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I stopped coming into this thread due to the combined ignorance and arrogance. These two points consecutively sum it up perfectly in my opinion. Not a personal attack on you Banno.

Been an awful pitch for as long as I can remember.

Suncorp’s pitch is in a permanent state of repair.

Jed Drew off to Austria. That’s now 4 players gone from Macarthur this transfer window.

I did it when I was 15. I quickly packed in refereeing side, probably did 2 weeks of it, it wasn't worth it. I stuck with running the line senior games for a little bit longer, you could get $AU100 for 4 games in a day which was pretty good for a 15 year old. The advantage of running the lines instead of refereeing the kids was you would have an experienced Ref on your side.

Surely losing to Brisbane is automatic disqualification from the finals.

The loss of more casual fans when Fox Sports lost the Premier League rights is something it never recovered from and I don’t think they’ve properly tried to address. It’s not necessarily failing when comparing it on an international level. If you look at crowds on a per capita basis it holds up well, I think 2nd to Japan in Asia and comparable a lot of European nations. That being an extremely narrow view of what failing may be.

It’s a criticism that comes up quite commonly about teams doing poorly have zero incentive to turn their season around. I’m pretty sure there is some form of prize minor for champions, premiers and cup winners. I don’t know the details of money distribution, but there is an emphasis on trying to make sure we don’t have a competition which only ever has one or two teams win it every season. If we ended up with a Scotland or France situation no one would bother with it. The paying three entities has been around since I was a kid and agree it’s idiotic. The costs and complexities around junior football in this country is ridiculous. Unfortunately it’s a case for it to change the first step is for State associations to vote to get rid of themselves and that’s never happening. Sport operates differently here to the UK. It isn’t a pseudo American thing, it’s an Australian thing. NRL and AFL have had finals and various different systems (Salary caps, catchment areas for players) in place for over 100 years. People are used to it here. Football in this country could do things differently, but the money available and the travel costs are hugely prohibitive. The A-League exists because 20 years ago the decision was made to put the NSL out of its misery. The NSL originally tried to be structured in a more traditional European sense, but had to try and change to survive and it struggled. The best way forward was decided to Australianise the competition, which had initial success. Should it always be this way? Hopefully not, but I don’t see it being in a position to change anytime in the near future.

I’d believe that’s true. Like in having the salary cap it would be to try and ensure the competition is as even as possible. Giving successful clubs more money means they are better placed to continue being successful and unsuccessful teams continue being unsuccessful. Central Coast may not even exist if coming last meant less money, as at one point they were spending at the salary cap floor to just survive. Is it really any more bonkers than teams getting millions the following seasons after being relegated from the Premier League?

Can hardly blame you. How Zadkovich is still in a job is mind boggling. It’s one thing being rubbish, but this seems deliberate.

Just seen it pop up on the socials. I’ll be shocked if he is still in the A-League next season.

It's ironic coming from Wednesday fans.

Scottish football was brought up because of English ignorance of football outside of England. Bloke who has won leagues in three different countries and has an international tournament win is considered rubbish by English people because Spurs are on a bad run.

Adelaide are probably best in the league at bringing through young talent.

He is better and more successful than every current English manager in the game.