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FFA Coaching Conference: NPL clubs should pay all coaches U12 - NPL but not players. Which club will lead?

NOV 11, 2013

FFA Coaching Conference: NPL clubs should pay all coaches U12 - NPL but not players. Which club will lead?

The recent Coaching Conference in Canberra asked local National Premier League Clubs to refrain from paying players - and pay your coaches instead.<br /> <br /> Coaches are undertaking expensive courses and give many hours of their time so kids and adults can play in the NPL.<br /> <br /> But how many Coaches are being paid, at your Canberra club?<br /> <br /> Already clubs around town are trying to poach players by offering payments or higher payments than their current club. Some have offered to double what a player is getting at his current club.<br /> <br /> So where does the money come from for these NPL players? Gate money? Stop laughing!<br /> <br /> Well if players were paid based on the crowd they pulled in no-one in Canberra would be paid.<br /> <br /> An increasing source of revenue for the NPL clubs is their juniors. Different clubs charge different fees for U12 - U18. I wonder why?<br /> <br /> No doubt some is siphoned off to pay their leading male players.<br /> <br /> You wonder what amount of money is wasted on player wages across the men's premier league season.<br /> <br /> And it is wasted as no sooner does a player bunker down at one club, he heads to a rival club for presumably more money. <br /> <br /> Mike Charlesworth, owner of the Central Coast Mariners, has called for junior playing fees to be reduced. Canberra National Premier League Clubs by stopping player payments could show they were really interested in promoting and developing their club.<br /> <br /> Imagine if any of our 8 Premier League clubs came out and said we'll pay all coaches but not our players.<br /> <br /> What an interesting culture you could develop. And how you could take pressure off these NPL clubs in a financial sense. <br /> <br /> Should anyone really be paying players to play in Canberra to play football?<br /> <br /> Only Canberra United players should be paid and they regularly train 5 times a week and attract close to 1,000 people per game. Can any men's Premier League club match that?<br /> <br /> What is the benefit to any club of paying players in Canberra? And which club(s) has a focus on coach and player development rather than win, by paying players, at all costs?

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Nearpost Radio celebrates hosts rise, not once, but thrice!

SEP 14, 2013

Nearpost Radio celebrates hosts rise, not once, but thrice!

When Simon Hill, from Fox Sports, launched the Nearpost Radio at 2XX most Canberrans knew that the Canberra community needed a football show. For many reasons.<br /> <br /> But it has been great to see a new breed of wannabee football journos taking their first steps on the Nearpost and going onto bigger and better things.<br /> <br /> I gained employment albeit briefly at the Canberra Times, covering the Socceroos Asian Cup adventure in Thailand in 2007.<br /> <br /> Russ Gibbs used the airwaves to great advantage and to give him a foot in the door to his first love, football. Soon after hosting the Nearpost and calling Canberra United games Russ was appointed Capital Football media officer. He's also has had stints on SBS covering the Futsal Nationals.<br /> <br /> And now <a href="http://theworldgame.sbs.com.au/news/1166409/Lucy-Zelic-joins-SBS-s-A-League-coveragehttp://">Lucy Zelic</a>, who having entertained us with her knowledge, insights and laughter at the Nearpost, has scored a wonderful opportunity as part of the new SBS football team. With SBS showing A-League games live every Friday for the first time this season what a fantastic time for Lucy to join the team. Good luck Lucy.

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Brazil gave Australia a gift - so lets use it. It's all about the future, Asia Cup 2015 and beyond.

SEP 8, 2013

Brazil gave Australia a gift - so lets use it. It's all about the future, Asia Cup 2015 and beyond.

Australian football fans have long known our 2006 generation have been on the wane since, well, Italy defeated us 1-0 in the 2006 World Cup.<br /> <br />  But somehow they managed to get us through to the 2010 World Cup under Pim Verbeek and we got found out with an absolute pasting against Germany.<br /> <br /> Then our new coach Holger provided us some hope with a much improved and more mobile 2011 Asian Cup, only to see us lose narrowly to Japan.<br /> <br /> And again our remaining players from 2006 managed somehow with a little help from a few of the younger brigade to get us to Brazil 2014.<br /> <br /> Three World Cups in a row, and this last one is a gift.<br /> <br /> So lets use it.<br /> <br /> Football in Australia will continue to grow, particularly when we get to a World Cup. No matter how poor our team.<br /> <br /> So wise men and women would say that we've got to the 2014 so let's use it to ensure we get to the next one, with a younger team, in better shape.<br /> <br /> We should salute the Coach, both Pim and Holger, and of course the Aussie players who got us to three World Cups. Brilliant. Thanks, it's added so much to our history, our profile at home and abroad and of course our bottom line. <br /> <br /> We all know our defence is old and porous against the best teams, our current midfield needs work and our forward line is interesting but not of Champions League quality yet.<br /> <br /> So Brazil beat us 6-0. Hands up who was surprised?<br /> <br /> No-one because we know our players are not of a Champions League or Brazilian standard.<br /> <br /> Certainly not in the numbers we require them to be.  Not yet.<br /> <br /> So let's not kid ourselves anymore.<br /> <br /> We stumbled through the last World Cup Finals, lets do it this time with the future of Australian football on display.<br /> <br /> Sell the message we are rebuilding and and lets do it.<br /> <br /> Big Sas must go, Marco Bresciano also.  Mile Jedinak is simply not good enough to take us forward - central defender maybe but he's not a modern midfielder. His touch!And it won't improve scrapping around at the bottom of the EPL will it.<br /> <br /> Mark Schwarzer's decision to play less is a sign of his age. Would he have been prepared to do this ten years ago? Time to move him on.<br /> <br /> Out with Archie Thompson as well. <br /> <br /> The focus has to be on the Asian Cup, on home soil, and the World Cup 2018 qualifiers after that.<br /> <br /> There can be no room for sentiment. Tim Cahill at 34 is too old and too slow to really give us hope for the future. Lucas Neill shouldn't be allowed to continue should he? <br /> <br /> Should any player over 30 be on the plane to Rio? Really?<br /> <br /> Last night proved that even the remaining old brigade can't save our face at next years World Cup, so why not embrace our opportunities and build for 2015 Asian Cup and beyond.<br /> <br />  Let's get on with and enjoy the World Cup and set our stall out accordingly.<br /> <br />  If Holger won't do it - move him on. No ifs, no buts. Lets not waste anymore games.<br /> <br /> We have a wonderful opportunity to mould and develop our team, from now to the World Cup.<br /> <br /> I'd rather take a few pastings at the World Cup with a younger side then a few pastings with the current squad.<br /> <br /> <br /> We've been handed a gift with this squad enabling us to get to Brazil.<br /> <br /> Let's use it!

