The Lull

By: Afroman_GT | September 6th, 2008

This is my first post on here so you’ll have to forgive me if things pop up multiple times as i’m still feeling my way around. But it seems Daniel has given me quite the reputation to live up to so we’ll see how we go.

I’ve found a couple of hours this weekend since I’m not working to write a bit of an article but I’ll keep it brief so here we go…

This weekend sees a bit of a lull in the procedings after the transfer window came to an end, Melbourne Victory favourite Michael Theoklitos’ reported transfer to everton failed to eventuate and FFA has decided to implement international breaks in the league fixtures after a disasterous clash in fixtures and players being called up for national team duty last season saw just a handfull of goals scored in what was branded as the “worst week of the A-League in its brief history” by many pundits.

The panic raised that the sport would be seen as boring has seen a new plan introduced and international breaks observed by the A-League as it attempts to fall further into line with the bigger European leagues.

The international break also gives the league a chance to regroup after particularly average crowds have seen some of the more twitchy football fans wonder if the league has grown too rapidly or that the league is nolonger the ‘flavour of the month’ in the domestic sport scene in Australia.

In reality, the AFL and NRL competitions are reaching their climax and attracting away many of the neutral fans who attend A-League games over the Australian summer when there is no other competative ‘football’ of any kind for fans to get behind and salivate over the prospects of. Once the NRL and AFL seasons pack up for the summer crowds should return to the levels fans are familiar with from earlier in the year.

In other news The Socceroos face a setback for their international clashes with The Netherlands and Uzbekistan this week with Vince Grella upholding the fine tradition of English Premier League players to pull out right before important Socceroo clashes with an injury of some description. While the injury is not terribly serious it should be servere enough to stop Grella from participating in both international matches this week. Ironically, Harry Kewell is currently fully fit and expected to start against the Dutch.

Anyway, that’s about all from me for now. I hope I’ve contributed atleast something interesting in my first article after the build-up I was given.