https://www.canberratimes.com.au/spo...25-p4zhlb.html
FFA may not be able to run a competition, but they are world class at distraction and teasing.
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/spo...25-p4zhlb.html
FFA may not be able to run a competition, but they are world class at distraction and teasing.
http://www.westernmelbourne.com/anno...uncil-support/
Just go to 14 teams, play each other twice 26 rounds.
Get rid of the Nix, we need teams that are ready to go now. Not oh yeah give us a spot we promise we'll do this and that.
-Tassie
-South Melbourne
-Canberra
-Wollongong Wolves
-Western Pride
Pipe Dream 2nd Division, 12 teams play each other twice 22 rounds
If these consortiums are serious then set them up in second division, spend your cash build your stadium and gain promotion.
-Northern Fury
-Brisbane Strikers
-Brisbane City
-Gold Coast United
-Sydney 1
-Sydney 2
-Sydney 3
-Team IX
-Melboure Knights
-Western Melbourne
-West Adelaide
-Fremantle
Get rid of the finals have a league cup played midweek over the 2 divisions with the final to be played the week after the leagues finish.
I know Pipedream.
Originally Posted by #fixsmithpark
South Melbourne were a very strong club many years ago - but they are nothing special these days. They would be smashed if they had to compete in the A-league for a season.
Tasmania is no different to Wellington with respect to travel and being somewhere nobody would want to go to play.
Wollongong Wolves - Not sure if they could make it financially.
Western Pride - again not seeing why Queensland would / should get another go given past failures.
I like the 2nd division idea - but until the FFA gets sorted or the teams can broker their own TV / merchandising rights I'm not sure how they'd go financially either give costs of travel and so on.
Interesting to see that Stadium the Soccerroos played in last night
Commentators saying cost 27 million
So why we need to play in 30k stadia?
Wow, that's about 1 million per seat
Did they say it held 6-8k?
8K expandable to 13K according to wikipedia.
It really the way ahead for this code and hopefully the pea brains at FFA and the clubs start to realise it.
Proper football ground
Properly proportioned to the crowds
Went to a game in Thailand the other month.
Steel stands
No seats
You stood or sat
Your call
Was right on top of the ground so the view was quality
Yet we spend hundreds of millions on grounds in this country for what??
For the money we spend we get **** all value
I agree, I’m all for the smaller purpose-built football stadiums and not these larger monstrosities that try to cater for 12 different sports, meanwhile acting as a desolate wasteland for 95% of games.
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/spo...29-p4zi5c.html
bit of a nothing story, but a few points of note.
4 to 6 teams to be shortlisted and announced on monday - unless of course they have forgotten it is a long weekend.
CBF linking to anything, but the Canberra bid seems to have strengthened a lot in a month. It's drawn in some better people who weren't involved previously. It now has the support of Capital Football and (I think) the ACT government.
Most interestingly, it's adopted a Bundesliga-style community-ownership model. So the club will always be 51% owned by members. I think this will work in Canberra. It's a pretty rich place; much higher disposable income levels in this city than elsewhere in Australia, even if the private sector isn't huge.
so the shortlist is supposed to come out tomorrow
any idea how short a list it'll be? or are they determining that based on the bids?
It was meant to come out yesterday: 11 June. Well done, FFA.
local ABC in canberra reporting that the announcement has been delayed by a week (is anybody surprised?). also said 4-6 are expected to be shortlisted.
Farquing hell: the FFA didn't even tell the bids its decision would be delayed.
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/spo...11-p4zkq1.html
Delay would be due to FFA officials being on the Russia gravy train this week.
Or
They dont know what they are doing and making it up as they going
This is a shotgun marriage of convenience anyway
It not like it was a well thought out idea where they have identified a market buttered it up for a year or so and then looked to exploit.
****s are juyst throwing darts in the dark blindfolded hoping it works
I prefer to think of it as the FFA reassessing their two team figure in wake of the huge number of bids.
Ahhahah
That is because the game is being run by a Daddy's boy and a bloke shown up for his inabilities at this level in another code.
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