I love the idea, although I dont see why if the Mariners can't afford to have any if its outside the cap, why dont the A-League just make it you can include foreigners in the cap if you want?
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I don't think it's such a bad thing. I sure as hell would prefer watching Victory play at the moment with some exciting youth playing attacking football rather than recycling players just to balance the books.
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Dunno if it has been confirmed or not but last night there was talk we had agreed to reverse the fixture and are waiting for the AFC to sign off on it.
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Has now been confirmed.
Perth Glory can confirm that following discussions with Ulsan Hyundai FC, the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), Football Federation Australia (FFA) and Professional Footballers Australia (PFA), the club’s upcoming AFC Champions League Group F game against Ulsan Hyundai FC has been rescheduled.
Instead of travelling to play away at Ulsan Hyundai FC on Wednesday 4 March 2020 as originally scheduled, Glory will now host the Korean side at Perth Rectangular Stadium on Wednesday 18 March 2020 (kick-off time TBC).
The return fixture will now take place at the Ulsan Munsu Football Stadium on Tuesday 7 April 2020 (kick-off time TBC).
Glory CEO Tony Pignata was quick to acknowledge the collaborative approach taken by the various stakeholders in rearranging the fixtures.
"The health and safety of our players, staff and supporters was always the club’s priority,” he said, “and this decision safeguards that, so we are pleased with the outcome.
"On behalf of the club, I would like to thank Ulsan Hyundai FC, the AFC, FFA and the PFA for their assistance in this matter and we look forward to welcoming Ulsan Hyundai FC to Perth next month."
AFC Champions League fixture change confirmed
Perth Glory can confirm that following discussions with Ulsan Hyundai FC, the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), Football Federation Australia (FFA) and Professional Footballers Australia (PFA), the club’s upcoming AFC Champions League Group F game against Ulsan Hyundai FC has been...
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'We're not involved': FFA urges A-League club owners to move faster
By Vince Rugari
February 28, 2020 — 6.06pm
Football Federation Australia chief executive James Johnson has urged A-League clubs to start making the most of their hard-fought independence and empower Greg O'Rourke to lead the competition out of the darkness.
Johnson delivered the comments at Thursday's meeting of club owners in Sydney, according to sources with knowledge of what was discussed at the day-long summit.
New FFA chief executive James Johnson addressed A-League club owners on Thursday.
Johnson also encouraged A-League chairmen to more clearly define the role of O'Rourke - FFA's head of leagues, and the de facto CEO of the competition - and give him more scope to act as a voice for the domestic game.
The address from Johnson, who has been in the top job at FFA for just over a month, was not antagonistic unlike the many exchanges between the governing body and the clubs during the Lowy-Gallop era, according to the sources, who described his comments as a more conciliatory call to action that came with the support of FFA. It was received well by the clubs.
This season is the first since the A-League's separation from FFA - the fruits of a years-long war within the sport. The split has been operationally finalised but won't be legally signed off until the end of the current broadcast deal in 2023.
The circumstances have left the competition burdened with a sense of inertia. Club sources have spoken regularly of confusion as to where certain responsibilities lie, and the hesitancy has led to a failure to sell a unified message or vision to supporters against a backdrop of declining television ratings, crowds and sponsorships.
O'Rourke, meanwhile, has been working as the head of a business unit within FFA but reports not to a singular chairman or board, but all 12 club owners at once, with no real mandate to serve as the A-League's figurehead.
That will soon change, with the clubs resolving to finalise the structures around O'Rourke, back him in and get on with the business of improving the A-League, sources said.
The A-League's high-profile advisor, former English Premier League mastermind Richard Scudamore, was also at Thursday's owners meeting. He is on his second trip to Australia after signing on as a sounding board to the clubs and O'Rourke in October.
Scudamore conceded certain elements about the A-League were still in a "halfway house" because it is still legally tethered to FFA.
"That was a big part of what we were discussing over the last couple of days," Scudamore told the Herald when asked about who was responsible for the A-League's public leadership.
Former English Premier League executive chairman Richard Scudamore has become a "special advisor" to the A-League.
"They're feeling their way towards governance, how they're going to run things. The easy stuff is the fixtures, the running of the league, the operational stuff.
"When it comes into the slightly more challenging stuff - the commercial stuff, the PR, the [communications], they're managing their way through all that. That's still in a halfway house but that's [okay].
"There's goodwill on both sides and that's the most important thing - there's goodwill from James Johnson and his team, goodwill from the club owners."
In an earlier interview with the Herald, Johnson made it clear the A-League was no longer the domain of FFA.
"The day-to-day operations, we're not involved," Johnson said. "Defining where the league wants to go and the strategy, this is a job the league has to do, and we'll support that, provided there is alignment with the direction we want to go as a whole of game."
