Nice try... but there's a lot missing from this video. The football climate in Australia is very complicated though so it's hard for anyone to articulate, yet alone someone not from the country. My main fact check on this video, besides it being claimed that rugby league is the top sport (it's AFL in most Aussie states), is that there probably hasn't been a single person more damaging to the A-league and football in Australia than David Gallop. His tenure saw the A-league go from it's absolute peak, to the banning of active fans, lost momentum in growth and then the addition of the two most poorly chosen expansion teams. The damage that man caused is unforgivable. He tried to make soccer in Australia fall in line with the other football codes but he failed to realise that the reason the A-league was exploding the way it was in the early 2010s was because of the unique atmosphere that only it provided. There was a time where the Sydney derby was the hottest sports ticket in town, but the banning of active support, sterilisation and villification of the fans and football culture, totally crushed all momentum. Unfortunately, that is only one piece of the messy jigsaw that is Australian football. There are other major issues, like the 'pay to play' junior system, disharmony between state football federations and poor government funding compared to other sports. There is also no 'home' for our national sides, so our Socceroos or Matildas often find themselves training out of a rugby league facility during national camps. It's embarrassing and also impeads national development as we no longer have an academy like we use to have that operated out of the AIS in Canberra. So many of our golden generation were AIS academy alumni... Like I said, there are so many issues. I could go honestly on for hours about it. And I'm sure there are soooo many more I'm not aware of. As an Aussie football fan I just have to live in faith that it will one day get better.
There is not enough blame directed at Gallop. For years everytime I saw him on TV I would curse him. He set the game back decades. Its yet to recover. I swear he was a plant by NRL to ruin the game. Though I dont think he did much better there to be fair.
Hey, If you're reading this - thanks for watching! I really appreciate it. I recently got a new mic so I'm still learning how to use this thing and you can occasionally here me moving around - sorry about that! A couple more things for this vid: 03:09 - One thing I feel like I didn’t communicate very well in this video is this part. A recurring theme in football down under is that the people in charge (like Gallop) often make decisions like the National Club Identity Policy, which might be better for commercial deals but go against everything real football is all about. This decision was made well after the NSL existed but had an impact on the grassroots scene. Also 06:00 onwards - there are really two parts to this, the establishment of the A-League, and the restructure in 2019. I didn’t want to get too bogged down as I thought it would be boring! Both are examples of football administrators playing with the game as a commercial project rather than a footballing one. Cheers!
A few things: In what world is Rugby league the most prominent sport in Australia? I feel its very disrespectful to not mention Mark Schwarzer, Lucas Neill and Brett Emerton as part of the golden generation You have given channel 7 a free pass in their role of the financial problems of soccer Australia (They purchased the TV rights in order to bury the NSL and protect the AFL..) We don't have as much talent anymore because of the loss of ethnic based clubs, despite the issues around these clubs the ethnic communities provided us with great talent that wasn't siphoned away to the AFL, NRL, Cricket etc
@@rosemarytulip355 Melbourne is often considered the sporting capital of the world and they couldn’t care less about rugby. AFL has way bigger crowds, supporter base and tv rights which says it all
@@Julian-xs8nc “Melbourne is considered the sporting capital of the world”……Only by Victorians. It’s a weird title you guys gave yourself, and it’sreally strange.
Australia has the same problem as Ireland, America, Canada, South Africa, Russia, Finland, China and New Zealand has: association football has to compete with many other sports
@@MegaasAlexandros the game in Australia faces persecution from the mainstream. The mainstream hate our game and always want to quash it. As do the sports supported by the mainstream.
This is a terrible video that is a little loose on the timeline and lacks some of the actual history to why A-league was actually created and what happened to the NSL.
The low-scoring, defensive, "hand-less" game succeeds best where there's no competition from more dynamic football codes, but is always surprised about this
Exactly. Soccer in Australia is background listening whilst you do something else. Just sitting there watching them pass backwards over and again is so frustrating. Plus, only rich kids get a show with extortionate fees in your teens. No natural talent emerges, only fancy indulged kids with $300 boots.
I always felt like those running the sport were constantly after my money. The problem is that the game is too popular around the world and those running the sport are corrupt. The corrupt individuals from FIFA put pressure on FFA, who put pressure on small clubs, and the pain is felt all the way down to grass roots football. The game was never given the opportunity to grow organically in this country. Too many businessmen involved putting on an act of passion.
