i hear crickets warming up...
Printable View
i hear crickets warming up...
still nothing, but here's something else
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/spo...21-p4zmsx.html
Gallop flew to Honduras to watch the Socceroos in WCQQuote:
Originally Posted by belchardo
Where you think him and Lowy are right now??
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/spo...28-p4zoci.html
D-day all over again.
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/spo...29-p4zoik.html
Canberra and Wollongong shortlisted. official announcement this afternoon.
Couscous, would you consider buying in? i'm certainly interested.
Ray Gatt is saying Tasmania have missed out along with Adelaide 11, Fremantle and Gold Coast.
Yet 3 bids (4 if you count Wollongong) from "South" Sydney and 3 from Melbourne made the cut. Very disappointing for the Tasmanians as I thought that was one of the strongest cases.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jeterpool
10 bids that made the cut:
- United for Macarthur (Campbelltown)
- South-Western Sydney FC
- Southern Expansion (Sutherland, St George and Wollongong)
- Wollongong Wolves
- Team 11 (Dandenong)
- Western Melbourne (Geelong)
- South Melbourne
- Western Pride (Ipswich)
- Canberra & Capital Region
- Brisbane City
I paid the $200 to join the first A-League bid (and then donated it to Capital Football's junior development when it dissolved).Quote:
Originally Posted by belchardo
I'll probably buy in even though I'm a Jets fan. But I won't switch teams. Supporting a team takes time; loyalties grow slowly. I know this because I watched my internal struggle over years as Zadkovich lures my love away from Matthew Kemp.
I thought only eight made the cut?Quote:
Originally Posted by evolution
Strongest case??Quote:
Originally Posted by evolution
This just all smoke and mirrors charade for the masses
Sydney
Melbourne
1 of each
It already decided
This is just BS stringing it out to look legit
Oh I don't disagree with this at all, nailed on to be Southern Expansion and either Team 11 or Western Melbourne bid.Quote:
Originally Posted by MFKS
That’s where my money is too.
Southern expansion makes sense to FFA cause it covers Wollongong, st George and Sutherland and they’ll see it as a 3 for 1.
And yeh, Melbourne is the safe bet. Where’s Melbourne Victory’s net spread? East??
I’d like to see Canberra given a shot.
Don’t know if anybody else would cope.
Will be interesting to see if they offer any justification?
Problem lies with the costs to be involved in the comp
If the FFA lowers the salary cap minimum spend so clubs can spend 1.5 million if they want
It brings many more if these options into the equation
If people want pro rel system we can have it
First thing we need to do is cut players wages accordingly
No way in the world should the Gypos be required to spend 3.25 million or there abouts on their incomes
Let the Smurfs and Victree spend the max
But drop the minimum down to an appropriate level and we can have 20 clubs over night
Will never happen. Everyone blames the FFA but the PFA were the ones who invented and got the salary floor and minimum wages for undeserving players, if the FFA tried to implement anything if what you suggest the players would strike under instruction from the PFAQuote:
Originally Posted by MFKS
See the thing is it is though the problem the PFA and FFA are too intertwinedQuote:
Originally Posted by The Camel
The thing is once the HAL is seperated from the FFA and the clubs run it
The clubs can set the negotiations with the PFA what they see fit and the PFA are going to have to wear it
Southern Expansion is the biggest toss of a proposal on every front with the exception of 1 and i put a caveat on that single point also and that is finances if the so called Chinese money is real and not just a load of BS.
You will not and never will see people from the Wollongong region support nothing other than a stand alone Wolves outfit, particularly after being overlooked for some hillbilly hybrid. Anybody who has worked or lived in the Shire or Kogarah region will tell you from a competitive sports perspective there is no love lost there.
This Southern rubbish is just another example of why Gallop's legacy in our game will be one of cock up after cock up.
And another team in Melbourne will do nothing other than shift sand.
Wolves and Canberra for me.
I don't want the FFA running the league but I sure as **** don't want the clubs running it. Remember the NSL when the clubs ran it? Self interest at its best. Youd never ever see promotion relegation if the clubs ran it. Need a professional independent board running the leagueQuote:
Originally Posted by MFKS
This.Quote:
Originally Posted by MFKS
Nothing better that 2 self interested parties dictating how another party spends their cash in the name of preventing self interest.
