SM Pete

Family first, football second, there is no third. I expose the 🇦🇺⚽️ stories the journos won’t touch

[SM Pete @SMEMUFC]

Dear @rorkygreg @FFA & @green_dot, please find below an open letter outlining my concerns with details of the Western Melbourne Group EOI #ALeagueExpansion submission that have been made public. Happy to dicuss off-line. https://t.co/Xnc2tWAQUZ

[SM Pete @SMEMUFC]

🚨ANTER ISAAC HYPOCRISY🚨
Says FA’s most important constituents are the 2,500 clubs across 🇦🇺

Then says he could support APL by >💯. Noting, APL’s interests are mostly in conflict with the clubs.

Then claims $millions of 🇦🇺⚽️💰lost to APL was a loss allowance, not written off🤦🏻‍♂️

[Mike @smfcmike]

@Gibbogibbo123 @joekayfootball @SMEMUFC I’ll add that clubs would largely fund travel via an increased annual participation fee.

@AAFClubs had modelled that this fee would - from memory - be in the
$150K-$200K range per season.

👊⚽️

[SM Pete @SMEMUFC]

After the Anter Isaac interview with @TheRealBozza & @adampeacock3, on @SEN_Football, how confident are you in the leadership of @FootballAUS⁉️

[SM Pete @SMEMUFC]

@pmens72 @smfcmike @FootballAUS So how much do you think it cost to have FA staff & board members attend the World Cup⁉️

I doubt they flew cattle class & stayed at 3 star hotels‼️

[SM Pete @SMEMUFC]

@PatronSaint2 @NickGalatas @FootballAUS @aleaguemen @SEN_Football Not just any website, apparently it was a Silver Lake experimental web site 🤦🏻‍♂️

We’re back in the days where foreign interests are testing their nuclear weapons in Australia‼️

[Paul McNamee @PaulFMcNamee]

@joekayfootball @smfcmike @SMEMUFC That’s not what the FA Chairman said. His quote regarding the Championship “This competition will always remain like NPL Champions League”. With respect, his use of the word ‘always’ is not really ambiguous

[SM Pete @SMEMUFC]

@vizzybrain @Jimbarres @smfcmike Sign the petition Vizzy & share with your network of friends & family‼️ https://t.co/Mt6oldh6eO

[SM Pete @SMEMUFC]

🚨Anter Isaac on #AusChampionship🚨
🗣️this competition will ALWAYS remain like that NPL Champions League‼️

Effectively saying we will never get the league format that most clubs & fans want‼️

IMO Isaac is too focused on 💯supporting APL than he is rest of game

WE NEED REFORM‼️

[vizzybrain🇦🇺 @vizzybrain]

@SMEMUFC @smfcmike This interview is a damage prevention one, not for the love of the game. We seriously need new leadership in FFA

[Mick Attarian @pmens72]

The incompetent fools running the game into the ground.
This idiot makes Ian Knop look a genius.

[Jude Thaddeus @PatronSaint2]

@NickGalatas @FootballAUS @aleaguemen @SEN_Football 2020 each A league team got 3.8m dividend. This year its 580k each. Meanwhile the A League blew 30 million of broadcast revenue on a website that lasted just over a year. If there is any 'ponzi' fraud happening it aint the clubs doing it.

[Chief @SrSittingBull]

Viable clubs, branding, exposure, showcase, attraction.

It’s all lip service and perpetual delay tactics to avoid the elephant in the room. The greatest embarrassment in the game is the semi-professional Australia Cup champions will have played 60 odd games this season compared to 26 for the professionals.

[Mark Ivkovic @mivkaa]

@joekayfootball @smfcmike @SMEMUFC

[SM Pete @SMEMUFC]

@NickKatsa @Jimbarres @AusChampionship And Anter Isaac supports APL💯& would support them more if he could. To the point where he didn’t write off their $ millions in debt, it’s a loss allowance🤦🏻‍♂️

Meanwhile he previously spoke about how the most important constituent is the 2.5k clubs across 🇦🇺. It’s pure hypocrisy‼️

[Nick Katsa @NickKatsa]

I’ll translate 37 mins of Anter Isaac’s corporate spin/stuttering/fluff
- The @AusChampionship will always be a CL style format and never fully fledged H+A
- We created it to shut up clubs like South Melb because they’ll never get an A-league license
- Canberra + other markets

[brrr @speccy4937]

@SMEMUFC @smfcmike @NickGalatas @SEN_Football @adampeacock3 @TheRealBozza @FootballAUS @aleaguemen @AAFClubs @FSAAustralia @benandstefpod take it mainstream

[SM Pete @SMEMUFC]

@PaulFMcNamee Thanks for signing & supporting the petition Paul. This is a time for all clubs & fans to stand united & demand reforms & transparency. https://t.co/Mt6oldh6eO

[Paul McNamee @PaulFMcNamee]

@SMEMUFC Yes, the FA Chair’s own words. Disappointing, and revealing, as it contradicts a core FA Principle for the Future of Australian Football…Principle IV Create a dynamic and engaging football product by optimising competition structures to connect Australian
football’

[SM Pete @SMEMUFC]

@NickGalatas @SEN_Football @adampeacock3 @TheRealBozza @FootballAUS @aleaguemen @AAFClubs @FSAAustralia @adampeacock3 & @TheRealBozza would be great to have Nick & I on to discuss these concerns & provide an alternative on what Anter discussed & this petition https://t.co/Mt6oldh6eO

No hiding from the issues, especially when using alternative accounting terms to describe lost debt

[Nick Galatas @NickGalatas]

FA's governance shambles laid bare by its Chairman, Anter Isaac, in 3 mins.

1. The APL dictates what happens with our NSD and pro/rel. A private, for-profit, 'unbundled' company, controlled by a US private equity firm, controls our game.

2. Anter Isaac was appointed by FA in 2023 to formulate the national second tier of 🇦🇺 ⚽️ after AAFC advocated it for years. In that role, for & with FA, he told the clubs the end of season, 'champions league-style comp we have now as the Aust Ch'ship was a separate 'property' & the aim was a home and away-style NSD. In writing, verbally, often. Before completing that task, he left it to join the FA Board as Chairman. The NSD model was then affirmed, repeated and emphasised by FA, with Anter as Chairman, when the Aus Ch was announced and when it commenced.

Anter now says FA has achieved its aim of allowing ambitious, aspirational traditional clubs to showcase their wares. Job done. Not much more to see here. Worse, he confirms that the APL is legally in control of the development of the Australian football pyramid.

And yet, we are told the game's governance has improved from the 'bad old days' and lack of unity is down to those excluded by the newly-created privateers running our sold top-tier into the ground.

Orwellian.

FA may be content. The traditional aspirational, ambitious clubs are not. So, they'll press again. They invented the federation, not the other way around.

[brrr @speccy4937]

@vizzybrain @SMEMUFC @SEN_Football Either FA has no strategy, or it has one it won’t make public because it can’t defend it as being in the best interests of the game