@@BuIldogProd Problem with sydney is, its very geographic divided and people are more lazy if i can say so. Melbourne is very city centric so even if a person support the team on the edge, they will still head to the cbd to ether MCG or Marvel to cheer their team and make a afternoon/night out of it. Unlike Sydney which its would an asshole to make a day out of it at SCG/Allianz or Accor due to locale and access to getting them.... And many people in Sydney have that so called "tribal personality" in them which generally means people don't usually leave their areas, the more east you go (such as shire, eastern suburbs, north shore and northern beaches) the worse these tribal pissants get.... That why its very rare for me to get along with people in these areas, yeah i can but its not as deep as i wanted.
Football fell of a cliff after the 2006 World Cup… Why? Because the administrators thought Gus Hiddick Dutch put it in their heads everyone should be Dutch…. Idiots
Media to Postecoglu last year - there has been a mini revolution in the a league this year. Postecoglu - “again?” This is where we’re at. There has been so many false starts and no continuous plans that us fans that have been following the a league’s and Socceroos since its inception have had enough. Fans don’t want to know about how the FA lost millions of dollars! We want to see the best players possible to play in Australia. This doesn’t happen and if things don’t change for good, it never will.
Your first mistake is giving one millisecond to that narcissist Postecoglou. An individual who tuned his back on Australian football and continues to disrespect and gaslight it to this day.
@ your point where Australian football relies on one person to pull it out of the dumps is right there. The sport should be more mature than that, but it isn’t.
last time I went to watch Brisbane roar was last year and when I took my shirt off at the stadium the security surrounded me asking why i took it off and asking me to put my shirt back on, you understand i europe we light flares etc taking off your shirt is minimal and they still a iffy about that tyoe of stuff. too much control
I don’t agree with a lot of what I see in and around the Socceroos particularly in how they’ve been coached over the last 7 or so years , but who exactly isn’t getting selected right now that will turn our fourth rate national team into a first class one????????
The greater percentage of elite athletes are playing AFL and NRL, so the talent pool is limited to start with, and then there are the structural issues.
Aust football is like the olympics. When its on its on but outside there are other sports to watch. Foottball is playing catch up with 100 years of history from other sports in Aus.
Australia had a good run with the golden generation but really ranks like a Euro country of 3-5m people - whcih it is once you exclude the populations that prefer AFL, Union and League
Nothing worse than an American telling you about your own home sports and choices. The A-league is improving. NRL is fine as is AFL. The Socceroos have done well but are not perfect. Other teams have a say. Get over it.
its pretty easy...no one knows how to put the ball in the back of the net in the big games.....one guy,Jack Kynaston in ACT running shooting galleries on weekends...freestyle is where its at
The problem is the governing bodies. Football queensland are a joke. They couldnt organise a root in a brothel. They established the qas teams about 7 years ago, hand picking all the best talents from NPL clubs. This year. The womens qas team finished last with 9 points from 27 games. Great job football Queensland.
I am a football fanatic and love to watch games all the time from everywhere . The problem of football in Australia are NRL and VFL , two stupid sports that nobody in the world know or care about ..Australia like to win and in those two sports found the way to be world champions all the time . World Champions ? The world is watching football like or not , only Australia brain wash its people with NRL , AFL , Cricket , swimming or any othe activities where they can be winners ..As a result they only produce brutish players , with no skills and they play the sport with the characteristics of rugby league , no skill , no flair
Nonsense. I'm a football fan but the NRL is fine and popular as it is the supported sport. It's loved by most in Australia. AFL is the next best supported. Get over it.
@@undersoundproductions1915 They are stupid sports that nobody know , they do not have world coverage simply because they are not appealing to sports fans ..People prefer real football and consume it all over the world . Football is evolving everywhere and improving but not here ..Australia thought that joining Asia was guaranty of being in the world stage all the time but it did backfire . They would not qualify for the next world cup ..Better stick to the stupid sports in which they are winners all the time and leave football for the countries that really love the sports and are not distracted with stupid games
Dont care - to me - football will always be number 1 - other codes are supported by meat necks, bogans & mullets. But yeah, super complicated topic - there are many many levels to this iceburg,.
