OT: Association Football

[Suitman]

Lol.....from someone on

http://www.westsydneyfootball.com/f...ball-team/?page=9&tab=comments#comment-639917

I've just finished reading an article about Sam Kerr in yesterdays "Good Weekend" magazine from the Sydney Morning Herald. Obviously penned by a Victorian or AFL follower. Well worth the read if anyone can access it.



The last paragraph in the article asks.........."Now there's an AFL Woman's league, could she be tempted away from soccer back to her first love?"

Her answer........"Not a chance". ******* lol.

Why would she leave a career that has made her world famous, earning decent coin, playing internationally and travelling the world, to play in some 6 week competition in a sport no one cares about in some backwater states of a small country? Was that a serious question?

The delusion amongst the AFL about how "great" their sport is continues.

 

[phantom eel]

Interesting day for Aussie soccer tomorrow...

http://www.news.com.au/sport/footba...a/news-story/bc01aaf80f16bf6741873acb82d4a167

Is any sport immune from administrators/board members that can't see beyond their own interests?

 

[Suitman]

Apparently shit is about to happen at the FFA. News soon.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

I bet Fitzy was behind it.

 

[phantom eel]

Apparently shit is about to happen at the FFA. News soon.

Shit probably hit the fan (or floor?) if he "lost his motion"?

I, for one, welcome our new FIFA overlords...

 

[Suitman]

Group A: Russia, Saudi, Egypt, Uruguay
Group B: Portugal, Spain, Morocco, Iran
Group C: France, Australia, Peru, Denmark
Group D: Argentina, Iceland, Croatia, Nigeria
Group E: Brazil, Switzerland, Costa Rica, Serbia
Group F: Germany, Mexico, Sweden, South Korea
Group G: Belgium, Panama, Tunisia, England
Group H: Poland, Senegal, Colombia, Japan

 

[Suitman]

Just watching that draw, you realise how big football is in the world, and what an incredible achievement it was to make it to the final 32 nations in the world's biggest tournament after such a gruelling qualifying period.
Really, no other sport compares.

 

[Gronk]

The media are saying we have a good draw. Not sure why. The other 3 teams are all in the top 15 in the world. I guess what they are saying is that it could be worse ?

Anyway we need to score some goals over there. Is there a striker or two that we can unearth in the next few months ?

 

[Gronk]

 

[Twizzle]

cue the "group of death" labels

it wont matter what group we are in for that matter

 

[Poupou Escobar]

The media are saying we have a good draw. Not sure why. The other 3 teams are all in the top 15 in the world. I guess what they are saying is that it could be worse ?

Whatever their current ranking, Peru and Denmark aren’t big footballing nations, meaning there’s a chance (though slim) that we could finish second in the group.

Anyway we need to score some goals over there. Is there a striker or two that we can unearth in the next few months ?

Alas it’s not our strength.

 

[84 Baby]

Well due to some qualifying upsets there’s no real group of death. But groups a, b & g look like walkovers

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Ripper goal from Maccarone

 

[Poupou Escobar]

I wonder if his mates call him Macca?

 

[strider]

or ncheese

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Derby day merkins. Fire up FFS!

 

[Suitman]

I'm fired up. Leaving to go to the game in a couple of hours.
Expecting that ESFC will smash us though. Atm, we are rubbish.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

That's exactly the kind of ambush that Effen Cees are vulnerable to. The Mariners swamped us with effort. It can happen again.

 

[Twizzle]

Mariners are half decent this season, Okon has done a very good job with a bunch of average players and 2 or 3 decent players.

De Silva has been great

 

[Suitman]

Yeh Pou Pou, anything can happen with a derby. I just don't know where our goals are going to come from. I believe Riera might be out, so I expect Santalab will start. He scored the winning goal last season in this fixture so I suppose anything is possible.

And yeh Twiz, the Sea Bogans are actually playing some attractive football this season.