I believe Sports Australia gives out more than $250mill a year. Football gets $4.8mill?

You won't be missing much to be honest. 

I'm gobsmacked.
Take a look at the board of Sports Australia.
It's stacked with anti football people.
People who are directly involved with A League competitors like the Melbourne Stars and Tennis Australia.
Also a few AFL club directors.
Now, the cynic in me wonders why they are commenting on this issue.

I'm not following the HAL this season. Enough is enough.

I don't know about everyone else but I am so sick of feeling like others are trying to kill my favourite sport and I can do nothing about it ....I wonder if there is someone out there with the energy ,knowledge and connections to organize a mass petition to our Government ....and maybe the FFA as well ?
We have the largest participation numbers in the country and get only $4.8million a year ????  WTF ! Thats about $3.50 for each player....well do me a dance !...isn't that a windfall for which we should all be grateful !
I could get some new laces for my boots ...woops .....no they are $4.00 a pair ...maybe next year !!!

...and how dare these morons ( women or men I don't care ..they are all morons...) start trying to sabotage a process most in the Australian football world want to happen.
These jerks at Sports Australia knew about these recommendations for months and have only just now come out (on the eve of the vote) and said they don't like them .
They also would be well aware that FIFA do not countenance political interference...if they do not.... they should be sacked immediately for incompetence.....but who sacks them ? and who ,for that matter, appointed them ? I didn't ....
How about we tell Sports Australia to fuck off and we put player fees up $3.50 per year ...I think I can handle that extra burden !!!!

Not hand over $4.8m ?

Do Sports Australia actually have any power to do anything?

I'll fill you in....FFA is looking to form a block representing Lowy/Fox/The Gov and AFL lovers to counteract the dangers of Football clubs and participants holding too much power.

the lowys called in their mates.  they're prepared to bring it all down with them.

I've got myself confused (along with a headache) reading everything....
So who are the good guys?? Who are the bad guys?? FFA? FIFA? Sports Australia? Anyone else I missed?

Beyond the beyond.

Seems to have taken the view if I can't have my way I will destroy it all.

$4.8 million a year to the dominating (participant wise) code in Australia is a pittance and dereliction of their duties.

They hand over $4.8m a year so they do have skin in the game.

Yes

So let me get this straight, a government body, run by people who are not favourable to football, are getting involved, meaning they are doing the one thing most likely to get us expelled from FIFA?

https://www.sportaus.gov.au/sportaus/corporate_structure#john_wylie_am

It is interesting (and to me disturbing)  that 6 of the 10 board members and 3 of the 5 executives are female.

Didnt Sports Australia fold in the late 90s?

Sa la vi FFA 

Well if nothing else it is free advertising for this "Sports Australia" never heard of them and had no idea who was on the Board.
Who picked them ? How dare they not even mention Football NRL and Rugby union  ?
WTF is going on in this country ?

The one good thing is we now know it exists and has no love of football.

Suspension is looking the most likely outcome now.

FIFA have been patient for too long.

Why?

Sport Australia would be well aware of FIFA's intolerance of government interference. I guess the question is at what point does something become interference. Does the expression of an opinion become that? I doubt it.

They don’t even have rugby on the list. I think afl is an enemy to other sports not just ours

"For example, Sport Australia could provide AFL and NFL codes with assets and packages for digital signage to run at half-time during games."

Really?

"marketing leaders overseeing 12 of Australia's biggest sporting codes including basketball, AFL, cricket, swimming, surfing and tennis"


Oh, just fuck off already.

I see Football  is not worth mentioning or is it outside (Offside) her to 12
"To further ensure the marketing effort and Sport 2030 is as collaborative as possible, Eyres and her team have brought together marketing leaders overseeing 12 of Australia’s biggest sporting codes including basketball, AFL, cricket, swimming, surfing and tennis, into a cross-code advisory group. Historically often seen as competitors, this working group, dubbed the ‘Marketing 12’, is about fostering more engagement with physical activity as a whole, she said."

Wylie and Palmer are dangerous. Very dangerous. https://www.cmo.com.au/article/644638/how-sport-australia-plans-build-new-national-sporting-agenda/

For SA to voice an opinion at 1 second to midnight is laughable.
Lowy knows any government intervention is a red card and knows there is no way it will help resolve the standoff.
It can only mean Lowy want's FFA to be suspended.
SA and its AFL and other football code proxies would like nothing more than to see football banished.

I see, so a Netball fan and an AFL/Cricket fan, through the authority of the Government, are going to decide what is best for Football in this country. I guess Gill just needs to make a call to his mates in office anyway.

Lowy needs to distance himself from this as quickly as possible.

X2. Kate Palmer. Sport AU's CEO is a d..khead. John Wylie is there. He is AFL aligned and did the crap 2013 'punishment' Of Essendon Drugs. Very real possibility that the AFL backed Sport AU's Board will want FIFA to suspend FFA. 

Dangerous intervention.

No, but similar people are

Please tell me Gillon McGlauglin isn't a board member of Sport Australia?