Should Ben Buckley be Reappointed

[midfielder]

My thoughts are mixed but what do we think of Ben Buckely... The contract of Football Federation's CEO expires within days, http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/soccer/ffa-boss-ben-buckley-wont-jump-to-afl/story-e6frey4r-1225966004709

In the three years he has been in charge of FFA there has been constant complaints about ground security and the treatment of the HE’s....

Crowds have fallen hugely... the three latest teams BB promoted in were Fury, Fold & Hearts crowds are unsustainable.

Canberra & the Gong screamed for teams and the Rovers are yet to be kicked out after a 18 months or more to fund their funding...

The debate with the AFL over stadium use was IMO poorly done..

Ben appears to be reactionary rather than proactive when dealing with the media.

 

[dibo]

Scapegoating is easy, quick and not always the right option.

How about we establish what it is we need before establishing whether or not Buckley can give it to us. That things are less than perfect does not directly imply Buckley is the problem.

 

[adz]

Yeah good call Dibo - we don't know what else is going on behind the scenes, so who is to say someone else could have done, or could do a better job?

 

[midfielder]

Scapegoating is easy, quick and not always the right option.

How about we establish what it is we need before establishing whether or not Buckley can give it to us. That things are less than perfect does not directly imply Buckley is the problem.

I take your point what would you see as the things we need from our FFA CEO..

Do as Fossie implies we need a business person with a deep understanding of football history in Australia and a deep understanding of football cultural or do we need a person like Buckley deeply experienced in sports management in the Australian context with a track record in sports administration...

 

[midfielder]

Not unexpected but Fraser slams Buckley ... http://theworldgame.sbs.com.au/news/1034991/Fraser-slams-Buckley,-FFA

 

[Bex]

Fair enough Dibo, but why shouldn't we blame Buckley? After all, he is the CEO and those things have happened. He doesn't get the big bucks for nothing and if there are other reasons behind this stuff then why hasn't it been actioned or managed in some way? Even managing expectations would be good.

 

[adz]

...a business person with a deep understanding of football history in Australia and a deep understanding of football cultural...

... that would be ideal... any of them around though?

 

[scottmac]

... that would be ideal... any of them around though?

Clive? :blink:

 

[pjennings]

... that would be ideal... any of them around though?

Ian Rowden :blink:

 

[Forum Phoenix]

I agree with Dibo.

 

[dibo]

Fair enough Dibo, but why shouldn't we blame Buckley? After all, he is the CEO and those things have happened. He doesn't get the big bucks for nothing and if there are other reasons behind this stuff then why hasn't it been actioned or managed in some way? Even managing expectations would be good.

all i'm saying is that he may not be the entirety of the problem, and getting rid of him may not be the answer.

 

[adz]

Clive? :blink:

I thought Clive had to be taught the finer points of "sockah" when he bought the team, such as they use a round ball and kick it into a net to score?

 

[scottmac]

Clive? :blink:

I thought Clive had to be taught the finer points of "sockah" when he bought the team, such as they use a round ball and kick it into a net to score?

You must be mistaken.

Clive is an expert in the finer details of Australian Football. I mean come on...what about his state of origin idea!!! The mans a friggen genius!

Sign him up I say.

 

[Jerem]

all i'm saying is that he may not be the entirety of the problem, and getting rid of him may not be the answer.

maybe not, but im pretty sure the CEO of most organisations have the responsibility of the state of such organisation, and to be honest in a lil tired of non Football people runnung the code, and in any case its been four years, TIME, new balls please!!!

thats more time than the PM gets!

 

[midfielder]

Lets name the good things he has done..

These are mine ... started the U 14 International team & U 13 state teams in an effort to keep the best in football... has helped establish by good appointments people to run the top 60 players from 6 to 16 .. agian to keep the best players away from other codes...

Has been good at getting sponsorship money in... has helped keep FFA from going under while keeping a number of teams afloat...

HHMMMM thinking ... thinking ...

Lets talk about the good first ..

As an aside for those that said Clive should run FFA I say nayyy ... Con's the answer ...

 

[adz]

Personally I would rather someone who knows business rather than football, preferably both but if we need to choose which area is more important, I would say business. Have a look at the AFL and NRL - the NRL is run by mainly Rugby League people, AFL is run by mainly business people. Which one is doing better?


edit: and I think some of the clubs have been calling for a setup similar to this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AFL_Commission

 

[Jerem]

the buck has been offered a new contract. . .

 

[scottmac]

the buck has been offered a new contract. . .

thats to up his price at the afl.

same as what we did for alomissi

 

[midfielder]

Mike Cockerill says ... Lowy deserves a better lieutenant... http://www.smh.com.au/sport/football/lowy-deserves-a-better-lieutenant-20101207-18od3.html

 

[midfielder]

BB talks about his role and the A-League....

http://theworldgame.sbs.com.au/video/362981/Buckley-answers-the-tough-questions