You've missed the main point. Australians don't care about soccer (NB - it's NOT football!) at all. It is an activity that fosters a sports culture that is foreign and anathema to our paradigm. I wouldn't approve of my government spending a penny to develop it.
Your post flies in the face of fact. Just look at the enormous levels of interest that the 2006 FIFA Men's World Cup and last year's Women's World Cup generated amongst Australians. It is simply untrue and an utter nonsense to say that Australians don't care about soccer. Incidentally, to Billions of people around the World (including to a great many Australians) soccer IS football. Whichever code floats an individual's boat is legitimately "football" to that person. It is also non-sensical to argue that soccer (which - like many other Australians - I will call "football" from here on) fosters any kind of "foreign" sports culture, let alone one which is "anathema" to "our paradigm". Putting aside for one moment, which "paradigm" is "ours", the same fatuous argument could purportedly be made about many other sports or activities that a large number of Australians would consider popular, including cricket, rugby league and tennis, to name just a few. All of these other sports involve significant elements of foreign culture, yet no one makes this argument about them. The reason is simple: the argument is totally false and simply does not properly arise in the first place. And we happen to live in a multi-cultural society nowadays, in which many of our citizens originate from or are descendants of people from abroad, so - spoiler alert - all of us in a modern tolerant society need to be open to influences from beyond our shores. Your arguments against football are also neatly summarised by your final sentence, which reveals what you are all about. You say that you don't approve of "your" government spending a penny to develop the sport. While you are entitled of course to express your opinion, it is not "your" government. We happen to live in a democracy. Simply because - for whatever reason - you happen not to like something, doesn't mean that it's your personal call to banish or disapprove of it. Your attitudes are narrow-minded, intolerant and self-referential, without any justification for them. They have no place in modern Australia.
I'm 64. Soccer has been doing the same thing since I was a kid. So many teams and leagues have come and gone and soccer is in same state now as it was in the 1970s. The only kids who play soccer are the ones who can't hack league or AFL or whose parents want them to play a 'safe' sport with no physicality it. And the ethnic problems in soccer turns a lot of people off. The soccer hooligans do too. Once you've watched an NRL game or an AFL game watching soccer is like watching snooker. It's so boring. Soccer will always be a fringe and ethnic sport in Aus. Now, if you tackle the bloke with the ball and put him on his arse it might be a bit more interesting.
Hi Brett, thanks for watching! One thing that has undeniably changed since you were a kid is that the level of the national team has increased. Australia has proven that they can compete at international tournaments. Which is only possible when the ENTIRE football ecosystem has grown from the grassroots up. the sports popularity increasing isn't down to just parents not wanting children to get hurt playing forms of rugby or Aussie rules. The kids themselves want to play it too. The fact that you've seen this constant cycle of bad management first hand just proves the people in charge haven't helped the sport on its way unfortunately. Thanks for commenting!
Thanks for your input legend. Wonder if the entire world agrees "Once you've watched an NRL game or an AFL game watching soccer is like watching snooker".
Thank god we’ve got these experts like 64 year old Brett Teague on hand to drop these priceless insights 😂😂😂😂😂 Brett. I grew up in a rugby league town where league players were treated like gods and I wasn’t too interested in football as a kid. However when I did discover football I never looked back. Though I still have an interest in league I really do struggle with it now as it’s a game literally run and operated by complete and utter bogans. It’s a complete embarrassment the way these people carry themselves and the culture around this sport. That pathetic game of AFL is no better. They’re a joke in their own ways. Every single game of either of these sports they have to defend blokes who assault another player or commit some very dangerous action and someone will be there debating how it’s still part of the rules. Thankfully now I watch the world game, the game that everybody cares about. Thankfully now I don’t have to put up with league culture anymore that involves not using anymore than two brain cells at any one time or insecure little AFL culture (don’t get me wrong I never liked AFL lol) Football is a game where strength and fitness is just the beginning. I wouldn’t expect the Brett Teagues of the world to understand the strategy, the subtlety, the finesse, the timing, the grace required in football.
