citypool
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Draw tonight for quarters
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11 minutes ago, jw1739 said:
The reserve itself is owned by Monash City Council. https://shape.monash.vic.gov.au/jack-edwards-pavilion . Its principle tenant is Oakleigh Cannons, a club that originated, AFAIK, in the local Greek-Cypriot community, so in terms of support I can't see any conflict whatsoever. We've played there before in pre-season and as far as I have seen the relationships both on and off the ground are cordial. I see the decision to play there as being a pragmatic decision by City, taken purely for financial reasons. We still have to meet a budget, irrespective of being owned by CFG, and I see it as a sound one - just because you have wealthy backers doesn't justify needlessly throwing away money on the hire of AAMI Park.
I'm just saying it will be nice to build our own identity
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I wasn't sure whether to post this because I don't to upset anyone. But how's it good for the club playing at a npl ground? Like we're supposed to be an a league powerhouse. Furthermore why would fans go to watch us instead of just supporting oakleigh?
I just want football to be successful in this country
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Quarter finals!!
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54 minutes ago, MHFC-FAN said:
You would expect it to be more professional, probably not hard when comparing to the way the A-League is run. Given it's the champions league of Asia...
How was it not professional?
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Yes we can beat these teams!!
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Got an email from the club this morning says to expect more emails from them let's go
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What time is the draw tomorrow? Guessing we can watch on YouTube
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6 hours ago, jw1739 said:
I don't know anyone who followed the WWC. A mate and I went to the Morocco-Germany match, but we left at 4-0 once the wave started (a sure sign of total boredom) to catch an early train home before the rush.
Perhaps it's the nature of Australian media, or media everywhere?, but there's a fine line between extensive coverage and over-saturation, and when the latter occurs people simply don't hear it anymore or turn off completely. A bit like the TV in the medical waiting room with some sort of nauseous day-time chat show, or 24-hour news, builder's radio etc. Even the AFL has done that to me now - so much coverage and a public holiday that whereas I was once interested in at least the finals I couldn't tell you who won the Premiership last season.
It's not confined to the media, or sport, either. Do you remember HazChem signs and Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) in workplaces? It seemed like every gate in Melbourne had a HazChem sign on it (in fact some wag even suggested that the city had been renamed "HazChem") and every chemical on the premises had to have an MSDS and we all had to be trained in their use (even the cleaner had to be trained on how to use Harpic and Ajax)? Well a lot of the signs are still there (although probably no-one knows where the MSDS are kept), but even though you "see" them every day you don't have any consciousness of doing so.
BTW Melbourne is called Naarm now...
I think you're sick of Melbourne in general
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23 minutes ago, fensaddler said:
I want to see football matches. Is that a good enough answer? Definitely not rugby or fishing. Golf would be bad.
It's a pretty ordinary answer. Can you be more specific?
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They are gonna release the fixtures this week.
What sort of matches do we want to see?
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Has anyone managed to get someone who followed the wwc to an match?
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11 hours ago, Mr MO said:
You think we need flares to lighten things up a bit?
(sorry couldn’t help myself).
Lol well played
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On 18/08/2023 at 12:14 PM, jw1739 said:
We're not really referring to football specifically. More that the media pushes a certain line ad nauseam - usually, of course, the politically-correct one.
In terms of football, the media has been understandably pushing the WNT, and apart from Kerr making comments about more "investment" - without being specific of course, and probably putting quite a few people offside because they think there's already far too much squandered on stadiums etc. and "elite sport" in general - I don't recall a single media reference to Australian domestic women's football, the W-League, the Australian clubs that have women's teams, the investment that's already been and is being made, etc. etc.
Australian football needs to wake up. I still follow my home-town non-league club in England. They send me an email every week, the web-site is up to-date with the squad etc., they invite people to join their Fantasy League and offer a first prize of a season ticket (not that I'll win it, and couldn't use it anyway) run a weekly lottery (we probably aren't allowed to do that here) and go out of their way to keep interest in the club alive. Administrators can't sit back and give out great gobs of money and expect that that alone will somehow produce success - many of the best players in the world come from impoverished backgrounds - and neither can they expect the media to do it for them.
Our own club's forthcoming cup matches are perfect examples of not keeping interest alive. Nothing is achieved without hard work.
This 1000x times
The match day experience at aami is pretty ordinary
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Don't get why they have the Australian cup matches so far apart
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2 hours ago, NuggetsMcGreggor said:
I think it’s no coincidence that now we are out (nobody cares about the 3rd place playoff), the negative reporting of football culture is the focus of the media. You go back and look at all the reports of support for our previous matches and you will find many photos of flares being ripped and not one of them will mention any concern about fan behaviour. Just back to regular programming now I’m afraid. I try to ignore it.
The best thing we can do is capitalise on the wave of excitement and bring new people to the A-Leagues. I’ve already got a family of five keen to come to a game.I dunno man I seen the footage of the people pushing down the barricade it's not a good look. We lost the match so if does add fuel to the fire. Maybe I'll just mind my own business sit In the corner at matches because I'm not into it
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49 minutes ago, Bannon said:
I enjoy flares see nothing wrong with them, done in a controlled environment with terrace chanting give me that anyway then crowds at afl yelling ball or let's go local sports team let's go, but anyway where's my fucking membership package ya oil money bastards.
They cancelled showing the Matildas at fed square on Saturday night. Do you at least think they shouldn't throw the flares?
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3 hours ago, Mr MO said:
Let’s educate the world on how good our cheer squads are!
Well you laugh but afl have crowds. Maybe nobody wants to be around a bunch of flogs with their flares
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On 15/08/2023 at 9:14 PM, Mr MO said:
Tell that to these guys..::
Flogs were throwing flares last night at fed square. Majority people don't like it in Australia
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Aus cup round of 16 City vs Wellington Sunday 27th kick-off 2pm
in Melbourne City
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We're away to metrostars in south Australia