Welcome!

By registering with us, you'll be able to discuss, share and private message with other members of our community.

Sign Up Now!

The Western United Thread

Monoethnic Social Club said:
From the perspective of an entertainment product sure, it is what it was always set out to be... Apparently now they are a football development league? Why not pivot to include... well... football?
Click to expand...
Because, exactly as you point out, they are two very different organising principles. They are fundamentally incompatible.
 
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.

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.
Click to expand...
Great comment
 
Kitwally said:
Great comment
Click to expand...
correct by Frankly S agreed and spot on you quoted :
they are two very different organising principles. They are fundamentally incompatible.

Either side of the fence from us specatators POV comes from emotion though many also have the practical sense in seeing from the governance perspective.
I have said on these boards and 442 2 different bodies can't work together due to constraints.
Its not 2 wrongs don't make a right its 2 models despite providing entertainment/a product have different outlooks.
One is hamstrung due to its closed model the other is an open book but lacks direction and $'s.
One square peg the other round.
Just never going to co exsist and its detremental to the game as a whole.
 
Last edited:
melbcityguy said:
https://www.news.com.au/sport/footb...d/news-story/939253d99570153063e7acb12518191a
Click to expand...
This has been the issue with these clowns all along.

They have several million in debt.
They don't want to pay it because they want nothing to do with the club anymore.
APL doesn't want to pay it.
Football Australia doesn't give a fuck.
The dodgy 'new owners' assuming the deal exists don't want to pay it.


Therefore it is all at an impasse. Time to kill it.


Look at us !!! We pay our bills on time ( for the first time ever ) !! Please don't obliterate us from the face of the Earth !!!

Doesn't anybody with half a brain see through this shit ?
 
erogenouszone said:
This has been the issue with these clowns all along.

They have several million in debt.
They don't want to pay it because they want nothing to do with the club anymore.
APL doesn't want to pay it.
Football Australia doesn't give a fuck.
The dodgy 'new owners' assuming the deal exists don't want to pay it.


Therefore it is all at an impasse. Time to kill it.


Look at us !!! We pay our bills on time ( for the first time ever ) !! Please don't obliterate us from the face of the Earth !!!

Doesn't anybody with half a brain see through this shit ?
Click to expand...
Cant wait until we hear no more about these clowns, next week cant cum soon enough.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top