Lanterne Rouge Posted December 17, 2022 Report Share Posted December 17, 2022 A-League: Melbourne City-Melbourne Victory game abandoned after fan injures player - BBC Sport This all sounds pretty nasty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winsaw Posted December 17, 2022 Report Share Posted December 17, 2022 A lot of sides in the A league represent different nations that now live in Australia it makes a lot of the game more country v country and sadly this brings a lot of trouble to there games Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sticks 1969 Posted December 17, 2022 Report Share Posted December 17, 2022 When I lived in Ozz they rebrand a lot of the clubs names removing the country’s they were associated with and changing the club badge removing flags ect. It was to try and make it more main stream and attract fans from other ethnic groups if memory serves me well . This was probably nearly 30 years ago now but would imagine the clubs still have strong links to various countries Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lrrr Posted December 17, 2022 Report Share Posted December 17, 2022 Fans throw flares at goalkeeper, goalkeeper throws flare back at fans, fans don’t like having flare thrown at them… 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BS5_RED Posted December 18, 2022 Report Share Posted December 18, 2022 5 hours ago, winsaw said: A lot of sides in the A league represent different nations that now live in Australia it makes a lot of the game more country v country and sadly this brings a lot of trouble to there games 5 hours ago, sticks 1969 said: When I lived in Ozz they rebrand a lot of the clubs names removing the country’s they were associated with and changing the club badge removing flags ect. It was to try and make it more main stream and attract fans from other ethnic groups if memory serves me well . This was probably nearly 30 years ago now but would imagine the clubs still have strong links to various countries This isn't the case in the a-league - it's why the league/clubs itself is only about 15 years old. They were set up to replace the old national soccer league. This was where the historic clubs lived (and still do, they've all just been booted down into state based leagues). These were the ones set up by various sets of migrants and have their historic ties - greek, Italian, Croatian, Dutch etc etc and often had trouble at the games. This current wave of trouble has been set off by the brewing frustration at the way the league is run - no relegation, daft insistence on playoffs rather than a league champion, security clamping down on atmosphere, increasing costs to go. It exploded this week when the bosses decided the rather than the league winners hosting the grand final - it would be in Sydney irrespective of who's qualifies. All of the other clubs had peaceful walkouts during their games but Melbourne Victory (probably the team with the highest proportion of ********* wannabe ultras types) decided to chuck flares at the players. The City keeper chucked one back and it all kicked off. All the media goodwill from the world cup run has gone out the window and they've reverted to the usual AFL/NRL spun "soccer isn't our game" crap. Great. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sticks 1969 Posted December 18, 2022 Report Share Posted December 18, 2022 8 hours ago, BS5_RED said: This isn't the case in the a-league - it's why the league/clubs itself is only about 15 years old. They were set up to replace the old national soccer league. This was where the historic clubs lived (and still do, they've all just been booted down into state based leagues). These were the ones set up by various sets of migrants and have their historic ties - greek, Italian, Croatian, Dutch etc etc and often had trouble at the games. This current wave of trouble has been set off by the brewing frustration at the way the league is run - no relegation, daft insistence on playoffs rather than a league champion, security clamping down on atmosphere, increasing costs to go. It exploded this week when the bosses decided the rather than the league winners hosting the grand final - it would be in Sydney irrespective of who's qualifies. All of the other clubs had peaceful walkouts during their games but Melbourne Victory (probably the team with the highest proportion of ********* wannabe ultras types) decided to chuck flares at the players. The City keeper chucked one back and it all kicked off. All the media goodwill from the world cup run has gone out the window and they've reverted to the usual AFL/NRL spun "soccer isn't our game" crap. Great. Great post and always happy to be corrected Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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