Post history

History for ConanTroutman

Phoenix Ownership - Rob says FTFFA (Part 2)

Back to topic

Current version

Posted January 20, 2016 09:20 · last edited March 18, 2021 07:34

Bullion wrote:
Bevan wrote:

The club is doing the right thing by not negotiating via the media.

It is the FFA who are looking bad with all the leaks.

The mistake the club made is not starting this process soon enough.

The license should have been sorted out before the season started.

Having all this happening with only four months to go is farcicial (farcical?)

Of course, that may have been a delay on the FFA's side.

this licence situation has been going on since the petone stadium was first mooted - has been going on for ages and i'm inclined to proportion more blame to the ffa than the nix

I actually think that the reason that Welnix seemed to not support the Petone stadium idea in public after they first raised it was because it needed a 20 year license to be commercially viable, and the FFA told them they wouldn't grant one after the idea had been raised. Welnix probably wanted to stay onside so they didn't say anything publicly but that meant lots of us (myself included) didn't think they were doing enough to support the idea in public. In reality they knew it was dead in the water but didn't want to say why.

That's my theory anyway.

Previous versions

1 version
Unknown editor edited March 18, 2021 07:34
Bullion wrote:
Bevan wrote:

The club is doing the right thing by not negotiating via the media.

It is the FFA who are looking bad with all the leaks.

The mistake the club made is not starting this process soon enough.

The license should have been sorted out before the season started.

Having all this happening with only four months to go is farcicial (farcical?)

Of course, that may have been a delay on the FFA's side.

this licence situation has been going on since the petone stadium was first mooted - has been going on for ages and i'm inclined to proportion more blame to the ffa than the nix
I actually think that the reason that Welnix seemed to not support the Petone stadium idea in public after they first raised it was because it needed a 20 year license to be commercially viable, and the FFA told them they wouldn't grant one after the idea had been raised. Welnix probably wanted to stay onside so they didn't say anything publicly but that meant lots of us (myself included) didn't think they were doing enough to support the idea in public. In reality they knew it was dead in the water but didn't want to say why.

That's my theory anyway.