I think it might have a lot to do with potentyial bidders realising they have little chance of getting up and withdrawing rather than continuing to waste time or moneyOriginally Posted by Premy
If we had a competent FFA they woulld identify an area then ask for bids from that area. Not the current free for all
Yep that final sentence of yours sums up everything that is wrong with this whole process. Yep can just see all two dozen of those Campbelltown supporters turning up when they have back to back victories.
i wouldn't be overly surprised if this happened. growth area, another derby, summer time difference due to daylight savings.
Also.get into the area before League does.
The Championship Chronicles - The Jetstream's review of the 2007/08 season. www.newcastlefootball.net/chronicles
is there a Geelong based entry in all this?
Western Melbourne were the old Geelong bid.
The eight bidders are:
- South West Sydney Macarthur (Sydney)
- Southern Expansion (Sydney region)
- Wollongong Wolves
- Team 11 (Melbourne)
- South Melbourne FC
- Western Melbourne Group
- Ipswich Pride FC
- Canberra & Capital Region
https://www.a-league.com.au/news/ffa...ague-expansion
https://www.foxsports.com.au/footbal...c91848a6054e1f
fox sports have their say. amazingly, macarthur and team 11 are their "frontrunners".
on canberra: "Intending to cover not just Canberra and the wider ‘capital region’ but parts of southern and inland NSW too. Appears to have ticked most of the boxes, but the desire for more big-market teams from FFA and Fox will be too strong."
sbs (reprint of an APP article): https://theworldgame.sbs.com.au/a-le...p-in-melbourne
Guided by a long-flagged intent to "fish where the fishes are", FFA must hand Victoria a third club in the next round of expansion.
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/spo...31-p500z0.html
canberra bid piece
•Northern Fury
•Brisbane City
•Gold Coast United
•Tasmania
•Adelaide
•Fremantle
There is your second division, make it happen.
To many necktards for a 2nd qld soccer team. Gold coast party too hard to hold sporting teams. nrl even struggling there
https://www.smh.com.au/sport/soccer/...05-p5081u.html
How do they keep finding people willing to submit new bids when they continually crap on them with this kind of stuff?
The idiots who are putting up the bid money can whinge all they like but they are the idiots for putting cash up when Lowy and his FFA had the vultures circling with the FIFA reform of the FFA congress
That things have gone the way they have isnt that great of a surprise
Being that there is new management about to ride into town then everything is up in the air
So they cant exactly whinge about it
Me I am more than happy for a delay in the announcement
Shouldnt matter if it pushed back to January or February
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/spo...15-p509oc.html
O'Rourke to make a recommendation to the board today, but looks like they'll do nothing until the new board is in. expansion delayed by a year.
thought this was an interesting quote, particularly now that A-league teams have been "looped in" on the discussions, although the Canberra Times reading of it is far more narrow than my reading."Two teams in itself would do a lot for the league. But there's geographies of Australia that are not connected yet to the A-League and the teams that we would propose to put forward would enable that connection of that geography and those parts of the community."
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/spo...16-p50a03.html
expansion decision delayed until after the new board is elected.
The Crimes also says the Canberra bid is now the favourite, but (a) it's a Canberra newspaper and (b) it's unclear whether it's simply asserting that or whether it's from an FFA source.
But it kinda makes sense. The other A-League clubs wouldn't be threatened by a Canberra team, as opposed to a new Sydney or Melbourne team.Canberra is the only ready-to-go bid, with a stadium deal, government support, a commitment from members and links to overseas clubs already in place.
https://www.theguardian.com/football...six-applicants
hmm, interesting story in the guardian.
The cynic in me readsas a holding statement to give the teams from Melbourne and Sydney more time to get their stuff sorted. Canberra have the stadium sorted, the catchment area sorted and have a $1.2m per year guarantee from the government.“We need to continue our consultation with those bid teams to ensure that they adequately address these areas to ensure their future sustainability, which includes securing stadia, catchment area and financial capital,” Gallop said.
Ipswich and Wollongong are out.
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/spo...17-p50a4l.html
similar article from the Canberra Times, claiming canberra were one of the top three bids.
South West Sydney Macarthur and Canberra will be the 2
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