Inside Sport

Mark Bosnich Joins OLYMPIC BOARD


https://forum.insidesport.com.au/Topic670776.aspx

By solympic - 22 Feb 2010 7:08 PM

http://www.sydneyolympicfc.com/news/2010/02/22/bosnich-joins-olympic-board/

What u all think?
By Keyser Söze - 24 Feb 2010 9:20 AM

Benjamin wrote:
Keyser Söze wrote:
Why on God’s earth would the FFA install Sydney Rovers in the 2011/2012 competition AND start an A-2 League the same year?? Or within 5 years for that matter.


I believe its a condition of entry to the Asian Champions League that competing nations must have promotion/relegation systems in place. The A-League was given special dispensation due to being a new competition but I believe that runs out in 2012, which would probably be why this date keeps coming up as a 'rumoured start date' for the 2nd division.

I suspect that the FFA have been making a lot of noise about this in order to convince FIFA (re the world cup bid) and AFC (re the ACL) that its a genuine plan - but that they will seek another 5 year 'pass' to give them more time, which would take us through to 2017...

Lowy has said, "Promotion and relegation is the lifeblood of the game, so we can't ignore it and we won't ignore it" and "By the time the (2018) World Cup comes there will be promotion and relegation."


And I believe I have explained this a few times. MANY AFC nations do not have promotion / relegation (most notably Sth Korea) and have no inclination to change this. The AFC are not going to start to kick nations such as Korea and many of the Middle Eastern nations out of the ACL, it would be a huge financial fuck up

I get Lowy's comment and it’s a very good point raised by you, but it's nothing more then lip service, at least in the mid-term.

As I said, I have no ill feeling towards former top flight clubs such as Olympic, Sth Melbourne etc, but solympic/OLYMPICMAS/Alex’s penchant for making up complete crap to strengthen non arguments is really grating.

As you said, pump up your club, a strong state league with good crowds would be a huge benefit to football in this country, but making up rubbish, posting club house rumours and generally denigrating anything that goes against his opinion (such as dropping insults about Jewish people etc) is just showing how far some of these clubs (more importantly, their supporters) have to go. It’s the reason most of these clubs starting bombing in the 90’s and early 2000’s. It’s not 1950’s Australia any more people. If they have not noticed, it’s even starting to push traditional allies away from their argument.