Madness.
Let us know if you see one lying round somewhere.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Camel
Sort of like how the clubs run the EPL and still have promotion relegation??Quote:
Originally Posted by The Camel
Not the same. They already had relegation for ages before the PL stepped away from the FA, there's no way they could have gotten away with removing it.Quote:
Originally Posted by MFKS
Not very likely to see clubs here raise their hand and say its a good idea to introduce it.
We would not exist IMO if relegation was in from the startQuote:
Originally Posted by Macca
Not like the FFA have any plans on giving it to us eitherQuote:
Originally Posted by Macca
I think you will find the cclubs will be for it
The bigger clubs it is in their interests to bring it in
It is also going to be a benefit for all clubs as it will keep fixtures interesting at thge end of the season
Yes and no ****er questions it either??Quote:
Originally Posted by plague
Why exactly are the FFA negotiating with the PFA on how much of a cut the players are getting and then telling rhge clubs what the freight is going to be??
Farce really
Australian football it's something amazing and dynamics.
Just look at these match results :thumbsup:
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/spo...01-p4zutb.html
bit more on canberra
Rubbish. We would be back up by now.Quote:
Originally Posted by StannyCFCJET
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/spo...09-p4zwf7.html
ACT bid announce Ron Smith as head of football. They've also gone past 5,000 foundation members - but it's a free membership at this stage, so it's not really a commitment in my mind.
bid day...
canberra gets some government cash: https://www.canberratimes.com.au/spo...30-p500po.html
canberra learning from AFC wimbeldon: https://www.canberratimes.com.au/spo...30-p500pt.html
key aspects of Canberra's will be:
- A lucrative funding deal with the government and significant support from the Canberra business community.
- A "50 plus one" ownership model which will see members retain overall control of operations. They already have 7000 members.
- AFC Wimbledon, the most successful fan-owned club in the United Kingdom, chief operating officer Joe Palmer has joined Canberra's advisory board.
- Famed youth coach and former Socceroos interim boss Ron Smith has signed as the club's head of football.
- An existing stadium that has no other content for summer. Most bids do not have a stadium.
i'm quite excited by this and getting quite hopeful of them succeeding. i await the inevitable crushing feeling of devastation and disappointment when FFA announce expansion teams in sydney and melbourne.
Canberra would be a more exciting prospect, but the dollar signs for FFA in Sydney/Melbourne teams will be too hard to pass up.
Meanwhile, Southern Expansion seems to have thankfully died in the arse, and Wolves dropped off the radar :(
The merging of the SW Sydney and Macarthur bids thankfully looked to have killed the abomination that was Southern Expansion. Disappointing about Wolves though but can only see one team from NSW getting in this time.Quote:
Originally Posted by MonkeyKplunk
Would love to see Canberra get up but I think it'll be the Team 11 Dandenong bid that gets in with SW Sydney/Macarthur. Really those two and then Wolves & Canberra a year or two after would be ideal.
Hope they let South in
Better to have a real club in there than another souless plastic franchise
Also be good if the no ethnics thing was banished and we can all start the reconciliation
I actually agree with MFKP here
I'd prefer to see South Melbourne and Canberra in
I expect neither to get the nod though
Southern Expansion died with Les...RIP
My only issue with South Melbourne is that there is no geographical difference between them Victory and City.Quote:
Originally Posted by boz-monaut
Canberra's a pretty white place, so I'm unsure you can support a Canberra bid while opposing the national identity policy.
They should have been admitted when Heart got put inQuote:
Originally Posted by Premy
Hearts bid was that piss poor it fell over after a couple of years and if it wasnt for the City group bailing thgem out they would have went tits up
South have there own support which they can immeadiately add to the League
Where the hell are the rest of these New Dawn blow in Franchises from Melbourne getting support??
Only stealing it from Heart or Victree anyway
Thanks for your reverting thoughts, however nothing of what you said alleviates my concern about South Melbourne having no geographical difference between Victory and City.Quote:
Originally Posted by MFKS
Brisbane City have pulled out of the bidding process.
1 down.
After reading the Brisbane City press release and what they mention about consultation with FFA I think the Ipswich bid maybe a real chance.