Other Games 2024-25

[ewerk 33055]

 

[Dazzler 11678]

1 minute ago, ewerk said:

 

 

 

It'll be interesting to see the key passes attempted vs the 5 that came off as a metric. Also, to see the same metric for his team mates. 

 

Were the chances created in the box or shots from 25+ yards that went nowhere? Just because he created chances doesn't automatically make them good chances.

 

Also, who were the other two opponents? If it was against Macedonia and San Marino then OptaJoe can get in the bin.

[RobinRobin 12431]

@sammynb Good to see Arnie chucking his players under a bus. 🙂

[sammynb 3908]

8 hours ago, RobinRobin said:

@sammynb Good to see Arnie chucking his players under a bus. 🙂

 

Arnie is just Bruce lite, without the history of playing for a shitty red top club but as big a cunt.

It's been obvious for years they cannot finish their dinner and Arnie likes huff and puff football.

He'll take them on the longest route to the US, via the 50 million loser playoffs and then they will turn up as the whipping boys once more.

This country and football - ffs.

[sammynb 3908]

btw @RobinRobin did you ever see him play? I saw him both when he was young and then those last years for Northern Spirit. He was an average player at best. Saying he cannot do it for them, well he couldn't in his prime either.

[ohhh_yeah 3053]

 

 

 

[RobinRobin 12431]

5 hours ago, sammynb said:

btw @RobinRobin did you ever see him play? I saw him both when he was young and then those last years for Northern Spirit. He was an average player at best. Saying he cannot do it for them, well he couldn't in his prime either.

No.  Only seen him as a coach and he is the most obnoxious coach I have ever seen (and I've seen a few over the years).  Not surprising that it is all the players' fault now.  His football is neanderthal at best.

[Holden McGroin 7516]

[Dr Gloom 23536]

[PaddockLad 18947]

[OTF 8382]

10 hours ago, sammynb said:

btw @RobinRobin did you ever see him play? I saw him both when he was young and then those last years for Northern Spirit. He was an average player at best. Saying he cannot do it for them, well he couldn't in his prime either.

Don't ever try to call me old again.

[OTF 8382]

[Gemmill 49683]

Northern Spirit is what Dances with Wolves would call his horse btw. It's not the name of a sports team. 

[sammynb 3908]

1 hour ago, Gemmill said:

Northern Spirit is what Dances with Wolves would call his horse btw. It's not the name of a sports team. 

 

You Scotty, for once, are 100% correct. It was an era in football when the English expat teams wanted to make sure they weren't mistaken as one of the wog (their words not mine) teams, like Sydney Croatia or Sydney Olympic or Wollongong Macedonia - see the pattern here?

Northern Spirit and Perth Glory were all about how fucking Anglo expat they could be.

 

2 hours ago, OTF said:

Don't ever try to call me old again.

 

You are and you know it! Just not as old as I am, regardless, I remember when you use to go watch games there - with your grand dad and how he let you have a sip of his schooner of KB, fuck that shit was vile.

 

[sammynb 3908]

2 hours ago, PaddockLad said:

 

Auld Les was about one of the footys (yes I know) Rob, he no likey the world game.

 

 

[RobinRobin 12431]

2 hours ago, Dr Gloom said:

[The Fish 11313]

1 hour ago, Gemmill said:

Northern Spirit is what Dances with Wolves would call his horse btw. It's not the name of a sports team. 

Either that, or CT's latest hobby, a bathtub gin distillery.

[PaddockLad 18947]

21 minutes ago, sammynb said:

 

Auld Les was about one of the footys (yes I know) Rob, he no likey the world game.

 

 

Well he was old skool pre “ten pound poms” breed, as far as I can make out SOCCER is followed mostly by those from more recent waves of European immigration? …

[Gemmill 49683]

19 minutes ago, The Fish said:

Either that, or CT's latest hobby, a bathtub gin distillery.

 

He was posting publicly about wanking in his bath the other day, so that gin is ALL YOURS. 

[The Fish 11313]

34 minutes ago, Gemmill said:

 

He was posting publicly about wanking in his bath the other day, so that gin is ALL YOURS. 

I've never vomited as much or as violently.

[sammynb 3908]

2 hours ago, PaddockLad said:

Well he was old skool pre “ten pound poms” breed, as far as I can make out SOCCER is followed mostly by those from more recent waves of European immigration? …

 

Actually it is the reverse. Soccer was huge here before WW2, there are records of football ashes matches and I think Australia v NZ was one of, if not the first official national team match, played in the world.

