Midnight Oil is on the comeback trail after decades in the music wilderness, but is football in Australia is headed back to the wilderness on the back of a successful dozen years of the A-League domestic competition and three successive World Cup campaigns. We cannot afford domestic football failure in Australia like we suffered with the NSL but we cannot sit idle and watch those who currently the game sit back and continue to see our game be overtaken in the sporting landscape. We must be brave enough to make decisions with conviction and see our game grow over the next decade, not simply tread water like its current state. Our current domestic system needs some urgent tinkering and I’m not convinced the current board are brave enough to make vital decisions. Football administrators have every right for fear and trepidation as we continue forward but not making decisions can be equally harmful as taking risks. Our current ten team system has now past it’s used by date and we are in urgent need of injecting new blood into our domestic completion. It’s not like we don’t have some great suitors out there, but we have been burnt in the [...]