Confirmed: David Gallop stepping down as FFA CEO

Gallop and the FFA in general have stuffed up our youth development, balls it up actually! As someone who has seen the demise of the quality of our national team this has been very disappointing and Gallop has to take a blame for this given he did not want the national TD reporting to him and the removing of the FFA COE as a cost cutting measure. I look at Japan and they starting to produce players to some of the biggest clubs in the europe which include Real Madrid and Barcelona, how does Australia respond to this? This is what we are now up against, big challenge ahead for Aus football and the future of the national team.

Football has survived and will always survive.

These are true figures. Even as the learned person above says about some leagues losing players AFL is a clear winner. All ages, Football (Soccer) is the clear winner. I DON'T make up figures. Disabuse yourself of that idea.

Cant speak for everyone, but this Liverpool fan watches their games, their U18's 7 womens games via LFCTV streamed via membership! That won't show in your famed Ratings!

If the new CEO can knit Australian Football back together as a cohesive unit, they will achieve something that many have given up even dreaming about! Footballs desperately needs to become united, after the divisive days of the past decade!

Strange you apportion some blame to clubs when the vast majority of "Clubs" in this country have NO input due to the structure currently in place! Perhaps you meant "Franchises"

Responding to someone who dedicates his whole time to attempt to derail sensible discussion is a lost cause jb.

Rowdy you need to stop making figures up. Your statement that over 18s in AFL is played by more than the others combined is embarrassing to say the least.

Mr Football -In Gallop''s first year at the helm 2012,it appears you may have forgotten that a player also made his debut for Sydney FC, a player,of whom it could rightly said ,put "bums on seats" at every ground he visited resulting in every "away" game club, Adelaide excepted,having their record "home crowd" for that season. Add to those figures the effect he had on Sydney's home games and I think you would find Del Piero had a much greater effect on "gates" for 2012 than did the hiring of Gallop to his job.To back this up Sydney's average home crowd for 2012 jumped from 11,800 to 16,600,and in Del Piero's second season that average again jumped from 16,600 to 19.600., an increase of nearly 8000 in 2 years. The other factor you appear to have ignored is the introduction of WSW into the mix and in the two years you have highlighted, they had average crowds of 11,600 and 14,800 ,figures which greatly aided in the HAL average increasing in those two seasons for WSW were replacing GCU who had contributed an abysmal 3000 "home gate average to the overall HAL figures for 2011/12. Gallop is not a magician by profession,he is a lawyer, and started work for the FFA in 2012,and the FFA Cup,the establishment of WSW, and the above figures all were caused not by his hire.but fortunately for him , DURING his first year in office. Cheers jb.

Please ignore my like on your comment MF, purely accidental

nick thats not a bad lisit

ABS doesn't publish any sports participation figures any more. They haven't for several years. Sports Australia now publishes the National Statistics for sport participation. Regardless, the ABS figures would paint the same picture when they were last published. If you can provide a link to the ABS figures that validate our nonsense, I'll accept the ABS figures.

Argue with ABS figures. Not me. Are the ABS Fake news?

Norway were the better team against England, but Norway lost. Those of us who watch football know that can happen in knock out football. Fact: A-League rates higher on PayTV in Australia than EPL, or LaLiga, or Bundesliga, or SeriA. No doubt time zones influence this fact. But, it's still a fact. You can have your own opinions. You can't have your own facts. If you want to talk football, you better educate yourself or you will be exposed every time by football fans.

"However when go over 18 Australian Football is played by more players than FFA, RA & NRL combined." Fake News. ALT-Fact. Absolute rubbish. If you want the true figures for participation for adults, kids, men, women, nationally, each state Aussie Rules participation is falling so badly in places like regional Victoria & Tasmania clubs are folding & leagues are folding. Here is the source: https://www.clearinghouseforsport.gov.au/research/smi/ausplay/results/sport

Me saying popular (players, crowds, tv) is correct. You saying most played is also correct. However when go over 18 Australian Football is played by more players than FFA, RA & NRL combined

Freddie - Thank you for the corrections, though it is interesting to note they don't make much difference to the outcome of what I wrote. Re Lyall Gorman's actual position under Frank Lowy it would appear he was actually a "jack of all trades" in the job,having been brought from his CEO position at CCM to head office where it appears he was used as a "jack of all trades ", pushing good ideas sourced from outside the head office and putting out fires emanating out of that same source under Buckley. It is quite hard to allocate a position to Gorman for he was still present when the changeover from Buckley to Gallop was taking place and was actually part of the selected body (from FFA) to run WSW until a purchaser could be found. Isn't it rather strange to note that among the favoured nominees for the now vacated job, Gorman is being named as a strong possibility. If this did occur would it not be further evidence as to how our game has been governed these last 10 years?. That is not a dig at management,it is however a question as to what might have been had Gorman actually made the CEO position his own. Freddie,football management history in our game is rife with such gaffes,probably the greatest one affecting our game was a decision to cut funding to a junior coaching plan that took place in 1974, a gaffe that still has recriminations among grassroots people today, 45 years too late. Once again thanks. Cheers jb.

The most most playing football code is soccer in this country by a fair mile.

Here are the participation statistics for organised sport played in Australia, from data gathered by the independent, federal government body: Sports Australia. NSW: Adults: Football: 402k Touch football: 150k Aussie Rules, RU, RL don't have enough adult participants in NSW to be recorded. Kids (ages 0-14 yrs): Football: 280k Australian football: 81k RU, RL don't have enough kids' participants in NSW to be recorded. So, in NSW, more kids are now playing organised Aussie Rules than RL.

Adio you as a league tragic, have enough problems of your own without coming on here and sprouting this that and the other about football problems. Are you worried that the playing pool in league is down to such a puddle and that the msm that supports the game is dying a slow painful death?