Regarding player development - all leagues around the world are nothing more than development leagues for the big 5 in Europe. And the sooner the clubs come to accept this then they can build around that. This means more money for the clubs if they sign and develop the right players. For the...

Get a Singaporean team in. Closer ties to Asia and the ability to have another long distance derby. They could be enticed to have Darwin as a local base.

Some may not go, even if their club release them, because they may be kept back for Socceroos selection for example Bennie.

Well it should come with a warning: "epileptics look away now as what you will see will really distress you".

The only sport I can recall that had a marked improvement on refereeing standards in my lifetime has been tennis when Jon McEnroe kept going ballistics at the chair umpiring. In reality VAR was meant to improve the refereeing standards but I think that the technology remains to immature for it...

What??? For starters the AFL came into existence when the original VFL was going broke with 12 teams. Port Adelaide had dominated the SAFL so much that they wanted better competition and were set to join the VFL for a fee. SAFL got told and their bigotry crumbled (SA are very anti-Victorian) and...

MC fan engagement is quite poor. Back in the Heart days, they would have come and meet the players during the season but these days they don't do much. I also note that fans that come from England, their football team is part of the extended family, almost tribal, but neither MC nor APL tend to...

They have been utterly inconsistent within the game and between games.

Nah. Refereeing has gone backwards this season. Someone needed to tell the administrators that they have screwed up royally and this is the best way that they can be publicly shamed into doing something positive. If the clubs are doing something behind the scenes then it is not working. Sorry to...

I did not think it was obligatory for clubs to release players for the U20 & U17 cups. MC still has a long injury list and they did not bring in any replacements for Nabbout who is out for the season, so I can see why they did not release Schreiber and Wong. @Decentric I had a similar issue...

Germain is suspended for two matches, which he is appealing, for giving lip to the refs.

My take on why MVC has improved over the last three rounds: Brendan Hamill has become the hitman. His role is to basically bruise the crap out of opposition forwards so they can't play effectively. A headbutt here, an elbow there, land on their ankles and the opposition can no longer run at full...

To me that is the test on Popa. I can understand his previous 5 at the back to win ugly because he had just taken over a demoralised and incoherent team that wasn't doing much. He now has had longer to think about the players. Injuries have not been kind, specially at the back, so I am curious...

I would also be curious on the demographics. Closer to the CBD may be older residents with either teenagers or on their own. Uni students as well.

Any further news on JBos' injury?

The question should be would MVC be good for his development? Getting game time is one thing actually improving is another.

Has segecic played 90+ minutes? Matthew did and Matthews also broke into the senior Socceroos side. Ever since Arzani, I look to see whether the player can manage 90+ minutes.

Mixed feelings on Toure - he should have had 4 at least. Lazy to get back onside. Bennie has improved so much since he left PG. I can honestly see him replacing Millar at RB in the next 24 hrs. The mid-field was dominant and the subs were brought in at the right time. I feel that Kyrgyz were the...

What you are saying is true but having witness local football club politics a decade ago (no longer involved), council planning process & local greenies opposing any sport other than tree hugging, I remain firmly in the skeptical camp. To achive what they are trying to achieve is at least 10...

So a club that has reported significant losses over the last two years, whose game day attendance figures continue to slide, who is part owned by a company that is under active investigation by numerous financial authorities, is going to build 12 'infrastructure facilities' (or 'campuses') when...