As reality sets in after our annual weekend release, post Garriock and Rosich it feels like we're now firmly back under lock and key. I hope we all thanked our jailers for our fun day out. If we behave, we'll get another play date next year. Let's understand our power to act.

smh.com.au/sport/soccer/brac… Many good points raised. So much to say, but I'll focus on the extract. South don't have to beat Victory. It has won. It is there. It was not meant to be. Along with all its peer clubs, it was designated a supporting community role. It refused its role. It continued to aspire. To be what its people made it. The argument is won. The fact we are having this discussion, as Heidelberg also prompted last year, attests to it since the discussion was declared closed when MV was invented and given the keys to Victoria, as Vic sole rep in the top tier. Exclusively. The door has been prised ajar by pure force of people power. We don't have two warring factions. We have fans who love the game bequeathed a fractured league structure by the ignoramuses who created it. It takes years to build something. An instant to break it and years more to rebuild it. Let's stop fearing what and who we are and what our game is here in 🇦🇺 and embrace it. Stop trying to make and remake it and to frame it as divided. If everyone had a chance and if opportunity was equal and open there would be a pyramid of linked divisions, not division through exclusion. The Australia Cup, introduced as the limit of the excluded clubs connecting with the anointed, has produced the ultimate unintended consequence - a new horizon of possibilities. This is not a winner takes all battle. It simply demonstrates the chains in which we have tied ourselves. One of our historic clubs at the end of its season, consigned to its state comp, members based, subject to different squad rules, playing a one-off match against a made up privately owned team which bought an exclusive right to our first division. Let's not celebrate this as a climax. Let's treat it as the portent of possibility. The AL teams are here to stay now. There's no war. Just expose them to true competition. Unite our game. Introduce a true 2nd tier by linking it with the first. Make these games normal. Make them truly competitive. Remove any argument about the game's structure and warring factions. Imagine.