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Hopefully national team games in AFC…… Would put domestic and international football together which would be great. Any additional football on Paramount will help domestic football, but Socceroos/Matildas would be ideal.
A new broadcast deal is fantastic news for the A-League
They have described it a “shared creative” and spoke in the media coverage about this, although not in a lot of detail. I think it is great football is getting into production. I suspect if they get a huge capital injection they’ll invest in production further over time.
A new broadcast deal is fantastic news for the A-League
Read my comments again. I did not say the APL would fund a NSD game – I said exactly the OPPOSITE, which is why the NPL are getting into production. It’s not just about their own league, it is about the business opportunities that lay elsewhere in Australia and overseas for sports that can deliver content.
A new broadcast deal is fantastic news for the A-League
I do get it, I get that these expenses are actually an investment, you instantly get a better balance sheet, you get to produce and deliver and SELL tons of additional content, tell your own stories and if you do it well enough, you sell your excess (or scaled) production capacity FOR A FEE to other leagues… You sir, don’t get it. Your response to my arguments demonstrates this. Please keep typing. It does not help you.
A new broadcast deal is fantastic news for the A-League
We can do more than one thing at a time. We can seek to improve the game we love in all its key aspects, men, women, youth, calendar, national teams etc… AND seek to ensure football isn’t treated like a second class citizen by government. Just because there is more football can be doing to improve this itself, it doesn’t mean these concerns are not appropriate and people should ‘shut up, sit down and watch the football’. Lets hope the now broke FFA can extract itself entirely from A-League concerns and focus on the long lost of complex and expensive problems – including institutional discrimination against the game and its community in government.
Less whingeing, more fun: Football needs to sell entertainment in 2021
Could have done without that result at AAMI Park, but some cracking football played there and all over the league. So good to get back into the routine of getting to matches, but can not wait until ticketing, seating and all the drinking can return to normal.
Is the A-League about to become what we've always wanted it to be?
“of aristocratic descent” = stopped reading
Finally, football in Australia is again on the up
I think Mike was one of the more balanced ‘negative’ writers last season in, by any metric, a bad year for the LEAGUE. I too agree that there is a good feeling comming into the next LEAGUE and take no umbridge at Mike warming a little to it. What I do want to point out is that the LEAGUE is not FOOTBALL. I think the following two views I currently hold are seperate but related points (1) The LEAGUE is in a good place and there is a bit to become optimistic about (2) FOOTBALL is in some very significant, strategic trouble in light of the new board’s terms of release with the APFCA. The whole of FOOTBALL will be negatively impacted in strategic and financial terms, with one exception – I suspect the LEAGUE will be better for it. I’ll discuss that in the correct thread at a future time.
Finally, football in Australia is again on the up
Also the Knights –
No more 'old soccer' and 'new football'. The FFA Cup proves there is only football
Amen to this….. In all respects.
I'm on the Western United bandwagon - and you should be too
Remind me to purchase your Executive Leadership book at the airport next time I’m there…
Confirmed: David Gallop stepping down as FFA CEO
That is an opinion, not a fact. Calling people names doesn’t turn your opinion into a fact either. Try harder. I have faith you can do better.
Confirmed: David Gallop stepping down as FFA CEO
Understood. I enjoy it too. Roosters fan from their days as East’s ????
Confirmed: David Gallop stepping down as FFA CEO
Tell me again about the ‘good old days’ when the players union, SBS and club owners were ‘in’ with the FFA CEO. Just laughable………
Confirmed: David Gallop stepping down as FFA CEO
Disagree. Tactical noise aside, the game only has three strategic challenges. 1. Unity of purpose 2. Commercial growth and 3. player pathways / development. The same three issues it’s had for a decade. The game is in rude health otherwise when you put all the ‘noise’ aside. The new management will be a success if it can solve even one of the above strategic issues. I’d rather have footballs long run problems than either rugby’s or league’s……
Confirmed: David Gallop stepping down as FFA CEO
We’ll miss his experience and industry knowledge – whatever his mistakes (some of which context cannot save him from). However I’m not going to pile onto the personal invective and selective / context free writing of history. I’ll leave it to the renowned cool heads of the online Australian football public. The time is absolutely right for him to go and not just for the narrowing of the FFA role. With ‘new football’ consigned to history and the structural changes to professional leagues, game governance and ultimately FFA revenues, one might even say his timing is astute.
Good luck David, and to your replacement I say God Bless. I hope your deep credentials as a ‘passionate football person’ are sufficient to cover for your likely indulgence in economically illiterate football vanity projects at the direction of the ‘democracy’ FIFA have bequest Australian football at the insistence of ‘the stakeholders’ ….
Confirmed: David Gallop stepping down as FFA CEO
The Nights are all about the Nights, Croatian nationalism and a strain of free market fanaticism that would make Adam Smith blush. They are of course absolutely entitled to the various views outlined in this paper, much of it I actualy agree with, however I found aspects of their response churlish and laiden with the buzzwords of the ‘new soccer’ insurgency. The Nights see their role in the game as the shock troops for a virulent ‘club first’ mentality that makes no room for game development. They are not charlatans however. They genuinely believe in this approach.
Is football finally uniting?
“not just in the world, but more importantly in Australia” – That is #Straya in one short sentence……
Would a football “Big Bash” pique interest in the sport?
The stain is immeasurable…….
Will Melbourne Victory suffer from a 6-1 finals hangover this season?
While we are yet to hear anything from SFC, Jets and Nix and Victory await final council approval for their development opposite the Flemmington racecourse in the heart of Melvourne (ironicaly) – Perth, Adelaide, WSW and Roar are/have already built/building facilities worth tens of millions of dollars each and are/have doing/done so on council (or State government) leased land by developing non-for-profit, wholly owned subsidiaries to allow these governments to provide a long-run peppercorn lease deals of the type most member federation clubs already have. CCM, Western United and City own land and facilities, but the corporate structure (i.e. who has the asset and who has the debt, if any) is somewhat opaque for these three.
Professional league independence brings excitement and challenges
The GOTG powers will be codified like they are in England. The shop will remain closed. More closed than ever now. Indeed the FFA will likely agree with the A-League on this to protect its revenues that now come from the league indirectly. Previously the FFA got those revenues directly and had some flexibility internally in theor budget. Not anymore. Not in the slightest.
FFA reaches in-principle agreement for independent A-League
Mate, we are having a conversation about news concerning the funding and broadcast of our domestic leagues – largely in the hope they can begin to flourish once more.
We understand there is a diverse world of football out there and many of us follow parts of it, often reflecting who we are or where we come from. I’m not sure what point you are trying to make to be honest?
That being said, having out national teams play all over the world would be a good development in football terms.
If we are being frank, the next broadcast priority from an Australian football development perspective must be our national teams and the various Asian football properties to be broadcast comprehensively.
After that it is all about individual preferences, as outside of the Big 4 leagues in Europe and the various FIFA properties, the subscription driving value drops away very sharply I would imagine, with the exception of a couple of the big continental cups and the odd derby in South America and Eastern Europe.
A new broadcast deal is fantastic news for the A-League