Quote Originally Posted by MonkeyKplunk View Post
Absolutely.
The clubs in the NPL stream who are baying for a professional second tier need to be able to show that the second tier is financially feasible within the country first.
I don't think a lot of them truly understand the amount of money it would take to just travel with squads around the country every weekend. This is Australia, shit ain't cheap.

I'd rather see NPL play as normal through winter and then the winners of each member federation, instead of playing a meaningless "finals series", play a home and away comp in line with HAL during all or part of Summer.
This would actually push them to get their development streams in order, and build a strong second tier competition before we talk about Promotion/Relegation.
I really like this idea, wouldn't the NPL players get burnt out playing 3/4 of the year though?