By libelous - 9 Aug 2020 11:12 PM
I believe that for football to thrive we need smaller regional clubs such as Mariners and Jets and, indeed, clubs such as Woolongong and Canberra to expand the footprint of football, whether that be via the A league or a second division.
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By soccerfoo - 11 Aug 2020 4:04 PM
+x+x+x+x+xClubs like the Mariners are important for pathways and are fine overall if the model allows to operate at their own level. They become a ball and chain on the league however when they start squatting at the bottom of the table and every other club is forced to stay at their level. In hindsight, my restaurant analogy could also have been 11 guys having to have Dominos at a bus stop in the rain so the poorer guys don't feel bad (franchise model, "competitive balance"), when ideally the richer couple of guys could be shouting lobster for everyone at the table (unshackling the big clubs, transfer fees). That analogy with the two richer guys, is like the recent twitter article on A League Hub, that mentions rich owners of Melbourne City, Melbourne Victory and Sydney FC taking over the Mariners and Jets, by creating a fund for these teams as they cannot keep up with the wealthier teams in this comp. That would probably make all clubs involved ineligible for the ACL, and rightly so. It would.
But that’s not what they are proposing .... unless people believe everything they read on the internet and everything Trump says 😂
Biden's as sharp as a bowling ball..lol.
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