Glenn Collins
Getting On With The Off-Season
Harry, Harry, Harry..... Every time I see a story about football it's about Harry Kewell.
However this is not a bad thing, in fact it's wonderful. Never has there been an off-season in the A-League where there has been so much interest in an off-season in the A-league. Mainstream news outlets ...
Glenn Collins
Market this!
In most football leagues and most sports in general, every fan at some point is an armchair coach. Sitting in you recliner watching your teams away game yelling at the screen - "SUB THAT USELESS TWAT OFF AND BRING ON _______!"
Some of you may even be armchair owners deep in discussions with ...
Glenn Collins
STAR STUNTED
They were unstoppable last season.
They shot out of the gates and quickly turned heads to lead the premiership race.
No it's not the Roar I refer to, rather Perth Glory. For five weeks last season the Roars eventually dominant season was over shadowed by the all conquering star studded ...
Glenn Collins
The one Marquee to rule them all
How do you re-ignite interest in an A-league franchise that hasn't quite made the impact on the local scene as hoped?
Well for starters you wipe the slate and try a new tact at engaging the community, but if you ask the supporters of the Gold Coast United there is a real and simple ...
Glenn Collins
A pain in my ACL
There's something missing in this year's addition of the Asian Champions League. It's right on the tip of my mind. There are Asia's best teams, and plenty of goals and the odd controversial decision. No it's none of that, it's,,, it's,,,, Adelaide is missing.
Not literally Adelaide but a team ...
Glenn Collins
What a weekend...
How was this going to play out? I'm heading up on the Brisbane train armed only with my Socceroos top a mobile phone and a camera. There is a smattering of orange shirts on the line, understandable since I plan to be in Brisbane early for some amber energy drinks to fuel my Grand Final engine. ...
Glenn Collins
I believe the children are the future
It is finally the Grand Final. Although my team (and maybe yours) is not at the big dance I am really starting to get excited that I will be attending my first Cup Final in the flesh. So as the sun sets on Gold Coast United's 2010/2011 season I would like to reflect on our finals performance.
It...
Glenn Collins
There's only 1 real UNITED
"There's only one real United!" was in a large portion of the posts on this forum leading up to the Gold Coast meeting Adelaide at Hindmarsh last Sunday - In fact the Red army displayed a banner to say so....
Yes there is only one 'real' united - and this year it is us!
Apparently ...
Glenn Collins
And then there were FOUR
And then there were FOUR
Not just any four, but four teams who have never lifted a silver toilet seat between them. Love us or Loathe us but one thing GCU has done for the benefit of the league is removed Victory once and for all from the finals calculation.
I mean this with no disrespect to ...
Glenn Collins
Lack-Lustre
All that glitters is gold......
In hindsight you really have to wonder about the thought process in re-scheduling our catch up game against the Mariners in the Wednesday between a trip back from Perth and our final home game against table topping Brisbane. This feat of ill planning is even more ...
Glenn Collins
The Hard Way
Well.... It seems like United are going to chance their hand at the silver toilet seat by trudging the hard way round. It was an article on FourFourTwo last year that outlined the obvious importance of finishing in the top two, but also the less obvious danger of finishing third or ...
Glenn Collins
99 Luftballons and United's Fury
The next instalment of the successful Bundesliga show will be making his brief appearance next Saturday when Gold Coast United takes on the Newcastle Jets. German midfielder Peter Perchtold dons the blue and gold as he fills in for our captain for the rest of this season.
This brings me to ...
Glenn Collins
Guess who's back....
Sydney FC and Vitezslav Lavicka showed us in season five that you can successfully defend your way to a title. Seeing that Gold Coast have the league leading defence that seems a good possibility....
The only problem is Sydney didn't have a team like Brisbane Roar tearing their way through the ...
Glenn Collins
Five Hundred and Five
Five hundred and five days had passed since the first M1 derby between Gold Coast United and Brisbane Raw. Those previous four games gave us 11 goals and one draw and through it all Gold Coast have emerged as the dominant team, undefeated in all meetings.
With this in mind we made our way deep ...
Glenn Collins
Go on - PROVE IT.....
Go on - PROVE IT.....
This was the mantra being sung from all quarters. From the pundits to the haters and from the GCU board all the way through to its fans. It was used positively and negatively, as a rallying cry and as a slur. Whatever the motive the message was clear, "SHOW AUSTRALIA THAT ...
Glenn Collins
Freebies and the All Blacks
The stage is set. The team is on the rise and a top 4 battle awaits. Of course I am talking about our looming Central Coast Mariners game. How could any other news regarding football on the Coast be bigger than this? The clubs fan base was split in two on the return of the crowd cap with one ...
Glenn Collins
In my view
My view of the game
There was with a little sigh of relief at half time as we headed in to the change rooms a goal to the good. After Wednesday night proved that a top placed NYL team isn't a match for a bottom placed A-League team (only just), I was a little nervous that our injury ...
Max Cornell
Boring, boring Gold Coast
It's been a little while since my last blog, thanks to school I've had my time occupied with studying and assignments. Yay. Luckily I haven't missed any home games, mainly due to the lack of them, thanks FFA! But I wrote about that last time, and this blog, I'm worried more about something that ...
Glenn Collins
The Good, the Bad and the Entertaining...
In truth, it was never going to be pretty. Two teams in third and fourth position only separated by a point. Both teams with 3 games in hand on the ladder leading Roar (who's lead after this game would be less than the 9 points these games in hand have on offer). Two teams who in recent games ...
Glenn Collins
The sky is falling!
The sky is falling! Armageddon is upon us! Fire shall rain down and smite us all....!!!
Yes! The unthinkable has happened. Clive Palmer has made a visible and tangible move showing his intent to have a Gold Coast team in the A-league for the foreseeable future. The club has made public the ...
Glenn Collins
When Love and Hate Collide
A fellow Gold Coast United supporter mentioned this week no matter what we do or how we do it everyone just hates us, and he is now at the point of just embracing it.
Cynical - yes, accurate - probably.
It seemed to be clearer to me as the week wore on. Maybe it was a month without a home game ...
Max Cornell
FFA, are you listening?
Football can be quite nice sometimes. But when you have a stretch of almost a month without a home game, you start to lose touch with your club. Especially when your club has a distinct lack of advertising and publicity.
Of course, every fan of the A-League has heard these complaints before, ...
Glenn Collins
Home and Away?
Home and Away? Call me old fashioned but this week I am really yearning for the good old days of Home and Away. Every second week I would love to drop on the door of my club and see them play on our pitch. Instead I am slowly turning mental in a thee week "Away" cycle as I try ...
Glenn Collins
Third after a Third.
It seems that a large number of A-league viewers have caught the Fozzies. This is a serious condition that manifests itself in pompous outbursts and can cause sweeping generalisations.
Symptoms include bagging the national team and their current coach, and constantly championing the latest ...
Max Cornell
A game of two seasons
They say it's a game of two halves, but with Gold Coast United, it seems to be a game of two seasons. Last season, when attending home games, it wasn't too optimistic to expect a win and a goal or two. But this season, all I expect is frustration and disappointment.
Don't get me wrong, the Jets ...
