Bloody Foreign influence on Domestic matters

Football Federation Australia (FFA) today acknowledged the decision of the FIFA Member Associations Committee to accept the recommendations of the Congress Review Working Group (CRWG).

Despite deep concerns about the CRWG’s certain key recommendations, the FFA Board will work with the Members of FFA to call an extraordinary general meeting for September.

“The fact remains that under the proposed CRWG model, the independence of the Board will be compromised.

Acting as a bloc, as they have done throughout the consultation process, the professional game and only two of the States could control the Congress and therefore the election of directors to the FFA board,” FFA Chairman, Mr Steven Lowy AM said.

“The governance model advocated by the CRWG leads to the trading of political favours between a few individuals, who would then control the many. The FFA Board remains concerned that our game will not be best served if the commercial game overly influences who sits on the FFA board.

“The national interest of our game is at stake here – the funding of our national teams and our grassroots development programs – and this should be the most important consideration. We cannot allow our game to be controlled by private and largely foreign interests as their interests do not align with those of our national teams and development programs. 

“Last week I called on all parties to come together to properly analyse the real issues at stake here. It is vital that all parties agree on a way forward, for the good of the whole of our game and as it stands today, we do not have sufficient consensus.

“FFA has championed efforts to expand the Congress and expand the A-League under a new operating model.  The CRWG’s recommendations on these issues are not the only way forward – there are of course other options that will address stakeholder concern and satisfy FIFA’s requirements, including Article 15 of the FIFA Statutes. What is required now is a conciliatory approach to reach the right outcomes to continue to push this great game forward,” he said.    

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OK.

Lowy Family Group

What does lfg18 stand for? Liverpool For Good 2018? Is Lowy a backer if the South West Sydney bid? :)

:lol:

:wink:

Turnbulls fighting back, Lowy Style

Do you mean

sl@lfg18.com

New PM soon and a new FFA, what a week.

-PB

Did anyone notice Steven Lowy private email address in the letter?

 "FFA must give notice for an extraordinary general meeting to put the resolutions forward for adoption no later than September 7."
Meeting date not set in stone YET - FIFA expect result by 25th September to make deadline.

As I understand it;

Corporations Act requires 21 days notice for the EGM from when a 5% member calls it.

We now await the EGM confirmation

Might not be 4 for long though. Both Capital and NNSW appear to be under pressure internally to change their positions.

Nothing new here, there are still four state federationss who are opposed.

LOL  - Glad I let you know my preferences. And yes it is an Australian Football Constitutional Matter - But has great interest to anyone from abroad who follows Australian Football 

https://www.theage.com.au/sport/soccer/fifa-endorses-reform-ending-lowy-s-reign-20180823-p4zz7a.html

The A league clubs and the PFA have used an independent committee to get the FFA to change is voting structure. FIFA have endorsed this independent report, which basically says to the FFA Board 'change your ways or we will sack/suspend you'.

Can someone please explain what’s happening here? Like in a nutshell for a dummy

Good post, I'm going to make a note of these pricks if it doesn't get voted through. 

It is an Australian Football Constitutional Matter and has no relevance to NZ Football. If anything. A stronger Australian Football System weakens NZ Football further. So be careful what you wish for.

“Having considered all relevant factors, the Committee welcomed with great appreciation the efforts of the CRWG and the report it produced,” FIFA said in a release dated 22 August and signed by FIFA secretary general Fatma Samoura.

“It further confirmed that the proposed recommendations are fully in line with FIFA’s requirements, in particular Art. 15 of the FIFA Statutes.

“…the Committee moved that the recommendations of the CRWG be submitted to an extraordinary meeting of the FFA to be convened as soon as possible in accordance to the regulatory framework of the FFA.

“Finally, the Committee instructed the FIFA administration to provide it with an update on the matter at its upcoming meeting on 26 September 2018.”

“The Committee was also apprised of the reservations and objections expressed by the FFA Board as well as four of the nine Member Federations, namely Capital Football, Northern Territory, Tasmania and Northern NSW, regarding certain aspects of the CRWG’s recommendations,” the letter read

“In this context, the Committee also took note of the response by the CRWG to these comments.”

Sauce not Fax

The press releases go to all registered and accredited News agencies. Which he works for one from memory.
The story he wrote is hinting at the green stamp being approved.   

Harley-Davidson just release a new model to the market within 1/2 hour(after embargo ended) The magazines released full road test articles and video of them testing it. They did not do the article in 1/2 hr and digitally make a video of a bike they had not seen before.

You are overestimating Gatty's global importance to the global soccer community.

Do you seriously think Gatty wouldn't let slip a hint on a story this big? Do you think FIFA would issue embargoed press releases to some backwater journo in Sydney Australia? Come on.

But the release could be sitting on journo's desks embargoed until...... Giving FFA time to respond.    It took by the looks of it, 7 days from FIFA meeting on Ghana to the press release getting published.

Stuart Kenny - Northern Territory
Bill Walker - Northern New South Wales
Bob Gordon - Tasmania
Mark O'Neill - Capital Football

Vote away boys. If congress reform sinks, 3/4 of these names will be remembered for it.

As if FIFA are going to ring some journo in Sydney Australia. No one 'understands' or :has been noted' anything. Journos now sprouting s.h.I.t. this is big time stuff with big time players. Best the journos shut up until something concrete is said.