Football (2 Viewers)

[Real Madrid]

FOOTBALL IS THE NO.1 SPORT IN AUSTRALIA (Soccer is a horrible name; please phrase it as FOOTBALL)

AND IN MOST OTHER COUNTRIES...!

We all know that, but here is where I make my point.

Why can't I watch a good A-league game on TV?

I mean surely; second rate codes like Rugby and AFL broadcast 4 matches a week and we get...ohh wait; nothing. Thats right, zip, zlich, nil, 0.

How are we supposed to get ethical about the growth of football in Australian culture, when I can't even watch a good game... and when I do, its a foriegn champions league matchup where I have to wake up at around 4:30am in the cold mornings...

Where's the fairness. All good things in life should be free.

Explain.
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[LMF^^]

http://community.boredofstudies.org/133/sport/115590/official-football-thread-2006-2007-a.html

Go there. Otherwise, do something else more constructive in your free time.

 

[Led-Zep]

soccer sux, its for the gays, stick to netball. tool.

 

[HeCtic]

Why can't I watch a good A-league game on TV?


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They don't exist. Every A-League game I've been to has been tripe.

 

[Real Madrid]

They don't exist. Every A-League game I've been to has been tripe.

Yeah well, flaming them isn't gonna make a difference you little wipe.

All great teams started like this, so don't criticize them.

 

[Gilbert1]

You can watch the A-league on TV you bafoon. It's on Foxtel and the reason no other channel picked it up was because it gets such poor ratings, its not worth paying the money for it. Channel 7 used to have the NSL but ended up not airing (but still held the rights for it) because it rated so poorly.

Soccer (Football) is the most played sport in Australia but it isn't the most watched. AFL, league, union, criket and even the horse tracks get better attendence and viewers then soccer does.

I still love it.

 

[jemsta]

haha i thought even the english premier league gets more viewers than the a-league

 

[HeCtic]

Yeah well, flaming them isn't gonna make a difference you little wipe.

All great teams started like this, so don't criticize them.

Heh, basically what I was saying is; you're asking for something that doesn't exist. I love how you ignored the 1000+ posts football thread that's already here and thought you'd start your own as well.

 

[Gilbert1]

haha i thought even the english premier league gets more viewers than the a-league

In Malaysia there lucky to get 5,000 to a football match but literally millions watch the EPL on TV. There football organisation has no idea how to fix the problem.

 

[jemsta]

yeah, i think most south east asian countries are like that, bar japan and south korea

 

[Boo Quah]

Explain.
[/LEFT]

The FTA stations are to blame

Vested interest in eggball codes...

Union and league would pretty much die without them (union's already dying, no one plays it)

Without the FTA stations' support, you pretty much only have 2 codes

AFL will probably always be no. 1, football still has more kids playing though

 

[wuddie]

hahaha you are a joke.

soccer will never, ever ever take over footy in australia. why? because this is australia and footy is what we love. not soccer, and don't you tarnish the word football by associating it with soccer. soccer is soccer mate, not football.

how you said soccer is the no.1 sport in aust is beyond me. go to the aust bureau of stats n find out for yourself, jerkface.

grow some balls and play footy.

 

[Boo Quah]

hahaha you are a joke.

soccer will never, ever ever take over footy in australia. why? because this is australia and footy is what we love. not soccer, and don't you tarnish the word football by associating it with soccer. soccer is soccer mate, not football.

how you said soccer is the no.1 sport in aust is beyond me. go to the aust bureau of stats n find out for yourself, jerkface.

grow some balls and play footy.

we love 'footy' so much that it's not even clear what code you're talking about

football has far, far higher participation rates than both thugby codes put together among the youth in every state

 

[Leo 100]

Why is it that when the soccer was on every one had 'soccer fever'... you know the whole go team spirit thing... And now that its over no one gives a damn. its like its just been forgotten. Was i the only one who got up at like 4 in the morning to watch the world cup? then going to school have asleep?

god those mornings were cold! glad they invented heaters!

 

[Leo 100]

Oh sorry "FOOTBALL"

 

[Real Madrid]

hahaha you are a joke.

soccer will never, ever ever take over footy in australia. why? because this is australia and footy is what we love. not soccer, and don't you tarnish the word football by associating it with soccer. soccer is soccer mate, not football.

how you said soccer is the no.1 sport in aust is beyond me. go to the aust bureau of stats n find out for yourself, jerkface.

grow some balls and play footy.

Sorry to staple this churning brain-juggling fact into you but Football is referred to the name Football in 191 countries and 52 self-dipolmatic states.

The other 2 countries; Australia and the USA... refer to it as soccer.

Wuddie you're a pathetic disgrace. You're a waste, nothing more than an arrogant self-indulgent pig.

You're tarnishing football by calling it soccer.

Read Johnny Warrens autobiography on Shielas, Wogs and Pooftas. Learn a think or two about how lucrative and sick-minded media campaigns get the attention they want. Attention from the idiots in Australia and the US who believe anything. The idiots are people like you.

 

[Boo Quah]

smell the fear

 

[Real Madrid]

There's nothing like baffling primitive baboons and introducing them to a game that exploits the meaning of the word ball.

One of those round objects.

Then again, Australian thinking wasn't straight, sort of like American thinking, and what do you know, both countries have sports that class eggs as balls.

Genius.

 

[Gilbert1]

Sorry to staple this churning brain-juggling fact into you but Football is referred to the name Football in 191 countries and 52 self-dipolmatic states.

So about thirty years ago we should have all learnt how to speak French because it was the international language at the time?

 

[Real Madrid]

Perhaps...

But for now (since this is Australia) I'll refer to your eggball sports as:

AFL- Mankickballandtackleandjumplikespasticretardswithmentaldisability
NRL- Fatballgatherispackandtacklerapeandabuserefwhilekickingweirdball