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Yeah I’m not sure it would improve things. People would probably rather play than watch an a league game.
Yeah I mean that’s ideal and logical but in our sporting environment it doesn’t make sense. They just have to schedule games better. Take Glory for example. They cater to fox and the eastern states but then games are from between 3pm and 6pm during a scorching summer and it affects attendances or they schedule it against the scorchers and wildcats. People love watching multiple sports these days and will go to other sports so they aren’t really giving themselves the best opportunity to get the highest attendance possible.Couldn't be any worse then it is now really.
The only good thing about it is that it will realign with all the state leagues thus making it easier one day to implement a pyramid system.
I don't know how I feel about it, but I agree it's a conversation that we need to have. Not only because of the league stagnating, but because the league risks becoming untenable playing in stifling heat. At some point we have to give a s**t about the players.
The problem is we don't have a history of consulting all stakeholders in Australian football. Ultimately broadcasters will make the decision, and fans will be ignored.
Would be good to have a lot more games during the school holiday period. Would say 3 more teams would be good with one up in nqld, canberra and maybe another Adelaide side. Summer league would still be good to have just needs a rethink on timing and ground usage.Just wait for all the sooking about the 'stifling heat'at the Qatar World Cup in 2022 (which I still think is a good thing, despite sooking about their human rights and social policies, which is more progressive than many Mid East Nations)
Solution is fairly obvious, have all A League games at an twilight/night fixture, bring in a couple more teams, and you can pretty much have an HAL game on practically every single game of the calendar week, extend the season and league teams involved, problem solved.
Crowds would be destroyed lol.Just wait for all the sooking about the 'stifling heat'at the Qatar World Cup in 2022 (which I still think is a good thing, despite sooking about their human rights and social policies, which is more progressive than many Mid East Nations)
Solution is fairly obvious, have all A League games at an twilight/night fixture, bring in a couple more teams, and you can pretty much have an HAL game on practically every single game of the calendar week, extend the season and league teams involved, problem solved.
Could go either way, maybeto set up a proper trade system but monetary value within this sort of league and the varying finances/ salary cap system may be a step too far at this stageThe A-League must move on from its ‘archaic’ transfer system. Here’s how it’s done
Football agent Paddy Dominguez says the A-League must move on from its ‘archaic’ transfer system and create a new economy if it wants to grow and compete with other leagues across the globe.
Dominguez, who has been a player agent for 30 years and has brokered deals for the likes of Aaron Mooy and Jamie MacLaren, told Fox Football Podcast host Adam Peacock that the A-League needs to create a financial transfer set up that gives players a dollar value — rather than just in-house swaps with zero fees.
If the competition wants to be recognised on a global scale by potential international suitors who are hoping to poach talent from Australian shores, Dominguez has urged the A-League to step up its game in regards to the transfer system itself.
“Initially the thought process behind creating the A-League was to centralise everything and to put a salary cap on to give us a stable base to grow from rather than just allowing people to spend as much money as they want and create haves and have-nots very quickly. It’s also to make the clubs sustainable in the early days. You could look back now in hindsight and say that maybe that didn’t work because the owners have racked up a lot of losses.
“The intentions were good, but it’s now at a stage where it needs to create an economy of football. At the moment there is no financial transfers between clubs so we’re back to an archaic barter system where two teams in the A-League have to agree to swap players.
“Traditionally when two clubs wants to swap players they have a dollar value on them, maybe it’s a player plus cash, but you can’t do that in the A-League.”
Remarkably, Riley McGree’s transfer from Club Brugge to Adelaide United was the very first fee paid by an A-League club for a player.
Dominguez claims Aussie clubs are, in fact, ‘business-minded’ and says transfers like this will be - and should become - more frequent.
“If a player like Riley (McGree) can improve significantly over a year or two then they’ll (A-League clubs) get an offer and they may even make a profit on that investment,” Dominguez said.
“It’s sheer investment for them but at the same time they get a good player.
“Australia, for all intents and purposes, is an export market. Every young player in this country if you speak to them in a park or wherever they’re kicking a football and you ask them of their dream, it’s to go and play in Europe. If I got to Brazil and I speak to a kid in a park in Brazil then it’s the same dream there — they all want to go to Europe and play at the top-end of football.
“You have to become good at being an export market. Firstly you need a local economy I believe which can kickstart it and then from there it will grow because you’ll start to have actual dollar values on people. To build it, you just need to get it started and get it started soon.
“With the A-League they’re talking about creating a transfer system in Australia and that will build that economy.”
The A-League must move on from its ‘archaic’ transfer system. Here’s how it’s done
The A-League must move on from its ‘archaic’ transfer system. Here’s how it’s donewww.foxsports.com.au
Thought's should we have transfer fees between clubs? I also think there should be a little trade period window too, but if a club say like City want to flat out buy a player off the Mariners for example than that could only be a good thing, at least he CCM know where they stand and can concentrate on being a development club and make some coin out of it! Only problem is you'll have the big clubs get even bigger!
Damn it.The deadman walking finally went to the gallows
The deadman walking finally went to the gallows