Comments on: Seven Talking Points In the Build Up To Round Four http://worldfootballcolumns.com/2009/08/26/seven-talking-points-in-the-build-up-to-round-four/ We're fans. It's our game, so we write about it. Fri, 27 Apr 2012 04:37:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Adoni Patrikios http://worldfootballcolumns.com/2009/08/26/seven-talking-points-in-the-build-up-to-round-four/#comment-215 Tue, 01 Sep 2009 08:46:40 +0000 http://www.worldfootballcolumns.com/?p=457#comment-215 There is indeed a large English contingent in the A-league, almost totally lower league although with a few notable exceptions like Dwight Yorke who left Sydney to play for Sunderland in the premiership.
They’ve been invaluable in defining the A-leagues legitimacy, since they represent known names, even if only tangentially, in a way that a K-League player does not.
That said, there’s a bit of the pasture about it at time, with obviously past it players coming to these rich climes to extend their career and sometimes, in my opinion, playing beyond their means.

To Shane Smeltz. He’s a German Born New Zealand internation who’s played for AFC Wimbledon, among other teams, before hitting a rich vein of form last season and continuing it this.

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A few names you mentioned (Chris Greenacre, Lloyd Owusu, Charlie Miller) used to play in Britain, unless I’m mistaken. Is there a large British contingent in the A-League? Have they improved it?

]]> By: William Heaney http://worldfootballcolumns.com/2009/08/26/seven-talking-points-in-the-build-up-to-round-four/#comment-213 Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:14:50 +0000 http://www.worldfootballcolumns.com/?p=457#comment-213 Adoni, I watched an A-League highlights show recently and one of the players you mentioned, Shane Smeltz,scored four in one match. He’s not a player I’d heard of.

How good is he? Is this type of performance typical? Is he Australian, and if so, is he in the national team?

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