Originally Posted by
Frodo
Ok. Obviously we have owners, I'm not implying that the club has folded already and I think everyone knew that. What I meant was that we don't have owners who hold a vested interest in our success. The clubs who are currently footing the bill are only doing so in order to keep enough teams in the league to meet there contractual obligations in order to get paid the TV deal. If we finish first or last, so long as they don't have to spend any extra funds, they don't care. We just have to float along until someone can buy the licence off them, that's all.
Hopefully the new owners want to keep the licence here in Newcastle, but I don't think even the A League has a choice right now, they just need to focus on meeting those contractual obligations first. If Canberra has the money first, they get a team and we have to start again, that's the honest truth of the situation. It sucks balls, but we don't have a say in it anymore as a club, unless we find new owners who want to stay local of course, which is the dream.
This insecurity is also going to wreak havoc on the playing group as well. Hence why I'm a little more lenient than most. These are human beings with families and mouths to feed, you can't tell me that having the cloud of no club to play for next year no matter how well you play isn't going to affect their mental health and therefore their performances on the field.
Again, I'm more lenient to Dean's because the club would have told him that the owners didn't want to spend any extra funds so he was being offered the job. He could only spend close to the minimum cap amount and there were also struggling to fill the player quota before the first week. Hence why Abbas came out of retirement (I could be wrong there but I though he hadn't played since 2018 when he was at the Nix youth squad helping out, happy to be proven wrong here) to fill a spot before we got it trouble. Then we found a few kids to play on loan to fill out the remaining squad positions, Prso and Ramy, and after a short while we gave the two guys from Malaysia a go, neither of which look good enough for the league IMO.
We are in serious trouble here, and unfortunately sacking Deans isn't a possibility until we have to new owners I don't think.