If you're talking about Sydney FC playing at the SCG for a few years you do realise the SFS had been under redevelopment right? I've always been of the belief the only additions the A-League should've made after 2005 was to other states. Yes the derbies have been successful as such but I...

If your club gets in via the back door like you want where are they going to play? Lakeside is a fucking athletics stadium now and totally unsuitable for top flight football. Just ask Brighton fans in England what they thought of the Withdean when they played there? State of Origin? That was...

Aussie Rules is the only sport in Australia where pro/rel would've worked until the VFL/AFL put in expansion clubs like Brisbane (Bears), Adelaide, West Coast and Fremantle when there were state league clubs like Norwood, Port Adelaide (their 1990 bid prior to getting in 7 years later), Perth...

The biggest issue with P&R is Australia's sheer large geographical size and the limited population and the fact is Australia as a country don't really support second tiers in any sports. Only have to look at the big 3 state leagues in Aussie Rules and the Queensland Cup in rugby league that...

We're going to have to agree to disagree then. There's not really much point in continuing to argue the toss on this one.

My views on the old clubs aside yes I do enjoy the podcast.

The issue the game faces is the fact to get anywhere in the game one has to move overseas. The main footy codes in this country (rugby union being the outlier) allows you to pursue the big money at home. I use Adelaide Crows AFL star Josh Rachele as an example, the bloke played in Melbourne...

Mate, you're not doing yourself any favours bringing up xenophobia. My original point had nothing to do with xenophobia. The A-League was created to get away from the perceptions people had of those clubs. And yes those clubs should be consigned to the dustbin of history and that's nothing to...

I suggest you have a cup of tea, a bex and a good lie down, old son. I DO NOT and I repeat I DO NOT have an issue with "ethnics" whatsoever. If I did I wouldn't be happily married to one. Simple fact is whether that perception is reality or not, the perception is these monocultural social...

MSC, I suggest you have a good read of my reply to LFC. I have absolutely no issues at all with "ethnics" at all whatsoever. Never have, never will. What I have an issue with is monocultural social clubs who give the perception anyone outside those groups is not welcome. That's always been...

Mate, are you being deliberately obtuse? That's not what I said at all. I have absolutely no issue with "ethnics" at all, I've been happily married to one for a decade. What I have an issue with is monocultural football clubs who make it feel like no one outside that group is welcome. That...

Who said I had a problem with "ethnics"? You made that conclusion yourself, which I don't. I'm happily married to one. What I have a problem is is these monocultural ethnic social clubs who bring their emotional baggage, hatred and prejudices from the old country to here. It is well known...

This.

Ok mate you win, NSL wonderful, A-League bad.

What are you waffling on about? I wasn't talking about the 1940's & 50's. I was born in the early 80's ffs.

Yep I have been to many NPL games in the last decade and most of them are attended by two men and a dog usually. Rather weird you have an anti-Anglo attitude when you have Liverpool as your username and avatar tbh. So this was nothing like it was in the NSL era?

Did Kewell & Cahill play in the NSL did they? Nope they didn't. Cahill went to England as a teenager as the idiot dinosaurs at Sydney Olympic said he was too small to make it at the top level. Kewell went to Leeds while still in high school.

Tbf for all the wankery people go on with about the old NSL, how many World Cups did we qualify for in the NSL era? I'd tell you none, nada, zippo. If it was that good we would've qualified for World Cups like we have in every edition since the A-League started. The old NSL was a total...

Tbh I think NSL bitters are happy for football to remain a backwater and are happy whenever the Socceroos lose.

You just went the full potato never go the full potato.