sydneyfc wrote:leagueiscrap wrote:sydneyfc wrote:cos789 wrote:Good to see a soccer fan on the forum.
Hopefully you can lift the tone a bit.
cheers mate ill do my best
soccer is every one's favorite sport when Australia are playing, but the A league not so much
now so with the world cup on it is.
perhaps you sydneyfc can inform the bumsniffers what a proper world cup actually is?
for the last world cup over half of the players playing in it where based in Australia not including the ones based in the Australian camp
the rules for a player to play in a represtitive country, a player could set up a postal box or go on a holiday there, then qualifies to play for that country
out of the last 11 world cups Australia has won the last 10 of them with New zealand winning the other one, Australia won the last one & still with over half of the players in the world cup being Australlian
go the world game of league

couldn't agree more, i made a post about it on another forum subsection on here. i find it utterly cringeworthy that they actually think they're world champions of a sport that is only played on the eastern coast of Australia, tiny parts of NZ, some islands in the pacific with populations varying from 20,000-100,000, 1 city in france and in backwater northern cities in the UK.
But whatever floats their boat i guess
I dont like AFL - ive tried to watch games in the past and it just isn't my thing, but i can respect what it stands for and rather than embrace a national sport like AFL that is genuinely australian and something we can all be proud of in terms of the way it leads the sporting landscape here from revenue, interest and attendances, they try to counter it by saying that they play some sort of awesome world renowned sport played all over the world.
I went to school with some of the players that played for Tonga and Samoa...says it all really, i mean its cool that they want to represent their country of their origin and all, but they were all born in australia and have some of the strongest australian accents going - good guys too, but it's funny if they restricted players to playing for their country of birth you'd have a rugby league world cup with about 3 teams

For those uninitiated SFC - RL has some really loose qualification rules
To be eligible to represent a country is as follows:-
*Born in country
*have one or more parent or grand parents born in a country
*live in country for at least 3 months
*have lived in country within the last 12 months for at least 6mths
As you can see these rules are so wide that a having a holiday in a country will qualify you to represent a country - but even funnier you are not restricted in how many countries you represent - very often a player will play for Australia in their prime then play for another country in their twilight years - it's laughable. But wait there's more!
SOO is built up as state against state representative competition - however you don't have to be born here to be picked (obviously there's no where else that plays it the level of Australia so they don't necessarily have to look for players from outside Australia - yet it is a fact you can be born overseas and be a junior OS and still be selected! Furthermore you can be born in one state yet still have the option of choosing the state you want to play for! Greg Inglis, Israel Folau are just two such examples - but say your not born in either NSW or QLD - don't despair you can still play for NSW or QLD they only have two states so it's clearly not State of Origin - just another Tina Turnner gimmick!
So as you can see SFC - RL is very much a game of half truths - we're National yet we only have 1 team in Australia outside NSW and QLD (The Queanbeyan Snot Greens are in NSW! - there is ONLY 1 player in the whole NRL from Australia outside NSW/QLD) Their SOO series is NOTHING but a gimmick, their international competition is nothing but an un-mitigating farce! THEN there's touch RL - they claim 500,000 participants nationally yet in reality is lucky to be 125.000 - you see there is so much double counting that is hard to clearly work it out - they count e-mails (whether there active or not) junior and senior players, representative players(presumable the same junior and senior players) event organisers, school programs, School comp participants, accreditation course participants and lastly event participants. It's is another lie - so as you can see SFC AFL and Soccer have nothing to fear from RL even if they say we do.
By the way I feel the same about soccer as you feel about AF - I just find it too boring but hey that's personal taste - my son however loves it and plays indoor every week - I don't hate RL as a sport have even played it - but I have no time for its fans - they are a pack of arrogant paranoid hypocrites - they full of spite and jealousy!
Welcome aboard!