Do you see that as a problem for Australian football which it desperately has to solve or something that won't be able to be solved any time quick?

I think based on the amount of sports we have in this country, it makes it very difficult to get the right funding to go from top to bottom.

I don't think in the next near future, we'll get to a model of being able to fund it down, which is the ideal model.

Obviously, from a development perspective, there's no kids miss out.

But I keep hearing that football's too expensive.

And I'm a big advocate of saying that we're starting to get to a rich man's sport, which it never has been.

But I don't believe that in the NPL space...

Look, you want to make your first team strength strong, but you just don't want these fees to get out of control.

The undercurrent beneath that, what do you see there? Have we got the ability to continue to have younger profile squads at a World Cup? It's

a tough question.

Without going too much into it, there's so much good about what's happening in the game.

I think the fact that we're struggling financially in terms of our A-League is a massive opportunity for younger kids to get opportunities, which is a great thing.

I think we should... always want to be a selling league to be sustainable um and give younger kids opportunities which means kids can um so but if i'm looking from way under i've seen lots of things uh that worry me that get me nervous um that i fear for the next 10 years um i think a lot of people Were, were up in halls when JDL got first brought in, in the younger age groups.

Yeah, it's a good point.

And look, to be quite frank, I...

I wouldn't mind Portugal doing well in the tournament.