AAFC was supposed to have it's member status start date backdated to allow them full membership today

Instead they're going to have to wait a year

I guess they would've been allowed to vote today if it had passed

It has happened 100% of the time so far.  :)

So in summary:

The AFL got their candidate on the Board.
The AAFC and their 2nd Division got completely shafted.

Now if Carozzi can get the Chair this one is cooked.

PS.  Then of course Norquay can just be added for the 40 40 20 rule and we have the Board of our dreams.

Almost guaranteed that Norquay, and maybe even Conroy, will be co-opted.

In my view they should do a world wide search and find someone from each of Qld, SA and WA with 2 of them being women both to satisfy the 40/40/20 rule and have a greater spread of states involved at Board level.  My only rider on the SA spot is it is not allowed to be Griffin.  ;)

If they only appoint 1, Norquay, the 40/40/20 is reached

If they appoint 2 or 3 , 2 of them needs to be women

Wow, the new board looks amazing...I can’t hardly wait....

Thank goodness.  Now that the City Group control all of Football in Australia we can strive for the heady heights of Melbourne City.  'Roos to play in sky blue!

yeah, with the evil Dr Lowy out of the way now and this new board, the sky is the limit !

Only been passively following the FFA votes stuff.

Wouldn’t a Chris Nikou regime simply be Lowy-lite?

Definitely a bit of ambiguity there, his recent actions are a bit mixed in that regard.

Heather Reid, former head the Canberra federation, is now deputy chair, and you'd have to think that she was a Lowy supporter the whole way through.

You wonder if she is going to push extra hard for Canberra to get one of the next licenses.

Lowy rep on the CRWG committee creating the CRWG recommendations

Part of the Board that then objected to the CRWG recommendations

Surely South will be pulling the A league bid now on the back of the many disgraceful statements this man made about the club on a public football forum a couple of years back. Great to have Mr Melbourne Renegades running the game..NOT.

Save yourselves $15m and more embarrassment

So let me get this right- this place wanted football people but not football people associated to lowy but lowy has been football so if they’re football they’ll be associated to lowy.

Simon Pearce of City Football Group is the most powerful figure in Australian soccer  
 November 19, 2018

The most powerful figure in Australian soccer now is an English-born former public relations and communications executive whose day job is to “protect and enhance the reputation” of the United Arab Emirates capital of Abu Dhabi.

Simon Pearce, the vice-chairman of A-League club Melbourne City and a special adviser to the executive affairs authority running Abu Dhabi, has been instrumental in driving corporate governance changes behind the scenes that today will install four new directors to the Football Federation Australia board and bring an end to the 15-year reign of first Frank and then Steven Lowy.

Pearce’s influence has grown rapidly in Australian soccer. A member of the nominations committee charged with finding new FFA board members, he is also a board member of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix and part of the City Football Group that includes Manchester and Melbourne City, New York City FC and Yokohama F Marinos.

Melbourne City have backed the nominations of two of the four likely candidates to fill the vacant FFA board roles, Chris Nikou and Remo Nogorotto, as revealed by The Australian on Friday, while Pearce is also understood to have been a strong advocate of another likely candidate in former Labor senator Stephen Conroy, a Melbourne City fan and ambassador. City have also backed the nomination of an emerging board contender in Linda Norquay, the chief financial officer of Lachlan Murdoch’s Illyria.

He is also said to have backed Judith Griggs, the author of a report for FIFA recommending governance changes in Australia, who subsequently nominated for the FFA board. But Griggs, a one-time Formula One executive, withdrew last week citing a lack of soccer experience and international business commitments.

Pearce has led the charge for an independent A-League modelled along the lines of the EPL, moving for governance change that is both in line with FIFA statutes and gave A-League clubs more voting power regarding the FFA board — which resulted in Steven Lowy resigning his role in August, a move that will be made official at today’s FFA annual meeting.

Lowy had argued in vain he stood in the way of the clubs getting more control at board level and therefore the purse strings of the sport, potentially starving national teams and junior development programs of funds.

Pearce had earlier helped carve out deals with the NSW and Victorian state federations to enact the governance change, also in concert with the Professional Players Association, run by former CFG employee John Didulica. Under Pearce’s leadership at Melbourne City, the club have won an FFA Cup and invested about $40 million in their Australian operations, recouping a major part of the funds via the sales of players like Aaron Mooy and Daniel Arzani via Manchester City.

CFG has become a global football powerhouse under chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak with Manchester City at the forefront of a billion-dollar spending revolution that has brought trophies, such as last season’s EPL, and fans around the world. Pearce has been a part of that success with his role in the recently published book on the rise of Manchester City and CFG, Killing the Game, described as “to protect and enhance the reputation of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi in the eyes of the world” as the head of strategic communications for the government there.

He has also recently been embroiled in allegations around English Premier League giants Manchester City, where he is a director, and allegations of circumventing financial regulations via the payment of sponsorships by companies connected to the club’s Abu Dhabi owner and the backdating of other financial agreements — both not allowed under European football’s financial fair play.

