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The Australian Championship šŸ‡¦šŸ‡ŗšŸ†

Monoethnic Social Club said:
Boycott or not, if it was Sydney Croatia there would be people hanging from the rafters at OV for this. From both sides...
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Would of been thousands combined.

I remember going to Olympic Park in 2015, Wednesday Night against Heidelberg in the FFA Cup, we took 100+ just from Sydney then when you add all the Melbourne Croats, it was a decent Cro contingent.

Upsets me that we didn't take this competition more seriously, would of been a great spectacle if we made the final and it was played it Melbourne.
 
Beretta said:
Would of been thousands combined.

I remember going to Olympic Park in 2015, Wednesday Night against Heidelberg in the FFA Cup, we took 100+ just from Sydney then when you add all the Melbourne Croats, it was a decent Cro contingent.

Upsets me that we didn't take this competition more seriously, would have been a great spectacle if we made the final and it was played it Melbourne.
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Bit of pyro that day too from what I can recall
 
Beretta said:
Would of been thousands combined.

I remember going to Olympic Park in 2015, Wednesday Night against Heidelberg in the FFA Cup, we took 100+ just from Sydney then when you add all the Melbourne Croats, it was a decent Cro contingent.

Upsets me that we didn't take this competition more seriously, would of been a great spectacle if we made the final and it was played it Melbourne.
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Lets hope you sort out your internal shit and make a better fist of it next season... still wanna come up to King Tom again for a meaningful match.
 
SMFC1959 said:
Strikes me as a genuine person who wanted to implement meaningful change. It is a shame he is not there anymore after establishing the Australian Championship.
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Maybe its just me being suspicious as usual but something about the response goes beyond the usual bullshit corporate double-speak to my ear.,

Thats ONE way of looking at things I suppose:
We only had clubs in New South Wales and Victoria and at that point, July and August of 2024, they were probably the darkest days, where we had to sit down with the clubs and acknowledge that they wanted to play, we wanted to play, so it was just a case of having a series of workshops where we we tried to remodel the competition format to make it work.

This blatantly false - Nobody agreed, especially not the Federations from what Ive been told:
Before we entered the RFP process, we had a series of non-negotiables that we shared with the clubs. And one of those non-negotiables was that weā€™d have a national footprint. And everyone agreed that having eight clubs in two states didnā€™t fulfill that obligation. So at that point, weā€™re in a a place where they want to play. As I said, we wanted to play and we wanted to play in 2025, but it was a case of trying to find a format where we had the national footprint.

South Hobart looks at Avondale and just cries at this:
When I talk about the brand DNA of the Australian Championship, we had identified authenticity as one of the key elements of the brand. Obviously thereā€™s a lot of history, a lot of pedigree amongst these foundation clubs; proud history.

I think we saw the opportunity to unlock that potential. Iā€™ve talked a lot about intergenerational fan connection. This idea that you used to go to the game with your grandparents and now you have the opportunity to take your kids and I think thatā€™s whatā€™s been unlocked in the last few months.

End goal WAS always pro/rel but the very next line is suddenly ISN'T?
But obviously the end goal was always promotion and relegation and this idea that we wanted to build out the ecosystem.

I think thereā€™s probably been too much focus on promotion, relegation and actually itā€™s about expansion, itā€™s about growth and ultimately this competition exists to elevate or raise the professional standards of clubs in Australia.

Less said about this the better:
One of the things I realised where I think we nailed it. I was at the round two match at Marconi, they played at 3:00pm in the afternoon against South Hobart. I talked to a lot of people in the corporate box. One said ā€˜weā€™re going to this game and then weā€™re going to head down the road to watch the Western Sydney Wanderers play.ā€™ And thatā€™s when it dawned on me.

Itā€™s about football. This is almost a festival of football. And this idea that fans can just engage in multiple competitions, multiple products, and multiple teams.
 
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