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The entire Brisbane Roar season one team. The standouts for that team: Alex Brosque, Michael Baird, Reinaldo (edited formatting)

Oh when the sheiks Go marching in Oh when the sheiks go marching in Wow

gonna miss this game, stuck in NZ working, be lucky to even find a pub showing it ffs.

$60 for a 30 pack of lolly water? no thanks for the same price youll get a highland park 12 year old.... now thats good

we will only be able to replace the finals when we have two tiers. the only way you keep teams at the bottom playing competitive football is when they have to fight for survival....

but we're not shit cunts are we

fuck didnt see that coming..

true, but i'd hope we could keep fox sports on as official broadcaster (perhaps the deal won't be as good as it is now) and keep a few big sponsors. something the NSL lacked.. tv coverage + cheap for kids, its got to mean (and this is based on nothing more than speculation) long term sustainability and hopefully growth. gotta stop trying to force the game on people.... grow it naturally and build a proper supporter base.

the next few years are absolutely critical.... i couldn't give a fuck if Heart win a trophy next year if theyre not around in 5 years it means fuck all.....

and get the fucking kids involved. if you play junior football, you either get free or heavily subsidised membership to the club of your choice

the main problem is the league isn't sustainable as it is, no matter who invests... i think the league needs to be scaled back a bit, yes a few people will get pissed off, but at least we might have a chance at a sustainable league. teams to play at smaller, cheaper suburban stadiums second tier made from existing state league sides to bring in and merge fan bases. promotion/relegation at end of first season. sure we're not gonna get 20/30 thousand people a game..... but we might still get 5 to 10.... id take that over no league to watch at all

probably what i was meaning to say, is.... if FIFA see us (FFA and the A-League) dicking around, teams going broke etc, can they decide to penalise the FFA or even unrecognise them as the official body of football in australia

will, or can FIFA step in and strip us of our "officialness" (fucking forgot english today... please someone fix my sentence, hopefully got the meaning across lol)

the teams need to get together and wrestle control from these fuckwits at FFA. Let the teams run the league, can't be any worse than it is now

The a-league can't survive as it is. At the drop of a hat, any of our teams could be gone, how many teams have been searching for investors in the last few years, brisbane, newcastle, adelaide, perth? pretty much all of them.. soon enough, anyone thats willing to invest, will have and pulled out. AFL gets half a million people through the gates in 2 rounds.... theyve still got teams on the brink..... Be surprised if we get more than one more season out of this league