“We can do what we want,” was one damning quote attributed to Pearce in documents obtained by German publication Der Spiegel, and while Manchester City have said little publicly, they have stated the allegations are part of a “clear and organised” attempt to tarnish their reputation.

Pearce did not return calls from The Australian and other football identities were reluctant to talk about him on the record. One though did say “Simon is doing everything with the best interests of Australian football in mind” and another added: “He is just one part of a voting bloc and Melbourne Victory, Western Sydney Wanderers and Sydney FC have increased their influence … while Simon has had to pull back due to the controversy in Europe.

”Born in London, the 47-year-old Pearce was a communication executive who ran the Sydney office of global PR firm Burson-Marsteller. He left Australia in 2006 for Abu Dhabi, where he became director of strategic affairs and later entered the football world when the Abu Dhabi Group for Development and Investment bought Manchester City in 2008.

Manchester City have gone on to become an outstanding success on the field in the decade under their majority Abu Dhabi ownership. Melbourne City, meanwhile, played before a home crowd of less than 7000 last weekend. But they have also found interesting ways to grow their business off the field, Pearce has ensured the club is winning the competition handsomely. 

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/sport/football/simon-pearce-of-city-football-group-is-the-most-powerful-figure-in-australian-soccer/news-story/747ee3c883e8eabf124ff0d97eba81a6

Wonder if Foz has had his cheque cleared yet.

And can still keep his Chinese Development cash as well

Who Nikou?  

Carozzi.

They all were silent on the NCIP disgrace though regardless of their heritage.  I've read on Twitter & I don't know how true it is that our new Chairman is hostile to traditional clubs. Time will tell though & I wonder if any our footballing media have the balls to ask any of the new board members about it.  

Australia City has a nice ring to it.  Would definitely make us stand out at the next World Cup (that's assuming City group allows funding of the national team). 

I read those comments. Pretty disgraceful if true. But was it confirmed it was him and how?

When will we know about Wellingtons 10 year licence? and the metrics.

does the nix have a friend on the board?

Their current agreement was minor extensions of 4 years to the end of 19/20 season and then 3 years til the end of the 22/23 season and then another 3 years until the 25/26 season dependent on meeting various metrics. However that will most likely completely change when the HAL becomes independent next year. Wellington cannot be given the boot before the end of the 19/20 season (unless they pull a Palmer/Tinkler). The only way I see them leaving is selling the license once the league is independent. Alternatively it will be in the distant future when/if P&R eventuates.

He never flat out denied it. Then when other posters started catching on to the fact it may be him he did a runner. Im pretty sure he was in favour of the rebranded npl being made up entirely of new franchises.

Word from the other night was that when Foster was running down the NCIP Nikou could be seen shaking his head. Would fit his character.

This guy would be more likely to scrap the ffa cup before even remotely considering a 2nd division.

Lots of speculation about Nickou. But no actual sourced information. The new board will be judged on their decisions. It looks like a pretty good mix of people with different opinions and expertise from the outside.

http://footballtoday.news/football-media-watch/tim-cahill-socceroos-lebanon-ffa-board-sam-kerr

All this political stuff is too "crazy" for Ray Gatt. His piece from the annual general meeting here ($) giving details of the vote, and a later piece after the Board's election ($) of the Chairman.

In case you missed it, the new Board now comprises:

• Chris Nikou, Chairman
• Heather Reid, Deputy Chairman
• Joseph Carrozzi
• Crispin Murray
• Remo Nogarotto
• Kelly Bayer Rosmarin

Nikou, of course, is another remnant of the old Board, re-joining Murray and Rosmarin, but he is already "drawing a line in the sand". He says the Board's first priority is A-League expansion which will be music to the ears of many, if not all, in the football fraternity. 

Dominic Bossi refers to Nikou as the "peacemaker" and an "assauging listener" and says that the election of Nikou, the grand "football intellect" Heather Reid, and Remo Nogarotto to the Board are evidence that even the 'stakeholders' (that is, the voting stakeholders) want "football people" on the Board, contrary to Steven Lowy's assertion that that is a "naive" argument. 

Tom Smithies picks up on our article of Sunday that the new faces are not really new faces, by noting that "football's future isn't exactly revolutionary". Like Gatt and Nikou and Carozzi, Smithies would like to see less focus on football politics and more on the football. 

Memo to mainstream media journalists and Board members: the small group of people who focus on football politics do so because it's of interest and a concern to them, and they have every right to be so engaged. 

In response to a question from us on Saturday, Piet Van der Pol explained to the local paper that he gave his proxy to Anthony Di Pietro of Melbourne Victory because he is overseas.  

The Canberra local paper refers to Reid's election as a "landslide" which it undeniably was with almost 91% of the vote. It came after the longtime Company Secretary reminded the voters of the requirement for at least a tilt to gender equity in their voting decisions, as per the new Constitution.