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Im starting to worry.. even up to 2 months ago there was some small reminder, now it seems like all the lights are off at FA...

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The traditional clubs had by and large been put in a box and forgotten about/left to rot up until about 10 or so years ago, up until the advent of the Australia cup really. But a fire has been lit beneath them in more recent times and they’ve really been awakened from their slumber. If the fa reckons all that will be forgotten and if it’s all too hard they can just go back to how it’s been before they’re mistaken imo. If they try to put a lid back on the traditional clubs its quite likely the more ambitious amongst them atleast could feel backed into a corner and be radicalised to the point of going it alone and forming a rebel break away comp or something along those lines if they feel they have no other option. Asking them to just resign themselves to fate could likely be seen as an existential threat to their existence
 
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Beretta said:
who cares if it does, and does it really surprise you?!

its not in it's 'real' format anyways.

Support your club in NPL and make that better.
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Yeah man, but tell me you weren't looking forward (especially now that your club is up and about) to coming down to Melbourne to play Preston and Hellas again. ..
 
Glenardo said:
The traditional clubs had by and large been put in a box and forgotten about/left to rot up until about 10 or so years ago, up until the advent of the Australia cup really. But a fire has been lit beneath them in more recent times and they’ve really been awakened from their slumber. If the fa reckons all that will be forgotten and if it’s all too hard they can just go back to how it’s been before they’re mistaken imo. If they try to put a lid back on the traditional clubs its quite likely the more ambitious amongst them atleast could feel backed into a corner and be radicalised to the point of going it alone and forming a revel break away comp or something along those lines if they feel they have no other option. Asking them to just resign themselves to fate could likely be seen as an existential threat to their existence
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southmelb said:
Its so getting binned. Will be shattered if is.
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It will be an utter disgrace if the Australian Championship was cancelled after 1 year. Football Australia has overspent on FTE costs by over $8 million. That is money that should have been spent on programs, leagues, and player development. However, the biggest concern is that now the APL is engineering a reverse takeover of Football Australia, which will mean they will control football in this country and kill off any other competition to protect the A League. We are looking at going back to the scorched earth policy on all football leagues below the A League.

It is utterly sickening.
 
SMFC1959 said:
It will be an utter disgrace if the Australian Championship was cancelled after 1 year. Football Australia has overspent on FTE costs by over $8 million. That is money that should have been spent on programs, leagues, and player development. However, the biggest concern is that now the APL is engineering a reverse takeover of Football Australia, which will mean they will control football in this country and kill off any other competition to protect the A League. We are looking at going back to the scorched earth policy on all football leagues below the A League.

It is utterly sickening.
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I really don’t think that’s the case. Most people want both the A-League and the lower tiers to survive.
 
Beretta said:
who cares if it does
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Personally, I'd be disgusted if the Championship or any kind of NST got canned altogether. It would be a massive retreat and set us back another decade at least. It really doesn't cost much in the grand scheme of things. FA just paid a former employee nearly $1m for the website. It's sickening what's going on there.
 
Beretta said:
who cares if it does, and does it really surprise you?!

its not in it's 'real' format anyways.

Support your club in NPL and make that better.
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Just want to see our great clubs playing again in a better competition against clubs with supporters, financial clout, and decent facilities.

Australian Championship has been a great opportunity to develop future players, referees, administrative staff, volunteers, coaching, etc
Lets not go backwards.
 
SMFC1959 said:
It will be an utter disgrace if the Australian Championship was cancelled after 1 year. Football Australia has overspent on FTE costs by over $8 million. That is money that should have been spent on programs, leagues, and player development. However, the biggest concern is that now the APL is engineering a reverse takeover of Football Australia, which will mean they will control football in this country and kill off any other competition to protect the A League. We are looking at going back to the scorched earth policy on all football leagues below the A League.

It is utterly sickening.
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Again, surely if they do that they’re sewing the seeds for a revolution/break away rebel comp, as much as they have bigger fish to fry youd imagine the afc, fifa etc would be on the traditional clubs side on this
 
SMFC1959 said:
Just want to see our great clubs playing again in a better competition against clubs with supporters, financial clout, and decent facilities.

Australian Championship has been a great opportunity to develop future players, referees, administrative staff, volunteers, coaching, etc
Lets not go backwards.
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Nsw-Vic super league if all else fails
 
HappyGuus said:
Personally, I'd be disgusted if the Championship or any kind of NST got canned altogether. It would be a massive retreat and set us back another decade at least. It really doesn't cost much in the grand scheme of things. FA just paid a former employee nearly $1m for the website. It's sickening what's going on there.
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Football in this country has always been 1 step forward, 5 steps back.

i've lost faith a long time ago, Soccer Australia, Football Australia, it's the same shit.

Just support your club no matter what league or competition they are in.
 
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