Football Australia want a ‘disruptor’ to fix development issues

Read this last night.

All the same garbage that gets trotted out every 5 minutes but nothing, NOTHING about setting up a full football pyramid that will reward merit over mediocrity.

Blah, blah fucking blah.

Fuck the FA and the APL and every other fucker that's a roadblock to pro / rel, the NSD and other big reforms that they won't enact. 

Fuck you all.

yep, same shit different day.
Very sad.

Christ i hate buzzwords like this

Ok, I'll do it For Free!
Expansion,
Transfer fees, and wait for it....
Second Division. There JJ, all done pal!

So, apparently you need to 'scour the world', to find someone to explain that Japanese players (at all levels) play considerably more minutes than the equivalent Australian players. That's why they are consistently better than Australia. Even at the top level, the J-League plays Feb to Dec, whereas the A-League plays October to May. More teams, more minutes. Results will follow.

He won't scour the World now, I solved JJ's issues!

Push through with the reforms, the particular opposing owners with purely self interest can absolutely piss right off!

So ....... all of them :) Why would, for example, the sheikh of the United Arab Emirates want Australian football to reform??? Jesus Christ what a mess. 

https://www.seek.com.au/job/56384908?type=promoted#sol=74776e97847583ebef9940d72046b2a174e7f169

Duties & Responsibilities:

Strategy

• Develop and implement Football Australia’s technical vision and strategy to amplify and enhance the key technical and development insights outlined in the XI Principles; and unify Australian football’s technical and development ambitions
• Establish a national technical strategy, including Australia’s football curriculum 
• Re-imagine the structure and focus areas for Football Australia’s Football Department to ensure alignment to the new technical vision and strategy 
• Lead a process to develop a new football curriculum under the umbrella of the new technical vision and strategy 

Advisory 

• Advise Football Australia on technical playing matters including devising “styles of play” and articulate this through Australia’s football curriculum 
• Continually monitor best practice around the world in technical matters and communicate this to stakeholders, as well as setting the narrative publicly
• Work with and advise the High-Performance Director and National Team Coaches on pathways and programs to support high performance 
• Work closely with the CEO on publicly advocating for major structural football transformation and support its implementation 

Development pathways and programs  

• Reimagine Australian football’s player development pathways and programs to create modern and fit-for-purpose systems to address Australian football’s development challenges
• Work with Head of Member Federations and Community to ensure grassroots and community programs are dovetailed with aligned development programs nationally
• Build relationships and synergises with A-League (men and women) clubs to ensure technical direction is aligned with broader game’s direction (e.g., academies, roster rules, domestic match calendar, competition formats etc)

Coach education and development

• Directly oversee and enhance Football Australia’s coach education programs
• Ensure Football Australia’s coach education programs continuously meet global best practice
• Deliver coach education programs which align with Football Australia’s overall technical vision and strategy
• Establish pathways for Australian coaches to succeed domestically and abroad

Strategic relationships 

• Work with Head of Commercial and Events to drive revenue for Football Australia through coaching courses across country which create a strong culture around coach development
• Work with Head of Referees to support development opportunities for Australian match officials by emphasising the importance of the role as a skilled position and a vital link in player development. 
• Contribute to and influence Football Australia’s overall direction through effective working relationships with other Executive Leadership, Senior Managers, the CEO, and Board of Directors.
• Build partnerships with other key stakeholders, such as the Australian Institute of Sport, the AFC, FIFA, clubs, and leagues around the world
• Develop key relationships with Australian stakeholders (Member Federations, A-League clubs, Professional Footballers Australia (PFA), Football Coaches Association (FCA), Women’s Football Council, National Indigenous Advisory Group etc
• Develop a global networkto identify Australian-eligible players and develop relationships with key people (e.g., parents) around those players in order not to lose players to other countries 

Technical appointments and research 

• Participate in processes for the appointment of National Team coaches and key staff
• Establish a football research and analysis unit within the department to provide guidance to the technical strategies
• measure and monitor impactof technical strategies through reviews and other methods
• drive greaterindustry understanding and set narrative for technical football matters through thought leadership

Support roles 

• Support the Performance Director on alignment of high-performance culture amongst football departments of business 
• Support Performance Director to develop objective benchmarks and clear accountabilities for the technical development, performance, and culture of National Teams
• Contribute to Football Australia Executive Leadership Team by understanding the broader business and the role the Chief Football Officer plays in delivering the businesses strategic priorities set with the FA Board

Experience and skills required:

• A strategic leader with a demonstrable history in developing and executing successful football strategies
• Must have a proven experience and success in elite football both in terms of setting technical vision and strategies, as well as implementing them
• Demonstrate an understanding of key football structural mechanisms (i.e., development of new competitions, transfer and player contracting system, club licensing, access frameworks, match calendar)
• Demonstrate a deep understanding of both the men’s and women’s game and the nuances in each
• Must have a current experience equivalent to a Pro Licence. 
• Well-developed leadership and management skills with a track record of driving change both culturally and structurally 
• Evidence of delivering coaching, pathways, and schools’ programs 
• Demonstrates the use of data to shape external football narrative 
• Understanding of the global football landscape and modern players development initiatives and trends is beneficial
• Understanding of the Australian football landscape and its current player development challenges is beneficial 
• Significant travel interstate & overseas, with possible lengthy periods away from home
• General availability to team members, including after hours.

