They don't have to cancel the season, but they could do away with finals.
Pretty pointless playing finals if you're getting zero ticketing revenue.
As soon as SFC has won the premiership, they could call it quits there and then.

Unless the government orders it FFA has to provide foxtel with the content.

Yeh, I agree, I'm sort of saying the season shouldn't be abandoned altogether, that SFC should at least br given the opportunity to confirm its premiership (and then, at that point, if things are serious enough, the season could be brought to a conclusion).

The Finals is our ACL recognised cup. If the season concludes after teams playing 26 games then we fail to qualify for the next ACL

Surely the AFC would waive that due to Covid-19.

The Finals is our ACL recognised cup. If the season concludes after teams playing 26 games then we fail to qualify for the next ACL

Pretty sure the first FFA Cup game counts instead, in an interview early this season the FFA mentioned that the 26 games, plus 1 FFA cup would make the minimum 27 for all clubs.

Just once I'd love to see Australian professional football to do more than the mandatory bare minimum.

Farewell for now fellow aficionados. 

I've been a subscriber to Fox then Kayo purely for the A League since game 1 all those years ago, but the awful football that has ruled the roost this season has finally done my interest in. The horrible game last night between City and Wanderers, two dismally disappointing clubs, was the final straw.   "Disappointing" doesn't do City justice for the cement-shoed non performers, on every level, that club has been since CFG took over.  

I've cancelled my Kayo sub. It's the only kind of protest can make to the incompetents that have trashed the competition with its huge potential, perhaps now lost forever, at the clubs and FFA. 

I no longer have anyone real hope that the competition can be turned around. Optus is the only possibility, but I doubt that the competition will have any commercial value by the time the broadcast deal expires. I very much much hope I'm wrong. Waz and Lionheart will insist I was wrong about Fowler and Brisbane this year season but unfortunately that success, in my opinion, only reflects the poor standard of the football this year season.  For exactly the same reason, this SFC team is wildly overrated. Yokohama showed just how much.  

I still have it in me to hope that next season can be different, that this season can be the end of this long and painful decline. But for this season, I'm done. 

Good luck everyone with the dreaded virus. I hope you and those close to you all make it through ok. 

Now is the time to tweak the A-League and start a fresh competition. The past has seen the A-League slowly become uninteresting, change the season to winter and bugger the other codes that have done all in their power to kill the game in Australia. I am hoping that CH7 will not be able to afford afl, they  are in trouble financially but yet they are now asking rugby to join them, lol, one broke shaft asking the other broke shaft to join forces. I do hope that the FFA are working hard to make sure that if Foxtel dumps the A-League, they will sue if the contract is broken by Foxtel. So far the FFA have stood their ground in not wanting to rush the A-League to restart, they are not going by what Foxtel wants but are holding back to make sure that football will not contaminate the players and public with covid-19. It is the only sport that has been sensible with their dealing of this deadly virus, the other two codes are not worried about the consequences if they  restart the season early. Just my little bit of gripe and silly posting.

"Channel Seven, the home of AFL, has reached out to the NRL about the potential of acquiring rugby league content in the future as Channel Nine looks to offload one of its three free-to-air matches."

Both 7 and 10 have categorically denied approaching the NRL.
It would make no sense for eithert pick up extra sport content at the precise time it is hardest to make it pay.

Now is the time to tweak the A-League and start a fresh competition. The past has seen the A-League slowly become uninteresting, change the season to winter and bugger the other codes that have done all in their power to kill the game in Australia. I am hoping that CH7 will not be able to afford afl, they  are in trouble financially but yet they are now asking rugby to join them, lol, one broke shaft asking the other broke shaft to join forces. I do hope that the FFA are working hard to make sure that if Foxtel dumps the A-League, they will sue if the contract is broken by Foxtel. So far the FFA have stood their ground in not wanting to rush the A-League to restart, they are not going by what Foxtel wants but are holding back to make sure that football will not contaminate the players and public with covid-19. It is the only sport that has been sensible with their dealing of this deadly virus, the other two codes are not worried about the consequences if they  restart the season early. Just my little bit of gripe and silly posting.

"Channel Seven, the home of AFL, has reached out to the NRL about the potential of acquiring rugby league content in the future as Channel Nine looks to offload one of its three free-to-air matches."

Obviously none of us know exactly whats happening with each broadcaster and football code.

But is it not crazy to question if either channel 9 or 7, disconnected from either the AFL or NRL, could they swoop in for the A-league. The scale of the A-league deal would be a portion of the size of either the NRL or AFL. So if both or either channel aspired to reduce costs and display live sport, that is a realistic option. Alternating the A-league from summer to winter would be the biggest question in this whole situation. 

