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The crawford report is much more dense and harder to trudge through than other big vision setting documents. Probably why it never got implemented despite being one of the few times there was outside pressure to reform the game.
After reading carefully the long and dense document i think the big picture it is aiming for is
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1) have soccer australia/ffa/fa governed independently of the nsl/a league
2) make the nsl/a league governed by a board whos is elected by equal vote of all member clubs
3) have the number of votes in ffa/fa each state gets in soccer australia be determined by the number of participants in each state rather than the ad hoc voting numbers
4) severely reduce the number of votes from the nsl (a league) to a single vote
5) have voting rights for players referees the womans game futsal and beach soccer
6) reform state federations so that the system determining the number of votes is the same in each federation
7) have the fa and a league boards work together on tv deals and sponsorships to maximize revenue but otherwise be independent
8) have a charter of rules that forbid conflocts of interest for voting members
9) change the responsibilities of board so that it would focus less on day to day micromanagement and more on implementing long term vision
Wikipedia claims most recommendations were implemented but this just doesnt seem to be true, not even close. It could be numerically true though if you weight trivial changes (change the name of the head of soccer australia from chairman to president).
Anyway thought id summarize this famous document even though sadly little came of it
After reading carefully the long and dense document i think the big picture it is aiming for is
See new posts
1) have soccer australia/ffa/fa governed independently of the nsl/a league
2) make the nsl/a league governed by a board whos is elected by equal vote of all member clubs
3) have the number of votes in ffa/fa each state gets in soccer australia be determined by the number of participants in each state rather than the ad hoc voting numbers
4) severely reduce the number of votes from the nsl (a league) to a single vote
5) have voting rights for players referees the womans game futsal and beach soccer
6) reform state federations so that the system determining the number of votes is the same in each federation
7) have the fa and a league boards work together on tv deals and sponsorships to maximize revenue but otherwise be independent
8) have a charter of rules that forbid conflocts of interest for voting members
9) change the responsibilities of board so that it would focus less on day to day micromanagement and more on implementing long term vision
Wikipedia claims most recommendations were implemented but this just doesnt seem to be true, not even close. It could be numerically true though if you weight trivial changes (change the name of the head of soccer australia from chairman to president).
Anyway thought id summarize this famous document even though sadly little came of it