Like wow how silly of me to even contemplate a NZ administration could not be anything other than perfect and that all faults lie with the evil FFA lead by their malicious, vile, CEO who is known for his wickedness and contempt for lowing beings.
Must be difficult to be perfect in every way and forced to endure the incompetence, ineptitude and hopeless ineffectiveness that is FFA administration.
Adding to this must be their [FFA] inability and incapacity to understand the NZ and Wellington issues. The failure of FFA to be on bended knee and knell before the perfect, flawless, impeccable, NZ administrators is amazing and I too would be angry, incensed, outraged, fuming and infuriated at this lack of recognition by the mischievous and hateful Gallop who we all know is out to damage NZ Football.
While FFA are not perfect nay a long way from perfect they are not that bad either.
Last year FFA had a revenue of 130 million which was boasted by a 20 million sale of WSW.
They have close to 50 million in sponsorship, and to compare The NRL has 27 million and ARU 29 million, the AFL 58 million.
They managed the Asian Cup and where praised by all of Asia and twas said FFA provided the best Asian Cup so far.
I could go on, like making the last 3 WC's, however there have also been so not so good and some down right hard to understand.
But on balance they are reasonable.
On the Nix licence renewal, I think if you can only see one side of it then so be it as its your club. If you hand on heart not the other thing believe its was all Gallop and FFA's fault then as I said so be it......I don't ... I think there were a number of issues and lets be thankful its worked out for the best in the end.
As to the new guy, he has a lifelong Football background, has a very impressive business CV, and held very senior roles in Football in Australia he seems an excellent choice.
The new guy as reported by News said in part the following and this did impress me.
””And with an extensive background in football as a former chairman of Football NSW and former president of NSW’s Sutherland Shire Football Association which has more registered players than Football Federation SA, O’Rourke claimed the game was far from united.
“The game is not aligned and there is many sort of steps that need to be unlocked,’’ he said.
“The relationships between the grassroots and most levels of governance, many of those doors aren’t opened. “I’ve seen the ability to go and unlock most of those doors.”””
Just on the hopeless, inept incompetent FFA .... consider
http://www.footballaustralia.com.au/article/hyunda...
The global audience reach of the Hyundai A-League will hit a potential 250 million viewers this season under the international broadcast and digital streaming arrangements, Football Federation Australia (FFA) has confirmed today.
There are 84 countries with broadcast agreements covering A-League matches as well as a global streaming deal with www.livesport.tv that means all 135 regular season matches and 6 Hyundai A-League 2016 Finals Series can be watched on line.
and http://www.tvtonight.com.au/2016/03/a-league-popul...
New research data suggests A-League has grown to become more popular with Australians than English Premier League.
According to Roy Morgan Research, in 2015, 2.1 million Aussies (or 11.0% of the population) reported watching A-League football (soccer) on TV either regularly or occasionally, up from 1.4 million viewers (7.6%) in 2011.
Young men aged under 25 are the most avid viewers, with 19.6% of them watching A-Leaguematches on TV either occasionally or almost always (up from 13.3% in 2011), but there has been a consistent upturn among men of all ages. Women, too, are more likely than ever to watch the A-League on TV, with increases across all age groups.