The problem with expanding to North queensland is the climate there at the time of the year, its cyclone season up there, and when there isnt a cyclone its hot and humid

so how does this work, mariners need 3k to profit at north sydney oval, yet northern spirit were forced out of the ground due to excessive costs?

Australian Football heavy hitter Bonita Mersiades joins Northern Fury's A-League push

THE Northern Fury's bold A-League ambitions have received a significant national boost after the appointment of high-profile football figure Bonita Mersiades.

Mersiades, a one-time head of corporate and public affairs for Football Federation Australia, was once regarded as one of the most powerful women in Australian sport.

With her Australia-wide contacts, Fury management believe they have taken a big step forward.

Mersiades will press Northern's case for future admission into the top-flight competition with local, state and federal governments as well as with the A-League's 10 current clubs.

"It's a stakeholder engagement role," she said of her position with the club.

"It's about selling that message, promoting that message, to people who are not here in North Queensland … that don't understand the spirit around the Northern Fury.

"It's important for key stakeholders in the game, whether they be FFA, A-League clubs, people in government or media in other parts of Australia, to understand the Fury means business.

"The Fury are here to stay."

Mersiades has a long history with the sport in Australia, including being the Socceroos' manager during the 1990s.

She was at FFA when the original Fury, known as North Queensland, were admitted to the A-League in 2009 and believes their 2011 axing was an "injustice".

It is a widely-shared consensus she believes can help the club's top-flight rebirth.

"There is this sense that they were hard done by and there is some unfinished business in respect of the Northern Fury," said Mersiades, controversially forced out of her FFA role in 2010.

"It's also important (for nat­ional interests) to understand the difference between North Queensland Fury back in 2008 and Northern Fury in 2013.

"This time it is building from the ground up, rather than just being imposed for other reasons."

After former A-League coach with the NQ Fury and Perth Glory Ian Ferguson was installed as coaching director, Mersiades' appointment is another sign that Northern are prepared to back up their ambitious talk by walking the walk.

The club has representative teams from under-12 through to National Premier League level.

By 2015-16 the Fury plan to have a team admitted to the National Youth League and the W-League a year later before making a push for their A-League return.

Mersiades said Northern was doing most things right for when FFA considered expansion.

"Among Australian Football there have been great people that have played the game from this area of the country and I think it's important for young kids, in particular, to have something to aspire to and Fury gives that," she said.

The Fury's proposed membership/ownership program will be released in the new year.

No harm done :d

I'd say most on here are aware of what the MLS has. But those with half a brain also know its simply not a realistic expectation anytime soon here.

I thought it would be a good idea to bring it up, but i know money wont get thrown to football. Where the government throws all to the AFL(and cricket but mostly AFL)
2 Billion to AFL infrastructure and around 3-400 Million to Rectangular grounds and infrastructure (Including Training)

Some very astute observations there.

Will you be using cash or card?

Fair point. They could do worse than ask the people they'd be wanting to attract.

Personally I prefer Wollongong, it's the name of the regional centre and it's a city. It's not as if only people from Fremantle go for Fremantle Dockers.

I don't buy this whole come up with a name that has a greater population under it and more people will come, But I'm happy to go with what the supporters go for/identify with.

I would actually go with Illawarra Wolves as a South Coast/Wollongong team name. I dont think it has been said here, but i just feel its a larger catchment area than Wollongong, but not as sparse as South Coast.

I made that template myself. Checks as in a chequered design (eg croatia).

So it's all drawn manually or you use templates? how did you do the checks? Where do you get the templates from?

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I just use MS Paint, simple, but gets the idea across.

that is really good for the canberra kit above.

any reasons why swans, is it one of their ACT symbols, though i would like the a-league to avoid using team names from the nrl/afl, new zealand knights wasnt a good idea.

Yeah there is signage and we are in the south coast area (the coast south of Sydney) but technically Wollongong and the surrounding suburbs are part of the Illawarra region and below that is the South Coast.

Some time ago people were arguing whether a south coast team should be called "South Coast", or "Wollongong".

It was said that the South Coast of NSW is actually much more southern than Wollongong and that no one refers to it as South Coast in the gong region.

I went down to the gong, today and there was a sign saying "Welcome to the South Coast"

Anybody notice what the MLS is doing?
They are trying to build football specific stadiums for every team. All are around 110m long fence to fence and 85m wide.
Thats what a Roar need 25-30 Suncorp is to big right now

1. Sydney; 4.7m (18 NCs), PSP 265,000.

2. Melbourne; 4.3m (17 NCs), PSP 255,000.

3. Brisbane; 2.2m (7 NCs), PSP 315,000.

4 Perth; 1.9 m (8 NCs), PSP 240,000.

5. Adelaide; 1.3m (7 NCs), PSP 190,000.

6. Gold Coast-Tweed; 600,000 (2 NCs), PSP 300,000.

7. Newcastle-Maitland; 430,000 (2 NCs), PSP 215,000.

8. Canberra-Queanbeyan; 420,000 (4 NCs), PSP 105,000.

9. Central Coast; est. 400,000 (one NC), PSP 400,000.

10. Wollongong; 290,000 (2 NCs), PSP 145,000.

11. Hobart; 220,000 (one NC), PSP 220,000 (whole state would provide higher figures).

12. Geelong; 190,000 (one NC), PSP 190,000.

13. Townsville; 180,000 (2 NCs), PSP 95,000 (excluding Cairns Taipans).

i think you mean brisbane* is the place to expand.