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Southern Expansion have signed a sister club agreement with Chinese Super League club Guizhou Hengfeng in a move they hope will help further strengthen their bid for an A-League franchise.

Southern are expected to announce the relationship on Thursday after Southern’s financial backers, Chinese property giant JiaYuan Group, made a significant investment in Guizhou’s parent company, Hengfeng Real Estate.

Guizhou Hengfeng, based in the city of Guiyang, are last in the 16-team Chinese Super League after 11 matches this season. Hengfeng Real Estate became owners of the club in January 2016. The club changed its name from Guizhou Zhicheng, as well as its colours from green to white, under new ownership.

Concept Kits for Southern Expansion FC

I realize the name will probably change as well as their crest, but this is what I had to work with.

Went for Roma inspired kits as they don't really clash with any other clubs.

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What sucks most about this expansion situation is the fact there's only talk of 2 clubs entering the league. 
If our of the 12 bids you have 4 great bids then why accept 2 and reject 2 when you can simply add both at the same time.
Some people will say this is hard but let's not forget we had 8 in one hit when the league started and with over 1 year remaining that's plenty of time to get everything sorted.
And even then if you can't do it then atleast choose the next 2 bids to enter the following season giving those 2 bids an extra year to get themselves sorted. 

All recent news reports that the Canberra bid is definitely happening.

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Team 11
Geelong/Not Geelong/Patriots/West Melbourne
West Melbourne (heard absolutely nothing about them except one HUN article)
South Melbourne
Southern Expansion
SW Sydney
Macarthur
Wollongong Wolves
Brisbane City
Western Pride
Gold Coast United
Fremantle
West Adelaide (no longer teaming up with Adelaide City who are aiming for new second div)
Tasmania
Canberra (not sure if this one is actually happening)

Makes 15

They are talking 15 bids in by the end of the day.  Approx 10 named here in this thread
Brisbane Strikers  15 to go Gold Coast - Sunshine Coast - Cairns - Team 11 (?) - South East Melbourne - South West Melbourne - South Melbourne - Tasmania - Adelaide - Southern Expansion (Sydney) - Fremantle

Nothing highlights the deficiencies with the current HAL model more than the ability of Qld Teams to compete in it.
Qld has a significant number of Football fans/registrations,but in reality noone can afford to compete in the Franchise model FFA runs.
Roar only exists now because a Brisbane team has to be included and Frank found a foreign patsy.
The reality is Qld isnt full of wealthy football fans who want to give away their money.So even if all the fish were here and all the best players produced came from here,the franchise model makes it too costly for any team to pay for the privilege to compete.
Seriously if you have to pay 10mill just to join the competition,then are excluded from a significant source of revenue,you would have more money than sense to join.
Until a new model is produced based on merit not the size of bank accounts,Australian Football will always be 'different' and unfortunately doomed to repeat history.

@ 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.

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. 

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?

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

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

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

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. 

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?

 Brad and George Brand-hijack

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Mariners is definitely up there with the elites.

Team 11 is such a stupid name for a football club

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. 

Seen the render on Casey Councils Facebook recently