At Friday's Sydney FC business luncheon at The Star, club chairman Scott Barlow spoke of a "clear strategy" for the direction of the A-League. It's yet to be publicly unveiled, and Scudamore said that's because the work behind it was still ongoing.
"As part of the strategy, they have to communicate what is going on. But you can't expect people to clearly communicate exactly what is going on until they've worked out the answer to that question themselves," Scudamore said."They're trying to describe the destination point, they've all got their views - that's what they're working on. People are putting in significant hours and resources to answer that question and only when they've got something they're able to tell with some certainty do I think that it's right that they should go out there and say something."
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if you're OK with not getting a pay cheque every week.
If these dicks can't even pay their players on time how do you think a Property's Stewart would be treated like? They've probably gone through a shitload already.
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FFA set to call for expressions of interest in A-League second tier
By Vince Rugari
March 4, 2020 — 4.27pm
Football Federation Australia is set to take its national second-division blueprint to the market to gauge the interest and financial capability of clubs outside the A-League - and chief executive James Johnson believes it should be "full steam ahead" if the response is strong enough.
It has been three months since FFA's steering committee for the ambitious project, led by board member and former National Soccer League boss Remo Nogarotto, was due to release firmer details on how the proposed second tier - a necessary precursor to A-League promotion and relegation - can get off the ground.
Wollongong Wolves won last year's NPL finals series and would be among the leading contenders to participate in a national second division.
Wollongong Wolves won last year's NPL finals series and would be among the leading contenders to participate in a national second division.
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Johnson concedes some vital questions remain unanswered, including how much it will cost clubs annually to participate, and whether the competition should be played in parallel with the A-League in summer or the NPL season in winter.
But Johnson believes the next step is to "test the market", most likely through an informal EOI-style process, to further understand what sort of money interested clubs are able to spend and use that information to help complete financial modelling.
"If we can find sufficient interest, then why not do it? I am a big believer in playing more football matches at a national level, at a higher level, because I think that will help stimulate game development," Johnson told the Herald.
"I don't think five national-level competition games per week is enough - not when we're competing internationally.
"We're at the stage where we have a nice concept, the working group's done some great work, and now we have to test the market."
Johnson conceded much more "number-crunching" was needed, but an equilibrium had to be found between the positions of different stakeholders, who hold contrasting opinions on what should be required financially from clubs in a second tier.
"There's two views - obviously we need to be pragmatic and set the player costs and the running of a club at a lower level so that more matches can be played. Then there's another view which is we need to set it at a higher level because we need a higher product," he said.
"On one hand, we don't want to create a competition that's not going to add any value - it needs to be quality. But we don't want to set the bar so high that we can't do it, because the reality is the vast majority of countries around the world have a second-tier competition. Why is it that we can't?"
FFA chief executive James Johnson believes it's time to test the market for interest in a national second division.
FFA chief executive James Johnson believes it's time to test the market for interest in a national second division.
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In 2017, the Association of Australian Football Clubs (AAFC) released a rough framework for a second-tier league called 'The Championship'. It proposed an annual working budget for clubs of $2.5 million - $3 million short of what Professional Footballers Australia's projections suggest would be needed.
While the two organisations have worked closely together on the steering committee, sources close to the project told the Herald they still remain some distance apart. Key figures at FFA also remain privately sceptical about whether enough clubs will have enough money to make a second division worthwhile, sources said.
Johnson has flagged tweaks to other competitions in the event a second tier does not eventuate to provide more national-level matches, including beefing up the FFA Cup or end-of-season NPL finals series to tournaments more closely resembling a continental Champions League.
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"We could quite simply change the format of the FFA Cup or NPL so we have group stages instead of knockout competitions. I think we have to explore all these different avenues," he said.
AAFC chairman Nick Galatas believes that won't be necessary, and that "more than enough" suitable candidates for a 14 or 16-team league will emerge.
"We think there's easily enough, but you never know until you know - until there's formal applications based on a formal set of criteria," Galatas told the Herald.
"That's why we're going back and honing it a little bit to fine-tune the numbers. We're working both ways, what the clubs can do and what has been identified by the steering committee to date as a good starting point, and working towards what is the best way to start."
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FFA set to call for expressions of interest in A-League second tier
By Vince Rugari
March 4, 2020 — 4.27pm
Football Federation Australia is set to take its national second-division blueprint to the market to gauge the interest and financial capability of clubs outside the A-League - and chief executive James Johnson believes it should be "full steam ahead" if the response is strong enough.
It has been three months since FFA's steering committee for the ambitious project, led by board member and former National Soccer League boss Remo Nogarotto, was due to release firmer details on how the proposed second tier - a necessary precursor to A-League promotion and relegation - can get off the ground.
Wollongong Wolves won last year's NPL finals series and would be among the leading contenders to participate in a national second division.
Wollongong Wolves won last year's NPL finals series and would be among the leading contenders to participate in a national second division.
