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Manchester City, Western Sydney Wanderers and Geelong Cats are my favourites.

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So Perth Glory sold for next to nothing. Shows the value of the League really and each clubs stake in the APL

Battle for licences an intriguing aspect of Australian footballing landscape

Oops sorry I meant Allianz

'Killed the A-League', 'treated with contempt': Fans' fury as Grand Finals sold to Sydney

The APL has its financial challenges. The $6M per year boost will go a long way to maintaining financial stability.

It looks like a bad decision. And It probably is. But to me it’s a cry for help as to where the league really is at.
I’m guessing part of The build of the ACCOR Stadium involved some sort of pledge from the A League for some big ticket items

'Killed the A-League', 'treated with contempt': Fans' fury as Grand Finals sold to Sydney

Things are changing at the club. It will get better. New CEO. New ideas.

'One step forward, two steps back': The trials and tribulations of the Wanderers Academy

The Wanderers academy is FREE. The Wanderers Foundation pays for it.
The clubs NPL youth smashed the club championship.

'One step forward, two steps back': The trials and tribulations of the Wanderers Academy

Exciting times for sure. By the time we get to 22 games hopefully we have leveraged off the World Cup

The A-League Women expansion highlights an exciting time to be a football fan

Congrats to Wales. Disappointing for Ukraine, would have been many peoples sentimental favourites

Ukraine miss World Cup while Wales end 64-year drought

To me not making the World Cup is a chance to reset and rebuild again. We need to go from the bottom up and come up with a better curriculum, better pathways etc.

We need to find a way to get the best players going overseas at a young age and playing in the best competitions.

Times have changed so we need to evolve. Hope we get there but perhaps if we do it may give us the wrong idea of where we are truly at.

No one wants to say it, but what happens if the Socceroos miss the World Cup?

Optus sport have the Womens but will sublet Matilda games and other big ones to a yet to be named FTA network

Young Matildas coach Leah Blayney will join esteemed company when she goes to Costa Rica

Yes as I said it hasn’t been done well. Hopefully they fix next season

$2 million cost of expanding the A-League Womens

I heard a whisper SBS may at least stream it

Young Matildas coach Leah Blayney will join esteemed company when she goes to Costa Rica

Every club advertise a paramount subscription. Some may have said you only get the discount if you become a proper member too.

I agree they should have made it clear the tv deal relied on this clause.

$2 million cost of expanding the A-League Womens

there was an option to just buy Paramount without being another type of member i think

$2 million cost of expanding the A-League Womens

Streaming services don’t care for ratings, they don’t advertise, they want subscriptions.

The codes were the only way to show how many people signed to paramount due to being A-League fans. This was a measure – as unreliable as it may be – they chose to use as part of their deal.

It makes sense. Why would you pay $32 million without expecting a return, if you don’t get that return it makes business sense you’d want some of your money back or not pay as much?

Lots of clubs were offering paramount memberships. I got mine for $75 as part of my A-League membership .

$2 million cost of expanding the A-League Womens

Don’t listen to Sth Melb Mike at all. The info about the codes and that being used to measure subscriptions made by A League fans is correct. Because of the bungle up with the codes many fans just signed up anyway. There was no way to then count them as signing up to watch A-League.

I don’t blame Viacom for having a clause like that. But the way to measure it has to be fair. If they stuffed up the codes, they can’t then say you didn’t meet your target.

Be keen to know how many subscribers there are for paramount in total. Compared to what was expected?

$2 million cost of expanding the A-League Womens

Yes they would. They have a greater stake than everyone.

$2 million cost of expanding the A-League Womens

Yep the codes were a disaster and I hope the APL use that as leverage to avoid any cash cut from the deal

$2 million cost of expanding the A-League Womens

Politics mate. Some people don’t want This team recognised at all

The 80-year-old who has just become a Matilda

Having some challenges with FA. They don’t want to recognise this team as a national team but want to recognise them as being the first team that represented Australia at a major tournament. Hahhaa make of that what you will. Next step is try and get their games from 1975 counted as A internationals

The 80-year-old who has just become a Matilda

Good to see a few players now recognised from the past

The 80-year-old who has just become a Matilda

Next step is to get their games counted as A internationals. All other countries count the games played at the 1975 tournament as A internationals but Australia still hasn’t and still won’t at this stage.

They need to be counted in my view

The 80-year-old who has just become a Matilda

I guess when you aren’t remunerating someone for what you think they are worth, it can be seen as pushing them out and letting them make the call

Seventh heaven: Who will coach the Wanderers' women next?

She wasn’t discarded. She left. Partly due to remuneration and partly due to playing budgets. She didn’t tell me this, heard from people closely linked. I believe them because this has been a. Common issue for Wanderers

Seventh heaven: Who will coach the Wanderers' women next?

Goood player. As a coach, she created a good environment but was inexperienced.

She has never coached a Womens team at NPLW level. She was a second assistant to Heffernan and other coaches before her.

So experience wasn’t there. Same would be said of a male coach. Many go into Womens without experience and many leave after a short time.

Players at this level want a coach with experience. They have their own goals and aspirations. Like making Matildas and so on. The players don’t care about political statements.

Personally would like to have seen Cath get another chance and by all accounts she was the one who left. The club didn’t want to pay up. A common issue with other coaches at Wanderers.

Seventh heaven: Who will coach the Wanderers' women next?

Thanks mate. I’ll be writing till the 2023 World Cup then I’m done hahah given enough to this

Seventh heaven: Who will coach the Wanderers' women next?

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