. Like comparing shite to clay.
When? In a failing NSL that was run sooo poorly that most of the clubs were struggling to a) be relevant in Australia playing a sport most saw as foreign, or b) the clubs outside the NSL where such a laughing stock there wouldn't have been ANY clubs in the lower tiers to be able to step up anyway.... franchises tried and failed, "regional mainstream " tried and failed only Glory was a real lasting success... and maybe Adelaide United would have been a success if they gave it enouhg time and added a Victory, a Sydney City and maybe a Brisbane Roar to the NSL before Lowy came along and sold football to his investor mates... maybe pro/rel would have happened organically like in Japan if handled with a bit more class rather than with the axe and fire....
Yeah I get what you mean, I don't watch any of the women's football codes.
Was it not the governments choice to shut the down the NSL, I seem to recall they had a lot to do it with through some report of sorts.
Interested why you, and quite a few others on here, often suggests Strikers should be the second Brisbane team if there was going to be one. Genuine question, what is it about Strikers that appeals to you?Imagine how much better off we’d now be if this had been the FFA/APL’s guiding principle for the past 2 decades
W/respect to the point you’re making, I’m inclined to prefer a 2nd Brisbane team(the Strikers would be my choice) before a side from anywhere else in QLD though.
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To be honest thats enough for me tooIt’s got Brisbane in its name.
Ill watch dross through thick and thin if i felt we were a team promoting and developing qld talentRoar is the victim of crap football more than any other factor as far as I am concerned.
I have been bothered by the Bakries financial games as much as everyone else but I see good things since Kaz and Zac came in.
I have heard from other Roar fans over years that they just can't stand the dross we put on the park. What I consider watchable and improving football most consider boring, frustrating, and not worth their money or time.
This season it looks like we are going to be playing proper football again, and I do not think it will take much for people to come to games again if they see the football is worth their time. While the off field dramas and active support dramas have turned some off the club, I do not believe that speaks for most. I believe most are still Roar supporters and are just waiting for something they feel they can actually support.
Moving to Ipswich would be as bad as moving to Redcliffe. It is just not the 'home' of the Roar and moving in any direction away from the city would exclude blocks of supporters from attending. Upgraded Perry Park would be fantastic while we rebuild our attendance - so easy to get to and still central.
Suncorp is what we are stuck with for now - and where the cost used to require 17k crowds to break even I am sure they have other arrangements in place now to make it cheaper. If that involves shutting off huge chunks of Suncorp then so be it as a starting point. I agree that Suncorp only became a size issue after the football became harder to follow and the circus turned people off. When we play good football for a few games people will turn up. When we do it for longer more will come. And if we play it for a season or more then Suncorp will not echo so badly. I expect 10k crowds to be the norm relatively quickly if we play the football I am anticipating.
On a derby side for us - I understand the licence agreement includes an exclusion of any other Brisbane based side. Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast would be fantastic to add to the competition. A bonus for the media wing is it would also give us a north qld derby, south qld derby and the qld coastal derby
The club is not a basket case in my eyes, is not damaged beyond the return of many supporters, and we are going to show it on the pitch this season.
