Aussie Sports Thread - NRL, AFL or A League

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Kisnorbo quits after only six months at the Victory for an overseas opportunity. Hope it goes better than his last one. Not really a good look to be honest. I know they might not come that often but that’s not a good look. Haven’t seen where it is but you’d think to do that he’d have to be moving to a decent league.

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Kisnorbo quits after only six months at the Victory for an overseas opportunity. Hope it goes better than his last one. Not really a good look to be honest. I know they might not come that often but that’s not a good look. Haven’t seen where it is but you’d think to do that he’d have to be moving to a decent league.

What about Peps job in Austria?

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Anyone see the Big Bash last night? Sydney Thunder needed 35 I think it was from the last 2 overs with I think 6 wickets down. Daniel Sams hit 31 off the 2nd last over to make the last over a formality.

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Saw highlights of the heat win. Didn’t see all of it but they said they were missing a lot of their top players. A few injured and some with the test team. Good signs for another good season hopefully.

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Saw highlights of the heat win. Didn’t see all of it but they said they were missing a lot of their top players. A few injured and some with the test team. Good signs for another good season hopefully.

Yeah they played well . Bartlett is in great form with the ball

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Just watched the worst game of football in my life I reckon. If there was a worse one I’ve forgotten about it. Roar at home vs Perth with zero clue how to beat the bottom side who haven’t won in 18 matches. The poor *******s that paid to go & sit through that deserve a refund.

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Unbelievable result. Just fold the club or get rid of the owners. They have absolutely destroyed the club. I hope when the next expansion team comes along it’s a second Brisbane team. They deserve a properly run club. The league needs to do something with the roar being the only Queensland team. Ruining football in the state.

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Expansion is what’s ruined the league in the first place. There’s not enough local talent & not enough money to recruit decent OS players for a league of this size.

I watched the Melbourne Derby last night & that was a decent game to watch. High energy football with a bit of class occasionally made for good entertainment.

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I agree they’ve got the new clubs wrong and put them in some bad spots and rushed others in. I don’t know what the right approach would have been because you do want it to grow but it’s not worked the way they’ve done it. It was going along nicely but they’ve made plenty of bad decisions that have stopped the progress it was making. Issues with fans groups seems a weird one as well.

My thing was more a hope they start again in Brisbane or do something to get rid of the owners rather than supporting new clubs. I’m so frustrated at what has happened. I loved going to watch them with my dad, regular crowds of 10,000-15,000 with a good atmosphere and the Den did a great job. They stepped in at Newcastle and got rid of other clubs so I’m just hoping they do something as the roar is on its own in Queensland and should be stacked with the best Queensland talent and able to compete even without the same benefits teams in other states have.

Look at what CCM have been able to achieve without being anywhere near as big as other clubs. That’s a model Brisbane should be following. Great production line and making money selling them off overseas.

I can’t believe O’Shea is still there but maybe that’s the Queensland lifestyle, same way Broich stuck around.

I watched the first half of the Auckland WU game. Auckland’s bubble was burst big time.

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The one thing they wanted to do when they started the A League was unite fans in a city/ town instead of Clubs going down the ethnic backgrounds like Marconi being Italian , Melbourne Knights being Croatian Olympic being Greek etc if that makes sense. I remember going to matches in the old NSL days & not being welcomed at grounds like Sydney United due to me not being Croatian. I was there as a neutral but not made to feel welcome. The 1 team per town was supposed to do away with that but they folded & went there again anyway.

Yeah from 3 teams in QLD to just one & for them to be the laughing stock of the league is a joke. Sack the owners is one way of kickstarting it I suppose but certainly no more clubs. I get the 2nd team in NZ reasoning seeing as they are two islands but to me having the one team but playing matches possibly at both islands could have been better for their numbers.

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Just watched the highlights of the heat strikers game. Great finish. Harsh for McSweeney to be dropped from the test side already but bounced back well for the heat.

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Just watched the highlights of the heat strikers game. Great finish. Harsh for McSweeney to be dropped from the test side already but bounced back well for the heat.

Yeah that was a brilliant match to watch. Nice to see Renshaw on fire too. 54 off 27 swung the match early on.

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Kisnorbo going to Yokohama F. Marinos as an assistant. So he’s gone to another one of the City groups clubs. Weird to leave for an assistant job unless he’s getting the main job soon.

Ross Aloisi did the same last year after a good start with the Roar, going off to join Muscat in China as an assistant. Not good they are leaving for those jobs when they’re the main men in the A League.

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Kisnorbo going to Yokohama F. Marinos as an assistant. So he’s gone to another one of the City groups clubs. Weird to leave for an assistant job unless he’s getting the main job soon.

Ross Aloisi did the same last year after a good start with the Roar, going off to join Muscat in China as an assistant. Not good they are leaving for those jobs when they’re the main men in the A League.

True that unless they learn from someone amazing & return with new skills but 5hat won’t happen hey.

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Boxing Day test cricket & the start of the Sydney to Hobart yacht race are the usual choices on BD at my place after the customary Ham & eggs on the BBQ for breakfast. Oh & numerous swims in the pool.