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Post by cigan1996 on Apr 6, 2012 10:34:37 GMT 10
Very happy we got a team now  |
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Post by sweeper on Apr 6, 2012 11:05:52 GMT 10
The western Syd club will come up against the AFL and the rugby league.
I believe they will find it very hard.
Sure, the first couple of seasons might look encouraging but in the long term, who knows ?
Have they mentioned the name yet ?
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Post by paoktzi on Apr 6, 2012 11:09:15 GMT 10
Hey cigan in the review eddie moore wants BWE out what u going to do? Ur going to support western sydney lol what has society come to!!
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Post by cigan1996 on Apr 6, 2012 11:10:19 GMT 10
Hey cigan in the review eddie moore wants BWE out what u going to do? Ur going to support western sydney lol what has society come to!! can u provide info or did your friend tell u this  |
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Post by sweeper on Apr 6, 2012 11:20:05 GMT 10
The Western Sydney White Eagles !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by levendara on Apr 6, 2012 11:22:17 GMT 10
I can confirm that FNSW is looking at every option it has to try and relegate BWE from the NSWPL, that is a fact
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Post by cigan1996 on Apr 6, 2012 11:34:27 GMT 10
I can confirm that FNSW is looking at every option it has to try and relegate BWE from the NSWPL, that is a fact too bad its not gonna happen and PS how come you know this but nobody else at the club seems to have a clue what you guys are talking about lol |
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Post by anothermp on Apr 6, 2012 13:12:31 GMT 10
blame Mandic
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Post by paoktzi on Apr 8, 2012 16:30:29 GMT 10
Expansion, what expansion? You add one, you lose another A SEISMIC week for the A-League. A new team in western Sydney, unveiled in a rush before the grave of Gold Coast United had barely gone cold. A couple of mentions were made of the Gay League''expanding'' into the western suburbs. Wrong. This season began with 10 teams, and next season will kick-off with 10 teams. Where's the expansion? Fact is, Football Federation Australia's expansion strategy is at best suspended, at worst dead. A monumental failure, to put it kindly. Just ask those who have been traumatised by the experience. They've been vocal, and unanimous, in their condemnation of the way the FFA has bungled the process. Good people, honest people, passionate people, have been treated with contempt. The fact the Gay Leaguefinally gets the team it needs in western Sydney is not the issue. If the FFA had taken the same top-down approach to funding, Sydney Rovers would be one season old. The real issue is whether the FFA can rebuild the bridges that have been burned. The odds aren't great. ''Strung along'' is the description most commonly used by those associated with North Queensland Fury, Gold Coast United, Canberra United and Sydney Rovers. Frank Lowy effectively launched the expansion phase in 2008, when he talked about a target of 14 teams when there were eight teams in the competition. Cue expressions of interest from western Sydney, Gold Coast, North Queensland, Canberra, Tasmania and Wollongong. Whitlam Square was loving the attention and the competitive tension. It always looks good when you're selling something people want. Some of the interest was feigned, some of it half-cocked. But there was enough genuine enthusiasm to suggest Lowy's grand vision of a 14-team league had legs. No more. Clive Palmer may have soiled his own nest with the way he ran Gold Coast United, but the FFA's lame six-week attempt to ''save'' the franchise has been exposed as a charade. A local consortium hastily assembled to try and retrieve the situation was given neither the time, the information or the support to make it happen. Ditto a year earlier in Townsville. Good-hearted people devoted time, energy and money trying to sort out a rescue package when, in truth, the decision to cut the team had already been made. Perhaps the most instructive moment of all came in Canberra this week, just when the FFA was announcing the arrival of western Sydney into the league. At virtually the same time as Ben Buckley was fronting the cameras at Parklea, Canberra United bid chief Ivan Slavich pushed the button to disband his team. Painful as it may have been, Slavich had had enough of the smoke and mirrors. For four years, he had kept the home fires burning in the hope the FFA might sees things his way. For four years, the FFA encouraged him not to give up. On Wednesday, he did. Slavich announced the $400,000 that had been kept in a trust fund for foundation memberships was to be refunded, while both the ACT government and private investors were to be released from a further $2.6 million in pledges. ''It's an absolute snub,'' Slavich said. ''The only way I'll be involved again is if the FFA come to me and say … how can we make it happen?'' In other words, Slavich is no longer prepared to take anyone from Whitlam Square at their word. In Townsville, in Canberra and on the Gold Coast, the FFA cried wolf. Do your sums. If these communities no longer wish to join the A-League, what does it do? Options are limited, at best. At worst, they've dried up. Read more: www.smh.com.au/sport/a-league/expansion-what-expansion-you-add-one-you-lose-another-20120406-1wgs4.html#ixzz1rQaifdlo |
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Post by theoharis on Apr 8, 2012 16:45:25 GMT 10
Great article ^
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Post by aek210 on Apr 8, 2012 20:03:37 GMT 10
FFA funding clubs is a sign of desperation.
Sad to see fotball NSW backing this but doing very little to back their own competition.
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Post by aek210 on Apr 10, 2012 12:07:32 GMT 10
Tinkler pulls the plug.
It’s time for well meaning football fans to see through the FFA spin. Fans are being conned. Do not look at the FFA dialogue – look at the actions, teams collapsing, owners walking away, it is an unsustainable model.
We all know WS has 6 months to get up, in a bid to get a good tv deal. This is a sign of desperation not good management. What do we think this “government grant” really is? An investment in “footballing infrastructure?”. Only some of the money will go to where it is needed. Don’t listen to the spin – this is a Government bailout. The 2nd in several years because the FFA is nearly broke.
Palmer is trouble, but he is a symptom not a cause. Look at the other owner unrest.
It is the fans who suffer.
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Post by paoktzi on Apr 10, 2012 12:20:58 GMT 10
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
COME SUCK ME OFF LOWY YOU FUCK
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Post by anothermp on Apr 10, 2012 13:07:13 GMT 10
WOW
another twist in the Lowy saga
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Post by sweeper on Apr 10, 2012 16:47:34 GMT 10
That is a big blow to the A-League.
Embarrassing really.
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