Questions about your club

[lucarne]

Exactly MattSimon....

I think they copied us (I will ask them)

@kevrenor : 5 clubs !! God. Don't you think that this could be a problem to make football more popular in Australia (it sounds like the problems in US where they spend their time creating teams that folded). I would say that franchise is even more unstable....isn't it a bit scaring ?

'enthusiasm and uncertainty' ... good choice of english

Did I made a mistake (this is likely as I studied english only 2 years at school).

 

[dibo]

@kevrenor : 5 clubs !! God. Don't you think that this could be a problem to make football more popular in Australia (it sounds like the problems in US where they spend their time creating teams that folded). I would say that franchise is even more unstable....isn't it a bit scaring ?

'enthusiasm and uncertainty' ... good choice of english

Did I made a mistake (this is likely as I studied english only 2 years at school).

I think you've picked exactly the right words - in the past, clubs were supported always with an awareness that the good times may run out any day - the owner might go bust, all of a sudden the players stop getting paid, training seems to be permanently cancelled... Even without going over the trials that the national team has put us through, Australian football fans over the years have learnt to be pretty hard, you simply have to have been with what the game has put us through.

Clubs now (even under a franchise based system) have invested significantly more money and have attracted more public and corporate support than they ever did under the old system. Even this year when crowds are down, the league's average attendance is over 11,000 - about double what the old NSL did at its peak.

Clubs have business plans, fully professional squads, youth teams, a women's league just started up, even things like professionally managed and marketed merchandise mean that there are more revenue streams coming in. It's better set up than hoping you can sell enough cevapcici and pumpkin seeds to fill the team buses' tanks next week.

For all that, we have had one club go bust already - the New Zealand Knights went under after winning maybe 4 games in 2 seasons, and having crowds that would have been embarassing even on the old national league.

 

[Ranyen]

Did I made a mistake (this is likely as I studied english only 2 years at school).

Reading your posts, you are very good at English - better than some people on here . I learnt 4 years of French & can only remember a handful of phrases.

 

[lucarne]

well thank you all for everything. I'll now prepare my report and once it'll be ready, I'll give you a link (if moderators accept it). It will be one way for you to learn French

 

[dibo]

ce n'est pas une probleme. je parle un peu du francais, ainsi peut etre je peux faire un petit traduction.

 

[kevrenor]

well thank you all for everything. I'll now prepare my report and once it'll be ready, I'll give you a link (if moderators accept it). It will be one way for you to learn French

One link with details of your site on this thread is fine .... like Dibo said!

Kevrenor, mod

French? I need to brush up for my trip to Quebec and Brittany ... but there's always Bablefish

 

[~Floss~]

lolz

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[MattSimon]

Lake Erie had it first. Go the mighty waves!

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[lucarne]

alright.

My web site is called Lucarne Oppose and has for priority to talk about teams, matches and leagues that are not under the spotlight in the French medias (of course, I sometimes give results of the main competitions). I started it one month ago and put energy these last weeks in making a new design. This being done, I'm now writing things again and I'll start with the A-league at the end of the week (I'm compiling all the answers of fans (I choosed to focus on 5 teams) and the data I needed for this report). If you want to add things, I can until Friday

The site is here : http://parlonsfoot.e3b.org

Thank you for the answers and allowing me this advertising.

Lucarne.

Do not hesitate if you want informations about French league

 

[Marquee]

Lucarne, do you know of any decent players in France who would be interesting in playing for a club like ours in the A-league?

 

[lucarne]

woaw...what an interesting question.

Going away from Europe means no chances to be, stay or become international. This means that top french players (what I mean by top, is good players that are still playing in France) can't take this risk if they are young. This also means that you can have more chances to catch players from Ligue 2 (second division) who have no international plans.

So if by decent, you mean good player from first french league, I would say that none will be interested. They rather prefer a high contract with high salary (even in english second division). We've got players that travelled a lot but either they were not fantastic players, or they were almost retiring (but usually they prefer qatari petro-dollars).

 

[Marquee]

Thats the answer i expected but always worth a chance!

 

[Kimba]

Looks like an interesting site Lucarne. Now I wish I could speak French.

 

[lucarne]

thank you....don't worry for the french, the report about A-league as well as all the following article from now will be also available in english. After that, I'll translate the previous entries (I finally found the right wordpress plugin to do it).

 

[Kimba]

You're Legendary mate, I'm looking forward to it!

 

[lucarne]

Just to announce that the report in online. CC Mariners part will probably be published tomorrow (french time )

Once again thanks for everything

EDIT : One day late, the presentation of CC Mariners is online.

 

[midfielder]

About the Mariners http://parlonsfoot.e3b.org/

About the A-League http://parlonsfoot.e3b.org/?p=402

Bret & Kev get a mention in both

 

[lucarne]

thanks for the advertising.

The whole report is now online (with a big delay regarding what I planned). I hope I didn't wirte to many errors.

Thank you again for everything and good luck for the game against Roar (be careful, I'll look at it).

I'll stay around if you have questions and remarks

 

[Ted]

thanks for the advertising.

The whole report is now online (with a big delay regarding what I planned). I hope I didn't wirte to many errors.

Thank you again for everything and good luck for the game against Roar (be careful, I'll look at it).

I'll stay around if you have questions and remarks

Well done mate and many thanks for broadening the awareness of the A-League and our humble little club as well. Very much appreciated.