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Zelen Fc said:
Wish Rockdale were in this competition seeing Olympic and Spirit struggle with crowds easily would’ve averaged 2-3k especially with the teams in our group Canberra Croatia, Macedonian derby with Preston and Avondale but beggars and be choosers
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I did notice on social media - a lot of the Preston support in Canberra was the local Macedonian club in Queanbeyan (Queanbeyan City)
 
Beretta said:
Wests want to become like a powerhouse in all sporting codes. Yeh, they own Tigers in NRL.

Wests started in Ashfield, (down the road from APIA) and have clubs all around Sydney, they've been sponsoring APIA for years now.

As the APIA Fan said, they've bought into 20% of the club, what happens in the future is yet to be seen.
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But arent they a half half owned team themselves? Would make a lot more sense for Penrith or Canterbury doing it not them, or are wests a seperate thing to the the part of wests tigers
 
superpolska said:
But arent they a half half owned team themselves? Would make a lot more sense for Penrith or Canterbury doing it not them, or are wests a seperate thing to the the part of wests tigers
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But its “wests club” not the tigers per se which also fall under its umbrella. It’s a general social and sporting club which also has a non sporting element to it. They had the tigers under their umbrella as an nrl team and now they’re getting APIA as a soccer team, and they also want others sports. For a vic reference point the first thing that comes to my mind is like the Veneto club in Melbourne which bulleen lions falls under its umbrella.
 
Glenardo said:
But it’s “wests club” not the tigers per se which also fall under its umbrella. It’s a general social and sporting club which also has a non sporting element to it. They had the tigers under their umbrella, and now they’re getting APIA, and they also want others sports. For a vic reference point the first thing that comes to my mind is like the Veneto club in Melbourne which bulleen lions falls under its umbrella.
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Yer if I recall right.
Balmain leagues typically was going bust pre super league war and at the same time wests nrl team club was pretty much struggling as well But without the Ashfield West leagues club both nrl clubs would go bust so the amalgamation became.
Tigers nrl only have a 10% share which I think is for the nrl franchise side.
The remainder is under Ashfield Wests leagues.
Then there is an offshoot company under Wests that is pretty big that brokered the APIA deal. I can’t recall that companies name.
 
Glenardo said:
But its “wests club” not the tigers per se which also fall under its umbrella. It’s a general social and sporting club which also has a non sporting element to it. They had the tigers under their umbrella as an nrl team and now they’re getting APIA as a soccer team, and they also want others sports. For a vic reference point the first thing that comes to my mind is like the Veneto club in Melbourne which bulleen lions falls under its umbrella.
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Interesting... nothing like that in melbourne so hard for us to understand. Even the leagues clubs stuff is complicated 😅
 
Monoethnic Social Club said:
Hahaha yeah they certainly hate on Syd Utd over there, and most of the Cro clubs to be honest... I think a mention of anything Croatian has taken over their hatred from their usual South Melbourne hatred.... we are only Plastic Public Enemy #2 now :(
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Gotta say, I don't think it has anything to do with being Croatian, rather the worship, busts, portraits etc. of certain people at certain clubs.

E.g. this guy:

"German spies who had been established to watch over Pavelić even wrote to German SS leader Heinrich Himmler of the Ustaše’s methods of violence, stating that they were equally torturous to “helpless old people, women, and children.”
Pavelić’s men would reportedly gouge out children’s eyes and hack them to death with shovels. They would hang men upside-down, castrate them, then strangle them or allow them to be mauled by dogs"


It's a shame then that when SU58 have genuine concerns about over-policing that it kinda gets lost with an unsympathetic audience.
 
HappyGuus said:
It's a shame then that when SU58 have genuine concerns about over-policing that it kinda gets lost with an unsympathetic audience
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We are no strangers to policing, just look at the NSL era.

Issue is, over policing for non events, like our 1st two matches this championship. I'm all for some police presence for bigger games that will generate a crowd, and clubs with rivalry.

Take Canberra Croatia and Preston yesterday. Flares were lit, security game, dealt with it and everyone continued. That was a more high risk game than any of our first two, and it was dealt with perfectly.
 
superpolska said:
Interesting... nothing like that in melbourne so hard for us to understand. Even the leagues clubs stuff is complicated 😅
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Have said here before, to me it’s one of the things which sets apart/differentiates Marconi and APIA as clubs. Despite both being clubs founded by Italian migrants in the same city, Marconi has a much stronger, more coherent and more consistent sense of club identity over the decades. On and off the field

Imo APIA have shown more of the tendencies Italian clubs in Melbourne have displayed over the years to compromise and dilute their identity. To a lesser degree obviously.
 
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Beretta said:
We are no strangers to policing, just look at the NSL era.

Issue is, over policing for non events, like our 1st two matches this championship. I'm all for some police presence for bigger games that will generate a crowd, and clubs with rivalry.

Take Canberra Croatia and Preston yesterday. Flares were lit, security game, dealt with it and everyone continued. That was a more high risk game than any of our first two, and it was dealt with perfectly.
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Yeah I'm definitely naïve to all the policing stuff. Why do we need it if we're not doing anything violent? And the flares stance is just confusing. They're illegal but the broadcast loves showing them and then they're also legal using safe smoke for gender reveals! The kids need to jump on the safe smoke instead and they'll be fine, surely...
 
Zelen Fc said:
Wish Rockdale were in this competition seeing Olympic and Spirit struggle with crowds easily would’ve averaged 2-3k especially with the teams in our group Canberra Croatia, Macedonian derby with Preston and Avondale but beggars and be choosers
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Time to put some pressure on the board in the off season mate....
 
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