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Football Federation Australia CEO Gallop Continues To Lash Out At Players' Union

Football Federation Australia CEO David Gallop "fired another shot" at the players' union, "reopening the wounds" surrounding the decision by the Australian women's team to boycott last month's two-match series against the U.S., according to Ray Gatt of THE AUSTRALIAN. Less than a week after using the launch of the A-League to criticize "the tardiness of Professional Footballers Australia in signing off on a new collective bargaining agreement," Gallop used Monday's launch of the W-League to "have another dig at PFA." Gallop used language like "PR stunts" and "misinformation" to describe the PFA's role in the "long-running pay dispute" that he suggested last week had been resolved "but not signed off on." Gallop: "I have to say we were totally underwhelmed with the fact that we missed an opportunity (for the Matildas) to play the world champions, the USA, last month. Unfortunately, our women's team got dragged into a dispute around the payment for male professional players and this was most unfortunate" (THE AUSTRALIAN, 10/13). In Sydney, Sebastian Hassett reported the CBA "has been agreed in principle by both parties" but FFA said that it has been "left to wait as the PFA goes about getting the deal ticked off by its stakeholders." Gallop said, "We hoped it would be settled a week or so ago -- two weeks ago now -- and unfortunately it hasn't been. It's really a matter now of the PFA getting back to us and telling us they've got the deal ratified." Gallop denied the failure to get the four-year deal done in time for the season's start, and the Matildas' tour boycott, "had overshadowed the new campaign." He said, "Not necessarily -- it's more a matter of tidying things up, as far as we understand it" (SMH, 10/12). In Sydney, Tom Smithies reported Gallop attacked the PFA's tactics. Gallop: "There were a number of PR stunts around that unfortunate event, but I am here to tell you that we are serious about this part of our business. We were not happy with what happened, particular some misinformation where even the subject of motherhood got used against us. I can tell you now, we do not cut pregnant players. That was a nonsense that came out in the press" (DAILY TELEGRAPH, 10/12).

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