Southern couch surfers in next year then.

If the love affair is as strong as many think it is, the FFA are bound to agree to a deal with Southern Expansion.

The risk is that they have only 6 months to get things up and running. Not impossible but hardly ideal, but I don’t see any involvement in maintaining the link with Wellington being beneficial in any deal. A clean break is likely best on that one.

They're all Murdoch, so they're just sharing copy, but still.

Why is interviewing them dumb?

Just to add to this, before any official word surfaced about Greaves Reserve, I shopped up what Hindmarsh Stadium would look like if we picked it up and dropped it there, although I put it on a different field there:





You can see the rectangle building with the light green roof in both the bid's video and my photoshop, to give you your bearings.

The most important "deadline" of sorts for the club is to be in a position to participate in the July transfer window to assemble a squad for the new season.

The turnaround time for other things such as establishing the legal entity can be expedited. And SE's mooted stadium wasn't going to be ready by their first year anyway, so they'll be renting existing grounds which aren't tenanted in summer so they'll have no problem booking them.

It'll be a close shave but if FFA makes the snap call I think SE can cobble something together, especially as they've been doing much of the preparatory work for a couple of years.

WSW was essentially assembled in 6 weeks if you want a comparison.

Gallop said there is a sense of frustration as FIFA demands FFA get its congress in order while he also revealed more than 10 bids had been submitted for A-League expansion from 2019.

“But I can’t necessarily disclose them unless they’ve gone public themselves,” he said.

“But in that environment we still felt that standing still and not exploring expansion would not be a wise move for the sport.

“Equally we have to make sure the expansion process has the best chance of success.

“Success means choosing teams in geographic locations that are not only going to be successful in that area but also bring something to the whole league in terms of commercial growth and fans interest, That’s the challenge.

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/sport/football/frustration-building-among-aussie-football-stakeholders-but-ffa-boss-david-gallop-staying-for-long-haul/news-story/05a6ea79616661261abad5a7ede3e886

What that new operating model aye

Once again Gallop has pretty much spelt out that they know where the teams will come from, but the bids themselves need to stack up.

The reality is that if you aren’t from Sydney, Melbourne or Brisbane, the corporate part of that equation just doesn’t compute to the FFA at this stage. It’s where the money is for them.

Seen the render on Casey Councils Facebook recently

That's from the video I posted above, that render is based on Dandenong Showgrounds (Greaves Reserve), you can see for yourself in the Google maps link I provided. Doesn't mean that the plan hasn't changed and they're using old renders though, especially going off this tweet. 

Team 11 is such a stupid name for a football club

Mariners is definitely up there with the elites.

Team 11 is a placeholder. The name will be decided by the fan forums.

Victory,Roar & Glory are very traditional sounding names also.

I was just pointing the irony out to Mr. RedShirt through his team.

Said it in another thread but there's Once Caldas (Caldas Eleven) in Colombia, and they're as legit a football country as you get.

https://www.cbrregionaleaguebid.com.au/

Canberra's official bid. If your in the region please take the survay.

While we're at it, Untitled Teenage Sex Comedy That Can Be Made For Under $10 Million That Most Readers Will Probably Hate But I Think You Will Love was a pretty good movie back in the day

TIL that was the title the writer pitched American Pie with. Three studios gave him offers that afternoon lol

 Brad and George Brand-hijack

http://www.news.com.au/sport/afl/live-northsgiants-sunsport-donscats-swansfreo-saintspies/news-story/f06f51ab78a7d755af59b53c1e20f292

7 000 at an AFL match this weekend in a predominantly AFL state.  Could the Tasmanian A-League expansion people explain how, if the AFL can't pull a crowd, a Tasmanian A League team could?

I wouldn't be worried one bit what sort of crowd they get when two AFL clubs not representing their state or city is playing against each other. 
I love football with passion and if Melbourne Victory was playing against Perth Glory 5 minutes from my house in a normal league game I wouldn't waste my time attending if I had tickets for free let alone pay for it. 
On the A-league bid however I'd only accept Tasmania if they entered the league and played out of a new football only stadium. Even a small 10k capacity would be good enough for me. Playing out of their current AFL/Cricket stadium wouldn't be acceptable if I was in charge of the criteria for a successful bid. 

Australian rules is experiencing a slow, deliberate, painful death in Tasmania so all good

I wouldn't give a shit about two neutral teams playing, why should they?

The fun begins  https://theworldgame.sbs.com.au/south-melbourne-a-league-bid-denies-match-fixing-link

Im sure they knew that he was at least dodgy to an extent. Team11 havent covered themselves in glory getting close to this bloke either.

Granted he has never been charged with anything but why bother?

David Davutovic and Daniel Garb both think the 2 teams will come from Melbourne and Sydney. I always thought Brisbane would get the nod ahead of Melbourne, but Brisbane City aside, their bids don't seem to have a lot of substance. I'm starting to think Southern Expansion and Team 11 will be the 2 teams. 

@ feed the Bronx

The Brisbane bids all lack a few critical factors - infrastructure, government support and financial backing.

Sadly the Brisbane bids are all looking poor compared to what’s coming out of Sydney and Melbourne.