Photo: Sylvia Liber
Johnson concedes some vital questions remain unanswered, including how much it will cost clubs annually to participate, and whether the competition should be played in parallel with the A-League in summer or the NPL season in winter.
But Johnson believes the next step is to "test the market", most likely through an informal EOI-style process, to further understand what sort of money interested clubs are able to spend and use that information to help complete financial modelling.
"If we can find sufficient interest, then why not do it? I am a big believer in playing more football matches at a national level, at a higher level, because I think that will help stimulate game development," Johnson told the Herald.
"I don't think five national-level competition games per week is enough - not when we're competing internationally.
"We're at the stage where we have a nice concept, the working group's done some great work, and now we have to test the market."
Johnson conceded much more "number-crunching" was needed, but an equilibrium had to be found between the positions of different stakeholders, who hold contrasting opinions on what should be required financially from clubs in a second tier.
"There's two views - obviously we need to be pragmatic and set the player costs and the running of a club at a lower level so that more matches can be played. Then there's another view which is we need to set it at a higher level because we need a higher product," he said.
"On one hand, we don't want to create a competition that's not going to add any value - it needs to be quality. But we don't want to set the bar so high that we can't do it, because the reality is the vast majority of countries around the world have a second-tier competition. Why is it that we can't?"
FFA chief executive James Johnson believes it's time to test the market for interest in a national second division.
FFA chief executive James Johnson believes it's time to test the market for interest in a national second division.
Photo: Sam Mooy
In 2017, the Association of Australian Football Clubs (AAFC) released a rough framework for a second-tier league called 'The Championship'. It proposed an annual working budget for clubs of $2.5 million - $3 million short of what Professional Footballers Australia's projections suggest would be needed.
While the two organisations have worked closely together on the steering committee, sources close to the project told the Herald they still remain some distance apart. Key figures at FFA also remain privately sceptical about whether enough clubs will have enough money to make a second division worthwhile, sources said.
Johnson has flagged tweaks to other competitions in the event a second tier does not eventuate to provide more national-level matches, including beefing up the FFA Cup or end-of-season NPL finals series to tournaments more closely resembling a continental Champions League.
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"We could quite simply change the format of the FFA Cup or NPL so we have group stages instead of knockout competitions. I think we have to explore all these different avenues," he said.
AAFC chairman Nick Galatas believes that won't be necessary, and that "more than enough" suitable candidates for a 14 or 16-team league will emerge.
"We think there's easily enough, but you never know until you know - until there's formal applications based on a formal set of criteria," Galatas told the Herald.
"That's why we're going back and honing it a little bit to fine-tune the numbers. We're working both ways, what the clubs can do and what has been identified by the steering committee to date as a good starting point, and working towards what is the best way to start."
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Seems like their really going for it on all fronts. All these moves would serve to improve the standard and credibility of the league.
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We will soon learn of these NPL and Failed New A-League franchises were all talk or not.
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More peak A-League today - and not the fun kind - with the Wanderers promoting a homophobic “Single’s night”.
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Remember the brendon Rogers days. That felt like selling times
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It’s bad timing for the club after backhanding the RBB.
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yeah they didn't really need to include that's only for Hextrosexuals , I think we all get the idea.
They've punched themselves in the face there.
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Going by what I can see it leaves out the heterosexual part now and just says “everyone is welcome.”
Old farts over 35 still not welcome though.
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It's mindblowing to me that literally writing "this is a heterosexual event" didn't raise red flags with anyone.
This is what privilege is - you're more worried about straight guys being hit on than you are about inclusivity.
Is it hypocritical after what happened pre-Sydney Derby with the RBB? Yes.
Are the RBB children in trying to look like martyrs as a result? Also yes.
This is what privilege is - you're more worried about straight guys being hit on than you are about inclusivity.
Is it hypocritical after what happened pre-Sydney Derby with the RBB? Yes.
Are the RBB children in trying to look like martyrs as a result? Also yes.
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Gotta feel desperately sorry for the Wanderers LGBT fans (and i am sure they have plenty)
If Melbourne City ever ran advertising for an event that discriminated against me for my racial background or my disability or mental health issues,, I would seriously have to evaluate whether that is a club I should continue to support/be a season ticket holder of.
For me this is a lot worse/more offensive than the RBB Facebook post, which was just predictable juvenile and childish crap, whereas this is an explicit form of samctioned homophobia by the club itself.
If Melbourne City ever ran advertising for an event that discriminated against me for my racial background or my disability or mental health issues,, I would seriously have to evaluate whether that is a club I should continue to support/be a season ticket holder of.
For me this is a lot worse/more offensive than the RBB Facebook post, which was just predictable juvenile and childish crap, whereas this is an explicit form of samctioned homophobia by the club itself.
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I don't get the big deal. Would have it been a problem if it was an event for only the LGBT community and it said just as that?