The NRL is being manged like crap right now, they themselves are realising that they are making a range of financial mistakes and that there lack of partipant and youth interest is a danger for there long term success. Something which FTA channels would be looking at. Rugby is even further in a dumb to the NRL, lack of interest, poor management. Any sizeable offer would be madness right now and thats why Optus' offer wasnt that good.

I wouldn't want CH7 to take not even one game a week no matter all of the A-League.

What they did to the old NSL is beyond disgusting, and the CH7 Victoria boss admitted what they did in court.
For those that don't know what happened here is a short explanation below.

When CH9 and CH10 teamed up to take the afl away from CH7, CH7 thought that it is their god given right to keep the rights of the game, and how, when they where in court due to ch7 crying foul, their big boss whatever his position was, said in court to the judge,  i quote " We even took a ten year contract with soccer just to kill it of and not be in competition with our game" unquote.

This to me was the time that i have  reached the highest level of despise for ch7, not to mention all the crap that they put on the a-league trying to bring it down.

Take my word for it, here in Melbourne it is all about afl cricket tennis, football is classed as a foreign game and must be eliminated.

As for CH9, i am not to sure either, they haven't been exactly kind to the game in Melbourne.

Then we have CH10, since they have been bought out by some American company, they the Americans do not look at football kindly either.

The game needs to learn from all this and not make the same mistakes as has happened in the past, also the past FFA administrators did a lot of damage to the game, instead of taking advantage of the then popularity that the A-League had, they decided to squabble with the clubs owners, they should have taken advantage and advertised like mad rather spending money on the world cup bid, which also was a disaster and did the game more harm then good.

Obviously none of us know exactly whats happening with each broadcaster and football code.

But is it not crazy to question if either channel 9 or 7, disconnected from either the AFL or NRL, could they swoop in for the A-league. The scale of the A-league deal would be a portion of the size of either the NRL or AFL. So if both or either channel aspired to reduce costs and display live sport, that is a realistic option. Alternating the A-league from summer to winter would be the biggest question in this whole situation. 

The NRL is being manged like crap right now, they themselves are realising that they are making a range of financial mistakes and that there lack of partipant and youth interest is a danger for there long term success. Something which FTA channels would be looking at. Rugby is even further in a dumb to the NRL, lack of interest, poor management. Any sizeable offer would be madness right now and thats why Optus' offer wasnt that good.

I don't think that any of the FTA networks will be interested in the game to be honest.
Unfortunately a lot of damage has been done to the game, by the past FFA, afl, rugby, and all afl and rugby cricket media, not to mention the gangs that went to games for the sole purpose of giving the game a bad name.

The only way that i can see football survive in this country is to just completely ignore FTA and all other media that resembles FTA.

I think maybe streaming is the way to go for football, it would be cheaper to subscribe to and it will hopefully entice the younger generation to get involved with it.

Lets face it, ABC the current FTA network have not one ounce of interest in the game, ch10 the same, ch9 only interested in rugby, afl and cricket, foxtel the biggest joke of all, the way they kept the game from growing unlike the exposer that they give to the afl and rugby, during telecasting of football games, at half time they where ramming rugby and afl down our throats, but yet as far as i know, they hardly ever promoted football.

Also i was reading an article where  Mark Schwarzer was saying that the biggest setback for football in Australia is the states federations, they keep the game from improving and all that they are there for is for state interest and self interest, i think he is spot on and as he says, state federations should be abolished and have one central football control.

There’s enough reports saying NINE are interested, and as the primary broadcaster as well. There’s a fair bit of water to flow under the bridge before anything gets settled but a NINE/Optus link up is not an unreasonable prospect for the A League. 

Thanks for that info Waz,  i had no idea, and sorry to post comments without actually knowing the facts. :)

Well lets hope that it eventuates and CH9 do a good job, a lot better than what CH10 and the ABC have done.

Also i forgot the mention, if Optus are involved, i will subscribe with them as well, but dump Foxtel.

Hard to say they’re “facts” sadly just several news stories relating to it. Hopefully we get something out of it and, Like you, I’m off to Optus if football lands there. 

Also why didn’t the ffa sue the hell out of channel 7 for burying the nsl? Sounds like a breach of contract or breath of ethics 

Also why didn’t the ffa sue the hell out of channel 7 for burying the nsl? Sounds like a breach of contract or breath of ethics 

Um, probably because ffa weren't a party to the contract?

The A league would not be seen as a cheaper alternative to AFL or NRL by either channel.  They use AFL and NRL as a loss leader, and as a basis for other programming.  A League just doesn't have the market to fulfil that function.  They could still broadcast A league in the right circumstances, but it wouldn't be as an alternative to those leagues.