+x+x+x+xThere's going to be howls of derision when the penny drops that there will not be a single mention of P&R or salary caps in two months of talks. Football is worse for the lack of p&r. You can justify the current state anyway you want. I have no idea what you are on about. As usual. I am not justifying anything. I am just greatly amused by the ridiculous focus on something that is totally irrelevant until you have enough professional teams to not only need it, but to actually make it possible. IF somebody could ever explain to me how you could implement P&R without producing two or three times the number of professional footballers playing in this country for ready cash, I would be more than a little fascinated. I'm not talking about good players or anything like that. Just hacks with their hand out for pizza money will do. Money, money, money makes the world go round. The 442 cheer squad are up for giving it all to the existing leeches (sorry A League Clubs) and knowing that their big plan is to suck money straight from the bank accounts of any new aspirants to the league, followed by much pilfering of the greater game......well yeah. Good luck with P&R because the line for expansion will get short quickly if that shit comes to pass. I want a second division. I want it to be made up of real clubs (in the main anyway). When, and only when you can solve that glaring problem, can you start work on the intricacies of integration with the glee League that we have now. The hilarious thing is that the only guy with clout that I've heard come out and say publicly that we should have a second division and future P&R is Stephen Fuckn Lowy. Weird huh? This is NOT a P/R discussion thread ... the rhetoric around that discussion can be had on at least twenty other current threads at the moment. Please don't derail this into a P/R thread ... the issue is discussed ad nausea on here, and we simply go around in circles for 20 odd pages before a new thread starts and the cycle repeats. As detailed the working group is NOT about P/R, so please go else where to discuss such matters. The issue that needs to be addressed as a matter of priority is the congress. P/R is an issue that FIFA wants addresses but not as primary issue. The make-up of the congress as being more representatives is the primary issue and that there is not a single group that can dominant the congress. FIFA also wants more representation for women and other football entities (non-state federations and HAL clubs) such as futsal (why else would the FFA defunded futsal?). P/R needed a definitive timeline like 10-20 years but is secondary. The other concern is the A-League and whether it is partially or wholly independent. The problem with the A-League is the franchise model instituted by the FFA. What is lost in all of this is that the FFA is supposed to be custodians of football in Australia. However, they treat football as if they own the game.
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