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I think Timmy has hit�numerous nails on their heads here.

The FFA seem determined to F**k the league up as long as they continue to be able to splash out on the Socceroos, everything seems to be done half arsed with the A-League. Let's hope that they start listening, before more clubs are forced to shut up shop.

You really have to sit back and think about the whole league and the situation it is in atm.   If you can't see that the league is failing, well you need to get out of your Westfields Shoebox and see the bigger picture which is alot bigger then a Qantas Airbus A380 while drinking your Ballentines. Every expansion club has failed or isn't far from it. At some point in every clubs life the FFA have<span>...</span><span> owned it or had a huge steak in the ownership of it. We have the same sponsors since day dot supporting the league either tho its common knowledge of other big worldwide companies wanting to get involved in the local game. Rumours around that another 2 clubs might be falling of the edge of the cliff with a matter of days or weeks. If old mate from russia doesn't buy the some, they are gone and its a hot rumour that Sage won't be in the West anymore. The FFA have always had to much control on the league and how it functions. Yes, great in the start when it was first coming back onto the Australian Sporting scene, but now that it has established its place its starting to fall behind because of the lack of competition the current sponsors have to put money into the game. In season one each club received a grant of 1.2 million from the FFA to help run each club. As the salary cap has improved in the 7 seasons since plus adding 2 marquess, a youth and Womens team has that grant increased to much the clubs need to fund all these new changes?   We have seen alot of money spent on the socceroo's, which will never work if the local demand and product is doing well. They fly first class around the world playing meaningless friendly's etc and fail at every chance to win something. Why continue to pay these overseas coaches big dollars to deliver nothing. Only Guus has done something and he earnt more then enough for what he did.   The FFA big guns are one massive salaries while the codes like NRL and AFL are only on half the amount of what the a-league boss's earn. Ben Buckley has no idea IMHO in what he is doing to keep this game alive. They make a committee that is full of FFA members but won't listen to what they say nor Let the clubs speak other commercial deals outside what is already in place. In no way do i personally think what HSG have done was the right thing to do, but they made the decision for themselves and there own reasons. So yes they need to be held accountable for their actions but the whole league and federation need to listen to whats being said. Yes a community based club will be great but it will just face the same issues WHY EVERY OTHER CLU</span><span>B IS STRUGGLING. We need to target the FFA for change.</span>