Brett, I grew up on League and AFL as you did. I also grew up on Football. To me, I can't watch either of the Australian codes anymore because of how boring they've become (to myself, at least). AFL suffers the issue of overcomplicating it's rules to the point where I spend a quarter of my time watching asking my mates the rules. Rugby League has the issue of being repetitive. Pass to your winger, score a try, repeat until Panthers win the league again. Your comparison to Football being akin to Snooker ignores the fact that people enjoy Snooker because of what it is. By that logic I could compare League or AFL to Professional Darts! You're not only devaluing football and the people who enjoy it but also devaluing those who enjoy Snooker for its merits. Lastly, it's wrong to say football isn't valuable because it's only supported by ethnics. Not because it's wrong (which it is) but it's completely racist. You're once again devaluing the sport because of prejudice that has nothing to do with it. By your logic I don't have to enjoy AFL, League or Cricket because it's predominantly played by "ethnics" of a white Australian background. If that's the case, then I don't know why I would ever watch those codes, even If they are "more entertaining" than football
Nice try... but there's a lot missing from this video. The football climate in Australia is very complicated though so it's hard for anyone to articulate, yet alone someone not from the country.
My main fact check on this video, besides it being claimed that rugby league is the top sport (it's AFL in most Aussie states), is that there probably hasn't been a single person more damaging to the A-league and football in Australia than David Gallop. His tenure saw the A-league go from it's absolute peak, to the banning of active fans, lost momentum in growth and then the addition of the two most poorly chosen expansion teams. The damage that man caused is unforgivable. He tried to make soccer in Australia fall in line with the other football codes but he failed to realise that the reason the A-league was exploding the way it was in the early 2010s was because of the unique atmosphere that only it provided. There was a time where the Sydney derby was the hottest sports ticket in town, but the banning of active support, sterilisation and villification of the fans and football culture, totally crushed all momentum. Unfortunately, that is only one piece of the messy jigsaw that is Australian football. There are other major issues, like the 'pay to play' junior system, disharmony between state football federations and poor government funding compared to other sports. There is also no 'home' for our national sides, so our Socceroos or Matildas often find themselves training out of a rugby league facility during national camps. It's embarrassing and also impeads national development as we no longer have an academy like we use to have that operated out of the AIS in Canberra. So many of our golden generation were AIS academy alumni...
Like I said, there are so many issues. I could go honestly on for hours about it. And I'm sure there are soooo many more I'm not aware of. As an Aussie football fan I just have to live in faith that it will one day get better.
There is not enough blame directed at Gallop. For years everytime I saw him on TV I would curse him. He set the game back decades. Its yet to recover. I swear he was a plant by NRL to ruin the game. Though I dont think he did much better there to be fair.
Hey, If you're reading this - thanks for watching! I really appreciate it. I recently got a new mic so I'm still learning how to use this thing and you can occasionally here me moving around - sorry about that! A couple more things for this vid:
03:09 - One thing I feel like I didn’t communicate very well in this video is this part. A recurring theme in football down under is that the people in charge (like Gallop) often make decisions like the National Club Identity Policy, which might be better for commercial deals but go against everything real football is all about. This decision was made well after the NSL existed but had an impact on the grassroots scene.
Also 06:00 onwards - there are really two parts to this, the establishment of the A-League, and the restructure in 2019. I didn’t want to get too bogged down as I thought it would be boring! Both are examples of football administrators playing with the game as a commercial project rather than a footballing one. Cheers!
Thanks for teaching people about the A-leauge since it is an underrated league even though not many young talents get noticed😢
Where did we go wrong? Weak characters in the squad. No Mile Jedinak figures. Pink-haired jackson irvine ruining the team culture.
A few things:
In what world is Rugby league the most prominent sport in Australia?
I feel its very disrespectful to not mention Mark Schwarzer, Lucas Neill and Brett Emerton as part of the golden generation
You have given channel 7 a free pass in their role of the financial problems of soccer Australia (They purchased the TV rights in order to bury the NSL and protect the AFL..)
We don't have as much talent anymore because of the loss of ethnic based clubs, despite the issues around these clubs the ethnic communities provided us with great talent that wasn't siphoned away to the AFL, NRL, Cricket etc
"In what world is Rugby league the most prominent sport in Australia?"
The world we live in.
