Quote Originally Posted by plague View Post
nah.
the idea behind the A-League was solid.
it needed to be new and different.


but.

Frank Lowys departure and the re-admission of the legacy clubs should have been done way sooner. it was always the obvious move.
by bringing them back in later, they are playing from behind, so will need to open themselves up to also be more inclusive in order to pay the bills.



if they were in from the start of the A-League it wouldnt have worked. it just would have been NSL v.349

South Melbourne (and probably Marconi eventually) should be layups to return. hope they get the spot.
Disageee that the idea of the HAL was solid

It was flawed

The franchise model that we have was limited in its ability to work

It has over the last 13 years seen us have to get into bed with the Clive Palmers and Nayfun Tinklers of the world and now we are onto foreign.ownership

We have priced out every existing club in Oz from wanting in bar South
We have priced out possible owners

We have only suceeded in creating a monopoly for the PFA and FFA.at the expense of everything else

The system was ****ed.in 2005

Lowy aint a messiah for applying business practices that made his shopping centre empire huge to Oz football