Do you hear voices Midfielder??

The plan for the next 10 to 20 years is rightly the job of the FFA once the congress is expanded.  This proposal gets the ball rolling again.  Of course we could wait for the new congress to be set up, elect a new board and wait an extra couple of years while they get up to speed and then announce expansion.

Is that what FIFA and AFC among for or will they only be concerned with expanding the congress and getting a new board elected?

Expansion is great and all but I won't be satisfied until we have a full pyramid. I haven't attended an A-league game in years and I don't plan to until it changes.

Depends what the answer you paid them for was.

Right. Because taking your ball and going home is always successful in getting what you want. I sincerely hope your diligent self-sacrifice is causing waves in the halls of the FFA as we metaphorically speak.

Its a new structure and new model.

Its not finding 36 Aussies for 2 new teams

Its about them using the salary cap to poach players from other clubs and the other clubs having to fill the gap with NPL and youth league signings

It means the quality of the top goes down a notch with every team introduced

Conveniently time for the next Congress meeting thingy, they told us expansion was to happen this season a few years ago, then went quite.
It's all just words to win over FIFA favour. 
What ever happened to the entry criteria that was due last March ? 
Where is the new financial model?
Oh where is the marketing, and the crowds for that matter. Seriously, FFA just sit on their hands unless they want something, like a new TV deal, they pulled out all stops with that caper.
I call bullshit!

@ Bluebird

Okay, get that. I’d say two things - first off if that happens it’s a price worth paying for expansion and secondly the fix is more foreign coaches and not the recent trend of jobs for the Aussie boys. Good coaching will keep standards up.

I am waiting to see the reaction on here if the two new teams fail like GCU and NQF.

I seem to remember that all the experts were crowing over these two when it was announced.

I do want to one day see the A League at 16 teams.

If people want change, they have to do it with their feet. If the FFA had a lot more people turn away from the A-league (not football - I still contribute to the game through coaching), they'd actually start to listen. 

This could just be BS talk like all of the other times.

If fox is picking the expansion it will be south china fc and bris 2, followed by north sydney and melbourne heart, followed by east sydney and melbourne central city fc.....

The only thing the FFA has ever listened to

#MeToo

The source of much discontent and perceived illegitamcy of the HAL with Eurosnobs is that the league follows the AFL model instead of a proper football league structure. Implementing an unbalanced fixture would utterly finish people off IMO.

36 Aussies?
More like 26 Aussies, 5 Spaniards, 3 Englishmen, a Serb and a Kiwi ?

You sound like you want two new teams to fold more than you want 16 teams.

Canberra's A-League franchise hopes boosted as FFA approve expansion

http://www.canberratimes.com.au/sport/act-sport/canberras-aleague-franchise-hopes-boosted-as-ffa-approve-expansion-20180216-h0w7ry.html


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Good that its being mentioned again but Ill beleive it when I see it. Too many false dawns

There's talk of a Auckland bid going through for the 12th team. Hope its works out as Nix need a derby!.

Well it took people voting with their feet and tv sets to make FFA actually do something.But could this be more lip service and chook feeding?

On current form, we only need one guess.

Southern Expansion
Brisbane City Gladiators/Brisbane Strikers/Brisbane Red Bulls

They will be the expansion teams. PERHAPS Tasmania will come in the future to replace Wellington if they get the boot. Although based on anecdotal evidence and other murmurings it appears Tasmania has been told not to bother.
Geelong and Casey-Dandenong are probable in the future round of expansion because they are near major markets and can be counted in the viewership and other metrics, which the FFA and Foxtel love. Similarly, Ipswich (Western Pride) and SW Sydney/Campbelltown are also likely because they add to Foxtels favoured markets.
South Melbourne and Wollongong Wolves (two existing clubs that could enter the A-League next season if they were allowed) will be shafted. As will Canberra, Sunshine Coast, and Cairns, all of which could support a team in some capacity but will never get looked at because of "metrics".
This is the reality we are in.      

Amen

Doubt it tho, it'll be Southern Sydney and they'll announce they're supported by the Wollongong area, when it will be nothing further from the truth.

Unless it breathes, smells and plays solely in Wollongong, it's not from Wollongong, and won't have my support.

True holding bigfielder which is why a second tier is so critical.

If Cairns, Gold Coast, Canberra, Tasmania and the like can’t get a look in to the top tier. They need a pathway to develop its local talent under sustainable circumstances

And we are the punchline.

Fish where the fish are.

Au contraire, only talking from experience. Since the A league started 5 teams new teams have been introduced with varying degrees of success, or just downright failure.
Out of the 5 you could argue that WSW have been the only success. GCU, WP, NQF and Melbourne Heart/ city have been failures , especially City with all the money they have.
But i am waiting to see who they bring in. I just don't see who is going to improve the league as a spectacle.

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