Moving house.....

Recon so 

so the quarrel with logan city council is turning ugly?

Don’t think so. I think Logan is on going 

Saw a rumour that the Bakries have have bought Lang Park and will redevelop it into a boutique stadium with a 9,000 pax seating capacity.   

I wouldn’t believe that one, Suncorp Stadium is Lang Park. Although how good would a stadium like dolphin oval be in town

Jake Goodship and Hollie Palmer at the announcement (from the Roar twitter account), so safe to assume it is W-League related, my guess setting up an academy program for the women’s program.

Great news for the women's game if so ...but would not excite me hugely .

Are Roar set to get into Sydney n stay till the end? 
Or will they be let fly home n back to Melbourne before lock in 

Roar announce an $18m investment in to an Academy at South Pine (bigger investment than Logan?). 

nice 

Bills not paid at Logan , let’s be honest 

Didn't Brisbane Roar only recently move to a new training base only this season?

2 years ago, to Logan. 

Fair enough, I always thought it was both men's and woman's teams based out at Logan. I had no idea it was split. 

Either way that's great news, it's good to see more and more clubs have their own training bases to call home. 

That was the plan, something seems not quite right at Logan. Football Brisbane are rumoured to be moving out of the same complex Roar are in 

Maybe NRL are moving in 

Jokes aside, if Roar are looking to play in Moreton Bay full-time they should have their training facility there also.

I have watched a facebook clip etc but still don't know where this facility will be .
Just says Brendale .
I know that area well and the only place I can imagine it being is a large sports complex on Francis road that currently has no Football facilities .
Would be a good spot .
Interestingly ..just up the road about 5 minutes at Petrie is where a friend of ours reported a few months ago that a certain "David Pourre from the Roar" would be touring sporting facilities of the new University complex there. 
Maybe the men will be moving training facilities to just up the Road at Petrie???
....and a further conspiracy theory .....Petrie is only about 15 minutes from Dolphin Oval .!!!!

Im not sure why there’s Jokes - Roar have amassed $30m in investment within 2 years ... and are lining up a further $70m for a stadium. 

It’s at South Pine, ACE are on the opposite side of the fields 

This video might help:

https://m.facebook.com/groups/382798669160634?view=permalink&id=746930179414146&fs=2&focus_composer=0&ref=m_notif&notif_t=feedback_reaction_generic

edit: sorry, just saw you’d seen that video 

Do you have any inside word about this? I know they've floated the proposal about, but haven't heard any concrete news on funding sources (whether private or government).

Ben Cahn fav for the Roar job , good move if it happens.

For the stadium? 

As waz said it is at South Pine, looks like they are taking over the turf farm on the eastern side of the ACE/MBU facilities and building there

That’s my assumption too. ACE seem to be benefitting from the 3 other fields which they’ll timeshare with the new Academy. (I should be up there in a few weeks as ACE are in my U18’s division) 

There is another positive in this. If Roar are looking at any move north, be it Dolphin or otherwise, it frees up the whole Sth West of Brisbane for a second team. While Roar were spreading themselves from Redcliffe to Logan it was all a bit confusing.

At the moment Roar men are staying at Logan so your predicament still exists. 

If you start local and follow your team up the football pyramid, you can end up with post code determining most of your team's following - as it should be. "Our team" means something in that context.

Without P/R (yes, that again) it is a different kettle of fish at the top level for our teams - since teams just appear there without any following growing out of their own roots.

Brisbane Roar to me has no postcode base location for 'local' support - just the generic Brisbane/Queensland plus anyone else who wants to follow the best team in the league.

Tell that to a West Ham or Tottenham supporter.
The point is, if Roar represents Brisbane (which incidentally is the largest city by area in Australia) then where does a second club draw supporters from. Everton and Liverpool have a century old heritage (originally there was a religious divide) to draw on. I suppose if you want the second Brisbane team to bring their 1500 club supporters and be satisfied with that then all good. Just don’t complain about crowd numbers. Understanding why Melbourne City don’t have decent crowds while WSW does is not rocket science.