Friday shorts

A-League cracker coming up.
Rob Baan on Aussies stretching.
Youth League linked to A-League..and what about the players in Canberra?
FFA to draw the dollars from major companies...


A-League Cracker coming up.

Adelaie will beat the Roar, but it should be great entertainment. Perth should beat the Phoenix for their first win, but the cracker of the round is Newcastle v Sydney.

Newcastle fans always get behind their side, and with old foes Sydney in town, this one should be a humdinger.

Mind you the Aloisi home debut for the Mariners against Victory won't be far behind.
I'm very interested to see how the Victory respond to a home loss, Steve Pantalidis out, Archie injured (?) Ljubo debacle running on, and Ernie telling the world his team is playing well, when everyone but everyone knows they are not a patch on last year's team.

Rob Baan on Aussies stretching!
Baan told FourFourTwo one thing that won't be happening in the new league if Baan has anything to say about it is stretching.

He added: "When I arrived in Australia all I saw was players stretching, for 10 minutes before and 10 minutes after the game. There's too much stretching!

"I'd rather players be warming up with a ball at their feet. I worked out that if you cut out the 10 minutes of stretching, you would gain over 200 hours of ballwork over the year."

Youth League...what about the Canberra players?

So are the FFA going to leave the Canberra lads out, and the ACT Women in the National League for that matter!

If the Youth side has to be linked to the A-League or an A-League club, where does that leave the Youth and Women of Canberra?

Heading up the road to play for The Central Coast. What a joke!

Canberra should have it's own Youth team and Women's team.

Clubs like Belconnen, Woden Valley, Tuggeranong and Canberra FC are improving their structures all the time, and have stacks of quality players.

How many players would get into the Mariners side? One or two.

The FFA can't afford to leave this town, our players development out can they?

FFA to draw dollars from major companies

Finally football in Australia start to cash in on all their players, their connections across this great country. They are out there talking to major sponsors about the kids, boys and girsl and womens game.

And it should overtime bring in a truck load of money.

And the game needs it. Good to see football finally using their pulling power.