A-League clubs repeated their call for Football Federation Australia to "scrap plans" for an extraordinary general meeting and "butt out" of talks to reform the sport's governance, according to the AAP. The EGM was scheduled for Wednesday, but was postponed until Nov. 27 after FFA discovered it would "not have enough votes to pass its preferred model for a new congress." However, that "has not satisfied the clubs," which never wanted it "to happen in the first place -- and still do not." Adelaide United Chair Greg Griffin, who is also the head of the Australian Professional Football Clubs Association, said, "We want the whole EGM process discontinued. To the extent that FFA can say they were reacting to the wishes of stakeholders, each of the PFA [Professional Footballers Australia] and APFCA did not ask for it to be postponed. We asked that it be withdrawn, and that's a very fundamental difference." The new EGM date is three days before the FIFA-imposed deadline for governance reform, with the prospect of a normalization committee running the sport in Australia "looming large" (AAP, 11/1).
