"IF YOU BUILD IT, THEY WILL COME"
It is Sunday afternoon and I am searching for answers after Friday's debacle against Parramatta. What went wrong? Why won't anyone come? WHY? WHY?
The same thoughts keep racing through my head, soccer IS big in Australia, why aren't we. We win, no one comes, we advertise, no one comes, we give out free tickets, no one comes, we do nothing, no one comes. When will they come.
I once heard the man upstairs say "If you build it they will come." Kevin Costner built his park in the middle of nowhere and they came. Lou builds a soccer club in the heart of the sporting capital of the world and they won't come. What do you have to do? They built one in Perth and they can't get enough of it. What do we have to do? Eighty-Thousand soccer maniacs turn up to see U23 Brasil play a friendly against Australia on a Wednesday. What are these people doing on their weekends? They certainly aren't going to the Pura Milk Cup.
We have the location, location, location. We have a great team, third on the table with some British imports and Aussie heros. We have a great time, Friday nights under lights. We have a very accessible team and adminstration. What more do people want? Don't tell me they want a cohesive well marketed league, a Soccer Australia which does its job and plenty of International matches. People are so demanding, wanting a cohesive governing body, how arrogant. Come on Soccer Australia give us a break, you now have $1 million from the world club championships, use it to promote the league. DO SOMETHING!!!
Lou Sticca started building this great club, he thinks that he has finished it but we 2500 dedicated Carlton loving maniacs know that he has not finished it needs one more thing, a new name and a new league. You have built it Lou, all it needs now is a name.
MELBOURNE UNITED
BRING ON THE SUPER LEAGUE!!!
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AWAY DAZE
Great to see the team spirit so high on away trips. Nothing like the captain questioning the "professionislm" of the new recruits. Stabber giving Lou and the British recruits stick over there so called professionalism and they didn't even bring civvies for and after game celebration. It takes Tricario and Deano half an hour to do their hair, whereas the British boys rock down stairs after five minutes in their track suits because they didn't bring any clothes for the after match celebration. How are they going to survive in the NSL if they don't know how to celebrate?
It is a real site to see when Deano steps out of the elevator ready for some action after an hours preparation. With his hair glistening in the evening light and smelling like one of his dozen aftershaves he does look like he is ready for some serious celebrating.
Stuart Slater made the journey up to Brisbane for the top of the table clash I've never seen someone so amused by a member of the opposition crowd as Stuart Slater was in Brisbane. Slater had came up to watch the boys play the ladder leaders.
My day at the Marconi stadium was one of the most enjoyable days at the soccer I have ever had. The weather was fine, the crowd was large and we thrashed them 4 zip. But what made it even more special was the constant taunting I was receiving from a young Marconi fan. He was no more than ten years old, but was as bold as brass. He kept asking if I was scarecrow (because of the straw hat) and whether I lived on a farm. Once I answered he went away to report to his mates to think of another question and five minutes later he returned with another stupid question. He was a real comedian.
But I will never ever forget the comment I received from a young Knights supporter last year at Somer St. Wandering around at half time to find the toilets in the "grandstand" I was told that
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