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A-League Mens 25/26 - Round 24

Hillbilly55 said:
City win 2-0 over Phoenix. Behich with the first goal, albiet a deflection. His name on the score sheet, and Paramount talking heads gove him the 3 points for MOTM. He's on the plane!
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Melbourne City's 2-0 A-League Men matchday 24 win over Wellington Phoenix also means that they clinch the A-Leagues Club Championship, going back-to-back for the first time since seasons 2021-22 and 2022-23 and winning their fourth overall title.
 
Honestly MacArthur. You’re already pointless, now you come and mess with the jetties and then the next week lose to Perth and probably don’t make finals after all that. Brilliant by Perth though, was very happy for them especially at home.
 
grazorblade said:
the average is fine, the long term trendline looks a worry
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I think the struggle, in Australia, is not simply to attract spectators to football but to persuade people to commit the kind of emotional allegiance that rugby league, AFL and cricket have long commanded, particularly when it's is still widely seen as the code playing catch-up....


Football in Australia is widely played but not deeply inherited and unfortunately it lacks the generational loyalty of AFL and rugby league, leaving it culturally present yet emotionally peripheral in the national sporting identity.
 
Football us life said:
I think the struggle, in Australia, is not simply to attract spectators to football but to persuade people to commit the kind of emotional allegiance that rugby league, AFL and cricket have long commanded, particularly when it's is still widely seen as the code playing catch-up....


Football in Australia is widely played but not deeply inherited and unfortunately it lacks the generational loyalty of AFL and rugby league, leaving it culturally present yet emotionally peripheral in the national sporting identity.
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Speak for yourself..... hahahahah Im 3rd generation South Melbourne and my kids are fourth :P
 
Monoethnic Social Club said:
Speak for yourself..... hahahahah Im 3rd generation South Melbourne and my kids are fourth :P
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I was speaking more in general really...

I know loads of Aussie's who really like football, watch games on tv etc and know all about the game’s trials and tribulations.

But they don't have that ingrained emotional attachment.
 
City have 3 wins in a row - I think?

If Melb City make the finals, they will likely play the knockout game away, but are getting more of their experienced players back from injury. Given their battle hardened ACL performances, I think they could go all the way.

City have done well in close ACL matches and have depth. Can't believe as good a CB as Delbridge is, playing a few Socceroo games, he is third choice CB? I would rotate him with Fereyrra a bit.

City only had Younis and Schreiber, as young players, in the starting eleven against Nix.

2-0 victory is another decent result. City are a good team in possession.
 
Monoethnic Social Club said:
Speak for yourself..... hahahahah Im 3rd generation South Melbourne and my kids are fourth :P
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Yes, but FUL is talking about big clubs- Canterbury Bulldogs, Collingwood etc
Clubs that are ingrained in the Australian sporting consciousness.
In the bigger picture the fact that 5,000 people will always follow South Melbourne doesn't change things much.
 
ashtongate said:
Yes, but FUL is talking about big clubs- Canterbury Bulldogs, Collingwood etc
Clubs that are ingrained in the Australian sporting consciousness.
In the bigger picture the fact that 5,000 people will always follow South Melbourne doesn't change things much.
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Yeah I understand, but there ARE, or at least Im told there are, 5,000 that will always follow Melbourne Victory or Sydney FC or whatever other Aleague club... Its been 20 years for these franchises Im sure they are onto the second generation by now?

I dont think its the problem of if/how these clubs are inherited (or whether the connection is ethnic, religious, geographical or just because they are glory hunters). Its the volume of that connection.

Soccer will ALWAYS be a second tier sport in this country at best. Those trying to monitize it just have to accept reality and do their best to bring everyone under the same tent
 
Monoethnic Social Club said:
Yeah I understand, but there ARE, or at least Im told there are, 5,000 that will always follow Melbourne Victory or Sydney FC or whatever other Aleague club... Its been 20 years for these franchises Im sure they are onto the second generation by now?

I dont think its the problem of if/how these clubs are inherited (or whether the connection is ethnic, religious, geographical or just because they are glory hunters). Its the volume of that connection.

Soccer will ALWAYS be a second tier sport in this country at best. Those trying to monitize it just have to accept reality and do their best to bring everyone under the same tent
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Which was what I was trying to say...

There's nothing wrong with being a second or even a third tier sport.

Rugby league in England is a second tier sport and probably not as widely followed as it is in Australia.

Doesn't make it bad news for them, it just means they have to cut their cloth accordingly.
 
Football us life said:
Which was what I was trying to say...

There's nothing wrong with being a second or even a third tier sport.

Rugby league in England is a second tier sport and probably not as widely followed as it is in Australia.

Doesn't make it bad news for them, it just means they have to cut their cloth accordingly.
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100% but some of the more zealous on here keep waiting for the "sleeping giant" to awaken and appeal to all the AFL and NRL bogans out there...
 
Monoethnic Social Club said:
100% but some of the more zealous on here keep waiting for the "sleeping giant" to awaken and appeal to all the AFL and NRL bogans out there...
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When England won the Rugby Union World Cup in 2003 rugby's media went on the war path....

Englush Rugby was going to blow football out of the water...."there's only one game in town and all that....'

But while there was a slight surge in interest it never happened!

Football's century-long head start created massive infrastructure, grassroots participation, and cultural dominance across all classes and regions. Rugby stayed more middle-class, southern, and school-tied, with far fewer pro clubs, lower club attendances, and limited weekly TV draw. One World Cup win couldn't close that structural gap.
 
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