Speaking on Monday when the club announced the signings of international players Andy Todd and Branko Jelic, Sage also showed off the club's new strip, saying it was the end result of some long negotiations between the Glory and FFA.

Sage said FFA had originally deemed the club's traditional purple colour not marketable enough and had presented the club with several new strip designs, incorporating new colours.

"The A-League themselves made a decision to change the strip on a few clubs," Sage said."I think we were one of the first that objected to the process.

"However we got told in no uncertain terms that the rules that we signed up to means they can change our strip. They didn't think our shirt was good enough to sell. I think we're the second-worst selling shirt.

"So they wanted to revamp it and the styles that we got given were horrendous, different colours - and so we just stuck to our guns and in the end, we came up with a compromise I think everyone's happy with.

"It always is (a battle) with the FFA, it's their way or the highway.

"(But) we kept as much of the history as possible and the new strip is a combination of a lot of hard work between the FFA, ourselves and Reebok."

Sage's comments regarding the shirt were just one of several issues he had with FFA with the Glory owner saying he was surprised the organisation had muddied the waters over a proposed re-development of Members Equity Stadium by suggesting football could be played at a different rectangular venue.

Sage refused to directly comment on this development, which was reported over the weekend, saying he needed time to 'digest' it, but the implication was it had undermined Glory and Force's moves to pressure Western Australia's state government into helping finance Members Equity's re-development.

Sage also said the club's fixture for the 2009-10 season was another point of contention after Glory were only given 13 home games out of 27 matches this season, the second year in a row where the club has had more road trips than home matches.

"The fixture's a huge issue at the moment that we're fighting with the FFA," Sage said. "We've had less (home games) now two years in a row, so that didn't go down well with us.

"They gave us our Boxing Day match which we've promoted and we've done very well at, they took it off us in the first draft and they gave it back to us, so they thought that was a compromise but that should never have been taken off us in the first place.

"We've got ongoing battles with the FFA but in the end we've got to prove ourselves, on the park. If we win, we'll get more respect and I think that's what it's all about."