"Piney : Is the Phoenix licence for sale
Morrison : errrrrrrrrr.........................no is the easy answer
Newspaper headlines a couple of days later : FFA reject $15m Phoenix licence sale"
I pointed out until I'm blue in the face, but I'll do it again:
- that newspaper headline was an unsourced rumour. It didn't even say where the journo's facts were coming from. If it had said "sources close to FFA/the Nix/the Campbelltown FC told us" I would give it some credibility. If it had said "we approached the Nix for comment but got none", again it would have some credibility. But it did not, and it cited no sources, so I give it none.
Why do you believe it? Just because it was in an Aussie paper?
That really is semantics, if it was a blog then yeah I can see your point, this is the SMH a reasonably reputable newspaper, they aren't going to just print wild rumours, if they had no real substance behind the story they'd either ignore it or run it as an opinion piece. Also if it didn't have credibility, no other media organisation would run with the story and several have (on both sides of the Tasman)
There was a meeting that took place between Morrison, the bloke from SW Sydney & Gallop, why else would these 3 be meeting?, why has there been no movement at all on appointing a coach or signing players?, why is Morrison not getting back to reporters (You know the lot he complained wouldn't pick up the phone and give him a call to get the story straight)?
The silence from the Phoenix is becoming deafening and all of these things coupled by the way the club has been run in the last year leads me to believe there is some truth in the story