"It's at it's lowest point ever.." - Robbie Slater on Australia's football tragedy | The Back Page 

The System in Australia. High JR fees to support Snr NPL teams and no investment into the miniroos programs.

Because you don’t advance to the top levels in Australian football on ability. It’s a mixture of embarrassingly poor tactical and technical knowledge and blatant nepotism by coaches and clubs.

Thank the Aussie coaches who ruin the careers of our players

More anti-soccer propaganda from the nrl sponsors

Australian football doesn't produce true strikers and that needs to be fixed

FOOTBALL REGISTRATION is too expensive!!! FOOTBALL NEEDS MORE INVESTMENT FROM AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT, IT IS THE MOST POPULAR AND LARGEST SPORT IN AUSTRALIA AND THE WORLD. FOOTBALL AUSTRALIA NEEDS TO BUILD A FOOTBALL ACADEMY.

why do we completely ignore that the socceroos had arguably their best World Cup run in history in 2022? 2 clean sheets, goals in every game, made it out of a group with France and Denmark, only lost to the eventual winners 2-1.

Moved over from england. Fees to play football are ridiculous and the tactics and knowledge at grass roots is at caveman standards. Most local teams in bne are more interested in becoming a host club for the olympics than developing players.

They need to bring back NSL Teams like South Melbourne, Wollongong and Sydney United who actually have fans and stop creating teams like Western United and Macarthur who do not.

Get rid of A-League salary cap

A League died when Fox Sports stopped broadcasting

Next season we might have 3 players playing in the EPL if they are all promoted. Souttar (Leicester City) Burgess & Luongo (Ipswich Town) 2 players in the Bundesliga. Irvine & Metcalfe (St.Pauli) And 1 player in Serie A. Circati (Parma) Things are not as bad as everyone is making out. Also Tilio & Irankunda were both left out of the olyroo squad who are the 2 best young attacking players we have so it's no surprise we struggled going forward.

Football in this country constantly shoots itself in the foot..junior levels require financial support to help with costs to families..Australia can no longer rely on a crop of young superstar just appearing..it takes support from the governing body to encourage kids to play..some sports are footing the bills to kids on board..

Getting rid of the name socceroos would be a start

Really Slater. You're so negative. The game is far from its worst position ever. What have you been actually done to advance the game in this country. You are always keen to knock it, never keen to boost it.

Bring in the player transfer system and that changes the economies of football

It's quite embarrassing.....some of those shots were sub standard. We don't deserve to be at the Olympics.

2 things off the top of my head. 1. Australian football is nowhere near as good as Robbie slater, Bosnich etc think it is. 2. Football Australia doesn’t invest into the junior clubs enough. Simple.

Its not the money

it's soccer, if you want australians to jump all the way on board, accept that it's not the most popular "football" in australia and promote it as such

What the clubs charge for junior players is a laugh…you need poor hungry kids not the kids coming in BMW’s to training they ain’t hungry!

at the top level in any state its the same .. no ability to keep possesion ..everything is panic quick kicking and all run like sheep

When I played Foot ball, Many years ago, the Coaches ALWAYS drilled in to ALL PLAYERS WHATEVER POSITION , It was the MIND SET of the WHOLE TEAM ... NO GOALS NO WIN .

I love football it's so fun to play, but watching it on the other hand 😴😴😴 90 mins no goals 😮

Just as well for Sydney fc,wanderers & victory who get descent crowds.

Tried to be corrupt like the NRL And AFL but just simply not at that level

1 month later this aged like Milk. Record grand final viewers. Record crowd in Gosford. Mariners won a treble. Matildas sold out 14 games in a row. Irankunda and many other youth players doing well.

The FA and A League clubs couldn't run a chook raffle at the local RSL club. Foreign has beens and never wasers noone knows or cares about running around in the A League. All our good young home grown players leave. Television coverage is pathetic. Salary cap means we can't attract world class players. No second division with promorion and relegation. Nothing happens or changes. What's not to like?

the lowest point would be not qualifying for the world cup.

If kids have to pay to play 2k plus to get into dev programs of course it’s going to fall apart…

Lenny kravitz/Billy idol afl pre game entertainment grand final 😂😂😂😂❤❤😂😂❤❤😂❤❤❤😂

It's football in general that's heading down hill , its all posession ,touch pass ,touch pass ,touch pass ,that's easy ,you literally need nothing special about you to play professionally, compare today's football say in the premierleague to the past with players like Romario,Ronaldo,ginola,gascoine, ronaldinho, to say Phil foden , grelish, rice, the current stars are good players but they do nothing special compared to a proper skillful past footballer , we will never get better while the game is in this current state of posession.

Does anyone actually care about olympic football? Why?

N.daicos brownlow medal 2024😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Oohh what a shame! 😂🤣

Demise? It was never up there 😂

The A league went woke, no one is watching...Hence no one wants to sponsor it. I stopped watching 5 years ago, and I am so glad I did from the reports I am hearing of it's wokeness. I also don't have to listen to that insufferable Andy Harper.

We should look to invest in aboriginal people. Natural athletes, they are very agile too. If we develop them and get them breaking into europe then australia would be lethal.

Australia Football is Australian Rules Football, not Soccer. Soccer is the traditional name of the sport in Australia, ie Socceroos.

I agree with Robbie Slater. Both Arnold and Tony Vidmar should be sacked. Neither are good enough to coach at the National level. Arnold sticks to his favourites and has no idea about tactics. Vidmar is just as clueless.

The people running the game for the last two decades now have screwed the pouch 👝 disgraceful

Anti A-league media at its finest😂