A new chair will be voted on at the AGM in November. There could be a number of nominations or a single uncontested nominations. Won't know until then. 

That would mean a change to the FFA constitution.  Currently the Congress votes in the Directors but the Board votes on who is to be the chair.

Merry Xmas guys!

He is the worst kind of slimy. If he wasn't rich, I'm sure he would have been arrested by now.

Stephen Conroy is best known as a Labor headkicker — but could the former senator soon be charged with bringing peace to Football Federation Australia?

Margin Call hears Conroy is being touted as the next chair of soccer’s war-torn governing body.
Conroy’s mission, should he get the FFA job: to end years of fighting between the dysfunctional sport’s Rich Lister-backed clubs and a governing body that has been controlled by the billionaire Lowy family.Sounds like child’s play for a Labor powerbroker who once ruled the badlands of Victoria.

In August, the exasperated FFA chairman Steven Lowy — who took over the job from his father Frank Lowy in 2015 in a managed process that enraged many of the clubs — called time on his tenure running the administration body.“I’m doing this because of the politics in football,” Lowy told The Australian at the time.

Politics and football sounds like a perfect mix for Conroy, the long-time president of Volleyball Victoria and a raging supporter of the A-League’s Melbourne City.

That Melbourne City affiliation is handy.City, led by vice-president Simon Pearce, has been one of key clubs that have agitated against the Lowy-controlled FFA.The clubs want more money to flow from the FFA to A-League club owners, including rich-lister Paul Lederer at Western Sydney and mining identity Tony Sage at Perth.

Today, A-League club owners, various state federations and the players association will gather at a specially convened extraordinary general meeting at the FFA’s Sydney headquarters next to Hyde Park.
The agitators are expected to gain control of the congress, which elects the FFA board.A coterie of Lowy-backed FFA board members are expected to follow the chairman and exit the tumultuous code, including ex-NAB banker Joseph Healy, Pendal Group equities guru Crispin Murray and former CBA institutional boss Kelly Bayer Rosmarin.
Not all current FFA directors are expected to retreat.More popular with the clubs is Chris Nikou, an M&A lawyer with K&L Gates in Melbourne and former Melbourne Victory board member.
Some are backing Nikou as a potential compromise to succeed Lowy as chair — although he wouldn’t be half as fun as Conroy.

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/margin-call/headkicker-conroy-may-kick-goals-at-ffa/news-story/871ab233b25700ae57b9071c5e0f9dd5

So Melb City is likely to lobby hard to get one of its own elected to the Chair.

I can't see anything wrong with that.

Whilst not knowing how into Football Conroy is. You would have to think his political connections would be of great assistance 

Know nothing about Conroys history with the game but he should pass the same test that everyone involved with the FFA should do beforehand.

"Are you a Football person?"

- If Yes then congrats and best of luck.

- If no, then fuck off.

There have been far too many weasels from outside the game's community and culture, especially from other sports, who've fucked things up for too long. 

We didn't just go through 3 years of uprisings against the Lowy dictatorship for some new stooge to repeat the same lines about how we are so "unique and different."

I recall 8 or so years ago, he wore a Collingwood jumper in parliament during grand final week.

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/emotions-run-wild-when-you-love-the-pies-20100929-15xbs.html

https://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/video/11763779611/Harmony-Game-Stephen-Conroy

Here’s Fos interviewing Stephen Conroy after a Harmony Day kick around.

Doesn't necessarily mean hes not a football person

SO what time is the big dance? 

Just keep politicians out of management of companies.Particularly labour ones.Unless they have a background in managing companies ,they are generally useless.

-PB

After just having read Stephen Conroy's wikipedia page ....no thanks .....next applicant please !

Anyone who plays Volleyball has something missing

With Labour likely to win the next Federal election the political ties would be priceless imo. It sounds like he is a football person too.

yeah ..kind of one of those sports only played at school ...like lacrosse

It’s done then 😀

Was the first item the new Congress model? 

Shoulda kept Tassie in the Bidding 

ok, it's a done deal

yep