North Queensland FC forum

[Cowboys_fan_06]

http://nqfc.proboards102.com/index.cgi#nqfc

Hey guys,

I've just started a forum for North Queensland FC, and I'm calling out to people from NQ to get behind the team and join.

The forum is designed to firstly act as a discussion forum about the club, but more importantly it is designed to organise a home end for the club, to create active support, something Townsville hasn't seen.

We've seen what the Cove (Sydney FC fans), BWB (Melbourne fans), the squadron (Newcastle fans) and the yellow fever (Wellington fans) have done, and they've acted as a 12th man for the side, as well as adding immensely to the match day experience for everyone. If we can come close to creating the atmosphere these set of supporters can, it'll be a cracking atmosphere for everyone to enjoy.

So lets rally around this new NQ club, and show the rest of Australia, Asia and the world how proud North Queenslanders are about sport and football!

[Cowboys_fan_06]

Ian Fergusson named as our coach today! Club to announce first couple of players in the coming days, club starting to take some shape - nows a good time to join up guys. Get behind the team! :)

[The_Darkhorse]

YYAWWWWWWNNN

[Roo]

Soccer = Prima donnas, injury faking, nil all, boring, yawn fest.:closedeyes:

So fair to say I won't be sharing your enthusiasm

[RobsGT4]

I dropped in to have a look and yeah sorry but very YYAAAAWWWWWWWNNNNNNNNNN

[RHINO]

i'll be at the roar game 2morrow nite. Need something to do, watched a few different leagues now and a-league is the most boring by a very long way. Would struggle at the pace of the 3rd grade english league

[leesee]

Unless Croatia or PSG is playing, I don't want to know about it. Doesn't help the boy a) played state level soccer for the ACT, and b) he's Greek. I'm doomed to watch bad soccer forever lol!

I have an entire season worth of free Roar tickets to get through...blergh.

[gamkac]

Thanks - but, No thanks

[Cowboys_fan_06]

Bit of an update, we've got our own domain and forum software much like here.

Here's the link: http://forums.northqldfc.com.au/

You lads might think the sport is a yawn, but to me this tells me you haven't really given it a chance. We're looking at creating a home end to introduce active support, something Townsville haven't really seen. Check out the forum and say g'day.

[Ianc]

Mate I have given much of my time (trying to keep Father-in-law happy), how I wish I could get that time back.

[Thommo]

F that, it would be like watchin Stido and Ianc playin their lawn bowls...:bored:

[Beaves NQ]

NQ Fury...............hahaha, what a lame a$$ name, even the logo is $hithouse


http://www.a-league.com.au/site/_content/image/00020621-image.jpg

[#CowboyDavid]

Is the ball wearing a grass skirt?

I would have thought they'd play better if they were happy rather than furious.

[Stido]

Is the ball wearing a grass skirt?

I would have thought they'd play better if they were happy rather than furious.

I think you'll find it's probably a reference to cyclones otherwise there would be 2 balls there. LOL

[Beaves NQ]

5 years, that's all i give it. Especially in this current economic situation, if the team goes ordinary, then don't expect the sponsors to hang around, unlike when the cows came in, the world was somewhat stable in that department back then.........now though is another story

[Thommo]

I think you'll find it's probably a reference to cyclones otherwise there would be 2 balls there. LOL

Probably been lookin up ur skirt Stido.....:lol:

[Stido]

Probably been lookin up ur skirt Stido.....:lol:

LOL, all that meat & no potato's.

[Thommo]

Beats me how people can confuse mushrooms with meat ..:sneaky:

[leesee]

squinting thommo...squinting lol

[Thommo]

lol Leesee....ur probably right eh...:lol:

[Cowboys_fan_06]

We're setting a proper supporters group, who'll assemble at the Northern Hill. We've spoken to the club, and they'll be allocating the active supporters there own space. We'll all get together, watch the football, have a drink, have a sing and create an atmosphere never before seen in sport here in Townsville. It's going to be bloody great. The crowds will be there, expect them to be as high, if not higher than the Cowboys. A large majority of the season will be played during the holiday period, and that's a massive win in terms of crowd pulling power.

We'll also have opposition supporters traveling here, something we don't see for the Cowboys.

[Ianc]

Good luck to you. I hope it goes well but its still a crap game.

[Cowboys_fan_06]

Haha cheers mate, will be looking to covert quite a few league fans, consider yourself warned haha.

