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TigerRoo said:
FOOTBALL in Australia, Harry, is AUSTRALIAN RULES FOOTBALL - that is why Association Football is referred to as SOCCER, hence the "Socceroo's" National Team.
Tongue-in-cheek remark by me which you have taken seriously.
Soccer has grown in Australia but whereas there is support here we do not own our own stadiums and financial support could be better. Sponsorship by the Hyundai Group is to be commended but when there are players who are outstanding here they are immediately snapped up by European Clubs who offer the equivalent of a Kings Ransom in wages - Johnson, Viduka, Kewell, Bosnich and Schwartzer are a few but there are many more. This leaves us with a not much better than League 1 standard. However, the World Cup would promote the game beyond anyone's wildest expectation and there is no doubt that sponsors would come pouring in to support it. Australia has shown that they can put on a show, as the Olympic Games proved, and there would have to be major road and rail works around the major cities which is another reason why we want the World Cup.
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Love to have a good night on the piss with you, Roo; you keep me entertained on here no bother - keep it up mate. <ok>
 
TigerRoo said:
FOOTBALL in Australia, Harry, is AUSTRALIAN RULES FOOTBALL - that is why Association Football is referred to as SOCCER, hence the "Socceroo's" National Team.
Tongue-in-cheek remark by me which you have taken seriously.
Soccer has grown in Australia but whereas there is support here we do not own our own stadiums and financial support could be better. Sponsorship by the Hyundai Group is to be commended but when there are players who are outstanding here they are immediately snapped up by European Clubs who offer the equivalent of a Kings Ransom in wages - Johnson, Viduka, Kewell, Bosnich and Schwartzer are a few but there are many more. This leaves us with a not much better than League 1 standard. However, the World Cup would promote the game beyond anyone's wildest expectation and there is no doubt that sponsors would come pouring in to support it. Australia has shown that they can put on a show, as the Olympic Games proved, and there would have to be major road and rail works around the major cities which is another reason why we want the World Cup.
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I'd say we are a lot better than League 1 standard Tiger. I'd say the FFA is at Championship level
 
DanKelly said:
I'd say we are a lot better than League 1 standard Tiger. I'd say the FFA is at Championship level
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Have to disagree Dan. There are few here (at present0 who would get a game with a Championship Club.


DanKelly said:
I think we do have a very good chance of getting 2022 looking at this list that Quill supplied : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_2022_FIFA_World_Cup_bid#Submitted_bid_venues

That is if it is taken from Qatar
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Firstly, don't take any notice of Quill.
Secondly, the USA will cr@p all over Australia with their bid - if it is taken from Qatar.

P.S. June and July are right in the middle of the AFL calendar.
 
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TigerRoo said:
Have to disagree Dan. There are few here (at present0 who would get a game with a Championship Club.




Firstly, don't take any notice of Quill.
Secondly, the USA will cr@p all over Australia with their bid - if it is taken from Qatar.

P.S. June and July are right in the middle of the AFL calendar.
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I think the last thing FIFA will want to do is award the U.S. a World Cup after everything our DOJ is doing to them.
 
TigerRoo said:
All the more reason Elle it might cause them to back off a bit.:emoticon-0136-giggl
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Na nothing would get them to do that at this point. Peoples careers are dependant on getting a whole bunch of convictions out of this. They will try to make it a bigger list of people indicted the more the better for them.
 
ellewoods said:
Na nothing would get them to do that at this point. Peoples careers are dependant on getting a whole bunch of convictions out of this. They will try to make it a bigger list of people indicted the more the better for them.
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I hope you are right mate, this organization is rotten to the core and needs to be sorted.
Perhaps too late to effect the current Russia and Qatar hosting as I believe work has begun and there would be too big a compensation bill.
 
If it can be shown that a country participated in corrupt practices, and I would expect that to be the case, then any talk of compensation would or should be around that country covering the cost of sorting out the mess they have colluded to achieve. Not to mention a lengthy ban from international football.
 
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already they say over 1200 workers have been killed making the stadiums in Qatar. Slave Labour it is at that as well. Estimate by the time the stadiums are finished over 4,500 slave workers would have died in Qatar
 
DanKelly said:
already they say over 1200 workers have been killed making the stadiums in Qatar. Slave Labour it is at that as well. Estimate by the time the stadiums are finished over 4,500 slave workers would have died in Qatar
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Absolutely atrocious. Abominable. Criminal.

Anyone with both a brain and a conscience should refuse to have anything to do with the 2022 World Cup.
 
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Dr.Stanley O'Google said:
CAN JACK WARNER ANSWER THE "10 MILLION DOLLAR QUESTION"?

WHERE DID IT GO, YOU ****?
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His Personnal loans, His Credit card payments and other such outgoings the BBC have found out.

Speaking of which ive got a couple of my cards to pay soon. I wonder if Jack has any wonga left ? :emoticon-0102-bigsm<whistle>

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Interesting to hear and read that the FBI now have in protective custody one of the Qatar bid team
Pheadra Al-MAJID who says that Qatar will be / should be stripped of the 2022 WC after the
information and evidence she has was handed over to the FBI. <applause><applause><applause>
 
Chilton's Hundreds said:
There's no harm in admitting you got it wrong. We're all human, we all misunderstand things at times.

It's obvious you though the AFL was the governing body for 'soccer' otherwise your posts make no sense.

And don't bother coming back with a clever post - you'll make yourself look a fool.
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Dont hold your breath on that one. Quill is a Uni Boy dont you know and Uni Boys are so very clever.<rofl>
 
Quill said:
So are you suggesting that what that link says is wrong? Or is it because I posted it?



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Bit of both mate, it's all hypothetical as Australian Rules Football will be mid way through their season when the World Cup would be (supposedly) staged.
There is also a little matter of accommodating some 5 million fans pouring into the Country which will represent an increase of some 20% of the population (estimated to be about 25 million at that stage).
Could be done with huge sponsorship, a huge government investment and co-operation from the all-powerful Australian Rules Football board of directors but I just can't see it at this stage.
My bet is that Russia will stage the 2018 World Cup whilst Qatar will have theirs taken of them with a toss-up between the US of A and England for the 2022 Cup.
 
TigerRoo said:
There is also a little matter of accommodating some 5 million fans pouring into the Country which will represent an increase of some 20% of the population (estimated to be about 25 million at that stage).
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World Cup attendances are about 3m, but the majority of them are residents of the nation staging the event.
 
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