Good luck finding someone with these credentials

:laugh:

Lmao it's a real ad

But we're a unique football landscape.....


Seriously though, I am staggered that the whole football community cannot get behind this simple concept and demand it happens. 

A-League clubs and Professional Footballers Australia are unconvinced of the merits of a DTS in Australia, where local clubs have been banned for many years from exchanging players for money with one another. They believe the impact it could have is being overstated and think FA would be best served addressing other aspects of the game and allowing the professional tier to recover from the financial shock of the pandemic. The PFA, in particular, will not accept a DTS without the removal of the A-League’s salary cap. The union also has research which it says proves transfer systems do not appropriately redistribute money from richer clubs to smaller ones as Johnson and FA argue will happen.


Ignoring the written reason above why are they actually against it? Higher costs for players?

When they say the quiet bit out loud ..

There should be no A-League expansion using the current process unless a super club can be created, like the Wanderers. It just simply isn’t viable with the current modelling. Western United and Macarthur will eventually come good, but we can’t wait forever.

It’s  Frank Lowy’s  fault, he tried to go ‘head to head ‘ with AFL and NRL with a closed league system. That suits those sports because they have little to no universal competition. Football as a worldwide sport isn’t suitable for such a narrow perspective.
I believe that we should have followed the J league system of developing a football pyramid.
Although we have wasted 15 years I don’t think it’s too late, so if the APL don’t want to come the party then Football Australia have to make the decision to start by establishing the tiers below the A league and go forward from there.

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I literally came on to ask the same question. Why in the world would the PFA require no salary cap before they agree to a transfer system. It doesn't make sense. Even if funding isn't redistributed "appropriately", it still incentivises clubs to develop players and to sign them to longer contracts. Personally, I think the PFA are the worst stakeholder in the game for damaging football's best interest.

meanwhile in germany
https://trainingground.guru/articles/germany-revolutionises-foundation-age-formats

Germany revolutionises foundation age formats with emphasis on fun

GERMANY has launched new regulations that will transform the way football is played by Under-11s in the country.The emphasis will be on fun and a player-centred approach, with Ronny Zimmermann, DFB Vice President responsible for children’s and youth football, saying: “We need to think like children, not like adults. Only children who develop fun and joy in the game will stay in football.”This is an antidote to the formats we can sometimes see, including in this country, where children are playing big-sided games at young ages, where the less physically or technically developed youngsters can have limited time on the ball and where adults (parents, coaches and referees) are driving the sessions, sometimes to the detriment of the players.

The key principles of the DFB's new regulations are:

• small-sided games.
• short playing times.
• players regularly rotated, with everyone involved.
• no referees and minimal involvement from coaches and parents.
• ‘game afternoons’ and festivals, rather than formal matches and leagues.
• heading practically eliminated.

The regulations have been introduced after a two-year pilot phase that involved all 21 regional associations, during which time there were "good experiences" and "very positive" feedback from children. The DFB Bundestag, the country’s ‘football Parliament’, formally ratified the regulations on March 11th.

Districts and clubs can now implement the new formats, although they MUST be introduced from the start of the 2024/25 season.
“Playing with the ball and scoring goals are the main reasons why so many children and young people enjoy football,” the DFB said in a statement. “The new forms of play are intended to give all children on the pitch the opportunity as often as possible to have the ball at their feet themselves, to take an active part in the game, to score goals and thus to have a personal sense of achievement.”The changes are heavily influenced by the concept of ‘Funino’ (a synthesis of the words ‘fun’ and ‘nino’, which is the Spanish for child), which was developed by the late coaching guru Horst Wein.Here is some more detail on the new formats:G-Youth (U6 & U7):

• 2 v 2 or 3 v 3.
• Pitch size = 16m x 20m to maximum of 28m x 22m.
• Each team has a maximum of two substitutes.
• The game is played on four mini-goals, so each team defends two goals.
• Goals can only be scored from inside the centre line for 2 v 2 and from within a six-metre 'shooting zone' for 3 v 3.
• No goalkeeper.
• After each goal, both teams automatically change one player each.
• On game afternoons, up to seven rounds of matches for a maximum of 10 minutes each are recommended. After each round, the winning teams advance one pitch and the losing team retreats one pitch. “This results in largely balanced games with few extreme results, resulting in a more balanced level of performance and, as a result, less frustration for the children.” Teams and players will also find their level.

F-Youth (U8 & U9):

• 3 v 3 game (field size to a maximum of 28m x 22m) or 5 v 5 (maximum 40m x 25m).
• 3 v 3 is as for the G Youth.
• 5 v 5 is played either to four mini-goals (without goalkeepers) or to two small field goals (four outfield players plus goalkeeper).
• Suggested playing time per round is 12 minutes. After each round, the winning teams advance one pitch and the losing teams advance one pitch.

