We Are The Reds

The FFA need to worry about things that matter like getting expansion of the A-league right, introducing a national 2nd division, having a proper youth league, organising friendlies for the Socceroos, instead they fritter away their time on making a big issue out of nothing.
If a club wants to Italian or Greek or Russian or Brazilian or Kalifumbiwhunkonaian why stop them? Does it really matter? Get a proper league structure together, have every body in it and if an ethnic club is successful and is in the A-league then so be it. If not they can stay in the 3rd or 4th or 5 tier and IT JUST DOES NOT MATTER.

FFA need to sort out the big picture and not worry about a club having a tiny symbol of Italy on there shirt.

It does. It alienates new supporters and brings back the image of the bad old days. We changed to the a league to rid the racial crap and segregation.
The media already hate football and this crap would just help them with their propaganda

The FFA need to worry about things that matter like getting expansion of the A-league right, introducing a national 2nd division, having a proper youth league, organising friendlies for the Socceroos, instead they fritter away their time on making a big issue out of nothing.
If a club wants to Italian or Greek or Russian or Brazilian or Kalifumbiwhunkonaian why stop them? Does it really matter? Get a proper league structure together, have every body in it and if an ethnic club is successful and is in the A-league then so be it. If not they can stay in the 3rd or 4th or 5 tier and IT JUST DOES NOT MATTER.

FFA need to sort out the big picture and not worry about a club having a tiny symbol of Italy on there shirt.

It does. It alienates new supporters and brings back the image of the bad old days. We changed to the a league to rid the racial crap and segregation.
The media already hate football and this crap would just help them with their propaganda

I'm 58 and second generation having been born down there.
Other second generation "ethnics" have children and some even grand children by now so that would be already 3rd / 4th generation if I'm not mistaken.

What are you taking about, "racial crap and segregation" ?
These people are Australians not even bloody "new Australians" any more.
If anything the FFA is perpetuating / creating racism and segregation by excluding these people based on their cultural and ethnic backgrounds.

The FFA need to worry about things that matter like getting expansion of the A-league right, introducing a national 2nd division, having a proper youth league, organising friendlies for the Socceroos, instead they fritter away their time on making a big issue out of nothing.
If a club wants to Italian or Greek or Russian or Brazilian or Kalifumbiwhunkonaian why stop them? Does it really matter? Get a proper league structure together, have every body in it and if an ethnic club is successful and is in the A-league then so be it. If not they can stay in the 3rd or 4th or 5 tier and IT JUST DOES NOT MATTER.

FFA need to sort out the big picture and not worry about a club having a tiny symbol of Italy on there shirt.

It does. It alienates new supporters and brings back the image of the bad old days. We changed to the a league to rid the racial crap and segregation.
The media already hate football and this crap would just help them with their propaganda

I'm 58 and second generation having been born down there.
Other second generation "ethnics" have children and some even grand children by now so that would be already 3rd / 4th generation if I'm not mistaken.

What are you taking about, "racial crap and segregation" ?
These people are Australians not even bloody "new Australians" any more.
If anything the FFA is perpetuating / creating racism and segregation by excluding these people based on their cultural and ethnic backgrounds.

I think they are trying the opposite. As soon as we start assigning ethnicities to certain clubs we invite the whole race issues we saw in the old days. Let’s keep it Aussie. No need to start chucking other countries flags on club shirts. It’s divisive and has no place anymore. We need to remember where and who made football what it is but we also need to grow up and create our own heritage of Australian football. I’m not saying forget our heritage I’m saying let’s look to the future.

I agree shin. Football in australia wouldn’t exist without that rich heritage. But I think we matured past dividing up clubs into ethnic groupings. As the Crawford report showed when you do this you invite the old political, racial and cultural issues to resurface that plagued the sport and held it back.
I would never turn my back on the history but we must learn from it if we do not want it to repeat.
There is no place to divide clubs, because make no mistake that’s what it does when you start flying those flags, into ethnic groups.
This sport should be about our local community , all of the melting pot, together as a region, not a particular group based on the racial ties.
I could never support west ADELAIDE Hellas and feel a part of I wasn’t Greek just the same as Adelaide Juventus if not Italian. What’s wrong with a non ethnic team representing everyone.
If we let teams go back to those old world ties we we only limit our growth.