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Funny you mention him, but it was probably the best he could do. He had only one year in the premier league in his entire career. Until we see players that have the middle of their careers in a league it’s all moot.
Domestic leagues are important due to accessibility. You’re not going to have as much of a following if you can only watch it on tele at stupid o’clock.
That’s half the reason why the NRL and AFL are popular, you can go to a game after work. We are the best in Aussie rules because we’re practically the only country that plays it and similar to rugby league with the super league at a lower level to the NRL. We are the best of the best in those games.
Football? I would rate A league on the level of EFL league 2. Certainly not one of the top leagues in the world. People want to watch the best and their support is reduced by not being one of the best.
I see more people with EPL/La Liga etc shirts than local teams around town. That alone says something.
Not in a million years.
Noone aspires to play in the A-league. Until we get a league that gives the European leagues a run for the money this statement isn’t really true.
We can’t even beat the Chinese or Saudis in getting almost retired players over because we can’t match them. And also without youth development academies it’s just not going to work. Ask China and soon to be Saudi Arabia how splashing a wad of cash is going to work without spending money on grass roots development.
We just don’t have the local talent to be able to create a competitive league, the majority of us can’t play at a high standard and the very few that do understand that they need to ply their trade overseas to be successful.
Without a successful league the rest is moot, popularity is based on club games not an once every 4 years event.
Ok so she’s bilingual. But I still refute that she did much journalism. Sprouting propoganda and operating in a censored environment isn’t really journalism in my books. She had no editorial independence.
Edit: I think someone here put it better than me. She’s a propagandist not a journalist.
The warning signs are all there. It’s no coincidence that China has become more belligerent as their economy has faltered, they are a dictatorship and they need to divert the attention. Expect more of the same or even dialled up a notch or two as stagnation becomes long term.
Second I wouldn’t say being a journalist in China has any prestige. Certainly not any investigative journalism there. You’re just told to say what you’re told to say, you can pick some random person off the street for that, I mean how hard is that? Would her “experience” mean much outside of China? It’s like a person having 10 years experience but never moved beyond the duties of a graduate.
Third she could have gone to Taiwan. If she’s struggling to get a job in Australia (I assume due to language abilities?) Taiwan speaks her native language so she would fit right in there and not be in this predicament.
But the end of the day they target us because we can’t do anything to counter it. Americans would probably lock up a Chinese citizen on trumped up terrorism charges as leverage whereas Australia doesn’t.