11th and 12th A-League Teams

[Jorome Alexander Bennett]

Someone who works in trademarks has posted on the Sydney fourm that the FFA has trademarked the following names:

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A-League All Stars

Does anyone else feel slightly ill at the thought of A-league All-Stars?

I'm sure there are people who nearly jizz their pants over the idea of a squad containing Fyfe, Rech and Eagleton, but the whole concept is far too hokey for my liking.

None of those players would make an a-league all stars team. Is just a showpiece state of origin style game. Though I am not sure if they are thinking 2 a-league teams, or the a-league team to play a foreign team eg NZ.

Whatever they decide it will no doubt be first played in sydney. But if it was a 3 game SoO style thing would guess syd/melb/bris. But think it would be a one off

Showpieces are what we should avoid as a code. We have real competitions for genuine trophies that matter. The A-league clubs are cardboard cutout teams that Lowy begged us to support. They in no way represent us. The premise is weak. A few bad games and the people turn away. Well run club that has had a good share of success and people still turn away if the football isn't champaigne. Let's not further highlight the appropriated nature of our domestic league by devaluing it with state representative blockbusters or a-league versus MLS.

The A-league can't offer sexy football. So the clubs must be representative of their communities.

Hokey one-offs would be more entertaining to 'Sport-loving Stevo'. Why would he bother with anything less. He would watch A-league v. MLS and the finals series.

 

[NewyForever]

It's a stupid idea and would never work

Look at the other codes - rugby league and afl have 26 and 22 rounds respectively plus finals series

This is what the aussie sport public want to see, not some latin american garbage.

RL has 24 rounds, and nice work on the complete lack of an argument. since when do you speak for 'the aussie sport public'?

nice work on 'latin american crap' too - scotland's not part of latin america but ignorance usually goes with xenophobia so i shouldn't blame you for missing that.

Leauge and GayFL are the 2 biggest sports in Australia (crowd wise).  They don't cut their seasons in half because it would halt their momentum.

If the A-League had to seperate seasons there is no way it could compete with RL and GayFL anyway, though it would probably kill of union which would be a good thing.

I'm not a xenophobe, probably ignorant though.  I'm just saying that its worked in the latin american countries for years because they've built a tradition.  I always thought Scotland was similar to the EPL but they played each other 3 or 4 times instead.  Further reading on wiki has showed me how complicated their system is over there.