Other than New South Wales and Queensland nobody gives a flying f**k about rugby in Australia
@@Julian-xs8nc Oh so 14 million people? Over half of Australia's population and both those states are the ones that care most about sport in general?
@@rosemarytulip355 Melbourne is often considered the sporting capital of the world and they couldn’t care less about rugby. AFL has way bigger crowds, supporter base and tv rights which says it all
@@Julian-xs8nc “Melbourne is considered the sporting capital of the world”……Only by Victorians. It’s a weird title you guys gave yourself, and it’sreally strange.
Australia has the same problem as Ireland, America, Canada, South Africa, Russia, Finland, China and New Zealand has: association football has to compete with many other sports
That is true but can be viewed as an excuse at the same time when soccer is the most played game in the country. We really should be doing better,
@@MegaasAlexandros the game in Australia faces persecution from the mainstream. The mainstream hate our game and always want to quash it. As do the sports supported by the mainstream.
@@shottskies how so ?
Difference is South Africa has a thriving football ecosystem
This is a terrible video that is a little loose on the timeline and lacks some of the actual history to why A-league was actually created and what happened to the NSL.
I agree this clown has no idea.
The low-scoring, defensive, "hand-less" game succeeds best where there's no competition from more dynamic football codes, but is always surprised about this
Exactly. Soccer in Australia is background listening whilst you do something else. Just sitting there watching them pass backwards over and again is so frustrating. Plus, only rich kids get a show with extortionate fees in your teens. No natural talent emerges, only fancy indulged kids with $300 boots.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I always felt like those running the sport were constantly after my money. The problem is that the game is too popular around the world and those running the sport are corrupt. The corrupt individuals from FIFA put pressure on FFA, who put pressure on small clubs, and the pain is felt all the way down to grass roots football. The game was never given the opportunity to grow organically in this country. Too many businessmen involved putting on an act of passion.
you forgot to mention that three or four players in the a leauge were found guilty of match fixing last season
Honestly, that could be a whole video just by itself 😂 - thanks for watching!
1:44 No way Rugby league is the most prominent sport in Australia, it is big in Sydney.
it's a borderline reglion in QLD
Footy > league. Who else can get 100k crowds consistently throughout the year, and 40k in Sydney, a league city
AFL smashes Rugby League in crowds, income, grass roots players.
@@BuIldogProd Problem with sydney is, its very geographic divided and people are more lazy if i can say so. Melbourne is very city centric so even if a person support the team on the edge, they will still head to the cbd to ether MCG or Marvel to cheer their team and make a afternoon/night out of it.
Unlike Sydney which its would an asshole to make a day out of it at SCG/Allianz or Accor due to locale and access to getting them.... And many people in Sydney have that so called "tribal personality" in them which generally means people don't usually leave their areas, the more east you go (such as shire, eastern suburbs, north shore and northern beaches) the worse these tribal pissants get.... That why its very rare for me to get along with people in these areas, yeah i can but its not as deep as i wanted.
Almost non existent in Melbourne.
Football fell of a cliff after the 2006 World Cup… Why? Because the administrators thought Gus Hiddick Dutch put it in their heads everyone should be Dutch…. Idiots
The game has been run by short sighted self serving fools for decades now.
Media to Postecoglu last year - there has been a mini revolution in the a league this year. Postecoglu - “again?” This is where we’re at. There has been so many false starts and no continuous plans that us fans that have been following the a league’s and Socceroos since its inception have had enough. Fans don’t want to know about how the FA lost millions of dollars! We want to see the best players possible to play in Australia. This doesn’t happen and if things don’t change for good, it never will.
Your first mistake is giving one millisecond to that narcissist Postecoglou. An individual who tuned his back on Australian football and continues to disrespect and gaslight it to this day.
@ your point where Australian football relies on one person to pull it out of the dumps is right there. The sport should be more mature than that, but it isn’t.
last time I went to watch Brisbane roar was last year and when I took my shirt off at the stadium the security surrounded me asking why i took it off and asking me to put my shirt back on, you understand i europe we light flares etc taking off your shirt is minimal and they still a iffy about that tyoe of stuff. too much control
If the Socceroos was based on merit the team would look like France's team.
I don’t agree with a lot of what I see in and around the Socceroos particularly in how they’ve been coached over the last 7 or so years , but who exactly isn’t getting selected right now that will turn our fourth rate national team into a first class one????????
