Lovely work Palaisious, if you're doing requests, can you do a fantasy map for Brisbane (stikers/Roar), Adelaide (United/West/City) and Perth (Glory/TBA!),:d

Interesting seeing how different Melbourne is to Sydney. Would never think about havin 2 Sydney teams based in the CBD here

Any NEW victorian team wanting to take advantage of suburbia would need to base itself from dandenong outwards, targeting new suburbs of cranbourne, casey and berwick. Dandenong is set to become our second cbd like parra in sydney and so would make sense, otherwise geelong is the go for new start ups

Basically you'll see that Melbourne is a lot more centralised, the only part of Metropolitan Melbourne you could split off with discreet geographical representation might be the South-East as that expands the furthest, but even that is a push. For example, all the AFL teams may carry the names of 19th century suburbs but they all play out of two stadiums in the city now, MCG and Ethihad.

You'd find the best way to introduce new teams is by other points of difference than geography, such as South Melbourne if it really does have sufficient Greek backing, or Heart with its.... being red? How about Collingwood future-proof themselves and enter a team? Wouldn't even be the first time they've done it.

Would Victory as centre, work with a south east and north west team?

hahaha

Seriously though I have done another one like what you asked for, but aside from a South East team and Geelong, teams in Melbourne (Victory, Heart and South) really wouldn't be representing any geographical area, but that's just how Melbourne is as a city.

Too easy! ;)

If only we had 2trillion dollars we could make it happen:(

That's just the Coat of Arms of Penrith City Council.

I figured in this little fantasy "Penrith City" would base their logo off it, nice and traditional ;)



Edited by paladisious: 10/2/2013 01:27:35 AM

Epic;p what is the far west team? now do a Melbourne one:P

I'm not sure if there's still a place for Northern Spirit, being in between Sydney FC and the Mariners both geographically and in being Sydney's "new football" option.

Still, photoshop is fun.

There are 13 District Associations in Sydney and the Macarthur Association based on Campbelltown is the 9th largest. The major point about the region is that it is marked as one of the two major growth areas for Sydney and will grow by about 15k a year for the next 25 years and have a population slightly less than Adelaide currently is by 2036. Its quite conceivable that there could be 20-25k juniors playing there by that time.

There are a lot of Sydney FC fans on the North Shore and in the Northern Suburbs as well as on the Northern Beaches and for that matter up to a couple of k in the Western Suburbs.

city, eastern suburbs, shire

If I had it my way I would wait until 2016 which is the year before our next tv deal to expand. I would bring in Tasmania and South Coast/Wollongong. I would have a few NYL teams as well.

would like to see old northern spirit fc back at some stage :P , that being said...does anyone have a clue about which parts of sydney the majority of sydney FC fans are located?

The potential is clearly huge. Apparently Campbelltown has 9k registered juniors.

the sydney fc marketing team did their best to ensure sydney was a one club city.

Add about 15k this game

Sydney could support as many as 6 teams (CBD, North Shore, Shire, Parra, Penrith, South West) imo but not for a while

Edited by redshirtwilly: 9/2/2013 08:51:38 PM

With western Sydney projected to have another 1 million population by 2036 the potential is there long term.

what about top gear

You have to wonder at the potential for extra teams in sydney at some point.


April 25, 2007 Sydney FC 3–0 Persik Kediri Parramatta Stadium, Sydney, Australia
Attendance: 10,075

7 February 2010 Sydney FC 3 : 2 Perth Glory Parramatta Stadium,
Attendance: 8,359

Sunday 4 December 2011 Sydney FC 2 – 0 Brisbane Roar WIN Jubilee Oval,
Attendance: 11,555

Wednesday 18 January 2012 Sydney FC 1 – 1 Perth Glory Campbelltown Stadium,
Attendance: 5,505

Rubbish. The BBL team is in Hobart, not Launceston....and even if it was in the same town how many football fans would be cricket fans and vica versa...not much I reckon

also at least 2000 supporters were from melbourne...so I'd cap the crowd at 4k max, and who knows how many free tickets etc were given away for those 4k.

As for the bushfires, last I heard they were in the country towns, not the centre of Launceston. For a top of the table clash, with high media coverage and in perfect weather = NOT GOOD ENOUGH

That's right, I keep making a mental note to change it to Rovers, as no one's using that ;)

i feel that due to geographics and stadia, tasmania has fallen behind in the expansion race, and it may possibly be a better decision to create both a new hobart and launceston clubs to compete in the A2 or the tasmanian league, with the view that once one of them develops, they can be in the a-league in the future

Northern Rangers already exists and is one of the teams in the new statewide league. I might have a look at a few games next year because the other northern club Launceston City play only a stones throw from my place. I gave up going when I got tired of the poor standard and when my son and his mates weren't in the teams to get me over the poor standard bit. :)

The Hobart kit is just the Tasmania XI kit from the friendly against Victory this pre-season with the Hobart Coat of Arms as a logo like Bristol City.

The Northern Rangers kit and logo is derived from the Launceston City logo, featuring a Tasmanian Tiger. All the sponsors are just my conjecture of course.

Thanks man. Who says whatever form the A2 eventually takes has to follow the "be the influence" shit? Obviously thinking a few light years ahead than practical here.

Edited by paladisious: 14/1/2013 05:02:41 PM