Encourage young footballers and ship them off early to Europe to play (preferably England so they're guaranteed English language skills). But many go into international skills in non english speaking countries and you can't tell the difference.
And then hope they play for Australia. There's no way we'll ever match them in investment so might as well leverage their resources to train our players.
We did good.
Just look where we are 4th. That's very good.
We are the highest non-european team. We can't expect them to beat European teams who have better resources and can leverage facilities used by mens.
Their leagues bring in magnitudes more money and thus can invest more than we can ever hope to match. And considering the majority of professional development and clout here is aimed at oval ball sports.
Why would you even need a digital ID? My digital driver's licence works great, accepted everywhere I go already and I've not carried a wallet for more than a year.
Transport card - digital Credit card - digital Loyalty cards - digital Drivers licence and all types of permits - digital Private health and Medicare - digital
Which place demands a physical copy of anything thesedays and moreover since it's working fine why do we need another
I see this as a way for the government to earn a quick dollar and de facto get into the housing market.
When the owner buys back the share I doubt it will be calculated at the price the person bought it for. It would be at the market price at the time of the buyback.
I guess it works both ways too? I can see someone buying the minimum 2 percent and if they get something like opal or mascot towers when they sell at a loss the government is the one that loses out. So I can see it as a way to transfer the risk to the government and live in a place without having to pay rent.
It's Victoria they book you for 2-3km/h (after they factor in a 'margin of error'.
In other states the police aren't even interested until you reach 15-20km/h over. But that's because they can't be bothered to reset and potentially lose bigger fish.
I've been chased by NSW highway patrol back in the day for 20km/h but they never ended up pulling me over because I was sitting behind someone doing 30+ km/h.
The camera cars not sure what speed they start to trigger but I've never been snapped for under 10km/h or ever (I guess because the Speedo reads under)
I always thought his channel was really dummed down. I watched a video or two and then noped out of it. Wasn't many if at all any tips from the so called tech tips site.
Oh and stating the obvious but he's 'sorry' because he got caught.
For a non footballing nation we did exceptional to get into the semis.
In women's rankings we actually do quite well, we're 10th ahead of nations with a rich footballing culture such as Portugal, Italy, Belgium and Argentina. That's why we're talking about it. Our women can make the semi finals as we've shown here, our men have no chance.
Another thing is that this is the closest we're getting to a world cup in Australia. That's why the support is where it is now. Would the support be the same if it's held in Europe or South America? I think half the people won't wake up at whatever o'clock it is to watch the games.
Yes we have interest in football, after all it's the most popular sport by far in the world. The Europeans and the South Americans can play well, so why can't we? I think the answer is as simple as the tyranny of distance.
It's way harder for players based here with family here to be able to go to a good academy because it's half a world apart. The best coaches, the best facilities aren't in Australia. We can't get any of the European teams to come and play any consistent games here because it's just too far besides the token pre season friendly if we're lucky.
Yes a struggling league isn't due to a lack of interest in football you're right. There is interest. I would call it untapped potential. Yes it's got the highest participation rate but somehow there's a missing link to turn the participation rate to form a quality league (I wouldn't say quality players because we do get them as I mentioned but they all just leave).
The A league has a player retention problem. And here's the problem - two players get offers one from an A-league team and one from I would even say EFL championship team, where will the player go most of the time? It's brain drain.
Like I said we need more than a world cup every 4 years, we need quality teams that people can go watch after work. That's why the AFL and NRL is so popular. These players are around, the clubs are down the road. The stadium is down the road.
Back to the women's football, only courtnee vine and clare hunt play in Australia. This is similar for mens. Otherwise we'll have this conversation every 4 years where football falls off the radar for the general population.
Funny you mention him, but it was probably the best he could do. He had only one year in the premier league in his entire career. Until we see players that have the middle of their careers in a league it's all moot.
Domestic leagues are important due to accessibility. You're not going to have as much of a following if you can only watch it on tele at stupid o'clock.
That's half the reason why the NRL and AFL are popular, you can go to a game after work. We are the best in Aussie rules because we're practically the only country that plays it and similar to rugby league with the super league at a lower level to the NRL. We are the best of the best in those games.
Football? I would rate A league on the level of EFL league 2. Certainly not one of the top leagues in the world. People want to watch the best and their support is reduced by not being one of the best.
I see more people with EPL/La Liga etc shirts than local teams around town. That alone says something.
Not in a million years.
Noone aspires to play in the A-league. Until we get a league that gives the European leagues a run for the money this statement isn't really true.
We can't even beat the Chinese or Saudis in getting almost retired players over because we can't match them. And also without youth development academies it's just not going to work. Ask China and soon to be Saudi Arabia how splashing a wad of cash is going to work without spending money on grass roots development.
We just don't have the local talent to be able to create a competitive league, the majority of us can't play at a high standard and the very few that do understand that they need to ply their trade overseas to be successful.
Without a successful league the rest is moot, popularity is based on club games not an once every 4 years event.
$800 a year?
I wouldn't go for less than 120 a day (commute cost + my per hour cost multiplied by the time spent travelling)
Didn't count France as it was through a penalty shootout which could go 50/50. We beat them but it was far from convincing and even if we got to penalty shootouts for all our games it's unlikely we'd win all of them.
Yes we do have players but we don't have depth. England and Spain and even Sweden have 95 percent of players in the European leagues.
And in terms of Spain and England in top teams of top leagues. Someone playing for Sydney FC wouldn't even get a look in for the Spanish or English side.