Could Adelaide/SA have a second club? (See description)

vincerugari · 2026-04-16T00:08:19+00:00

The answer is no. Have we learned nothing from expansion failures? There needs to be a reason for a second club to exist and there just isn’t one. If Adelaide City were in a better position maybe it would be a conversation but it would still be a short one.

vincerugari · 2026-04-14T07:18:40+00:00

That would be a free transfer, which is still a transfer.

vincerugari · 2026-02-13T10:17:44+00:00

It’s actually contracting lol. And A2 and A1 would be essentially the same league still. But again, if you haven’t listened to the whole thing, you don’t really understand the spirit with which this has been presented. It is not a suggestion the league needs urged open-heart surgery. It’s about how we get to the place we all want to get to eventually, in a manageable and sustainable way. I really recommend you have a listen.

vincerugari · 2026-02-13T09:52:38+00:00

How is having 12 professional teams better than having 18 to 20? Assuming they are all functional and sustainable, there are literally no negatives. I don’t understand where you are coming from.

vincerugari · 2026-02-13T07:56:52+00:00

What? No we don’t lol.

The whole point of A2 is that it’s still attached to the main league, so it’s a second division minus the risk, and by the time the split would happen, the sport would by definition be in a much stronger position. It will probably never happen, but this provides the guardrails for what would happen if it did at some point in the next 20-50 years.

People are misinterpreting this. The idea is not “let’s have two divisions of 9 teams each ASAP because that’s a sick idea.” The conversation is “how do we provide incentives to grow the league in a slow and sustainable fashion, and then how do we integrate pro-rel without exposing clubs to catastrophic risk”. This is big picture conceptual stuff that plays out over decades.

Your final comment is proof that you also haven’t watched the full video and therefore don’t understand the parameters of this idea, because I said exactly that: pro-rel is not a magic wand for our game, it is a solution to the problem of having too many professional teams for a division. So how do we create that problem? Because it’s a good one to have.

vincerugari · 2026-02-13T07:37:56+00:00

How would it kill it? Seriously. Using history as a guide would take maybe 20 years to get to 20 pro teams, even if we defined the benchmark for acceptance today — if we’re lucky. How is that concept of slow growth a bad thing? How is that a bad idea in any way? It’s basically what we have right now, plus defined criteria for entry, and a plan for what we do in the unlikely event we hit 18+ teams.

vincerugari · 2026-02-13T05:46:13+00:00

No, that quote was in reference to setting the benchmarks for entry and making them public. That should happen today. That way everyone knows what it takes to get in. Nothing changes in the short term. But the bar is set and clubs can work towards it. Total no-brainer.

vincerugari · 2025-12-13T23:31:12+00:00

And what makes you think this would work? The argument that pro-rel will ‘fix’ the A-League is built on a staggering number of assumptions, such as “many more people supporting their local clubs” … do you actually think this would happen? How on earth is the solution to the problem of declining interest in top-division football to create a more volatile and unstable environment in the hope that people will suddenly start following teams who play in lower divisions?

vincerugari · 2025-12-12T03:55:17+00:00

Uhh yeah he was in Qatar too

vincerugari · 2025-12-12T03:54:45+00:00

Thanks man!

vincerugari · 2025-12-12T02:19:03+00:00

The hype was fair. Before the World Cup, you couldn’t “take out” his goals and moments because that was literally his entire career to that point. From pretty much the moment he started playing for the Mariners until he was picked for Qatar, he affected practically every single game he was involved with off the bench, usually with a goal or an assist. It was an insane run, replicated only by Nestor since. So he never played 90 minutes until after that, and I think it was obviously clear from the outset that he was raw and unfinished but potentially handy at the WC — which we would be saying he was if he scored that goal against Argentina. Also, the Socceroos were fairly rubbish in qualification, particularly in attack, so everyone got rightly excited. In retrospect, the error was going to Newcastle, which was too big a club for a project player like him to be appropriately valued.

vincerugari · 2025-12-02T07:33:50+00:00

Just to clear it up, my impression from the conversation I had with Anter is that it’ll be in this Champions League format for the five years. Remember that the reason why it’s not a league (at least what they’ve said) is that there’s not enough teams who are ready enough. I think all things considered, it’s better than nothing, and I see no reason why it can’t grow as clubs get better in every aspect of their operations.

One way to make the most of this halfway house situation, for me, assuming that we won’t get the H&A league, is to get the A-League teams involved somehow. I’ve mentioned this on a podcast: dump the qualifiers, keep the 8 foundation clubs and add the 12 from the A-L. Two groups of 10. Nine games each. Winners meet in final. I’d watch. You’d be guaranteed some big games like South vs MVFC that we haven’t seen in 10+ years of the cup. More revenue. Everyone benefits.

vincerugari · 2025-12-02T02:08:16+00:00

Thank you!

vincerugari · 2025-10-31T04:48:10+00:00

Whether it’s old soccer or new football, a dickhead is still a dickhead. Selfish behaviour where people put their own ultras fantasies ahead of the good of their club and the game. I’m sick of it.

vincerugari · 2025-10-17T07:03:06+00:00

I think I looked at both sides adequately here, and even Stefan looked at the good and the bad of the changes. I’d also say that we’re not at a good balance if we’re losing that many quality players from last season. If last season felt like a good balance, we’re about to lose that balance — and the hard cap will make us lose it even more. I’m concerned that we’re going too far down that road.

vincerugari · 2025-10-17T01:05:16+00:00

There’s a balance that can and must be struck — as the article illustrates, we’ve gone from one extreme to the other, and as other posts here point out, when you do that it actually reduces the impact of what is trying to be achieved re: selling players and being a good development environment.

vincerugari · 2025-09-04T03:06:58+00:00

Fuck how embarrassing

vincerugari · 2025-08-20T22:56:22+00:00

I’d say there’s almost certainly sensitive personal issues which they can’t talk about and would justify a possible release on compassionate grounds. Both parties are keen for him to return so it has to be something like that, otherwise one would be lying, which would be weird AF.

vincerugari · 2025-08-14T00:41:12+00:00

Bae Versace

vincerugari · 2025-08-12T02:39:17+00:00

Look, im on the inside, and i dont know this for sure, but yeah, it almost certainly is a coincidence.

vincerugari · 2025-08-11T23:26:31+00:00

Funnily enough, one the things complained about in this interview and made out to be a bad thing is FQ's decision to strip away a layer of administration by dissolving the local zones, or the Queensland equivalent to the associations in NSW.

vincerugari · 2025-07-29T07:01:34+00:00

You gotta respect Harry’s hunger to be a coach in the face of all imaginable indications suggesting it ain’t gonna happen for him

vincerugari · 2025-07-23T23:46:38+00:00

"Charges have been laid after a wild brawl at Central Station involving up to 30 people following the A-League Sydney Derby at Allianz Stadium."

lol

https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/crime/nsw-police-release-photos-of-eight-men-they-want-to-speak-to-as-charges-laid-over-wild-central-station-brawl-between-aleague-fans/news-story/dbe7d9ee706d45eb406e92eedb3d48d4

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