Dennis Gedling is a BPL A-League blogger. Click here to blog on your favourite team.

Pop quiz hot shot, when was the last time Perth Glory got over 10,000 to show up at two home games in a row? The first A-League season was when and only in the last two matches in this SIXTH season A-League that Glory has done that again. The first A-League season was a time when hope was still running on from the NSL era and before the onset of the dark times of things like the FFA ownership and Nick Rizzo.

With all that in the past it was good to see another healthy crowd showed up for the game against Newcastle last Saturday afternoon despite the threat of rain, the fact that people had to go and do their donkey vote for the election and the risk that Ljubo Milicevic's face may have given some young fans nightmares. A good enough performance against a side that had a broken down old war horse up front by himself and the finest of shin splitting hacking talent the league could offer in the midfield and defence.

My boss went to his first Glory game on last Saturday to watch the side and took his boy to his first game. He bitched to me last Monday that following the match when he asked his son if he wanted to stay up and watch the Arsenal-Blackpool game on later that night he got the innocent reply "I'd rather watch the Glory". Now, perhaps some people would think there was some mind control fluoride like substance that was slipped in to the kids overpriced bottle of Coke at the game but perhaps this does show that the A-League is finally starting to find some bedrock and build on getting the young football fans in to the league with ‘their team' being the one from their home state rather than one from overseas.

Avid Glory fan Blayne Treadgold wrote a piece on a different football website about the amount of people now coming to Glory games who don't have a second team and that the Glory is their team. This is happening, a select few have pride in with some valid points made. It has also been noticed with younger fans and people who support all the sporting teams that come from their particular city so it is a start but you can't get too pie in the sky about it. There is one scene in one of the final episodes of The Sopranos'when an FBI agent shouts "Yeah! We're going to win this thing!" when they hear of a major mob boss being taken out.

The look the agent gets from his partner is to pretty much say ‘We're never going to win this thing", the same can be said with the A-League being the biggest thing in football. It will never be more popular than the AFL, it will never get more kids watching that rather than the Premier League with it's legions of plastics but substantial inroads are and still can be made, the hard work just has to continue with less Clive Palmer and more Tony Sage in the mix and more Robbie Fowler types flying in.

Glory have a chance to consolidate top spot this week (Jesus H. Christ I haven't said that in a while!) when they take on the Heart in Melbourne on Sunday. Let us hope for more of the same from the Glory to build on what is already their best start to a season ever in the A-League. To quote the shed from last Saturday afternoon, "Say we are top of the league!"