[RHINO]

ill be behind them, im already a member of the orange army, to bad they arent allowed to score a goal at home

[Beaves NQ]

5 years, that's all i give it. Especially in this current economic situation, if the team goes ordinary, then don't expect the sponsors to hang around, unlike when the cows came in, the world was somewhat stable in that department back then.........now though is another story


slight adjustment, I'll give it 2 years after last nights performance........

[Stido]

slight adjustment, I'll give it 2 years after last nights performance........

Now, now Beave play nice with the other codes.:lol:

[Beaves NQ]

I don't want to see them fail, heck, at least it gives us something to have an interest in come summer time and it also gives the region more weight behind getting more upgrades to DFS seeing as though it will be tenanted all year round, soccer just doesn't hold the public's imagination like league does up here. Combine $hithouse performances on the field with a typical monsoonal wet season, they will be lucky to get anyone to the games which is a big shame. I will go next weekend to see what it is all about and cheer for them, but i don't think there will be many others.

[RHINO]

i just spent the weekend with the supporters crew that came down here to the coast. Even though we got thrashed 5-0 i still had a ball

[Beaves NQ]

We're setting a proper supporters group, who'll assemble at the Northern Hill. We've spoken to the club, and they'll be allocating the active supporters there own space. We'll all get together, watch the football, have a drink, have a sing and create an atmosphere never before seen in sport here in Townsville. It's going to be bloody great. The crowds will be there, expect them to be as high, if not higher than the Cowboys. A large majority of the season will be played during the holiday period, and that's a massive win in terms of crowd pulling power.

We'll also have opposition supporters traveling here, something we don't see for the Cowboys.


still waiting for that prediction.

The only thing I have seen that you have been right on is the 'have a drink' part. From what I saw last night, some of the F Troop were drunken poms and drunken louts looking to cause trouble.

[deeight]

still waiting for that prediction.

The only thing I have seen that you have been right on is the 'have a drink' part. From what I saw last night, the majority of the F Troop were drunken poms and drunken louts looking to cause trouble.

Spot on. I went to my first (and probably only) soccer match last night at DFS. We left just after half time. There is more atmosphere at an under 10's basketball match at Murray.

Also, where were all the opposition supporters as predicted? I could count them on one hand.

At least there was no waiting in the beer line.

[Beaves NQ]

I hear people telling me that the atmosphere is better and blah blah blah at the Fury games. Granted our crowds are no where near as vocal as what they used to be (hell I even wrote an article in the Bully about 5 years ago stating this), so I do agree with the Fury fans that bag the cowboys fans to an extent, but IMO if last night was anything to go by, just because 150 people are singing and chanting, they think they are as loud as f#$k....... sorry to tell you guys, but the atmosphere was nothing special.

They were pretty disjointed the F troop last night, one half were singing one song, the other half something else, I couldn't tell what they were singing half the time and i was sitting right in front of bay 304. It makes me think there may be alot of people up there just turning up for something to do and trying to look cool and not really as hardcore as others amongst the F troop. When I was trying to get through to get a drink on the northern hill, there seemed to be a few getting booted by the cops, it makes it hard for the real fans up there in the F troop to support the team when there are a few d!ckheads ruining it for them.

I won't be going back though. I found that game boring as bat $hit. I have watched every game of theirs on Austar and some have been entertaining, but last night that was horrible to watch in person. As I said earlier, no one wants to see them fail, but I don't think the team will last very long when they are losing $$$ every game that less than 10k people turn up to. Mr Willows Golf Course only has certain depth with his pockets, I don't think he will support it if it's a financial basket case for an extended period of time.

Last night they had the chance to get a lot of people on board (myself included) but it was a pretty ordinary night all round. I think the reason fans of Soccer have to carry on and chant constantly is because the game can have some extremely boring passages (last night it was nearly the whole friggin game), the only way to keep amused is to act the goat, chr!st knows how half of them can know whats going on the pitch when they are singing and carrying on.

[dakapayne]

The Fury should be doing everything possible to sign Robbie Fowler as player/coach if they have any interest in being competitive and improving their popularity in the North. I'd like to see the Fury kick on but in all likelihood they will die a slow death. Shame.

[The_Darkhorse]

The Fury should be doing everything possible to sign Robbie Fowler as player/coach if they have any interest in being competitive and improving their popularity in the North. I'd like to see the Fury kick on but in all likelihood they will die a slow death. Shame.
Never been a fan of player/coaches at top level sport. Especially not a bloke who has no respect for his own coach.

