Hehehe... #ironyFrom what I've lead to believe if we want to keep our ACL spots.
Which by the way are up for review end of season and the word is we will lose one automatic spot.
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Hehehe... #ironyFrom what I've lead to believe if we want to keep our ACL spots.
Which by the way are up for review end of season and the word is we will lose one automatic spot.
We'd be kicked out no doubtSo this is starting to get pretty messy, not the best publicity for the upcoming final. If, Rory can prove what happened and the Police, Security and FFA are found to have been full of sh*t, then what?
They claim he was trying to get to the bar because it had better beers. He says he wasn't drinking at all as he drove his daughters to the game. Also claims he was followed by the riot squad in a car after he left. If true, then why did they let a guy who had been drinking drive with a car full of kids?
I am sure there is footage of all this, be it fan footage or CCTV. The truth will come out about this, only a matter of time. Either way the fans are not happy, hope the Perth fans kick off the game with a **** The FFA chant.
ABC were reporting on my way home today that he'd been banned from Homebush for 12 months in 2017 for "being belligerent to security."
The FFA and A-League just do not care. They never have cared about the supporters and never will.
https://www.goal.com/en-au/news/a-league-boss-questions-poor-tv-ratings/eoad8lkxbu9w100wiug8muv1x
Is this satire?
While O'Rourke concedes viewing habits of footballs fans have radically changed in recent years, he questioned just how accurate the A-League's TV ratings are.
"The way they capture ratings is by sample size…they only capture 2000 households across Australia to sample it," O'Rourke said at an FFA community summit in Canberra.
"I can tell you the people that watch our games, kids under the age of 18 that are streaming this stuff, aren’t subscribing to fill out surveys.
"We have this demographic that is snacking on our product. Even with the streaming that we’ve moved to with Kayo and Telstra - people only watch our game for 30 minutes.
"And a lot of them don’t watch it until Monday when they’re on the bus, on the train or on their boss's time. Yet the ratings came out the day before."
Someone needs to tell this guy having people watch 30 minutes of a 90 minute product is insanely alarming and isn't in anyway something I'd be pointing out publicly.
Bull.I'll feel sorry for the Phoenix when their broadcasting actually pay for rights and the team brings something (good crowds, a quality marquee). Until then, eh. No Australian fan goes to see them because they're a C-grade name and aren't ever really that competitive (scraping into finals doesn't count). The opportunity cost for another Aussie team and the rivalry, broadcast deals, and passion they'd bring is just too high.
For anyone who's interested, here's a Nix update:
Ufuk Talay already clearing out the deadwood, 6 players released including Nathan Burns, pretty much starting from scratch. We're working with Williams and Krishna to keep them around and the club is letting Durante decide to go around as a player or in a non-playing role.
Here's our current list...
EXPIRES END OF 2018/19 (now)
Tom DOYLE
Andrew DURANTE
Willem EBBINGE (U21)
Roy KRISHNA
MANDI (import)
Gianni STENSNESS
Ben WAINE (U21)
David WILLIAMS
EXPIRES END OF 2019/20 (next season)
Liberato CACACE
Alex RUFER
Sarpreet SINGH
Steven TAYLOR (import)
Callan ELLIOT (U21)
EXPIRES END OF 2020/21 (longer than our current licence...)
Louis FENTON
Oliver SAIL
Bare bones, eh?