From a purely selfish view, this is potentially very good for the Nix and NZ football. With an independently run A League a very slim chance that they would want to oust the Nix for the same reasons the FFA put forward. Additionally, a good chance of expansion that would be large enough [whether just by an expanded A League or a 2nd division] to have a 2nd NZ team enetered.
Pretty much this. Nix will be happy if it leads to an independent A-League. More security and probably more money.
So, with the FFA failing to get the votes it needed this week, it seems certain now that FIFA will step in and suspend the FFA, appointing a FIFA "normalisation committee" to run football in Australia for several months until the normalisation committee eventually appoints a new FFA board.
FFA chairman Steven Lowy has been threatening legal action against FIFA if this happens.
Legal action would simply prolong the governance vacuum and possibly have consequences like Australia being kicked out of the World Cup and all FIFA competitions indefinitely. There have been suggestions that Aussie sports minister Steve Hunt has attempted to interfere in the FFA AGM this week by making threats about funding etc. and if FIFA find this to have been true, Australia will immediately be suspended from all FIFA competitions.
FIFA are always going to win in a situation like this.
So the question relevant to the Phoenix is, will a FIFA normalisation committee and the new FFA board appointed by them be good for the Phoenix?
Will they look more positively on increased A-League representation on the FFA board and allow an A-League run by the A-League clubs?
Or will the new FFA continue in the same direction as before regarding the A-League?