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It's a bad idea... I think that Pulver should push to keep all the local derbies at the expense of games against South African teams. It'd be win-win: they can have their new politically necessary team and a random Argentinian team and some other random side, and our teams can then cut their...

That's actually a decent compromise they've come up with - keeping most of the derbies and getting more games against the Kiwis. Still, I don't really support an expansion of the competition to be honest - I think the current structure has a bit of symmetry. In an ideal world, you'd have 5...

To be honest, that's kind of how I feel about a lot of Aussie soccer fans... most are fine and genuinely just love the game, but the Craig Foster impersonators out there just $#!t me to tears... always demanding everyone call their game "football" instead of soccer (like that makes sense in...

Wow... now THAT is random. That's finding an Englishman in London who supports the Melbourne Demons in the AFL.

Haha yeah well, as someone from a Rugby League background (former Souths junior before moving to union) I wouldn't exactly call myself an elitist... Frankly, I think you need to look up the meaning of the word if you think labeling people in Australia, who have nothing to do with anything in...

There's nothing archaic about pointing out that the comp is still an English league with teams representing English towns at the end of the day and that most of the fan base from outside England are just bandwagoners wanting to follow something rich and successful. It's simply a fact. There are...

This is a perfect example of cognitive dissonance in my view. If the clubs don't represent the regions that they... errr .. 'represent', then what exactly do they represent other than the colours they wear? I'd never follow an EPL side in a blue fit because ultimately I'd never support...

I reckon that still comes down to a question of identity though... In what way do you feel like an Englishman from Manchester? Do you support the English Rugby team against teams like Ireland and Wales too? My mother is from Sweden and I have a tonne of family there that I love and have plenty...

I don't underestimate it at all; soccer is synonymous with riots, bashings and murders due to the level of insanity present in the fan base. I just draw a line between people who are fans through an actual association, and those that like winners and the colour red.

2014? More like 1994... As I said, it's been happening forever. It used to be people wearing Chicago Bulls singlets when I was growing up, now it's Man U. Sure these are global brands, but if you're following them and giving them money when you have zero connection to suburb or city they...

Of course that would be ideal, but there is a difference; in Rugby Union the international tournaments are really what comes first, whereas in soccer it's very much club first, nation second. I realise the World Cup changes this, but outside of world cup games people tend to care a lot more...

Basically that's what it's about, yeah. It really is a return to the days of seeing Chicago Bulls jerseys everywhere, just with a softer sport.

I hope they get a good deal and one that includes an FTA component, but I'm not going to hold my breath. I also hope the we don't see it expand to 18 teams just so the SARU can have more bottom feeders in the comp. Argentina is a little different, but I reckon that it's still unclear whether...

There is quite a bit of it these days isn't there? As a kid in the early 90s it was all NBA, but it's shifted to the Premier League for some reason now. Funnily enough it's one of the reasons a lot of people thought the A-League would fail too; that people wouldn't bother watching a 'lower...

A lot of that is novelty value I reckon. The NFL got 90k to watch them at Wembly in London last year, so I don't know if those one off games against world famous opposition tell you too much... Soccer is doing alright, but I reckon that stat is misleading given a lot of the other ones (over-all...

Super Rugby helped put the game in a great position here early on, but we always needed a strong third tier, and that has not been developed. The question is, now that interest in Super Rugby is dwindling in Australia, how do we survive with the mess the SARU are proposing? The sad reality is...

This may be so, but if the ARU accepts the nonsense being put forward by South Africa, they've effectively signed their own death warrants. The game simply can't sustain itself if things stay as they are, let alone if they add in more SA teams, Argie teams and a Spanish one. The question...

Of course they are mostly a farce. That said, Rugby League has been higher profile for a longer time because of its professional status, so its traditions at the club level for those older teams like Souths and Easts are worth more because of the long standing media profile and more publically...

In terms of the colours they used, that's mostly correct - in some cases the colours were taken from rowing clubs however (balmain for example). But to be fair, the split occurred because of class stratification.

Well yes, but then the Wallabies use 'bottle green', so that's not exactly accurate either. Well, again, I'm basically angling for it an alternate jersey in the style of the England ones (at least in so far as it's one not often worn by the team). More just something for the fans. This...