closed A2 league until there's enough teams for A3 League ... 

https://twitter.com/dmaikousis/status/1719662072169202094

If I have the pro/rel conditions set by football QLD right, in the case of Brisbane United: they weren't promoted "from" the NPL. So if they were relgated from the NSD, they wouldn't be allowed to be relegated into it the NPL. Therefore.... what then? 

In the case of Sunshine Coast.... relegated means dead? They're not "from" the NPL anymore.

Bizarre 

Nick Galatas is up about this and it's telling that Krayem is engaging.

No offense, but maybe your mates are just old.

Avondale in a little over 10 years made their way up from the 6th level of the pyramid and won the championship. Nobody who has reached adult age would have any reason to have ever heard of them.

Personally, they sound like they're a bit light off the pitch, but there's not much to argue with their trajectory on it. Football's merit based after all...

Yeah Avondale are a bit of a "Carlton Soccer Club" but I guess their is a bit of a power void at the moment so they are trying to weasel their way in to the landscape... Disappointed with Heidelberg but they cant stump up the cash .... I have been told they desperately tried.... As for Knights..... not sure whats happening there at the moment.... Their President stepped down, Senior coach is gone after a fairly successful season ????... as an outsider, they seem cashed up so not sure why they wouldn't want to be part of this but, knowing them, I would say its a philosophical reason and not just a financial one.... 

Although there has been plenty of different opinions about the NST, I've found that whenever I've discussed it with people here in VIC everyone pretty much says the same thing. Hierarchy for VIC bids is South, Knights, Preston, Heidelberg, then the rest in no particular order. Avondale is barely even in the conversation. It's usually "oh I completely forgot they even applied", followed by "no chance they get in". 

I think it should've been a 12 team competition...agree another Vic club like Knights would've been ideal with an Adelaide City to come into the frame. 
As a Preston supporter the South Derby along with Syd Croatia would be the only club to draw a crowd because of Knights...otherwise Friday Nights would look glum playing against the likes of South Hobart!!!

Not sure who actually is "left" mate.... Green Gully for example, havent heard one way or another NOR Adelaide City for that matter.... Brisbane United bid is the surprising one and if its the Queensland FA that has prevented them from joining then thats just wrong..... 

Selfishly I would be disappointed if, in VIC, it was only South, Preston and Scamondale.... Thats 9 home games we would get a crowd at and one away at BT Connor... a few of us wil travel to Sydney a couple of times and maybe Hobart . NPL VIC may be dire as dogshit sometimes but at least we get a decent(ish) turn out against Knights, the Bergers, Thunder, Altona... and depending on who is having a good season some of the other clubs....  Will be sad not to have the four Melbourne derbys every year (the ONLY good thing about NPL) and Preston would be great again (although 1-2 more seasons and they would have been back in NPL anyway I reackon).. Syd Cros, Marconi and APIA fans back at Lakeside will be great value but not sure its enough ... at least for me.

 I just want to know one way or another now.....  What started out as exciting seems to be dragging out to a non-event .. who knows?

out of all the applicants left, which clubs would you substitute? 

None of the NPL clubs would have anything to do with Simon Hill mate, not sure how he would know anyone, unless this has come from FA themselves.... Word is they are very tight lipped at the moment so all these "rumours" doping the rounds are just the same old Chinese Whispers. 

Yeah thats why I have doubts about the validity of this list. Avondale, as far as I know, ONLY meets the financials apart from that nothing on this list applies to them... 

https://www.footballaustralia.com.au/news/football-australia-opens-expressions-interest-national-second-tier-mens-competition

If those 10 x clubs are the "first cab off the rank" to be followed in 1-2 years by 4-6 others who just need a little time to get sorted I will jump on board with glee, otherwise this will be a giant flop.  As much as I am hungry for pro/rel from the very frist season, if it takes 1-3 season sto get everyone up to speed so be it..... 

The Federations wiped the floor with the FA, threatening to expell senior teams & they're youth teama.

