AFL & NRL Asked to take mid season break during World Cup

[Charmamba]

Football great and FIFA delegate Franz Beckenbauer has described Australia's 2018-2022 World Cup bid as "perfect" and rated the possibility of Australia hosting the tournament as "very, very realistic".

On a day when the Canterbury Bulldogs called for NRL clubs to accommodate national teams at their training grounds, Beckenbauer gave Australia his all-powerful blessing.

http://www.foxsports.com.au/story/0,865 ... 88,00.html

But Bulldogs CEO Todd Greenberg on Friday said rugby league should be also looking at ways to generate money from the tournament itself - perhaps hosting World Cup nations at their training grounds while the competition is suspended.

"While we can't afford to shut ourselves down for two or three months, we also need to look at opportunities that will arise from having one of the world's biggest events in Australia," he said.

 

[Charmamba]

There is also the issue of the FIFA Confederations Cup, played one year before the World Cup finals in the same country - at the same venues - over six weeks.

So its not just the year of the cup, its the year before as well for 6weeks?

One FFA proposal has the NRL stopped for nine weeks, another suggests the NRL continue but have seven clubs - North Queensland Cowboys, Brisbane Broncos, Newcastle, Canberra, Sydney Roosters, Canterbury-Bankstown and Souths - displaced from their home grounds.

http://www.foxsports.com.au/story/0,865 ... 88,00.html

 

[Nashy]

I have no concern with the NRL. I'm sure they can play.

But the AFL is a problem. Sure, I hate the sport, but they shouldn't be forced out of both the MCG and Etihad.

Especially when there is a new stadium being built down their for rectangle games.

 

[gUt]

If only there was a way to hinder the AFL but not the NRL at the same time.

 

[Major JW Hochstetter]

http://www.smh.com.au/sport/football/ot ... -kpik.html

Other Codes Need To Get Real
Craig Foster
December 13, 2009

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In Australia, the world game is a rising tide that will ultimately engulf all before it, and the World Cup is a quadrennial turbine that drives tremendous energy and passion for football on a regular cycle. To use the terminology of the times, it's a ''clean'' energy consistent with our 21st-century considerations, largely free of the massive cultural and behavioural baggage of other sports. It's the perfect game at the perfect time for a country seeking to present a fresh, dynamic face to the world.

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But with football now leading the country in participant numbers - now officially the national sport - and the passion shown by Australians in 2006 - which is bound to be magnified next year - it seems the ground has shifted around the handball codes, yet they are the last to grasp the new reality.

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We are growing up, moving beyond the ''wog ball and divers'' navel-gazing paradigm into a world where the game is respected and understood for what it is: a mix of extraordinary skill and passion; a whole-of-life game that can be enjoyed for many years; the game played by everyone, everywhere.

Maturity means that now Australians can distinguish between the inherent beauty of the game and the disgraceful way some nations wish to interpret its rules, because through football the world's cultures are reflected: though this may surprise many in codes with no requirement for a passport, not everyone plays like us, and nor should they.

Those ''wogs'' who brought the game to these shores and nurtured it through decades of oppression by media organisations infused with the ''biff and barge'' mentality are now seeing their children truly become a part of the rich fabric of Australian life. This life will increasingly be centred on playing football and supporting the Socceroos.

[icon_lol1. [icon_drun

Yet another gem from Foster. Back to the nut house.

 

[Coxy]

To use the terminology of the times, it's a ''clean'' energy consistent with our 21st-century considerations, largely free of the massive cultural and behavioural baggage of other sports. It's the perfect game at the perfect time for a country seeking to present a fresh, dynamic face to the world.

LOLZ!!!! Maybe in this country we haven't had too many incidents with soccer players and their fans (though the old NSL days had a few riots in Sydney) but seriously! This sport is renowned for its over the top antics of its players and supporters...even down to having a national goalkeeper SHOT DEAD after returning from a tournament where they let in an own goal.

Seriously, Foster and Farina are **** tards.

 

[pennywisealfie]

To use the terminology of the times, it's a ''clean'' energy consistent with our 21st-century considerations, largely free of the massive cultural and behavioural baggage of other sports. It's the perfect game at the perfect time for a country seeking to present a fresh, dynamic face to the world.