[StinkyPete]

Never been a fan of player/coaches at top level sport. Especially not a bloke who has no respect for his own coach.

A-League may be the top level of football in Australia. but it is no where near the top level of the sport.

[RHINO]

stefanutto gone to the roar, only nth qld local and socceroo in the squad and they let him walk out the door with 2 years still left on his contract without saying boo. bad news

[dakapayne]

Shame about Stafenoutoo. A former soccerroo adds to the profile of the club.

Robbie Fowler lost respect for Ferguson because his main game plan was, go out and play hard. Fowler used to give alot of input and ideas to his team mates and he thought he had some good ideas for the team moving forward which Ferguson didn't agree with, hence the fall out.

All credit to Ferguson for getting the team to 7th, a mighty achievement! But a guy with the experience, guile and football smarts of Fowler should be courted 'Fury'ously! He's already proved he has the class and he would be invaluable as a marketing and profile tool for the club and as a lure for class players to join and stay with the club.

[RHINO]

Latest word on a new coach is july-august and the bloody season starts in august!

[dakapayne]

They're going to struggle on and off the pitch. Shame.

[dakapayne]

And in the Bully today it said Matt Smith has signed for the Roar. He was a bloody good defender and impressive when he signed for the team mid-season.... Getting worse.

[Stido]

No coach, no players sounds like the powers that be are going to let the Fury shrivel and die..

[dakapayne]

According to the local news tonight, Fowler is heading to the Glory. The story also quoted Fowler's manager as saying they never received an off from the Fury and that his decision was never going to be about money because he has so bloody much of it. Liverpool fans used to sing (to the tune of Yellow Submarine)... "We all live in a Robbie Fowler House, A Robbie Fowler house, A Robbie Fowler house..."

That is ordinary (if you can believe manager's).

[RHINO]

FFA wanted him at sydney, simple as that. Hasn't worked out for them and haven't lifted a finger to do anything since taking over the club. CEO has probaby spent more time on the glf course then trying to fill the squad for next season. Now that the fowler plan has bombed and their gamour club isn't getting them they actully might attempt focusing on the task at hand as atm theres oly 8 players yo show up to pre-season training next week

[Cryogen316]

BOOOOOOOOOOORRRIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGG !!!!!!!!!!!!

[Granty]

ahhhh ...... :cursing:

poor sods :crying:


from http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2010/05/19/2903573.htm?site=northqld


Four Townsville businessmen have been appointed to North Queensland Fury's new advisory board with three more to come including a fan appointed member.

Fury interim chief executive officer Archie Fraser says the board will guide the club through the upcoming A-League season and beyond, after losing millions of dollars in its inaugural year.

Fraser says the involvement of former North Queensland Cowboys chief executive officer Rabieh Krayem, and local businessmen Sean Knights, Peter Brine and Brendan Pickering will reassure current and potential sponsors as well as the fans who saved the club from oblivion.

[#CowboyDavid]

Rabieh Krahem on board - will that reassure the current sponsors to stay or to pull out?

[carrie]

I'm feeling sleepy reading those post on the first page of this thread... amazon affiliate (http://bizmarketingideas.com/113/amazon-affiliate/)

[RHINO]

Boys have really turned it around this season. 2 very solid efforts against 2 of the comp favourites this season and would be ontop of the ladder if it wasn't for the alphabet. Good having atleast one team in winning form atm

[The_Darkhorse]

would be ontop of the ladder if it wasn't for the alphabet.
The for and against might have something to do with that too

[Spiral]

Are there any players with even a tenuous affiliation to the North Queensland region in this club?

[dakapayne]

Matt Ham was signed as the number 2 goal keeper behind Justin Passfield. He is from Ayr. Why the Fury didn't sign him last year is beyond me. He was eventually picked up by the Roar and played against the Fury at Dairy Farmers in a 1-1 draw. He also had a short stint with the Fury mid-season when Paul 'Blooper' Henderson was injured, but didn't get any game time.

If Passfield keeps up his impressive form it may be difficult for Ham to get any game time this season. It's difficult for keepers.

I would like to see a change in the rules regarding goal keepers. I would like the substitution of a goal keeper not count towards the amount of substitutions allowed. This way reserve keepers could get some more experience at the back end of games that have already been decided. If the team is winning or losing 3-0, give the reserve goalie a run in the last 10 or 15 minutes. Passfield apparently was the number 2 keeper for Sydney for a number of years without seeing any game time. A bit harsh.

