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HappyGuus said:
FFA made bad decisions after bad decisions more than a decade ago.

Western United and Macarthur were mistakes.
Let's not forget Sydney Rovers were awarded a licence for a few months.
Extending licences for another 20 years.
Heart or Team 11 should've been in SE Melbourne.
Keep Gold Coast.
Canberra, Tasmania brought in.
Regionals of Geelong, Wollongong, Christchurch, North Queensland only if healthy.
NST introduced much earlier.
Pro/rel by now.

It's almost like Gallop was deliberately aiming to kill the sport.
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Alice Springs Athletic?
 
Canberra & North Qld are must haves imho.

Although knowing APL & FA they'll probably go to the Gold Coast again.

Sporting bodies seem to have a major hardon for that sporting graveyard.
 
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Barca4life said:
I don’t think Gallop wasn’t a good administrator, I think he got a good wicket from the NRL/Newscorp days when the game split but otherwise he hasn’t set the world on fire when it comes to administering other sports.
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Even though admin guys such as O'Neill rode off the back of a successful ARU tenure ain't no dummy, knew nothing about Buckley being a afl fella, Gallop like O'Neill rode off the back of a strong NRL period WTF did Lowy pick these NON football types ?! huge part of the problem regards the game. He looked at it like a Westfield a sport is not as such especially ours that has had such unheaval and lack of synergies.
Barca4life said:
This is what happens when the administrators don’t have much success outside of this country, I always felt football should be targeting overseas for administrators just like when we do for players and coaches.

At least JJ worked with FIFA but most local ones haven’t much success outside of the country especially in the world of football, I honestly don’t think we have the expertise and knowledge of administrators that could grow the game that the locals one have already tried.
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Covering both paragraphs above, agreed, I mentioned this in another trhead with patjennings, we NEED a FOOTBALL admin fella who understands/knows the principles of the game and has the experience dealing with the inner associated bodies and bang heads together after he has read through a massive summary of our trials and tribulations.
Barca4life said:
In terms of expansion, the wave the league had around 2015 was when the league needed to expand but the ‘fish where the fish are’ line which felt like a smokescreen to not do it had the chance to expand, but instead the game decided to put a hand brake because of the Congress wars which put a stop to that and by the time the league decided to expand it was almost too little too late and overall it felted rushed without much thought into it.
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The fish where the fish are ironically they were looking where they are NOT funnily, having banished the NPL Clubs thats where the fish are but they/he couldn't go back on his word and directive eh, he put us in this position the friggin jerk only thinking for himself NOT the whole game.
Barca4life said:
Once again the league and game has never had a long term vision and without working together for the benefit of the sport then how I can’t expect the game to improve and grow?
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People were sold a dream, I have a Dream, always short term.
Barca4life said:
How many teams, whether it has pro-rel, when it can be played etc it’s part of overall direction and at the moment given the silence from the FA and APL it’s all crickets and nothing has changed for awhile…
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Someone is mentioning Al-Hilal looking to buy in haha seriously turn it up even IF they did why would you want that to occur - that wouldn't help the game overall whatsoever. We need a full investigation Top to Bottom, get the facts positives negatives, sent the Agenda, then set the Plan for the next 20/30yrs.
Neither in the FA and worse APL have any idea what to friggin do but make sure of cash cows, our beloved NT's and the APL next media/broadcast deal.
Thats the vision of the people running our game.
 
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LFC said:
Even though admin guys such as O'Neill rode off the back of a successful ARU tenure ain't no dummy, knew nothing about Buckley being a afl fella, Gallop like O'Neill rode off the back of a strong NRL period WTF did Lowy pick these NON football types ?! huge part of the problem regards the game. He looked at it like a Westfield a sport is not as such especially ours that has had such unheaval and lack of synergies.

Covering both paragraphs above, agreed, I mentioned this in another trhead with patjennings, we NEED a FOOTBALL admin fella who understands/knows the principles of the game and has the experience dealing with the inner associated bodies and bang heads together after he has read through a massive summary of our trials and tribulations.

The fish where the fish are ironically they were looking where they are NOT funnily, having banished the NPL Clubs thats where the fish are but they/he couldn't go back on his word and directive eh, he puts us in this position the friggin jerk only thinking for himself NOT the whole game.

People were sold a dream, I have a Dream, always short term.

Someone is mentioning Al-Hilal looking to buy in haha seriously turn it up even IF they did why would you want that to occur - that wouldn't help the game overall whatsoever. We need a full investigation Top to Bottom, get the facts positives negatives, sent the Agenda, then set the Plan for the next 20/30yrs.
Neither in the FA and worse APL have any idea what to friggin do but make sure of cash cows, our beloved NT's and the APL next media/broadcast deal.
Thats the vision of the people running our game.
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Ah, the old "fish where the fish are" line ....... if only the retards could look over their shoulders at the paddock full of prime Angus beef once in a while and realise there is NO NEED to go fishing.....
 
Monoethnic Social Club said:
Ah, the old "fish where the fish are" line ....... if only the retards could look over their shoulders at the paddock full of prime Angus beef once in a while and realise there is NO NEED to go fishing.....
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yep, said elsewhere, 80/20 rule, look after what you got instead of looking elsewhere, no matter the quality of the burley fish don't bite always infact they are not there as well.
 
Do we think the APL would be considering throwing South Melbourne a bone? I think it would be the huge shot in the arm the A-League needs and could really re-ignite the league in Melbourne which has really stagnated since COVID

They will be desperate to salvage this upcoming broadcast rights deal, if they can finally get Canberra sorted I don't see why they wouldn't at least be considering it to get to an even 14 teams
 
EBUS said:
Do we think the APL would be considering throwing South Melbourne a bone? I think it would be the huge shot in the arm the A-League needs and could really re-ignite the league in Melbourne which has really stagnated since COVID

They will be desperate to salvage this upcoming broadcast rights deal, if they can finally get Canberra sorted I don't see why they wouldn't at least be considering it to get to an even 14 teams
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Firstly, welcome to the forum, secondly the APL can jam that bone square up their arse :)
 
welcome ebus,
Look mate re SMH - your bringing up another short term "sugar hit" same applies with canbra.
A shot in the arm isn't good enough - do you/we want to go through the same ups and downs again and again ?!
Thats all your suggesting is going to do, hasn't the last 10yrs alone shown you this.
 
LFC said:
welcome ebus,
Look mate re SMH - your bringing up another short term "sugar hit" same applies with canbra.
A shot in the arm isn't good enough - do you/we want to go through the same ups and downs again and again ?!
Thats all your suggesting is going to do, hasn't the last 10yrs alone shown you this.
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I consider South Melbourne to be the opposite of a sugar hit, fancy new franchises are sugar hits

Granted the time to bring in South would have been between 2005-2010, but god they couldn't possibly do worse than WU, and you have a ready made fiery rivalry with Victory right there
 
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