And after with the post WW2, European skilled work migration influx to our steelworks and the like industries, it grew even more. But it was around the time of the "ten pound poms" that Australia was barred from FIFA because of issues with the national association, if I remember correctly the various States didn't want to be governed by a national body and because they could not get organised FIFA disoffiliated Australia from playing other countries.

Also being the 1950s and 60s it was the time when sport news coverage started to grow and in Victoria the media got behind aerial ping pong (what was then Victorian Rules Football aka AFL) and in NSW/QLD they got behind rugby league, union was for poncey private school boys and amateurs.

And that's what fucked football initially in Australia, TV in the 70 and 80s made sure it never had a chance to recover.

So then a lot of the migrants, especially their children rejected the old country football and played whatever the "footy" of choice was depending where they lived, in order to assimilate, especially at school. And those that did continue to play football, found that the professional teams all had a home nation association, so as I said prior Sydney Olympic, etc.

Both Newcastle and Wollongong were primarily football cities due to their Northern and Welsh roots (Newcastle) and Italian/Greek/Yugoslava (as it was then) populations and that's where I grew up. Eventually with the commercialisation of league, even those two places have moved to league as the number one football.

 

When I was 16/17, I played NSW State second division U18 for Fairy Meadow (suburb of the "Gong") Italia. They were paying their first team players more than what a lot of the National Soccer League were playing their first team. It's still the same, those that play top tier state league for a Sydney Croatia or Marconi earn better money than a lot of A-League players, the clubs just don't want to play in the national league because they would have to drop the country of their origin reference.

Edited September 12, 2024 by sammynb

[ewerk 33055]

9 minutes ago, The Fish said:

I've never vomited as much or as violently.

 

Well you'll not drink it a second time then.

[sammynb 3908]

1 hour ago, RobinRobin said:

 

@RobinRobin years ago I worked on a show that did a story on Sophie Monk when she was The Bachelorette. The network was a no smoking building but they allowed her to smoke on the roof terrace because she would have been out the front sucking them down.

And that terrace was just outside my office and she just chain smoked with her entourage.

Definitely a beer goggles stunner and fuck me, as bogan as they came.

Obviously once she tipped over 40 there wasn't enough spackfiller to maintain her TV career (watch her show up on something next month now!)

[PaddockLad 18947]

35 minutes ago, sammynb said:

 

Actually it is the reverse. Soccer was huge here before WW2, there are records of football ashes matches and I think Australia v NZ was one of, of not the first official national team match, played in the world.

And after with the post WW2, European skilled work migration influx to our steelworks and the like industries, it grew even more. But it was around the time of the "ten pound poms" that Australia was barred from FIFA because of issues with the national association, if I remember correctly the various States didn't want to be governed by a national body and because they could get organised FIFA disoffiliated Australia from playing other countries.

Also being the 1950s and 60s it was the time when sport news coverage started to grow and in Victoria the media got behind aerial ping pong (what was then Victorian Rules Football aka AFL) and in NSW/QLD they got behind rugby league, union was for poncey private school boys and amateurs.

And that's what fucked football initially in Australia, TV in the 70 and 80s made sure it never had a chance to recover.

So then a lot of the migrants, especially their children rejected the old country football and played whatever the "footy" of choice was, in order to assimilate especially at school. And those that did continue to play football, found that the professional teams all had a home nation association, so as I said prior Sydney Olympic, etc.

Both Newcastle and Wollongong were primarily football cities due to their Northern and Welsh roots (Newcastle) and Italian/Greek/Yugoslava (as it was then) populations and that's where I grew up. Eventually with the commercialisation of league, even those two places have moved to league as the number one football.

 

When I was 16/17, I played NSW State second division U18 for Fairy Meadow (suburb of the "Gong") Italia. They were paying their first team players more than what a lot of the National Soccer League were playing their first team. It's still the same, those that play top tier state league for a Sydney Croatia or Marconi earn better money than a lot of A-League players, the clubs just don't want to play in the national league because they would have to drop the country of their origin reference.

Thats really interesting mate cheers 👍

[RobElliott 1791]

2 hours ago, Gemmill said:

 

He was posting publicly about wanking in his bath the other day, so that gin is ALL YOURS.