Daily Australian News Thread

[belchardo]

Far. King. Hell.

https://www.theguardian.com/football...administration

Guardian article

[My2BobsWorth]

The hole's getting deeper, pretty soon it'll be too deep to climb out

[finzee]

APL couldnt run a raffle. But they are great at producing rubbish. KUTGW pretenders

[380]

I wonder in light of this issue our " here to get the deal done " prospects even bothered departing the aircraft ?.

[Bremsstrahlung]

Clause 1: APL administrators much resign immediately and relinquish control to somebody more suitable. Ie. literally anybody.

[Thomas477]

Clause 1: APL administrators much resign immediately and relinquish control to somebody more suitable. Ie. literally anybody.

This is what I don’t get. If the clubs run the apl, how the hell has it gotten this bad?

[My2BobsWorth]

The owners and brains trust have no fukin idea what they're doing

[Oldy]

The owners and brains trust have no fukin idea what they're doing

Exactly

Hope the APL aholes go broke and someone else takes it over

[Jetmaster]

This is what I don’t get. If the clubs run the apl, how the hell has it gotten this bad?

It has heavily been invested in a board biased to Sydney and Melbourne. We saw this with the GF controversy with most clubs being blindsided. Basically not all the clubs have much say.

I was fortunate enough to have an extended conversation with one of the owners of a club outside the loop 18 months ago. He said then it was a dictatorship run by Townsend and that he would stuff it up and do a runner....how true.

[380]

It has heavily been invested in a board biased to Sydney and Melbourne. We saw this with the GF controversy with most clubs being blindsided. Basically not all the clubs have much say.

I was fortunate enough to have an extended conversation with one of the owners of a club outside the loop 18 months ago. He said then it was a dictatorship run by Townsend and that he would stuff it up and do a runner....how true.

Did you say hello to Sage for us all ?. For all the bashing up on him the bloke had the APL worked out from the very beginning.

[Thomas477]

It has heavily been invested in a board biased to Sydney and Melbourne. We saw this with the GF controversy with most clubs being blindsided. Basically not all the clubs have much say.

I was fortunate enough to have an extended conversation with one of the owners of a club outside the loop 18 months ago. He said then it was a dictatorship run by Townsend and that he would stuff it up and do a runner....how true.

I may be missing the point, but I assume each club has an equal vote, so surely they could’ve gotten enough support to remove Townsend? Even post Townsend, the decision to change the order of tiebreakers from GD to wins didn’t seem communicated?

Either way, seems like the Middle East is a perfect fit for him.

[My2BobsWorth]

Did you say hello to Sage for us all ?. For all the bashing up on him the bloke had the APL worked out from the very beginning.

Tony is the owner that we all want, said he was happy to keep funding Perth with some assistance but none was forthcoming

[380]

Tony is the owner that we all want, said he was happy to keep funding Perth with some assistance but none was forthcoming

Agree, I got annoyed when i would read Glory fans trashing him the way they did last couple of seasons. Was terrible treatment of the bloke.

[belchardo]

https://www.theroar.com.au/2024/04/1...eason-2024-25/

I'll have what he's having - clearly it's good stuff to come up with this brainwave.