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How could the FFA have dropped the ball so terribly in regards to western Sydney? The decision to not include two Sydney teams from the start has been proven to be the wrong choice. Now we have the prospect of Rovers failing.
Why? So that Lowy’s friends at Sydney FC can keep the city to themselves, despite them having alienated everyone who lives past Strathfield with their Eastern Suburbs latte sipping bling FC mantra?
The FFA appears to have abandoned Rovers the minute the bid was announced, with very little advertising or media presence since the first initial announcement, especially compared to the GWS AFL team, who have been plastered all over the media, and who have secured multi-million dollar government funding grants.
How can the Rovers bid be expected to come up with the money in a week, when no-one outside the of fans that participate in various online forums know anything about them?
If the Rovers bid fails, it will set back progress in this heartland of football in Australia, an area that has produced dozens of Socceroos, as the supporters feel they have been abandoned once again.
The FFA have propped up Gold Coast and NQF despite them having a combined crowd average of about 6,500, and refused to sell Adelaide when a group was ready and willing to take-over.
Reports are that it is costing the FFA over 12 million dollars a year for these three clubs. GCU and NQF should have been terminated as experiments gone wrong.
Adelaide should have been sold to the Alan Young’s consortium, even with the two-year transitional period that Young desired. Instead, Adelaide is still in FFA hands, still costing them money, and no-one looks like stepping forward, meaning it will probably end up costing them the two years of FFA ownership anyway, and more likely, three or four years.
That money should have been used to to ensure the future of football in western Sydney and to secure the position of the other clubs in the league whose owners didn’t pull out at the first signs of a loss as has happened in North Queensland and the Gold Coast.
The A-League hasn’t gone backwards because of the ‘novelty’ wearing out, or the quality on the pitch falling (as it’s got better), it’s down to the continual failures at the highest levels of the sport in this country.
This situation is a disgrace, and Ben Buckley’s head should roll.
If Rovers fails, he should take responsibility for his failure, and resign.
Hopefully he could be replaced someone like Peter Wilt, a man with drive and vision, who can lead football the way it deserves to be lead, and not an ex-AFL playing suit with no passion for the game who appears to be a simple yes-man for Frank Lowy and his Sydney Hakoah friends.
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