As legal proceedings still continue with the National Premier League in Victoria (NPLV) rollout, the Football Federation of Victoria (FFV) has become much more reactionary and released a second clarification to dispel rumours of financial troubles.

On top of their first release on September 12 outlining 10 rumours they sought to dispel on the NPL model, FFV’s President Nick Montelone has released the FFV’s current financial position.

The statement clarified that “up to $600K of the $783K loss [in the 2012 financial year] was due to one-off events that would not reoccur in future periods and that there were no issues with the organisation as a ‘going concern'”.

In response to the huge loss sustained, the FFV took “an organisational restructure” resulting in six redundancies and other “cost saving initiatives”.

The FFV predicts that a $54,000 surplus is forecast for the financial year and “an $800K turnaround on 2012”.

These statements released by Mr Monteleone have angered at least one board member from the FFV.

In an email attributed to FFV board member Aldrin De Zilva, given to Neos Kosmos from the co-signatory club’s spokesperson, Mr De Zilva argues “these statements were not brought to the attention of (and therefore not approved by) the FFV Board prior to release”.

“I am unable to endorse these statements by Mr Monteleone and wish to distance myself from them.”

Neos Kosmos tried numerous times to get in contact with Mr De Zilva to verify the email but he did not get back before deadline.

Neos Kosmos also contacted the FFV to ask whether the statements were approved by the FFV board and they said “FFV will not be making comment on Board members or Board matters”.

On Monday the FFV and representatives of 59 co-signatory clubs opposed to the FFV’s NPL program appeared in the Magistrates Court in the hopes of finding a mutual solution.

The co-signatory clubs asked to have the matter moved to the Supreme Court, and the magistrate will decide on October 7 whether to do so or not.

The FFV Board scheduled a meeting on Monday 30 September to deliberate on the assessment panel’s report and to determine the granting of NPL licences.

It decided it wouldn’t release the names of the clubs accepted in the NPL program with legal proceedings going ahead.