In essence the State Federation is a centralised Service Provider for clubs and their leagues.

We pay their salaries and in effect outsource to them to manage and provide for the clubs' behalf :

1.Fixturing
2.Basic Admin... like transfers, insurance, regos, referees, tribunals, coach training etc
3.A web portal for the state/clubs/leagues
4.Marketing of the clubs/leagues and hopefully some sponsorship for our code
5.Broadcasting services

Instead they have grown the organisation off our taxes (registrations) to 70-80 people that now have their own 'Corporate strategy' !!
own Board !!
compete with clubs, NTC etc
contribute to private football franchises !
and have way to many levels of management

Concept for discussion

Should we
-scale back the size of the FFV and cut costs
-Get them to focus on CORE service delivery only (as above)
-Demand quarterly reports on activity
-Manage them with Service Level Agreements

That's it

I'm confident the fees that clubs pay would be greatly reduced, which would have a positive flow on effect for all.

They have failed us in providing core basic services
and they Do not listen to their stakeholders... who pay their salaries



Edited by troy5: 6/8/2013 10:56:31 AM

The first thing the clubs will do is rename the FFV.

Just like when Westfarmers bought Coles Ltd and rebranded their
'National Headquarters' at Toorak Rd Melbourne to:

"Store Service Centre"

The new FFV will be renamed:

"Club Service Centre"

Everyone needs to be reminded what the main aim of this 'Outsourced Service Provider' is

Next....

Have been advised that in Northern NSW and WA (roughly speaking) have similar participation numbers as Victoria, but both those federations run with 15-16 full-time employees each.
FFV operate with at least 70 full-time employees!

The next action will be to trim staff numbers down

I love your enthusiasm and passion Troy5, but you really need to keep it in one thread and one post perhaps.

-PB

Troy 5
a good starting point would be cost v delivery
them a comparison against the other states

I don't quite think its the same. I'm in NSW so don't quote me on this, FFV is the 2nd largest participation zone, 2nd to NSW. hence greater staff numbers required to service those numbers.

2nd, i'm of the notion that FFV administers all the local comps, as opposed to a place like NSW where all the local comps are administered by their associations. To put that into perspective, adding the association staff to FNSW staff, the numbers would be in the 100's, so to have 70 is probably right on par.

It also needs to be looked at as to what role each federation plays. I understand FFV run the Victory W-League team, obviously quite a few staff there. This is something no other Federation does? Administration of NTC's and elite coaching, etc.

I don't really think FFV's staff numbers would be that out of balance to what they are actually administering.

In terms of Funding they receive, im pretty sure the FFA give them funding to run the NTC's, and Victory W-League, as well as other community initiatives. The FFA is probably funded by the government to do this.

It's the FFV's job to run the various competitions, and run the community programs, the state cup, the NTC, etc. Your saying they should purely service the clubs?

Who is then meant to pick up the pieces on the other fronts?

-1

It's Easier and clearer to address seperate points.

Over how many threads?

-PB

Hmmmmmmm, not sure

but i'd probably read 15 concise posts from all over the joint before I'd ever read one from Gloryperth