Given that the Nix playing performance since Welnix took over has been largely disappointing, and not all of that can be attributed to the uncertainty of the future beyond 2020 (#metrics), what indicators are there to suggest that the nirvana of an independent A League will miraculously lead to the Nix all of a sudden being better on the park?
My concern is that there has not been enough focus on creating a winning football team, and more on the "we're a sustainable club, look how bad the rest of the league is"
But the playing performance shouldn't remotely be related to the licencing, unlicencing of a club. That's a management level issue.
The issue with a crap team, is crap attendances, meaning crap money. If the owners can and are willing to absorb those costs, the league should be overjoyed.
Every league has losing teams. Every year every league has a lot of losing teams. A formula to calculate it can be seen below:
Number of teams in league - 1 = number of teams that lost.
We are shark, but that shouldn't be anything more than a punchline.
If the league was actually super concerned with teams losing, we wouldn't even be the first ones kicked out, because we didn't come last.
Maybe that why all this shark is going on, FFA may want to boot us out using a promotion relegation system, but we keep being just good enough to not be regulated if that happened.
I'm not disputing that. Surely fans would prefer their team to be winning more often than losing, and the owners have some responsibility for that. All I'm saying is that under Welnix ownership, team performance has been poor, so what suggests that will change just because the A-League is run differently?