[RHINO]

really wish their heart and mindset this year floated its way across to the cowboys. Pulling out a draw on the weekend against 2 rubbish red cards and shocking refereeing and being 1 man down after 20 minutes and then another man down for the last 15 minutes was just nothing but guts (just imagine us playing with 12 men from the 20th-65th minute and then finishing the rest of the game with 11 men and still getting a result after being behind for most of it). Have stood straight up to the league heavyweights and shown some real steele and self confidence and has stemmed straight from the coach which is where we might be going wrong. I'm heading down to Melbourne with about 50 other ftroopers for an away trip next weekend which should be awesome.

[dakapayne]

Congrats to the Fury for their good win tonight. Let's see if they can do what the Cowboys couldn't (in 2010) and string two wins together. They would suddenly be back in finals contention.

[dakapayne]

Interesting comment I copied from the Townsville Bulletin forum. Right on the money, I think.

"What odds the FFA make a decision on future of the Fury immediately after hearing whether Aust has got the world cup. If we get the cup, Fury will be propped up but if we miss out Fury will be gonsky".....

Posted by: DB of T'ville 9:24am today

[dakapayne]

Qatar has the 2022 World Cup and is going to build air-conditioned stadiums! Another death knell for the Fury has just been nailed.

Let's hope they can get that elusive two consecutive wins in their next game. They need a positive end to the season.

[RHINO]

been playing an exciting style lately just havent been able to nail the last touch in (even with an open net) so even though they are at the bottom (but still got 3 games up their sleeve to the next 3 above them) they haven't been just making up the numbers and the 5-0 thrashings from last seaosn has vanished.

Sponsoers and corporate support are up but the retards in charge pretty much answer every question with "crowd figures" even though their golden team sydney have averaged less then us this year but not a whisper about it. I was their at skilled park in a crowd of 1700 and it was ****ing pitiful but not a whisper about them either. I don't think getting 20k to every game for the rest of the season and the community ownership plan they are putting together being faultless they won't let facts get in the way of their agenda.

I though the NRL had its problems with incompetence at the top but the FFA are light years ahead.

[Beaves NQ]

agreed, if we die then I won't watch another A league game ever again.

the f troop are a good crew. I was once anti Fury, but have jumped on board this season and have loved every minute of it.

[dakapayne]

Axed as quickly as they arrived

By Zane Bojack
Posted March 1, 2011 22:27:00
Updated March 1, 2011 22:37:00
http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/201103/r727061_5828743.jpg (http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/201103/r727061_5828779.jpg) Goodbye, A-League ... one die-hard Fury supporter says North Queensland football fans have long memories. (Getty Images: Ian Hitchcock, file photo)



Audio: Press Call: Ben Buckley (Grandstand) (http://blogs.abc.net.au/files/nsl-ffa-buckley.mp3)
Audio: Press Call: Lyall Gorman (Grandstand) (http://blogs.abc.net.au/files/nsl-al-gorman.mp3)
Audio: Press Call: Rabieh Krayem (Grandstand) (http://blogs.abc.net.au/files/nsl-fury-krayem.mp3)
Audio: Interview: Michael Palmer (Grandstand) (http://blogs.abc.net.au/files/nsl-ftroop-palmer.mp3)
Map: Townsville 4810 (http://www.abc.net.au/sport/maps/map.htm?lat=-19.2643&long=146.8118&caption=Townsville%204810)
Related Story: D-day arrives for Fury (http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/03/01/3151545.htm?site=sport&section=all)
Related Story: Fury axed from A-League (http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/03/01/3151968.htm?site=sport&section=all)
Related Story: Fury 'not given enough time' (http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/03/01/3152312.htm?site=sport&section=all)

http://www.abc.net.au/sport/stories/2011/03/01/3152387.htm?site=sport&section=all



