The A-League Expansion Thread

[belchardo]

i hear crickets warming up...

[belchardo]

still nothing, but here's something else

https://www.canberratimes.com.au/spo...21-p4zmsx.html

[MFKS]

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 WCQ

Where you think him and Lowy are right now??

[belchardo]

https://www.canberratimes.com.au/spo...28-p4zoci.html

D-day all over again.

[belchardo]

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.

[Jeterpool]

Ray Gatt is saying Tasmania have missed out along with Adelaide 11, Fremantle and Gold Coast.

[evolution]

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.

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

[Couscous]

Couscous, would you consider buying in? i'm certainly interested.

I paid the $200 to join the first A-League bid (and then donated it to Capital Football's junior development when it dissolved).

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.

[Couscous]

10 bids that made the cut:

I thought only eight made the cut?

[MFKS]

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.

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

Strongest case??

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

[evolution]

Strongest case??

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.

[Bremsstrahlung]

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?

[MFKS]

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

[The Camel]

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 PFA

[MFKS]

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 PFA

See the thing is it is though the problem the PFA and FFA are too intertwined

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

[380]

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.

[The Camel]

See the thing is it is though the problem the PFA and FFA are too intertwined

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

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 league

[plague]

See the thing is it is though the problem the PFA and FFA are too intertwined

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

This.

Nothing better that 2 self interested parties dictating how another party spends their cash in the name of preventing self interest.

Madness.

[plague]

Need a professional independent board running the league

Let us know if you see one lying round somewhere.

[MFKS]

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 league

Sort of like how the clubs run the EPL and still have promotion relegation??