I'm sad we haven't had one good season for many years, and the crowd figures show it. Having one good season, making playoffs comfortably etc would boost the attendances hugely, and has flow on effects the next year.
It just hasn't happened for us for a whole season unfortunately for a long time. One awesome half season! Can't blame the owners, or a particular manager I don't think, just sport sometimes works that way.
Sport is frustrating.
It's frustrating how the FFA don't seem to see our side of the story... They don't seem to recognise what we have done for Australian players. Nathan Burns being a classic example and it helped their national team. Even Rojas/Barba, ended up exciting players for their league and would they have if we didn't exist? Who knows what their path may have been otherwise. Heck, we even took Pavlovic off their hands for a while, I would've thought that would equal a 20 year license straight off the bat.