Originally Posted by
stopper2
Find it interesting too that many on here seem to have short memories of the way FFA allowed our club to virtually die a slow death from a thousand cuts administered by Tinkler and his sidekick Muppet last season. When Tinkler announced prior to the season that he had virtually had enough of owning the club, that should have been enough from FFA to start proceedings to take the licence back off him but no, they allowed it to drag on in the hope they could recoup some money with a sale.
Then when Tinkler announces his backflip, Baartz and Middleby resign, they allow Tinkler for the next 4 months to treat not only this club but this proud football region and the A League as a whole with utter contempt...outstanding bills, late player payments, not to mention mass sackings of staff and players etc.
To top it off, it comes out that Tinkler was only able to pay the bills and wages over those months because of the generosity of millionaire Gerry Harvey, which FFA would have clearly been aware of.
Fast forward a few months and the FFA takes over, from the beginning at the Forums De Bohun clearly states that there will be no Marquees, that everthing will be kept to a minimum. Not even utilising some of the other concessions such as the "Archie Rule" on players like BK and Kanta where possibly half their wages could be salary cap exempt so that it could be used to buy a more experienced player.
In effect we are basically going into battle with pump-action shot-guns while the big boys of the competition, your Victory's, SFC and City have AK-47's....yeah thanks for bailing us out FFA