FFA: Stick YOUR World Cup Bid
The FFA: How's your World Cup bid process going in Canberra?
No A-League Licence, no World Cup bid from Canberra. That's what the ACT Government are saying...and that's what I say.
Yeah, take that FFA.
Who would want a few World Cup games in Canberra in ten years time, a hefty taxpayer bill for us poor sods, more Mariners stale crumbs in the coming years, and no legacy for football in the region......only the College Street mob.
Canberra bites back.....and the mood from Canberra is...we're enjoying the chew.
4 comments:
My my, I bet the FFA is running scared!Poss WC in 2018 or 2022 gives just enough time for Canberra to 1) actually get some money together for an A League team and b)to get off their high horse about stale crumbs from the Mariners: instead of working your backsides off to get 10,000 for the Mariners game you whinged "we only want the Socceroos, we only want the Gold Coast" "the FFA didn't promote this game" leaving youself with a measly 5,000 at the game (i expect you couldn't be bothered to go?). The only comments after the game were how low the crowd was, imagine how much more leverage you would have had if there had been 10,000? You may have even been able to stave off the politics of the West Syd bids but no, you missed a golden opportunity and now you want to take your ball home with you. LOL
I wonder why everyone involved in the 'bid4canberra' expected the FFA to promote the game for them? My son plays first grade for Marist under elevens and some of the parents there - part, no doubt, of Ivan Slavich's '50000 Canberran football fans', didn't even know a game - an A-League game - was being played in Canberra. Why weren't the bid team handing out free tickets in schools? I think the answer is that the kind of people in the upper echelons of the 'bid4canberra' are the type that like seeing their names in the paper but don't actually like doing the hard yakka. I think this response from the bid team - 'stick your world cup bid' - from a blog site purporting to support the growth of football in Australia and which has spent much of the last year saying how great the FFA is, will count against Canberra in the future tpp. A Karmic form of 'Capital Punishment' if you will.
What a load of bollocks. Talking to people around the traps from politicians to players, it is obvious to most that if they wanted to award that license to anyone but Western Sydney they would have done it. Trying to link getting 10,000 plus crowds to us getting the license is pure fantasy.
Not to mention the measly 5,000 is what half of the other clubs are getting anyway and that is for a home team, not a poor substitute like ours was.
I don't think the criticism is as much levelled at other for not doing the hard yards, but more for the effectiveness and reach of the campaign.. which was undeniably poor. I really doubt a blog post will sway sentiment enough to make that much of a difference either.
FFA is fiddling while Rome burns. Looking after old players, and the technical aspects of the game, bidding for 2018-22, - all the fun stuff -
Meanwhile the AFL is taking their lunch box - that's what $100m net cashflow and centralised control of teams can do.
Next we will hear FIFA saying crowds to A-League are too low to support a world cup bid.
AFL (and NRL for that matter) puts all its attention on grass routes fans (most of whom play soccer as their sport of choice). And the FFA? they keep pointing to the clubs? And the clubs? Can't afford it and don't understand it.
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