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Posted November 21, 2023 18:10 · last edited November 21, 2023 18:13

martinb
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YoungHeartHM
While I think the best part about this whole announcement is the fact we'll get an Wellington/Auckland derby (which is brilliant) and that there will be more opportunities for New Zealand footballers to show their wares overall (also brilliant). The bit that takes the cake for mine is the absolute spoons over in Aussie who are losing their rag with the old 'NeW ZeALanD iSn'T iN AuSTrAliA - LoOk OuT fOr AuSsIe FooTbALl InTeReSt's FiRst!'  

They're the same crowd who are completely oblivious to the fact that there are two of their clubs up for sale that seemingly no-one wants to touch with a 10ft barge-pole.

Get it up ya ockers! ✌️

Also 
COYN!



https://forum.insidesport.com.au/3090984/Auckland-to-enter-ALM-next-year-ALW-to-follow-in-2025-Comments

Exhibit A :)

Lulz. A 4 negative replies, a couple of positives and two on a completely pointless tangent about promotion and relegation. Not much of a sample size! 
Well, you can ignore Muz right away because he hates Kiwis and that's all there is to it. But the P&R thing has more substance to it, and a more sophisticated version of the argument is given by Nick Galatas, the chair of AAFC:


Galatas and the "NSL bitters" who populate the Inside Sport forums have a dream of a fully-connected pyramid of Australia football with P&R at all levels. They point out, correctly, that that can't happen with the A-League precisely because the huge licence fees mean that the Bill Foleys of the world are not going to risk their investments being relegated. Galatas is confused because the NSD is precisely what people like him have been fighting for for years, but expanding the A-League with new franchises (rather than promoting from top NSD teams) is absolutely the opposite. So he has a point that FA and APL are at cross purposes here.

You have to remember that some of these people are so extreme they actually dream of the A-League disappearing entirely and South Melbourne, Sydney Ustaše 58 etc. returning to their "rightful place" as the top level of Oz football. You can't say to them "but the Glory/Jets are broke" because they'll just say "good, let them die, let all the franchises die". (Although of course Glory and Jets were NSL clubs rather than franchises invented for the A-League, which ruins the argument.)

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martinb
Footy_Fella
YoungHeartHM
While I think the best part about this whole announcement is the fact we'll get an Wellington/Auckland derby (which is brilliant) and that there will be more opportunities for New Zealand footballers to show their wares overall (also brilliant). The bit that takes the cake for mine is the absolute spoons over in Aussie who are losing their rag with the old 'NeW ZeALanD iSn'T iN AuSTrAliA - LoOk OuT fOr AuSsIe FooTbALl InTeReSt's FiRst!'  

They're the same crowd who are completely oblivious to the fact that there are two of their clubs up for sale that seemingly no-one wants to touch with a 10ft barge-pole.

Get it up ya ockers! ✌️

Also 
COYN!



https://forum.insidesport.com.au/3090984/Auckland-to-enter-ALM-next-year-ALW-to-follow-in-2025-Comments

Exhibit A :)

Lulz. A 4 negative replies, a couple of positives and two on a completely pointless tangent about promotion and relegation. Not much of a sample size! 
Well, you can ignore Muz right away because he hates Kiwis and that's all there is to it. But the P&R thing has more substance to it, and a more sophisticated version of the argument is given by Nick Galatas, the chair of AAFC:


Galatas and the "NSL bitters" who populate the Inside Sport forums have a dream of a fully-connected pyramid of Australia football with P&R at all levels. They point out, correctly, that that can't happen with the A-League precisely because the huge licence fees mean that the Bill Foleys of the world are not going to risk their investments being relegated. Galatas is confused because the NSD is precisely what people like him have been fighting for for years, but expanding the A-League with new franchises (rather than promoting from top NSD teams) is absolutely the opposite. So he has a point that FA and APL are at cross purposes here.