Australia's A-League to bring in it's own League Cup

Maj · November 14, 2011

Next season I believe the A-League will be bringing in it's very own League Cup, with teams from all over Australia getting a chance to play against the A-League sides. I am not sure if New Zealand sides will be added as well but anyway, I am looking forward to this.

My Glenorchy Knights will have a chance to play against some top sides, and football will return to Tasmania.

EvertonBoy8 · November 15, 2011

Speaking of Tasmanians I don't think they allow mutants to play football.

Maj · November 15, 2011

EvertonBoy8 said:
Speaking of Tasmanians I don't think they allow mutants to play football.

I was surprised to, but the Clarence District Football are allowed to play.

McBain · November 15, 2011

EvertonBoy8 said:
Speaking of Tasmanians I don't think they allow mutants to play football.

Flynn was never a mutant. SuperFreak yes, Mutant, no.

EFCNIK · November 15, 2011

Do they have football in Tasmania Taz? In fact what's Tasmania like in general? I always imagine it as a massive jungle with tribes and stuff.

Maj · November 15, 2011

EFCNIK said:
Do they have football in Tasmania Taz? In fact what's Tasmania like in general? I always imagine it as a massive jungle with tribes and stuff.

We do, we have two leagues

Southern Tasmanian Premier League
Northern Tasmanian Premier League

The Southern League has relegation, I have seen some of the quality of the Southern Tas Premier League seems to be decent, the crowds not so. Hobart United was saved after their relegation from the Premier League by Sudanese refugees playing.

Taroonas Jeremy Walker became Tasmania's first Youth League recruit, when he signed with the Melbourne Heart back in September. He was on the Fox8 Show Football Superstar.

There is a intrastate competition here between the South and North to crown the State Champions.

EFCNIK · November 15, 2011

Maj said:
We do, we have two leagues

Southern Tasmanian Premier League
Northern Tasmanian Premier League

The Southern League has relegation, I have seen some of the quality of the Southern Tas Premier League seems to be decent, the crowds not so. Hobart United was saved after their relegation from the Premier League by Sudanese refugees playing.

Taroonas Jeremy Walker became Tasmania's first Youth League recruit, when he signed with the Melbourne Heart back in September. He was on the Fox8 Show Football Superstar.

There is a intrastate competition here between the South and North to crown the State Champions.

Does this all go on in the setting of a huge jungle with a massive volcano and instead of different kits they use different war paint to distinguish teams?

MoJo · November 15, 2011

This is going to kill the A-League I'm afraid

icburns · November 15, 2011

EvertonBoy8 said:
Speaking of Tasmanians I don't think they allow mutants to play football.

EvertonBoy5???

DualityNSNO · November 15, 2011

Avaseer · November 15, 2011

EFCNIK said:
Does this all go on in the setting of a huge jungle with a massive volcano and instead of different kits they use different war paint to distinguish teams?

Tasmania=/= Tanzania

Saliba · November 15, 2011

It won't kill the A-League, the biggest problem with Australian football at the moment is that there are players playing in the state leagues who because they did not attend a sports school or cannot afford to participate in representative youth teams, often get overlooked by scouts. In fact, the scouting system in place is an absolute joke. The ffa cup will bring much needed exposure to the plethora of unseen talent playing in semi-pro teams.

MoJo · November 15, 2011

Saliba said:
It won't kill the A-League, the biggest problem with Australian football at the moment is that there are players playing in the state leagues who because they did not attend a sports school or cannot afford to participate in representative youth teams, often get overlooked by scouts. In fact, the scouting system in place is an absolute joke. The ffa cup will bring much needed exposure to the plethora of unseen talent playing in semi-pro teams.

What about all the players who can't even play state league because of the rubbish prices the clubs charge? The entire system needs an overhaul, mate. And there isn't a plethora of unseen talent either.

EvertonBoy8 · November 15, 2011

MoJo said:
What about all the players who can't even play state league because of the rubbish prices the clubs charge? The entire system needs an overhaul, mate. And there isn't a plethora of unseen talent either.

$400 to play a season for a local 3rd division season, includes kit, but have to pay $5 for each game what do you guys get charged?

MoJo · November 15, 2011

EvertonBoy8 said:
$400 to play a season for a local 3rd division season, includes kit, but have to pay $5 for each game what do you guys get charged?

I don't play, mate (I'd rather drink beer and eat Pies) but the prices here in Sydney can be quite extortionate at times. The amount of talented players who were probably lost to the game because they couldn't afford the fees, their parents' weren't a club member or they weren't ethnic (or the wrong ethnicity) would be staggering.