In the world of sport, numbers provide measures and measures provide direction.
Here is a list based on the order of importance.
The sport
The sports club
The people who play the sport
We create infrastructure around sport to support it, no infrastructure no people; build it and they will come.
When we change the order it looks like this.
The people who play the sport
The sports club
The sport
Changing the order in which we do things changes the message we send. The sport is less important than the people who play it.
Now that is an order worth fighting for.