Riding the Hellas wave to grow the fanbase I see :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: 😘

Thanks for your input.. I hope you also bought the chaps to go with that badge?

Since 1959 ... Im not sure how up to speed you are with geography but South Melbourne (as the name suggests) is actually a suburb of um well, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Probably for the same reasons you attempt to slag off my "little" club.

This is 100% as it should be... But after putting 20 years of your support into Sydney FC wouldn't it be an absolute crime if your club dissolved over night because of the franchise model under it?

Thats a fascinating response.. perhaps you should start an Oakleigh Cannons thread to crystallise your ambitions to drag every football club in Australia down to your level... Don't worry about us, we are dying as you say....

Awesome, now I want you to extrapolate that down to all (or at the very least most) of the NPL clubs and state league clubs, and church league clubs and amateur clubs in Australia.... WE ALL deserve a crack at top tier football, thats what I am driving at... Using WU is a good example, look at...

@LFC ... bomb incoming in 3....2......1....... lol.

Are you kidding? EPL is probably only marginally behind AFL or NRL viewers here ... big bickies for sure.

Yeah there is something in that... TBF the mainstream media never even blipped when the Aleague trotted out Fowler or Yorke to coach either.. I know they are both miles behind Puskas both as players and as coaches but they DID play EPL in an era that was popular to mainstream Australia..... and...

HAHAAH o fcourse Im not blaming you for it mate... BUT Id like to hear an answer from you regardless.... Answer that and at last we get to the root of the evil that has infected Australian football, and sadly, still seems to.

Awesome, I am also an Aussie following an Aussie team in an Aussie Competition... so why can't my team play in YOUR comp?

That is actually pretty cool.... great community engagement.

Thats what the sticking point seems to be universally these days. Im talking about club loyalty and other seem to think that implies "effnikz" loyalty.... Im with you 100% loyalty lives and dies with the club as the basic unit of connection ... CLUB is everything... system and league is...

There is that "multiculturalism" word again... Who cares Robbo what ethnicity your group of fellow fans is? I certainly don't nor do care what ethnicity my fellow fans at South Melbourne are... I'd find it a little rude to even ask to be honest. Why should ANYONE? I scratch my head... Aren't...

They do in a way, 2 have already been knocked out :P In all seriousness I agree with you but NPL is NOT yet a national comp, maybe when/if the Champiohsip fleshes out they will come in at Round of 64 time ?

100% this.. I agree the Australia Cup should be for ALL clubs, even the two bottom Aleague clubs that get knocked out for some bizarre reason....

hahahahahah few, thats a relief... now onto fixing the Aleague... lol

ONE LIFE, ONE LOVE, ONE CLUB .......

Thats such an odd take, it really is.... Im not ahve a go at you but the immediate answer is WHO CARES wghat the crowds are like? South Melbourne may be currently getting crowds of 500 people at a state league match but we have been surviving for the past 20 years in no mans land playing...