In the end it was as swift as a David Williams strike or an Ufuk Talay free kick.
Representatives of Football Federation Australia hopped on a plane in Sydney on the first day of autumn, arrived in Townsville just before midday and had revealed the worst-kept secret in the A-League just three hours later.
As 100 per cent owner of the North Queensland Fury, the sport's governing body was shutting down operations immediately with the franchise kicked out of next year's competition.
It was not unexpected but the decision still came as a shock for supporters of round-ball football in the north.
Michael Palmer, a member of the animated F Troop supporters group which turned A-League matches at Dairy Farmers Stadium into a memorable occasion, says North Queensland football fans have long memories.
"They will abandon the A-League for sure, it will be incredibly difficult now at least for one generation if not two for the FFA to establish another team here," he said.
Mr Palmer had tried his best to convince FFA chief executive Ben Buckley to give the Fury another chance by presenting him with his own jersey as the official made his way into the board meeting.
It was a passionate gesture befitting the feelings of all Fury fans, who screamed "yes, yes, just say yes" to any football official who walked by.
It was an outburst which turned to vitriol after the decision.
Mr Palmer himself walked away from the press conference angry with FFA's apparent ignorance.
He threw his jersey on the ground and says he hopes Buckley saw it on his departure.
After watching their club fall apart at the end of the 2009/10 season, most Fury supporters thought their prayers had been answered with the support of football's governing body.
But maybe the mistakes by foundation owner Don Matheson in the club's first season were too big a burden with estimates of losses amounting to $9 million dollars over two budgets.
Buckley says the body's support of the Fury was having an impact on other clubs in a sports market reeling after the global financial crisis.
"We need to make substantive investments in all teams in all regions, in all cities," he said.
"So we need to invest more in marketing and promotion."
It was echoed by A-league chairman Lyall Gorman, who said he felt for North Queensland's fan base but couldn't justify the club's existence at the expense of other clubs.
However it should be remembered that Adelaide, Brisbane, Newcastle and Perth have all been or are still being supported by FFA funds despite possessing bigger population bases.
Rabieh Krayem and his Fury advisory committee suffered through the announcement and believe the wrong decision had been made.
Krayem accepts the situation was bad but wonders what impact it will have on the region.
"It's a very emotional day for the club, it's very sad to tell people they don't have a job," Krayem said.
"It's going to be very sad to tell a lot of kids that there is no football club around."
For Fury fans and A-League supporters, the question will continue to be asked how a franchise that delivered the biggest football name to Australia managed to go broke.
When Liverpool legend Robbie Fowler became the inaugural captain of the Fury, there were few European football fans who didn't know of North Queensland.
When the club played out a dramatic 3-2 loss to eventual champion Sydney in their first ever A-league home fixture, it did so in front of 9,000 fans.
No one could have predicted the Fury's bitter end in just two seasons.
Perhaps the impacts of Australia's World Cup bid failure will be felt at other clubs in time, as the balance sheets continue to be stretched at FFA headquarters and the goodwill for football peters out at a domestic level.
But with a green and white jersey at his feet, Buckley took his first step out of Townsville with the knowledge he had ended the dreams of locals who wished to emulate Lorenzo Sipi, Adam Casey, Shane Stefanutto and Matthew Ham - players who grew up in North Queensland and played football at the highest level while living at home.
Buckley's strides were long but his patience was short after local media suggested he was playing favourites in the boardroom.
Time will tell whether his strategy rebuilds the game enough for a return to North Queensland sometime in the future.

[forster cowboy 3]

were never going to last on their own feet and as soon as FA showed no enthusiasm in helping them it was only a matter of when not if they would get the boot

[ausmojo]

:lol: Beaves, how times change :wagtongue:

shame they're gone :angry2:

[Beaves NQ]

yeah mate, meeting you lads was great hey, I am gutted that we don't have the Fury any more.


Hopefully we might be able to instill some active support mentality into the people at cowboys games.

[Dream]

It would be awesome if there were a vocal and visible supporter group at all Cowboys home games.

The Stampede could help with the online presence and set up something to facilitate the organisation.

I know there are Supporter groups but they don't seem to be anything like the 'armies' that some other teams have.

[Beaves NQ]

I used to have a massive flag done up in cowboys colours (checkered) but the amount of grief I got from muppets on the hill for 'blocking' their view (i only ever waved it when the players would run out or after we scored so they never ever missed any of the action) was ridiculous and i just got seats up in the stand. I may sit down on the hill for one game and take the flag along and gauge how it all goes before commiting to sitting down on the hill again.

[The_Darkhorse]

I used to have a massive flag done up in cowboys colours (checkered) but the amount of grief I got from muppets on the hill for 'blocking' their view (i only ever waved it when the players would run out or after we scored so they never ever missed any of the action) was ridiculous and i just got seats up in the stand. I may sit down on the hill for one game and take the flag along and gauge how it all goes before commiting to sitting down on the hill again.
I would say security will have you waving it out in the carpark within 5 minutes.

[Beaves NQ]

they eased up in 04-05, and then I spent 06 and onwards up in the eastern, I'm not sure what the go is now these days. The security were a$$clowns up until 04 but they relaxed their rules a fair bit.