The greater percentage of elite athletes are playing AFL and NRL, so the talent pool is limited to start with, and then there are the structural issues.
Aust football is like the olympics. When its on its on but outside there are other sports to watch. Foottball is playing catch up with 100 years of history from other sports in Aus.
Australia had a good run with the golden generation but really ranks like a Euro country of 3-5m people - whcih it is once you exclude the populations that prefer AFL, Union and League
Who the fuck prefers Union Lol
Nothing worse than an American telling you about your own home sports and choices.
The A-league is improving.
NRL is fine as is AFL.
The Socceroos have done well but are not perfect. Other teams have a say. Get over it.
Hey, I'm not American! Thanks for watching.
its pretty easy...no one knows how to put the ball in the back of the net in the big games.....one guy,Jack Kynaston in ACT running shooting galleries on weekends...freestyle is where its at
Aww it being an own goal too...thats rough
Matilda’s fan spotted 🤫
Get their noses out of The Ledger and start worrying about Football
anyone who actually is serious needs to leave to Europe by the time they start high school
The problem is the governing bodies. Football queensland are a joke. They couldnt organise a root in a brothel.
They established the qas teams about 7 years ago, hand picking all the best talents from NPL clubs. This year. The womens qas team finished last with 9 points from 27 games. Great job football Queensland.
wrong shape ball ✔️
I am a football fanatic and love to watch games all the time from everywhere . The problem of football in Australia are NRL and VFL , two stupid sports that nobody in the world know or care about ..Australia like to win and in those two sports found the way to be world champions all the time . World Champions ? The world is watching football like or not , only Australia brain wash its people with NRL , AFL , Cricket , swimming or any othe activities where they can be winners ..As a result they only produce brutish players , with no skills and they play the sport with the characteristics of rugby league , no skill , no flair
Nonsense. I'm a football fan but the NRL is fine and popular as it is the supported sport. It's loved by most in Australia. AFL is the next best supported. Get over it.
@@undersoundproductions1915 They are stupid sports that nobody know , they do not have world coverage simply because they are not appealing to sports fans ..People prefer real football and consume it all over the world . Football is evolving everywhere and improving but not here ..Australia thought that joining Asia was guaranty of being in the world stage all the time but it did backfire . They would not qualify for the next world cup ..Better stick to the stupid sports in which they are winners all the time and leave football for the countries that really love the sports and are not distracted with stupid games
@@undersoundproductions1915 AFL is by far the most supported code in Australia .
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Dont care - to me - football will always be number 1 - other codes are supported by meat necks, bogans & mullets. But yeah, super complicated topic - there are many many levels to this iceburg,.
rugby league 😂
There is only one type of football here in Australia, and it's not soccer, that’s for sure.
You've missed the main point. Australians don't care about soccer (NB - it's NOT football!) at all. It is an activity that fosters a sports culture that is foreign and anathema to our paradigm.
I wouldn't approve of my government spending a penny to develop it.
Your post flies in the face of fact. Just look at the enormous levels of interest that the 2006 FIFA Men's World Cup and last year's Women's World Cup generated amongst Australians. It is simply untrue and an utter nonsense to say that Australians don't care about soccer. Incidentally, to Billions of people around the World (including to a great many Australians) soccer IS football. Whichever code floats an individual's boat is legitimately "football" to that person.
It is also non-sensical to argue that soccer (which - like many other Australians - I will call "football" from here on) fosters any kind of "foreign" sports culture, let alone one which is "anathema" to "our paradigm". Putting aside for one moment, which "paradigm" is "ours", the same fatuous argument could purportedly be made about many other sports or activities that a large number of Australians would consider popular, including cricket, rugby league and tennis, to name just a few. All of these other sports involve significant elements of foreign culture, yet no one makes this argument about them. The reason is simple: the argument is totally false and simply does not properly arise in the first place. And we happen to live in a multi-cultural society nowadays, in which many of our citizens originate from or are descendants of people from abroad, so - spoiler alert - all of us in a modern tolerant society need to be open to influences from beyond our shores.
