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General A Leagues thread (Men and Women) 2025/26 season

I've recently seen Vickery from Mac execute one of the hardest dribbling techniques to beat an opponent, all ends up, in the AL.

It is known as the Brazilian Elastic, or Elastico. Heaps of players/coaches have tried to master it and failed, like me.

If a player is right-footed, it is a push to the right with the outside of the right foot, usually moving the ball diagonally to the right, then the same foot goes slightly under the ball, touching it all the time, followed by the inside of the right foot cutting it diagonally towards the left. It is such a quick and fluid action, if done correctly, like Vickery did, it wrong-foots opponents so they are beaten neck and crop.

I might have seen Arzani do it, but haven't seen him play much for about 8 months.
 
Decentric said:
Sadly, I think 90% of Aus football fans might be Eurosnobs.

A drinking mate of mine, who doesn't follow football, thinks it is akin to wine snobs only drinking French wine instead of the Aussie product.
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It wouldn’t be close to 90%. It’s probably not even 50%. The biggest fan group seems to be national team-only fans who don’t have a particular club but will watch the Socceroos/Matildas. Then it seems to be the dual club fans (national team/A-League/foreign clubs, like myself), then Eurosnobs, then A-League-only fans. The gap between Eurosnobs and dual club fans isn’t huge though and some dual club fans may barely support the A-League.
 
HonestSpursFan said:
It wouldn’t be close to 90%. It’s probably not even 50%. The biggest fan group seems to be national team-only fans who don’t have a particular club but will watch the Socceroos/Matildas. Then it seems to be the dual club fans (national team/A-League/foreign clubs, like myself), then Eurosnobs, then A-League-only fans. The gap between Eurosnobs and dual club fans isn’t huge though and some dual club fans may barely support the A-League.
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I know so many who only follow football in UEFA.

People who follow Aus cricket, support Aus cricket, and then follow a European club and even a country. Then some Aussies follow a UEFA club, but not the Matildas or Socceroos.

What about the huge numbers of fans in Aus who turn out to watch pre-season UEFA giants in Aus too? I surmise a large number of them don't attend AL or Aus national team games.
 
Decentric said:
I know so many who only follow football in UEFA.

People who follow Aus cricket, support Aus cricket, and then follow a European club and even a country. Then some Aussies follow a UEFA club, but not the Matildas or Socceroos.

What about the huge numbers of fans in Aus who turn out to watch pre-season UEFA giants in Aus too? I surmise a large number of them don't attend AL or Aus national team games.
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It's just majority of people only liking what's popular you see it with then tennis in January now grand Prix. If a league ever becomes popular again you'll get more people leeching on. It's like seeing a world famous gig over a local act at your local pub.
 
melbcityguy said:
It's just majority of people only liking what's popular you see it with then tennis in January now grand Prix. If a league ever becomes popular again you'll get more people leeching on. It's like seeing a world famous gig over a local act at your local pub.
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I think you might be right, mate.

On another note, loving Melb City in the ACL! I'm perplexed that they are doing better in the ACL than in the easier AL.

Teague is getting back into his old form and is a decent sub for Trewin.

With Arzani as well, City have depth which is important for an ACL campaign. Delbridge also brings experience, height and strength to the back four.
 
HonestSpursFan said:
It wouldn’t be close to 90%. It’s probably not even 50%. The biggest fan group seems to be national team-only fans who don’t have a particular club but will watch the Socceroos/Matildas. Then it seems to be the dual club fans (national team/A-League/foreign clubs, like myself), then Eurosnobs, then A-League-only fans. The gap between Eurosnobs and dual club fans isn’t huge though and some dual club fans may barely support the A-League.
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Then there is A League/AFL fans.
 
ashtongate said:
Then there is A League/AFL fans.
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I was counting those within the separate groups. Some footy fanatics don’t watch too much A-League (either aren’t keen on it, don’t have time or just haven’t got around it) but do watch the national teams.

My evidence for national teams being the most popular is that their viewership reaches millions and in tournaments even higher than friendlies (e.g about 70% of the country watched the Women’s World Cup and we should see similar figures for the Women’s Asian Cup being also on home soil).

What the A-League needs to do is try and convert some of the other non-A-League bases. I had a cool idea of discounted Matildas tickets for ALW fans for example.
 
HonestSpursFan said:
Eurosnobs are one of the worst things in football full stop. We should make a thread just for Eurosnob clowns lol.
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I really think eurosnobs for years being singled out by the many al/apl supporter base is over reactive and just plain having a chip on the shoulder because % of eurosnobs don't rate al/apl - so the new dawners hurt and I get that - who cares really.
Stop being so sensitive its comparing apples with pears.
HonestSpursFan said:
I was counting those within the separate groups. Some footy fanatics don’t watch too much A-League (either aren’t keen on it, don’t have time or just haven’t got around it) but do watch the national teams.

My evidence for national teams being the most popular is that their viewership reaches millions and in tournaments even higher than friendlies (e.g about 70% of the country watched the Women’s World Cup and we should see similar figures for the Women’s Asian Cup being also on home soil).

What the A-League needs to do is try and convert some of the other non-A-League bases. I had a cool idea of discounted Matildas tickets for ALW fans for example.
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haven't the al tried everything on the non al base's last 20yrs.
School visits/training camps/local sponserships with grass roots clubs/discounted ticks/giveaway ticks/you get FA pre sale discount ticks for Roo/Matilda games all regiustered players for years.
The general public follow "events" always when our sports people compete - I'm sure many have watched the winter olympics and medals won the last week or so.
Is sking going to increase the next few years ?
Its the forever ongoing recycle and rinse in our game by some who get over excited and talk talk talk..
We held the WWC - sell outs, W game going to boom, yep it was already rego's are plentiful - are they turning up to W APL games ? nope.
Our Roos - last Cup made it to the R16 first time ever - has it increased apl ticket sales ? nope.
Asian WC coming up the same recycle and rinse will happen.
Its huge for the game.
We're gonna boom.
Kerr is the queen of the nation - all the young girls want to replicate her career.
Just watch and see.
 
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