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Alen Stajic speech on Australian football

Fairly sure he didn’t say anything like the APL is “good”. @ RIMB after listening again did he?
He talks initially and primarily about the aleague product and spectacle, but he spreads the net wider talking about the last 40 years of infighting since he ahs been watching the game.

Specifically mentions the national teams, both senior and age, as a positive and includes member federations among the stakeholders who help keep the sport down - along with everyone else involved from fans and club staff to media and the diminishing number of football journalists.

From his initial focus of aleague, to me he clearly expands that message to football in the country without specifically mentioning NPL, foundation clubs, community clubs - just everyone at every level continuing the infighting.

I am happy that I read a more holistic message about Australian football than others might - I don't think I am far off the mark though with the message he delivered.

Australian football as a collective of everyone and everything has to stand up for itself, not knock other sports or codes, and bring more focus on the good parts of our football.

Edit: He specifically mentions the APL/FA split as a point where media coverage dropped away further without blaming anyone or anything for that - more just the loss of focus when we added yet another layer into the football administration (my words not his).
 
Odd that he watches so much NRL. Personally I don’t watch it, but I know quite a few people that follow NRL and football.
You'll find a lot of soccer guys love the NRL, and a lot of NRL guys love the soccer. It's just the fans that have a one eyed approach
 
Stajčić is lucky he coaches in a league where they only play 26 matches so he has plenty of time to watch 6-7 NRL games every week.
He did say he watches on the weekend.

Aside from when his team is playing on the weekend I don't think it too generous to allow him to have the weekend away from his workplace.

Plenty of time for his analysts to watch opposition games early in the working week.

Lucky we only have 5 other games to watch each week - take it up to 19 games a round, with midweek games thrown in, and he doesn't get to watch any other sport or league or have a weekend away from football. :)
 
I have decided whoever comments on this more this weekend is the loser.

A league starts tonight and championship has the grand final also world cup draw.
 
He talks initially and primarily about the aleague product and spectacle, but he spreads the net wider talking about the last 40 years of infighting since he ahs been watching the game.

Specifically mentions the national teams, both senior and age, as a positive and includes member federations among the stakeholders who help keep the sport down - along with everyone else involved from fans and club staff to media and the diminishing number of football journalists.

From his initial focus of aleague, to me he clearly expands that message to football in the country without specifically mentioning NPL, foundation clubs, community clubs - just everyone at every level continuing the infighting.

I am happy that I read a more holistic message about Australian football than others might - I don't think I am far off the mark though with the message he delivered.

Australian football as a collective of everyone and everything has to stand up for itself, not knock other sports or codes, and bring more focus on the good parts of our football.

Edit: He specifically mentions the APL/FA split as a point where media coverage dropped away further without blaming anyone or anything for that - more just the loss of focus when we added yet another layer into the football administration (my words not his).
yeah he never mentioned apl or p&r, others brought that up

its understandable. I remember becoming a football fan and seeing all these football fans bagging out the a league and being baffled, it already felt like we had our backs to the wall

in the end though, we learnt to understand where they were coming from and its fair enough. Division is something we have to live with until we get a concrete plan towards p&r

unlike the late nsl era, p&r has gotten itself linked to debates about multiculturalism and xenophobia. I'm curious what would happen if some traditional clubs get invited to the a league and accepted, preferably without a massive liscence fee. Lots of voices at the FA strongly support that from what I can tell, but no word from the apl on their opinion

That would at least get us back to the level of unity in the late nsl era where there were franchises and traditional clubs in the top league. Of course wouldn't fix p&r
 
I have decided whoever comments on this more this weekend is the loser.

A league starts tonight and championship has the grand final also world cup draw.
Are we talking number of words or number of posts?

I might be in with a chance here.
 
is this the adult version of "last to comment is a rotten egg?"
Stop trying to bump your stats.

I think the winner of the loser competition in this thread should be the one who can best bring Western United into it and really send him bonkers.
 
You need another 1000 or so posts to overtake the Top Monthly Contributor. Try giving your opinion on everything and picking random online arguments with as many people as you can on the forum.
 
You need another 1000 or so posts to overtake the Top Monthly Contributor. Try giving your opinion on everything and picking random online arguments with as many people as you can on the forum.
I usually get top 3 through osaussies updates to be fair
 
Oh so they DO belong in this country, you just personally don't want to follow them have I got that right?

Could you PLEASE, for the 50th time of me asking, tell me which border disputes you are talking about and which side of which war you allocate (cant wait to hear where Italy ranks on this one personally) also as I would like to protect myself from evil multiculturalism just like the rest of you true blue, dinky di blokes.
You told me 99% of clubs in Australia does this, goggle it, not that hard.
 
You told me 99% of clubs in Australia does this, goggle it, not that hard.
Um what?
maybe thats because if it does succeed the 99% of clubs in this country already currently play with Aleague clubs in our NPLs .. we NEVER excluded them, it has always been the other way around.

Not even going to mention the lunacy of what you said regarding best foreign players... dude seriously?
I mean I did "tell" mike that 99% of the clubs in this country already play against Aleague clubs in NPL and NEVER excluded anyone if thats what you are referring to, I have absolutely NO idea what you mean by "border disputes?

I mean apart from being immoral and illegal to NOT acknowledge Australian football clubs as being from here, even if you were referring to something like the weekends game for example, what border does Greece share with Italy? Are you a little uneducated or just racist enough to not care about where each of our ethnic minorities comes from geographically? Do all us wogs look the same to the assimilated ones?
 
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