Your arguments against football are also neatly summarised by your final sentence, which reveals what you are all about. You say that you don't approve of "your" government spending a penny to develop the sport. While you are entitled of course to express your opinion, it is not "your" government. We happen to live in a democracy. Simply because - for whatever reason - you happen not to like something, doesn't mean that it's your personal call to banish or disapprove of it. Your attitudes are narrow-minded, intolerant and self-referential, without any justification for them. They have no place in modern Australia.
How can you say that it’s not football ? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 my god… the Aussie sports have the ball mostly in hand ….
I'm 64. Soccer has been doing the same thing since I was a kid. So many teams and leagues have come and gone and soccer is in same state now as it was in the 1970s. The only kids who play soccer are the ones who can't hack league or AFL or whose parents want them to play a 'safe' sport with no physicality it. And the ethnic problems in soccer turns a lot of people off. The soccer hooligans do too.
Once you've watched an NRL game or an AFL game watching soccer is like watching snooker. It's so boring. Soccer will always be a fringe and ethnic sport in Aus. Now, if you tackle the bloke with the ball and put him on his arse it might be a bit more interesting.
Hi Brett, thanks for watching! One thing that has undeniably changed since you were a kid is that the level of the national team has increased. Australia has proven that they can compete at international tournaments. Which is only possible when the ENTIRE football ecosystem has grown from the grassroots up. the sports popularity increasing isn't down to just parents not wanting children to get hurt playing forms of rugby or Aussie rules. The kids themselves want to play it too. The fact that you've seen this constant cycle of bad management first hand just proves the people in charge haven't helped the sport on its way unfortunately. Thanks for commenting!
Thanks for your input legend. Wonder if the entire world agrees "Once you've watched an NRL game or an AFL game watching soccer is like watching snooker".
Thank god we’ve got these experts like 64 year old Brett Teague on hand to drop these priceless insights 😂😂😂😂😂
Brett. I grew up in a rugby league town where league players were treated like gods and I wasn’t too interested in football as a kid. However when I did discover football I never looked back. Though I still have an interest in league I really do struggle with it now as it’s a game literally run and operated by complete and utter bogans. It’s a complete embarrassment the way these people carry themselves and the culture around this sport. That pathetic game of AFL is no better. They’re a joke in their own ways. Every single game of either of these sports they have to defend blokes who assault another player or commit some very dangerous action and someone will be there debating how it’s still part of the rules.
Thankfully now I watch the world game, the game that everybody cares about. Thankfully now I don’t have to put up with league culture anymore that involves not using anymore than two brain cells at any one time or insecure little AFL culture (don’t get me wrong I never liked AFL lol)
Football is a game where strength and fitness is just the beginning. I wouldn’t expect the Brett Teagues of the world to understand the strategy, the subtlety, the finesse, the timing, the grace required in football.
Brett, I grew up on League and AFL as you did. I also grew up on Football. To me, I can't watch either of the Australian codes anymore because of how boring they've become (to myself, at least).
AFL suffers the issue of overcomplicating it's rules to the point where I spend a quarter of my time watching asking my mates the rules.
Rugby League has the issue of being repetitive. Pass to your winger, score a try, repeat until Panthers win the league again.
Your comparison to Football being akin to Snooker ignores the fact that people enjoy Snooker because of what it is. By that logic I could compare League or AFL to Professional Darts! You're not only devaluing football and the people who enjoy it but also devaluing those who enjoy Snooker for its merits.
Lastly, it's wrong to say football isn't valuable because it's only supported by ethnics. Not because it's wrong (which it is) but it's completely racist. You're once again devaluing the sport because of prejudice that has nothing to do with it. By your logic I don't have to enjoy AFL, League or Cricket because it's predominantly played by "ethnics" of a white Australian background. If that's the case, then I don't know why I would ever watch those codes, even If they are "more entertaining" than football
lol afl fans from Melbourne losing it if your nrl call 😂
Rugby league is 10x better than afl. And ‘soccer’ is king. Eat it Melbourne 😂
Stats and common sense says Afl is better and more popular. Cope 🤷♂️
LoL Rugby league is the worst sport in the world.
None of that, thanks 😅
Football in Australia is magnificent. But we call it Australian Rules Football & Rugby League
Football here in Australia is called football as it is in just about every other country on earth
Australia calls football soccer enough said.
I’m Australian and I don’t. I call football football.