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Australia football must regenerate on Wednesday. Asian Cup not the World Cup should be our focus

JUN 13, 2013

Australia football must regenerate on Wednesday. Asian Cup not the World Cup should be our focus

If Australia beat Iraq we qualify directly for Brazil 2014, but win or lose Wednesday is time to rebuild.<br /> <br /> Should Australia fail to win they may go to the third qualifying play-off route - but lets leave that aside for now.<br /> <br /> Sasaa Ognenovski, Lucas Neill, Timmy Cahill, Luke Wilkshire, Mark Bresciano, Mark Schwarzer, Archie Thompson, and Harry Kewell - he'll want back in - are all ageing...fast, very fast.<br /> <br /> Gus Hiddink reduced the super fit Brett Emerton to wipeout in his pre-World Cup training sessions in 2006, and Hiddink knew and taught us, the World Cup is a young man's game, especially for teams outside the top four.<br /> <br />  You need to be super fit to compete.<br /> <br /> Australia were simply over run against Germany in 2010 and a number of those same players are telling us they can't wait to get to Brazil.<br /> <br /> Let's get serious.<br /> <br /> We're never going to win in Brazil, to get out of the group would be beyond our dreams with our current team, but we can get to the Asian Cup Final 2015 on home soil just six months after Brazil.<br /> <br /> Australia needs to use the East Asia Cup in July, the pre-World Cup friendlies and the 2014 World Cup to prepare for the Asian Cup 2015.<br /> <br /> Let's regenerate on Wednesday even if we don't achieve our goal.<br /> <br /> Holman, Oar, Kruse, Milligan, Rogic have all shown they can play the type of game Australia needs, desires over the next four years so why not grab the chance to rebuild...NOW!<br /> <br /> Could any of the older players mentioned above take two daily Hiddink style sessions prior to the World Cup, and if they can't do we really need or want such experience.<br /> <br /> Ireland in USA 1990 played a very old John Aldridge and Tony Cascarino up front both 35+ from memory and it was dire. Embarassing..and yet I know we beat Italy but we scored in the 12th minute of the very first game and that was the end of our attacks..for the tournament!<br /> <br /> Australia now has an opportunity to qualify, and let's ditch the sentiment and thank the old guard and move them on. Maybe give them a send off! We should do it right.<br /> <br /> The World Cup is not the guys chance to get a personal farewell...it's still 12 months away and it's time to say farewell to most if not all!<br /> <br /> And because you are outraged, you can keep two of the old guard and that's your lot..you decide but let's get Australia going forward finally!

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Hey Sydneysiders: Who do you sing for? Let me help.

MAR 20, 2013

Hey Sydneysiders: Who do you sing for? Let me help.

All Sydneysiders should have their team by now.<br /> <br /> But of course you wouldn't be Sydneysiders if you all did.<br /> <br /> Are you Red or Blue? Now that wasn't hard was it?<br /> <br />  Do you like bumblebees of the red and black kind or bluebottles; these one's don't sting...at least not often.<br /> <br /> If you're from Sydney and you have played football, watched football, enjoyed football or simply love sport.<br /> <br /> Or if you are just from Sydney. It's time.<br /> <br /> Who do you sing for?...and you can't change...ever!<br /> <br /> Western Sydney Wanderers or Sydney FC.<br /> <br /> And to help you here's a few reasons: <b> </b><br /> <br /> <b>For Western Sydney Wanderers: </b><br /> <br /> You're from the West.<br /> You support the strugglers.<br /> You support all things new.<br /> You love a winner - so you jump ship from Manly, Sydney FC or the Eels early and based on latest reports Sydney Swans won't win this year as we all take turns in AFL apparently.<br /> <br /> You love Shinji Ono.<br /> You want to get on the bandwagon and become a supporter of the first Aussie team to win a league in their first season.<br /> You admire Poppa and his style of play - (even if he nearly elbowed Australia out of that World Cup qualifier against Uruquay in 2005...shhh).<br /> You like to sing at football.<br /> <br /> You enjoy a good bit of theatre on the sidelines.<br /> You never went to watch Dwight Yorke <b> </b><br /> <br /> <b>For Sydney FC</b><br /> <br /> I earn so much money.<br /> I have been with them since Dwight scored so just have to stay.<br /> I like mental torture.<br /> Now Butcher has gone it's actually okay.<br /> We haven't lost at home for like....ages.<br /> Alessandro Del Piero is here.<br /> <br /> It's so near the City.<br /> It's so near the beach.<br /> It's so near the Cricket.<br /> <br /> We can do something else instead so that can be my team. I bought a shirt already...I've got it somewhere...I think.

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