Quote Originally Posted by plague View Post
I actually agree with the Member in that as long as there are stable owners, who cares where they are from etc etc.
Just so happens our local Richie Rich's aren't exactly football lovers and either have the cash but not the passion, or the passion but not the cash.

The bright spot about foreign clubs pissing thier cash up against a wall by investing down here is that no matter how bad our game is going, big clubs will lose more just by screwing up a big signing ('sup Andy Carroll) so we'll probably never show up on thier P&L's.

Oh and the Northern Spirit was the greatest thing that ever happened to the NSL because shitkhunce like Robbie Slayer and Gypo Arnie got screwed over and lost a tonne of cash.
#neverforget

Anyone know if Eddie Obeid likes soccer?
You make some good points Plague.

The current costs of running a HAL club are such that it limits ownership to the top echelon of wealth in this country. Unfortunately most in this bracket have little interest in the game and are not passionate enough about it or you find one like Sage who is passionate but clueless.

Splitting the ownership up amongst a few parties may at least find us the people who have a passion for the game and can afford to piss 200k up against a wall a season having a 20% stake in the 1 million debt as opposed to not wanting 100% the 1 million debt.
End result is we are getting the better quality candidate in the picture ie people who care for the game

Foreign Clubs have had plenty of opportunity in the past to invest in foreign clubs. Reality with it is it ain't there interest. Even Wenger was blabbering some shit the other week about Arsenal being all about Arsenal and not interested in the club buying another club even if it could be used as a source to blood players.

Most of these arrangements are so heavily geared in favour of the big club anyway who just poach any notable talent that comes from the feeder club for less than market value anyway and they are prone to abandoning the feeder club without a care in the world when it serves them no purpose.


Forgot about the Gypo pair Arnie and Slater at Northern Spirit getting burnt