Ask KBP about all types of Football in Australia

Especially Adelaide United's unbeaten run in the A-League so far this season - with a Dutch manager in Australia that can manage!

Also: Mark Viduka jokes.

When watching the teeny tiny Robbie-Fowler-centric A-league highlights package on Soccer AM of a Saturday morning, I was very taken with one of the grounds I saw at the weekend which appeared to have a park in the corner. No seats, no terracing, just grass with people sitting on it watching the game. They looked like they should be having picnics. Are all Australian games/stadia like this?

40% pretty grounds with grassy mounds in regional cities
40% half-empty stadia in larger metropolitan areas
20& actual wogball/pooftahball specific venues

Is Muscat still at large?

Coming off another injury. He always seems to be coming off some kind of injury.

Also Ailsa, the grassy bank is a regular feature of many Aussie sports stadia - I reckon we could do with something similar here, especially for the cricket.

KBP, what is the best A-league goal from recent times?

aw I see that Viduka has officially retired now. Sitting around for a year without a club but not bothering to announce retirement was so very him.

KBP, what is the best A-league goal from recent times?

You mean you haven't been watching the weekly highlights of the most exciting league in the world with near-empty grounds and stadia?

aw I see that Viduka has officially retired now. Sitting around for a year without a club but not bothering to announce retirement was so very him.

Yeah, I only noticed the other day myself...

Best Viduka Moment of the 2010 World Cup: watching him eat donuts on Australian television.

I spent a couple of months in Australia in 1997. This coincided with THE SOCCEROOS LED BY TERRY VENABLES reaching some kind of play-off against Iran for the final World Cup place. IIRC, Australia went 2-0 up and were crusing to victory when play was interrupted because some mad man invaded the pitch and got himself entangled in the goal net. It took a while to get rid of this bloke so there was a lengthy delay. When the game restarted Iran reasserted themselves and salvaged a 2-2 draw and they ended up going to France 98 instead of Australia.

Again, IIRC this bloke was the same man who also ran onto the race course during a major horse race at around the same time (I'm tempted to say 'The Melbourne Cup', but I have no idea why I think that - for all I know that's a sailing competition). And, also while I was there, Michael Hutchence died and the same bloke blagged his way into the funeral service and mock-hanged himself while shouting to Paula Yates "this is how he did it?" (or something like that).

All this happened during a very short space of time. Then I left Australia never to return. My question to KBP: did this bloke get locked up never to return or does he fuck up some major event roughly once a week even now?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Hore

4 November 1997: Running onto the race track at Flemington during the 1997 Melbourne Cup. This was Hore's first public stunt, for which he spent one month in the Port Phillip Correctional Centre.

rong, he had been disrupting Professor Groove & The Booty Affair gigs in the front bar at Kinselas for MONTHS by this time, RAISE YOUR STANDARDS wikipedia

Please ask me about Adelaide United's dream start to the 2010/11 A-League season (6 wins, 3 draws, 0 losses).

What is 'Adelaide United'?

what status on GAA youngsters drawn into the violent and murky world of AFL?

What is 'Adelaide United'?

Er, didn't you catch our glorious runs in the Champions League? Asian Champions League, that is.

We were all hooked of course - will always be a special place in my heart for putting Bunyodkor to the sword

what status on GAA youngsters drawn into the violent and murky world of AFL?

Setanta Ó hAilpín still deemed not violent enough for Aussie Rules, despite that whole "kicking a team mate incident" from last year.

well he's trying, at least

Oh, I just realised there is an International Rules series being played soon. Or to use its official title, the "2010 Irish Daily Mail International Rules Series" is being played soon.

Cue GAA softies crying after they get tackled.

btw everyone if I could be bothered, I would have started a thread here entitled "A Thread With Just As Many Posts As Sydney FC Wins: The 2010/11 A-League Thread"

Australia 1 - 0 Paraguay, that old German bloke is a genius, we're going to win the Asian Cup, etc.

i resent that gaa boys are as violent as they come, it's just that in gaelic you actually would be expected go for the ball maybe 50% of the time, a restriction that doesn't appear to be in place in aussie brawls

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kA4U8zEMmLM

spectacular cheap shot at 3.10, kudos tbh

oh for god's sake, harden the fuck up

or go play soccer like a poof

that was actual admiration. gaa boys got everything coming to them, you ask me.

It was have been hilarious if the Mariners actually won the title in extra-time last night, instead of falling apart with five minutes to go.

Ah well.

This is a bit delayed but here goes:

lol at u del piero

Del Piero kicks four (4) goals for (East) Sydney FC; have been reliably informed that fans of said team were drinking in a pub and watching the game on TV rather than attending the game at the stadium only a few minutes away (capacity 45,000 or so; attendance 12,000).

Western Sydney Wanderers now second on the A-League ladder; sales of red flares go through the roof.

peptides bro peptides

No doping in Parramatta, you crazy malaka! RED AND BLACK, BRO!!

So how is the doping scene in Oz, after reading the report this week and some light googling it seems like you can just walk down to myer buy a bunch of AOP9604 in cream form and heh presto marginal gains.

I keep hearing that it's all ROGUE FITNESS ADVISORS GETTING DRUGS FROM THE INTERNET AND OR BIKIE GANGS that the team management had no idea about, not at all. And from what I've read today, I strongly expect that we're expecting "I didn't know we were taking supplements, someone from me team just added a vitamin to our Powerade" excuses from any sporting stars that are caught.

WANDERERSSSSSSSS

RED AND BLACK 4EVA

http://www.smh.com.au/sport/a-league/wouldbe-miracle-already-tinged-by-touch-of-sublime-20130412-2hrkc.html

I should mention that they still would be dancing on the streets of Central Coast if the Mariners didn't have a glamorous midweek ACL clash.

Bad luck to Western Sydney Waaaaaaanderers on losing the Grand Final but they still have a million crazy guys loving them so they'll be alright.

U should wait til ur asked tbrr, it's the form of the thing

tbf I need to prompt, there's not that many Perth Glory fans on ILX asking questions