The Stuff article us just a rehash of whats already known. The A League us in serious financial trouble. I suspect further cuts are coming.
Business 101. In times of trouble revert to your core revenue business. The A Leagues core business is the mens senior comp. Thats where they earn their money. The womens league is a cost. Nice to have but still a cost.
Sound business would be to park it up until the mens game is stabilised.
Business 101. In times of trouble revert to your core revenue business. The A Leagues core business is the mens senior comp. Thats where they earn their money. The womens league is a cost. Nice to have but still a cost.
Sound business would be to park it up until the mens game is stabilised.
You’ve said this a couple of times. And both times it’s retrograde bullshark.
Firstly, the men’s game is never stabilised and has scarcely been a business. The revenue earning parts are faltering. Particularly cable TV. That was the model that worked, along with milking the Lowy family fortune.
The A league as a product is saddled with clubs that don’t have sufficient fans to justify their spending, yet the spending continues and the fans don’t materialise. MacArthur and WU.
The idea of a niche pay per view scheme sees good one, that no one had confidence in. And, as I mentioned above it’s a vicious circle. The product is poor, so we don’t get subscribers and the product quality gets worse with no cash.
The biggest challenge is crawling to the Victory fans and begging them to come back imo.
But there is no business model essentially, unless fan numbers and watch numbers go up. Townsend had a good idea, but it needed buy in and a better product. And even then. Internationally a lot of non-premier league broadcast is Saudi funded. There isn’t much of a business case for football in general. Small clubs dream of wealthy owners, not stable business turnover.
Perhaps the women’s game needs a separate entity so it is only mired in its own problems. This is happening at some clubs internationally.
But to say as you are that the women should sacrifice their game for the sake of the men and because of the economy and the growth and business, is offensive sexist dinosaur crap, mixed in with lazy INEOS garbage.
Surely the women’s game allows some economies of scale in travel and advertising, and creating generational football families?
And sure there’s a difference between setting up a team and dismantling existing structures…