umm You not aware of FFA's no ethnics policy??
It may not be in writing but it is in writing
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Question for Mr Grimario: Do you think Adelaide can support 2 teams in the A-League? United and city 10000ish average crowd each?
No.
shit, I forgot to mention South Melbourne - they should be in it too
largz is the only hope for australian football
1 Sydney New South Wales 4,667,283 20.91%
2 Melbourne Victoria 4,246,345 19.02%
3 Brisbane Queensland 2,189,878 9.81%
4 Perth Western Australia 1,897,548 8.50%
5 Adelaide South Australia 1,277,174 5.72%
6 Gold Coast-Tweed Heads Queensland/New South Wales 590,889 2.65%
7 Newcastle-Maitland New South Wales 418,958 1.88%
8 Canberra-Queanbeyan Australian Capital Territory/New South Wales 411,609 1.84%
* Australian Capital Territory Australian Capital Territorya 374,658 1.68%
9 Sunshine Coast Queensland 285,169 1.28%
10 Wollongong New South Wales 282,099 1.26%
11 Hobart Tasmania 216,959 0.97%
12 Geelong Victoria 179,042 0.80%
13 Townsville Queensland 171,971 0.77%
14 Cairns Queensland 142,528 0.64%
15 Darwin Northern Territory 131,678 0.59%
16 Toowoomba Queensland 110,472 0.49%
not convinced a southern syd team would work, Sydney fc already has a lot of supporters from that area
for whatever reason gold coast seems to struggle hosting any professional sporting team
Canberra may work better than other options
overall how are a league club finances? apart from the jets I haven't heard anything about other clubs sustainability
so no expansion, but they'll replace teams to get a better pay deal. bad luck bro's.Quote:
A third Sydney A-League team may replace Wellington Phoenix
Dominic Bossi
Published: October 21, 2015 - 8:45PM
A third Sydney team, based in the Sutherland Shire, could be introduced as early as next year with Wellington Phoenix's future in the A-League up in the air.
As Sydney prepares for the first of three derbies this season, no fewer than nine derbies could light up the football calendar in future years with a team based in the Sutherland Shire looming as a likely to take over Wellington Phoenix's A-League licence.
The New Zealand club's licence expires at the end of the season and while no decision on their future has been made yet by the FFA, the groundwork for finding a replacement is well under way.
Several meetings to establish a new A-League club have taken place in recent weeks between the top brass at FFA, Sutherland Shire Council, NRL club Cronulla and the Sutherland Shire Football Association, the largest football association in NSW and potentially Australia.
The FFA has ruled out expansion to a 12-team competition and confirmed any new team entering the competition would be at the expense of an existing club.
"There are no plans for expansion of the Hyundai A-League in the foreseeable future," head of the A-League Damien de Bohun said. "The strategy is all about sustainability of the national competition and stability of the current 10 clubs. It's a sign of the A-League's growing popularity that several regions around Australia are lobbying for a club in their markets, but that doesn't change our view that 10 is the right number of clubs."
Fairfax Media understands the governing body is looking at cutting all ties with New Zealand football, which offers little for Australian player development, broadcast revenue and A-League attendances. The Phoenix could be dumped as early as the end of this season, though no decision on an extension of their licence or a replacement bid has been made.
The FFA is already in negotiations with Fox Sports and major networks Nine, Ten and Seven over the next TV deal and an additional six derby games in Sydney would be an ideal drawcard for broadcasters in favour of ditching a New Zealand team.
The Sutherland Shire is not the only market the FFA is actively researching for a potential new club with a second team in Brisbane and a third in Melbourne also strongly considered.
An A-League bid from the south of Sydney – potentially also drawing from support in Wollongong – already has the full support of the local council. Sutherland Mayor Carmelo Pesce and councillor Kent Johns held talks with the FFA and would like a team based out of the region to enter "as soon as possible." Remondis Stadium in Woolooware – home of the Cronulla Sharks – is the council's preferred location for a team, rather than Jubilee Oval in Carlton.
"I believe the community of Sutherland Shire would be fully supportive of it and you would have my 100 per cent backing," Mayor Pesce said. "In our local soccer, we have more local players than anywhere in the state and maybe even Australia."
Shark Park is privately owned by the NRL club, which has joined the campaign for the region to be granted an A-League licence in order to accommodate another professional football club at the venue.
The NRL side has not discussed ownership of a potential A-League club with the FFA to establish a cross-code operation.
This story was found at: http://www.canberratimes.com.au/spor...21-gkf17t.html
Don't let the door hit you on the way out Nux.
Stupid decision imo
But it's all paper talk atm
Having to lean on a nrl club for an aleague team is abhorrent. Wake up ffa scumbags
Wasn't there a thing a couple years back about needing more teams to satisfy the AFC requirements? Dropping NZ was also a part of this.
I also saw another story yesterday that said 2 teams possibly coming in for the 17/18 season.
Still very early days though, whatever route they choose with the new teams, they need to take a page out of the AFL's playbook and start with a NYL team first.
a second Newcastle/Hunter team is definitely the answer
away trip to Maitland would be better than the coast
Metford Boyz would make the RBB look like they had never touched meth
expansion talk is ****ing crazy
Nah. Move to 20 team comp. Play each other twice, top 12 finals. Amazing scenes.
In an ideal world.
Reality is that until the TV money flows better the HAL is not financially viable unless you're talking MV or maybe SFC/WSW. The rest of the clubs run at a perpetual loss/ merry-go-round of owners going broke (BR, CCM, PG, AU, NJ, WP,MH) and any newcomers die in the arse (NQF, GCU).
A 3rd team for Sydney based out of the shire is madness, and would further dent an already financially precarious SFC. Likewise its madness to insert a 3rd team in Melbourne when the Heart effectively went under and are only surviving on oil money.
Canberra is seriously questionable, given that the Brumbies are broke and the Raiders are often the same. Tassie would be a failure, with a small ALF obsessed population that isn't centralised in any meaningful way.
Darwin and Geelong are laughable. A second team for Brisbane or Adelaide is unthinkable without greater TV money IMO.