E-Jugend (U10 & U11):

• 5 v 5 or 7 v 7.
• 5 v 5 is as for the F Youth. Game is always restarted by shooting in or dribbling in (as for the G Youth and F Youth).
• 7 v 7 (field size 55 x 35 m) is played on two small field goals, with six outfield players and one goalkeeper per team.
• Tournament format with four teams and playing times of 2 x 12 minutes each is recommended. Game is continued with a throw-in.

“The new design makes football more child-friendly in the relevant age groups,” the DFB explained. “The smaller the groups then the more ball contacts the individual players have.
“Especially underperforming or physically inferior children have been lost in the classic competition formats and have lost the fun of the game and the chance for further development.

“The new forms of play are intended to offer children better opportunities to play football in such a way that they are often on the ball and have fun doing it. In children's football, tactics are often emphasised too early, which affects the development of the basics of football. Many studies have shown this. The changed game forms are intended to counteract this problem.“What is football? Game, fun, goals - that's exactly what the new system promotes. Children can score goals in many ways, even the children who are not (yet) among the best performers.“In addition, the children dribble more often and have more ball actions, which promotes technique and improves each individual child's sport. Defending is also trained more intensively and individually through 1:1 situations.READ MORE: Germany lays out plan to return 'to the top of the world'

“Traditional referees are not used. The trainers and supervisors act as joint game masters and only intervene when necessary. The decisions during the games should be made by the children themselves as far as possible.
“With the previous forms of play in the lower age groups (7 v 7) it is much more the case that the slower and less talented players hardly get to the ball and often play in positions that keep them away from the actual game.

A long time ago the PFA cited research done by Braham Dabscheck about the salary cap and a transfer system being incompatible.  I can't find it at the moment unfortunately just other references to his work in response to the Smith report into football's sustainability.  Dabscheck is an academic at Melbourne University and a sports law expert.  If I find the specific article I will post it up here.

If they tried to implement that here, people will lose their minds especially the old heads.

We are so behind its not even funny.

It is too late.
As someone else said above, CFG has too much clout.
Nothing happens without their imprimatur.
Not to mention that one third of the league is now owned by a foreign equity firm.
Sure, theoretically, the FA has the authority to do some things itself, but when you consider how slowly those things are going, and it's well publicised that if it's not this stakeholder opposing something, it's another stakeholder, well, hard to envisage anything happening.

Revolutionary! We need to pay someone millions to think of this.

You will have to do better than that. I know conspiracy theories are all the go right now but where is your proof that City Football Group are totally in control of football in Australia.
They might have a big say in the APL or they may have an equal say in the running of the ALM but to suggest that they have total control of the football administration in this country is drawing a very long bow.

Many countries each World Cup cycle seem to have a soul searching moment, and I’m not even that annoyed this time if we do miss out IF something good comes of it. 

The PFA want to make sure that if the Clubs start making money then the players get most of it.  (It is their job).  If the Clubs suddenly woke up to the concept that the best way for them to make big bucks is to contract players and sell them on to wealthier Clubs (don't hold breath) then suddenly there would be money all over the shop.  Players = cattle.
There probably isn't a clear connection between a transfer system and cap beyond the concept that the value of a player's contract might increase immensely if it was transferable for money and that the player would not be able to realise a reasonable portion of the value that they bring to the employer under a cap.

Herewith a weak example:
J Mclaren is offered for sale to the Australian market for $25M fee.  If Perth buy that contract they would not be able to set wages to reflect the value of the player, under a cap, without either destroying their team, or working magic accountancy with a 2.5M cap.  It is clearly better for an agent to work foreign markets for his own pocket and to the benefit of his client.
If South Melbourne stumped up the readies then the situation may be even worse.  Of course season bonus and performance bonus might sort things out there. There is always a way at NPL level though. Right?

Whilst this encourages young locals to head off to develop elsewhere it creates a long term problem.  It falls upon the A League Clubs to develop the majority of the young players that will follow this path. 
Maybe, somebody will crack out a report that shows that if the AL Clubs get others to do that development for them, many many smaller clubs producing higher quality players in a now remunerated and competitive environment, then suddenly it would be way more profitable for them.  They only have to pay for success.  Small Clubs that genuinely invest in development will get bigger and better competition results for their fans. The AL Clubs that scout smart and earn a reputation for a good product also get bigger and better pleasing their fans, and the PFA will get lots of new members and income as well (pleasing their fan no doubt).

With a cap in place players staying here will always have a wage restriction.   That pushes players abroad to better themselves.  This comes at a massive cost to growing the game across all levels and it also keeps the A League Clubs broke with the owners having to shovel in money.  One day, one of the owners will wake up and realise that contracts are a core business income stream.  They will blame everybody else for holding them back for so long, despite the evidence of their own thoughts, words and deeds over decades.

Did anyone watch the Dutch last night??

To me its looked like they were going with 3 at the back. Does this mean we have to change our national curriculum? 

Correct.
But not only many old heads, can gurantee you PARENTS will lose it.

Rob Sherman?