I agree, let's wait for the actual announcement. Even if this list is accurate, it may not tell the whole story. If this is the initial list, the FA will definitely need to outline the pathways for other clubs to join. On it's own, this will become pretty boring pretty quickly. Maybe we'll see a staggered introduction over the next couple seasons for some of the other clubs that weren't quite as ready as the initial selection. 
That being said, the main surprise/disappointment on that list would be Avondale over Knights. The others seem like fairly logical predictable choices. You get the feeling South Hobart is more about having another state involved to make the comp look less NSW/VIC heavy. Would be a massive shame if there is no representation from Brisbane or Adelaide. It would be an even bigger shame if the main reason those aren't represented was due to problematic state feds.

What's a reddit article ?

Simon Hill on Global game last night 

"The word is next week for the announcement"

Reddit article stating the FA are going to pull the plug in a week or two on NST due to a lack of enough viable teams to join.
Very Soccer Australia that.

Yeah ummmm,, lets just wait for the FA announcement hey? 

I mean getting to play Apia, Marconi, the Wolves and Preston again might be fun but otherwise, if this is the list, I reckon Ill be following the U23s more next year... 

let's say if this list is true, based on club location etc, it looks like its only the clubs that coughed up the cash.

money is the only reason why you'd be accepted into the NSD.

Take with a hefty grain of bullshit

https://twitter.com/smfcmike/status/1719308542916919375/photo/1

10 teams. (NSW) APIA, Marconi, Olympic, SU, Gong (VIC) Avondale, Preston, Souths (QLD) Sunshine Coast (TAS) South Hobart

18 round H/A+finals

That would make a double boilover: no Knights, no Brisbane United (with a lot of eyes on footbal QLD you'd think)

If it ends up being 10 teams then hopefully the FA also puts out a clear roadmap for yearly expansion through on-field promotion from the NPL (via a resumption of national play-offs), until it hits 16 or so teams.

The medium-term goal for club football in this country should be two nationwide tiers of 16 teams each, playing 30-round regular seasons, with the NPL leagues sitting below that, also playing a season of that length (as is now done in NSW). And all connected via pro-rel.

A-League would have to move to winter, but they should do this anyway. Climate change is making summer football more and more intolerable and the clear air argument is bunkem. We're supposedly in the sporting dead zone of the calendar now that AFL and NRL have finished their seasons, and the A-League still isn't getting any media attention.

Side note.  FFA never published a list of applicants - this was just hashed together by people online based on which clubs individually confirmed. We're probably all expecting a 10 team league from the 14 or so that were confirmed, but don't be surprised either if there's a club in the final list that everyone thinks "wait, they applied?"

ive been told by some club officials, that this week FA will be calling the clubs and will be given the yay and nay of who will be accepted into the NSD. 

:) mate they can call it the "Frank Lowy memorial Soccer comp" for all I care at the moment, just get it started :P

10 clubs is still fantastic and will be cause for celebration. Let's just hope they don't do something stupid like call it the B-League.

That makes sense..... Which would, I guess, indicate that at least 10 clubs have been "approved" otherwise not much to really vote on.... Either way, a nervy couple of days until some sort of "answer" is given.

I'd reckon the vote would more be a yay/nay for the final package for the NST rather than voting on individual clubs. More likely they would have been presented with the final selection and just need to give the green light. Maybe presented with a couple of options (eg 10 team / 12 team), but in both options the clubs would have been already decided. Board members aren't going to be looking over all the proposals for each club. Chances are this vote would just be a formality and they know they have the majority to get this thing going.

https://twitter.com/smfcmike/status/1718566659517198454

I heard bits of this on 3XY yesterday also... FA have met on Thursday to vote on NST clubs, announcement either today or tomorrow.

One way or another this whole thing can soon be put to bed.

Why is this of no surprise :hehe:

I’m at a loss how the FA run - you’d think by now a lot more info would be leaked or snippets be getting out of at all they were excited about this new important and much needed competition.
Very deflating at this stage.

https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/soccer?iso=20231031T235959&p0=240&msg=NST+Starting+Entrants+Announced&font=slab