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turbo

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Always seemed very competent, even when others in FA/APL haven't been. Has also been good at cleaning up media messes over the years, if the new CFG guy performs like CFG usually does in the media there will be a few media wildfires.
All depends what they want from the role. I think he’s done well but if they want to expand the role or focus on leveraging more contacts etc he may not be the man for the job and indeed may not want to be with a bunch of extra pressure.
 

Ozhammer

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Nailed it. I have worked for the same company for 18 years and when I first joined, it was a customer-focused and employee-centric privately-owned publicly listed company that we were proud to work for.

Three years ago however, we were sold to a US-based VC group and in that time the sole focus has transitioned to a soulless profits-first organisation, where overheads get mercilessly stripped and more and more pressure placed on employees to achieve ridiculous levels of profit above all else. No wonder most us the long standing staff are looking for exit strategies.

I honestly believe that for all its faults, the FA could not be doing a worse job of running the A Leagues than the APL has since it took over. There is too much power and influence being wielded by the most powerful clubs, which overly impacts the less powerful clubs. The contempt that the APL appears to holds its biggest stakeholder, us the fans, shows how they truly understand the football landscape and it doesn’t look like changing any time soon.
 

JoyfulPenguin

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Nailed it. I have worked for the same company for 18 years and when I first joined, it was a customer-focused and employee-centric privately-owned publicly listed company that we were proud to work for.

Three years ago however, we were sold to a US-based VC group and in that time the sole focus has transitioned to a soulless profits-first organisation, where overheads get mercilessly stripped and more and more pressure placed on employees to achieve ridiculous levels of profit above all else. No wonder most us the long standing staff are looking for exit strategies.

I honestly believe that for all its faults, the FA could not be doing a worse job of running the A Leagues than the APL has since it took over. There is too much power and influence being wielded by the most powerful clubs, which overly impacts the less powerful clubs. The contempt that the APL appears to holds its biggest stakeholder, us the fans, shows how they truly understand the football landscape and it doesn’t look like changing any time soon.
It's become very clear it was never the "clubs" as a collective that took control.

It was CFG, Paul Lederer, David Traktovenko & Anthony Di Pietro as they are the only ones who got and get any real power or say.

Everyone else just gets informed of their decisions. It's breathtakingly undemocratic, even for the majority of owners in the league, let alone any other stakeholders.

They clearly have no interest in even attempting to navigate conflict of interests impartially.
 

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