Leaderboard

The players can only do what the structure allows, and I don't think the problems in football are down to players. I concede that some of them are receiving obscene amounts of money, but that's only because the clubs are prepared to pay them those monies. I contend that the problem lies with clubs, and more specifically, the owners of those clubs. I would be focusing on the ownership structure of clubs, who can own them, and mandating a minimum degree of local community ownership. Once you have obscenely wealthy "foreigners" owning clubs, the problems start. I'm uncomfortable that the four directors of Melbourne City are Khaldoon Al-Mubarak of the UAE, Martin Edelman of the USA, Ferran Soriano of the UK (born Spain), and Simon Pearce of Australia (born UK), in effect four foreigners who have absolutely no links to Melbourne outside football, and that our ultimate owner Sheikh Mansour is one of the richest men in the world. In reality none of these people care a fuck about Melbourne, or the club's fans, as they have already demonstrated by the dumping of our original colours.

What are you on about? No team has scored more A-League goals than us or conceded fewer. Our win ratio is the best in the league and we haven’t failed to score in a single game yet.

Its nice and hot now. Time for a check in on how we are travelling with Mombaerts. It appears that he has been in the job for 3 months now and we have not won a single A-league game! That's appalling! At least under Wazza we won the occasional A-league game. Worse still we are level with Central Coast and Wellington on the bottom of the ladder. I mean really - Wellington? And our membership has dropped to below 6,000 members. Its a disaster. This would never be tolerated in the EPL. We need to turn this ship around before its too late. Mombaerts must go!

May I suggest an alternative but similar proposal. How about mandate that each senior team must play a minimum of say 4 youth players each game and match this with a raising of the salary cap somewhat. The cheaper youth players would help finance better quality marquees. This would facilitate youth development and bring bigger names into the sport in Australia. The greater emphasis on youth and Marquees would force mid range Australian players overseas where they would get greater experience. Stig

I think you are gilding the lily. Our forward line is so useless that they haven't kicked a single goal in the 19/20 Aleague season. Our fans are so fed up that not a single fan has attended one of our A-league games this season (no doubt they have defected to Western United) and our injury position has been so bad that not one of our top recruits or marquees has played a single A-league game. It's a disaster I tell you. He has to go.

UOTYH...Unpopular or popular? I don't know. I'm not surprised that the Goodes film "The Australian Dream" is a comparative failure at the Box Office. I think people are sick to death of the continual harping on the various heritage and ethnic groups in our Australian population. The ABC and SBS in particular. I just think that this continual labelling of various "groups" is largely unproductive, and backfires because it just tends to emphasise the very perceptions of difference that we're supposed to be eliminating. I don't know a lot about AFL, but I do know that Adam Goodes was a bloody good footballer. And that's all I need to know.