Tinkler hands in Jets Licence

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They're not officially "dead" yet as the media are reporting. Basically the FFA has to find them a new owner before the 2012-2013 season starts, which isn't out of the realm of possibility. Or the FFA could operate the club until a new ownership group is found, just like they're doing for the new Western Sydney team.

Both scenarios seem more likely than the A-League operating at 9 clubs right before they negotiate a new TV Deal.
 
The latter of those two scenarios isn't really feasible though. FFA just spent all their money to get the WS side up and running. So basically it's all down to whether some businessman with a lot of cash wants to purchase the club.
 
BomberWatson said:
The latter of those two scenarios isn't really feasible though. FFA just spent all their money to get the WS side up and running. So basically it's all down to whether some businessman with a lot of cash wants to purchase the club.
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They'll probably ask for more government funding. And receive it as well. :rolleyes:
 
Someone had dinner with Clive Palmer on the weekend...

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There'll be a Jets team next season without doubt. Everyone (especially the lolrolfomg trolls) seems to forget Brisbane were owned by the FFA when they won the league last season before investors took over. Private ownership needs to be eradicated though, it just makes the league too unstable.
 
About two years ago I posted a thread about the massive increase in professional sporting teams in australia and how they were all relying on TV Deals and Sponsorship to survive and how it was impossible for all of them to survive.

AFL might be going ok, but you would have a few concerns about the viability of at least3-5 teams and possibly more if all was revealed.

NRL has some major problems on a number of fronts.

Not sure how Super Rugby is going but can't al be roses.

NBL is in significant trouble and

The A League lurches from crisis to crisis

It's not a healthy picture overall is it.
 
Newcastle Jets join Gold Coast on A-League scrapheap

Hmmmm... this is starting to look messy

http://www.perthnow.com.au/business...league-scrapheap/story-e6frg2qc-1226322678669

THE A-League has been thrown into chaos after billionaire owner Nathan Tinkler's Hunter Sports Group announced it is handing back its licence for the Newcastle Jets because of irreconcilable differences with Football Federation Australia.

In a big blow to FFA just days after Gold Coast became the third club to fold in the competition's short history, HSG said it had been forced into the decision after losing confidence in FFA's administration of the game.

FFA thought it had ensured the 10 teams it badly needs for next season as it renegotiates the A-League broadcast rights when it announced it would bankroll a new western Sydney team from 2012/13.
 
Re: Newcastle Jets join Gold Coast on A-League scrapheap

Going down hill fast!!
 
Re: Newcastle Jets join Gold Coast on A-League scrapheap

Knights, Fury, United and the Jets all down in a 7 year competition.

Blame hot air blowers like Palmer all you want, but the ALeague is so desperate to expand that they forget about what they've left behind. Buckley must go. After the NZ debacle, they should have supported a 10 team competition for 10 years before re-evaluating. Becoming an absolute joke of a league.
 

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Jesus. This was out of nowhere. The trend of one in, one out, continues. And it's very disappointing that it's happened to Newcastle.

But the FFA will not allow Newcastle Jets to fold. It's simply unthinkable. The Jets averaged 12,000 fans in a bottom-four season. They also raked in 10,000 paying members. The community involvement is there, the stadium is there, the interest is there: The owner isn't. For the FFA to kill another club (the second in mere weeks, the third in two years) would be suicide for the code.

A few years ago, weren't the FFA handling multiple clubs? Perth Glory, Brisbane Roar, and at least one other side were without owners and surviving off of the FFA. While all this was going on, Buckley and co. needed North Queensland and Gold Coast. I'm sure the FFA can fund two clubs: Especially since one is having some decent federal funding, and the other isn't a basket case.

Newcastle United Jets will stay. But this is very disappointing. And surprising.

Oh, and Buckley and Lowy must been thrown out. Ever since the expansion of GC and the Fury, this league has been stagnating when it should have been growing. Jesus.
 
They can have 10,000's members but the reality is this they have lost 12 million dollars in the past 18 months. These blokes are buisinesmen if somthing is not viable they will look at there options
 
Silent Alarm said:
Jesus. This was out of nowhere. The trend of one in, one out, continues. And it's very disappointing that it's happened to Newcastle.

But the FFA will not allow Newcastle Jets to fold. It's simply unthinkable. The Jets averaged 12,000 fans in a bottom-four season. They also raked in 10,000 paying members. The community involvement is there, the stadium is there, the interest is there: The owner isn't. For the FFA to kill another club (the second in mere weeks, the third in two years) would be suicide for the code.

A few years ago, weren't the FFA handling multiple clubs? Perth Glory, Brisbane Roar, and at least one other side were without owners and surviving off of the FFA. While all this was going on, Buckley and co. needed North Queensland and Gold Coast. I'm sure the FFA can fund two clubs: Especially since one is having some decent federal funding, and the other isn't a basket case.

Newcastle United Jets will stay. But this is very disappointing. And surprising.

Oh, and Buckley and Lowy must been thrown out. Ever since the expansion of GC and the Fury, this league has been stagnating when it should have been growing. Jesus.
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arent their memberships dirt cheap? pretty sure Tinkler made the memberships and tickets cheaper like he is doing with the Knights to get more fans to games.
 
I don't know why this is such a big surprise to everyone, Tinkler went over to the Clive bandwagon ages ago.

HSG is a joke of an organisation anyway, but thats probably end of the road at least for the time being for the Jets.
 
What? Has the FFA decided to get rid of Newcastle Jets?!!! FFA have hit a new low..........
 
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arent their memberships dirt cheap? pretty sure Tinkler made the memberships and tickets cheaper like he is doing with the Knights to get more fans to games.
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You're right. But I'm pretty sure 10,000 guaranteed a point of financial stability; or, a financial state no worse than before. It was a case of 7,000 or 10,000 rocking up for the same financial injection. Most A-League clubs are probably overcharging as it is. The prices weren't horrifically cheap.

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Does not look good. Feels like the NSL all over again
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The FFA is an absolute basket case. It's laughable. But dealing with magnates and egos will only result in catastrophes. The FFA bigwigs got what was coming to them: Two businessmen were never going to keep a soccer club up and running for a long time. When times got tough, they were always going to jump ship. And that they did.
 
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