Thanks Kiwi Arab for yer efforts and enjoy the beach bud.

Tek wrote:

That's your hour up Kiwi.Great answers 👍

Final question.

One word to sum up Dundee FC if you please?

thanks mate

To quote Ian Brown - "AMATUERS!"
 

Cheers Pat

​I'm not an expert on the a-league, as I’ve never watched a full game, and the teams never play any decent opposition so it’s hard to judge the standard.
 
What I have seen, is really really poor, miles below the English Championship. Goalkeepers with terrible positioning and handling, centre halfs who end up on same side of the pitch all the time, full backs who don’t even try and stop crosses, midfielders who walk when the opposition has the ball, strikers with no idea where the goal is. Really basic ideas like being narrow when not in possession, then wide when you do, are non existent. Even some of the rules like offside are not well understood.
 
I think the lack of relegation is the cause, there is no impact of a bad season so the players are never trained on how to setup a team properly. If you have  a good season with some flair players who can  exploit all of the faults above, you’ll make it into their crazy finals system. If not, then you have a bad season, shrug, then try again next year.
 
Another angle is they allow for one marquee player above the salary cap, so some big namess like del piero and charlie miller have  played in recent years, while the majority of the players are at a much lower level

That’s my view, maybe it will improve over time as Australia spends lot on developing young sports players.