Re the talk of the general health of the A-League, P & R over the previous couple of pages. Through I would share a couple of interesting articles from last week.
Tony Tannous IMO the best Football writer in Australia, has written a very very very long and detailed article on the NPL. He has been around for a long time even pre hal and early Hal he wrote the ''round ball analysis" blog.
https://footballtoday.news/features/enter-the-npl
IMO its a brilliant article and shows since the introduction of the FFA cup and with FFA management getting lost in control issues the NPL is powering away.... they stream many of their matches and I have watched quite a few..... This article is a good .. if not a long read ... but if you wanta know about how the NPL is growing quite quickly, its a very good read.
One bit that stood out from the article for me anyway was this.
"""" A player good enough to perhaps fill a squad position and maybe earn $70,000 or $80,000 in the A-League is happy enough earning anywhere between $1,500 and $3,500 a week in the NPL, where they train three nights a week.
Combine it with running a business, or part time work, and they’re suddenly earning double what they would as ‘a professional’, and setting themselves up for life after football.""""
Another artice worth reading is from Rabieh Karyem who is the head of AAFC i.e the 110 clubs wanting to form a second division and introduce P & R.
https://www.theroar.com.au/2018/02/26/aafc-what-we-...
Taking part of his article he wrotre.
""All of us at AAFC would like to see promotion and relegation.
We have a target of 2024 but if that’s not feasible, it’s not feasible. It doesn’t mean we shouldn’t have it as an aspiration. And it certainly doesn’t mean Australian football shouldn’t aim to comply with FIFA Statutes on this, and other, issues."""