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The Western United Thread

Sutherlandbear said:
Not sore at all, I just can’t be arsed with folk like you who immigrate here and want everything the same as the dump you left. You have no connection to Australia, apart from you live here.
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easy on the "dump" talk there tiger..... you live in Sydney and came from Scotland...... people in glass houses and all that shite.
 
Hellenic_blue&white said:
Yeah pass.... but grovelling can only get them part of the way, an epic apology for their past failures may also need to be included and we get to bring some friends utd58, marconi, olympic, ad city, apia, preston, knights to level the playing field and above all we get paid for the priveledge of SMFC gracing their league!
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hahaha you're delulu re... hahaha made me laugh but...
 
Western United bosses have paid wages early this month and have also shelled out money for overdue superannuation payments as they attempt to prevent players from leaving the embattled Victorian club.
United was last week stripped of its A-League licence by Football Australia after it “failed to meet” the required criteria, but has announced it will appeal the decision.

The club’s proposed new majority investor KAM Melbourne is yet to submit its full ownership proposal to the Australian Professional Leagues despite the investment – understood to be worth $100 million when including the purchase of the club’s parent company Western Melbourne Group – having been announced by United in May.

United has also been banned by FIFA from registering new signings due to an ongoing financial dispute with the club’s former striker Aleksandar Prijovic.

 
Sutherlandbear said:
No, we cannot shut down ANY football league in Australia, one more and professional football is dead in this country. IMHO.
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Glad you have concerns for that’s mutual.
I realised this just isn’t right for football from our young playing days here and the purest perspective we grew up with and first past the post was Champion.
I tended to have hope originally what Lowy started but figured out in time no it’s not right what he did and I’m not covering the ethnics I’m talking about football as a whole to advance top to bottom.
We are here for the proof is in the pudding why it’s not working and falling at the seems.
So be it Sutho - football will survive and rise from the ashes again no doubt that.
 
Sutherlandbear said:
I stand by my statement, how many re starts do you want ? You have to hope for a reunification.
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undoubtedly, reunification is the ONLY way we will ever get anywhere.. Problem with current setup is that it has NO possible mechanism for this to happen.. something has to change...
 
superpolska said:
If Western United is to fold. Hearing the Facility will be swooped up by a certain NSD side. Not rugby not aleague not cricket!
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Hope not; as I posted in another thread it should fall under FootballVIC control as the West’s answer to the Home Of The Matildas. Having said that though, which club is it bc I can’t think of any based out that way w/the clout to pull it off❓
 
Monoethnic Social Club said:
undoubtedly, reunification is the ONLY way we will ever get anywhere.. Problem with current setup is that it has NO possible mechanism for this to happen.. something has to change...
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And if it’s true that Heather Garriock is making a play for the full-time post, she won’t be the one to get the wheels rolling on this; she’ll just continue what Lowy&O’Neill started and all others since have done👎🏼
 
Monoethnic Social Club said:
undoubtedly, reunification is the ONLY way we will ever get anywhere.. Problem with current setup is that it has NO possible mechanism for this to happen.. something has to change...
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In fact it has a franchise structure that makes it all but impossible to reunite, because the clubs that comprise the APL would have to vote their own organisation out of existence and write off their licence fee purchase.

That will not happen. The only way to reform the present exclusionist model is for the A League to go out of business.

However, I would add, Mono, that the derogation of the A League by those from the pre A League model, the one I grew up watching and playing in and loved (and still do), is neither realistic nor helpful. The A League clubs (excluding the recent debacles of WU and Macarthur) have been around for 20 years now and have valid, if short, traditions, and, for the most part, support that significantly exceeds on a regular basis that of the traditional clubs. This must be acknowledged and respected.

The core problem is that there isn't enough money, as surely every sane person must have known, for a genuine national second division, and it is impossible to see the money ever being there. The gap in income and exposure between football and NRL and AFL is now gargantuan and we are falling further behind with every TV deal. The tie-in between those competitions and media ownership has proven insurmountable.
 
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Frankly Speaking said:
In fact it has a franchise structure that makes it all but impossible to reunite, because the clubs that comprise the APL would have to vote their own organisation out of existence and write off their licence fee purchase.

That will not happen. The only way to reform the present exclusionist model is for the A League to go out of business.

However, I would add, Mono, that the derogation of the A League by those from the pre A League model, the one I grew up watching and playing in and loved (and still do), is neither realistic nor helpful. The A League clubs (excluding the recent debacles of WU and Macarthur) have been around for 20 years now and have valid, if short, traditions, and, for the most part, support that significantly exceeds on a regular basis that of the traditional clubs. This must be acknowledged and respected.
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Fair points you make. Personally, I have no problem with the clubs or their supporters, and didn't when some of these proto-franchises started up out of thin air during the NSL... I (and many others) wanted a Melbourne Victory like club (Carlton Soccer Club as an example) to join the NSL .... its the system they are operating under that doesnt make sense to me.
 
Monoethnic Social Club said:
Fair points you make. Personally, I have no problem with the clubs or their supporters, and didn't when some of these proto-franchises started up out of thin air during the NSL... I (and many others) wanted a Melbourne Victory like club (Carlton Soccer Club as an example) to join the NSL .... its the system they are operating under that doesnt make sense to me.
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I think it makes sense, but from a very narrow perspective.

I can see why the model was adopted, but the build it and they will come reasoning was fatally flawed.

People forget the influence of the Super Rugby model at the time, and John O'Neil.
 
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