LOLZ!!!! Maybe in this country we haven't had too many incidents with soccer players and their fans (though the old NSL days had a few riots in Sydney) but seriously! This sport is renowned for its over the top antics of its players and supporters...even down to having a national goalkeeper SHOT DEAD after returning from a tournament where they let in an own goal.

Seriously, Foster and Farina are **** tards.

It was actually a defender, Andreas Escobar. But you can blame that more on Colombias willingness to kill, than Football.

I'm a big Craig Foster fan, hes usually dead on the money, but that was a poor article.

 

[Coxy]

I think what a lot of these soccer fans that are bagging the other codes are forgetting is that sure, Australia has every right to host the world cup. But those sports shouldn't hugely disadvantage themselves to help it happen. They can't sit by and let the competition fall to pieces for 8 weeks just to let them have their world cup.

Has to be compromise, compensation and consideration go both ways.

 

[Black Philip]

Yeah basically at the moment the big names of Australian soccer who have spoken out (Farina and Foster...lolz) have just said "We're more important than you, get over yourselves" whereas the NRL and AFL are genuinely trying to reach a compromise as they are concerned about how the break they will have to take will impact on their games. That said, both Farina and Foster are full of it so everything they say should be taken with a grain of salt. Penny I can't believe you're a Craig Foster fan, I could get more footballing knowledge out of a lamp ffs.

 

[pennywisealfie]

Foster at least understands how football should be played.

 

[Fozz]

Yes, I do.

 

[Black Philip]

Basically anyone who says they're a fan of the South American style of play can wear that badge penny.

 

[Scumbag]

Basically anyone who says they're a fan of the South American style of play can wear that badge penny.

Do you rate Les Scotty?

Personally, I think that sometimes Foster is at least somewhat correct with what he says. but it must be hard for Les to sit there, telecast in-telecast out and listen to Foster first hand. Bit too much Fozzie in that scenario.

I like when Les puts on his serious face. It's worth it, even for the lolz.

 

[Nashy]

FIFA demands the right to overturn Australian liquor laws under a push by global soccer chiefs to seize control of our cities if we host the World Cup.

The move to override existing local liquor laws - at a time when cities are fighting alcohol-fuelled violence - is contained in the contract cities trying to woo the world's biggest sporting carnival in 2018 or 2022 must sign, Sydney's The Daily Telegraph reports.

It includes demands that participating cities, which will probably include Brisbane, close any road organisers wanted, cut promotion of other major sporting events, remove rival advertising from city streets and ban other cultural events, like concerts

Really punching above their weight on this one.

 

[ningnangnong]

Basically anyone who says they're a fan of the South American style of play can wear that badge penny.

Do you rate Les Scotty?

Personally, I think that sometimes Foster is at least somewhat correct with what he says. but it must be hard for Les to sit there, telecast in-telecast out and listen to Foster first hand. Bit too much Fozzie in that scenario.

I like when Les puts on his serious face. It's worth it, even for the lolz.

Les is an absolute legend. Loved it when he ripped into Terry Butcher a few years back. What a champion fella.

Craig Foster on the other hand...

 

[Black Philip]

Basically anyone who says they're a fan of the South American style of play can wear that badge penny.

Do you rate Les Scotty?

Personally, I think that sometimes Foster is at least somewhat correct with what he says. but it must be hard for Les to sit there, telecast in-telecast out and listen to Foster first hand. Bit too much Fozzie in that scenario.

I like when Les puts on his serious face. It's worth it, even for the lolz.

Les is an absolute legend. Loved it when he ripped into Terry Butcher a few years back. What a champion fella.

Craig Foster on the other hand...

Yeah I like Les too, seems like a nice chap. Unbaised and intelligent.

 

[pennywisealfie]

every aussie football fan loves Les. How can you not?

Can u imagine what it was like for football fans before SBS came along? I shudder to think.

 

[Scumbag]

Continuing the Les love fest, only a man with Les' awesomeness, epicness and class could pull this off.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIKqPo9XjSE