What are you worried about. Danny says they'll have a new owner within 10 weeks.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-...ship/102635700
What are you worried about. Danny says they'll have a new owner within 10 weeks.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-...ship/102635700
Because the APL sets the price at 25mil thats whyOriginally Posted by Frodo
Never thought the game could be in worse shape than when Dad's boy and Gallop were running the show but FMD the APL have take the League to whole new low.
They wanted control of the League and they have just made a total cluster^&8$ of it.
At this rate we won't have a national league. DT needs to go for a start, In the real corporate world bloke would have got his marching orders and lining up for Newstart.
More on Sage handing in the licence:
https://i.stuff.co.nz/sport/football...o-receivership
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-...cook/102639276
any chance a business head can explain what the heck the bold section means?APL chief executive Danny Townsend said...we see the international investor market as being pretty buoyant right now. The enterprise value growth of A-League franchises is all ahead of us – so it will probably be a mixture of local investment and international investment.
It's Bullshit jargon to make himself sound intelligent
Problem is we all know the guy is full of complete and utter shit so we don't believe a word he says
His message ain't for us. It's to try and deceive those who support Perth and still believe in his rhetoric
I was all for the game to move on from the FFA ownership but these ****ing bozos running it now are even more incompetent than before
By the Year 2030 the A league will be 10 teams. 5 from Sydney and 5 from Melbourne !
https://www.ftbl.com.au/news/a-leagu...k-clubs-598454
Another article on the state of the A league. Some serious policy changes are needed if the league is to survive, certainly a more realistic cost of franchises needs to be looked at. Let the market decide the price, like everything else
Close to gone this time and I have ridden the Newcastle rollercoaster for nearly 50 years, so know the drill. If MV or Smurfs go under it is done.
No business sense by the APL. The GF debacle, over pricing of franchises and ploughing millions into a ladies league that has TV audiences as low as 300.
Unsustainable.
Last edited by Jetmaster; 27-07-2023 at 06:44 PM.
Ploughing millions into women's football??
Enough said
I was told they got rolled so not much value for money
Ain't watched any of the shit yet and won't be
It's the franchise system that is killing the league. It only works in USA because of the very rich benefactors that own the franchises. As well as the vast abundance of commercialisation that happens in American Sport.
Simon Hill - "Danny, you have thrown over $3 million into the W-League but the return is non-existent, as are the viewing figures. Is it worth throwing more money at it when there are problems elsewhere?"
Danny T - "We have to Simon, it is non-negotiable".
The reason for this will be some government program where they have to meet diversity KPIs
They could be pumping money into the Socceroos who the nation supports but have to find equal money into the Matildas who no one gives a **** up
PS
Apparently last night there was many empty seats at a home WC game
Proof that they are not well supported at all as that would be we happen if the Socceroos were hosting a WC even with Danny Townsend organising it
Why do you old farts seem to care so much about something you keep saying you don't care about?
This world cup is going to break attendance records, those seats the member is waffling about were sections that weren't allowed to be sold for some reason. Just let the people who want to enjoy the world cup enjoy it, and if you don't care about go enjoy something else.
Didn’t Nike come out and say Matildas were more marketable, making them more money than the Socceroos from Qatar til now.
100% did and the matildas sell more jerseys
Anecdotally, I know more people (bandwagoners, eurosnobs, run n cuddle fans, whatever) that I’ve never heard talk about football before, talking about the Matildas.
Can only be a good thing. There ain’t a negative to that.
I for one have really enjoyed watching the games I’ve seen. It’s much more open and exciting. The downside is technical ability, with some obvious flaws there, when compared to the men’s game. I’m saying that, some of the first touches I’ve seen have been amazing. I remember watching a game probably 16-20 years ago, and found the quality laughable, it was like watching an under 12G grade game. The improvement has been great to see.
But everything else acts as the advocate for the sport that the men’s game should be. There’s respect for match officials. There’s respect for opponents. There’s very minimal diving and theatrics. For the most part, the injuries look like genuine injuries. There’s great goals. There’s comradely and great scenes when lesser countries are scoring goals.
Again, there ain’t any negatives to this.
Again, stop playing the emotion card. I am talking about the ALW which is an abject financial failure, that should be cut. Crowds under 1000 and TV audiences of a couple of hundred is factual evidence the financial support doesn't justify the means. And I doubt the WC will improve things much apart from maybe a short blip at seadon's start. I also doubt either league will exist as is within 3 years.
As for the Matildas, they, like the 2006 Socceroos, are currently flavour of the month. That goldren generation had saved football, were Australia's favourite sporting team (selling more shirts than the Wallabies), and could do no wrong. It was hard to get a ticket for a friendly.
That all went pear shaped due to mismanagement, ingrained sporting culture against football in this country, media loss of interest and players of the same quality not coming through.
This another false new dawn. Us old farts have seen it too many times and been disappointed just as much.
All true. The A League has a real issue at the moment and has a real bad feel about where its heading, Not different to the final years of the NSL when the game was very fractured.
Would love too know just where the Jets membership number is at this point in time and also in comparison to this TLY ?.
W League avg attendance was about 1900 for the top teams, 1300 for the Jets which were about middle of the road.
Western United avg attendance was only 3168, 3514 for Macarthur. Perth were 4500 so it's not just because they were new franchises.
So double the numbers of some W League sides and I absolutely guarantee they spent more than double what the women's team cost.
If we base decisions on the basis of fan numbers, we should cut some under performing teams before we cut an entire competition which costs a heck of a lot less overall.
You're the one making your decision based on how you feel instead of facts, not me buddy. Again, let people enjoy it if they want, it's not like the costs are going to bring the league down compared to the ridiculous wages being paid for less than average quality players in the men's comp.
Getting rid of the salary cap would do more for the bottom line of teams than cutting the women's competition
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