I was thinking more along the lines of Uncle Frank wanting revenge on CFG but I take your point re his attitude towards ‘effnick’ clubs.🤨🤔

Would've been great, but I think some lawn bowls comp owns that name!

What are the major things we expect to be announced soon?
Additional clubs
Competition naming
Major sponsor
Broadcaster
Eventual pro/rel format with NPL
Anything else?

lol. 

With just 1 dollar a day, you can sponsor a footballer and provide him with running water and shelter



He can then pay the fucking rego

Me too .. APL would be amazing .... hahahahahahahaah

You should hear some of the CRAZY player signing rumours Ive heard recently. HAHAHAHAHA Some of your clubs up there are going ALL IN!!!!!!!!

Mineralogy

Sounds like somebody doesnt really want a second division in this country to commence?

Why Robbo? Its not going to take anything away from your franchise league....  except quite a few supporters. 

Dude?!?!?!?!?! Thats dark even by my standards...lol too soon bud, too soon

NICK's Kebabs I hear.

HYUNDAI :) maybe FOX Sports lol....

Is the sponsor Westfield by any chance? 😂👍

cheeez sure is a roller coaster of news the last number of posts though am I surprised, nope.
Glad to see your Prtez quoting as such MSC, hope this turns out on the additional Clubs, wonder IF FA have decreased or come to agreement reducing costs ? who knows at this stage.
Looking forward to hear who this sponser is.

Hoping it's the Australian Premier League, for the lols

Hahah thanks for the timer. You're right we'll hear a few things later this week, early next I predict,

Ill try and suss out the name for ya, early gossip is Australian Championship .... BTW the sponsor (if true) will blow your mind :)

P.S

No way the name will stay secret that long

This from smfcmike

https://twitter.com/smfcmike/status/1779469086759723074?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet

I didnt catch the 3XY sports show last night but SMFC pres was on and states that:

#BREAKING: On the #3XY Sports Program, @SMFC President Nick Maikousis indicated that he was extremely confident that there will be additional teams announced for the #NSD/T following the full day meeting of foundation clubs on Thursday which included former FRANK’S @FootballAUS Chairman Anter Isaac.Apparently the name of the #NSD/T league was also shown to the foundation eight clubs. Sponsorship & TV broadcasting were also discussed.Nick indicated that in approximately 4-6 weeks this will all become public information.

Numpkle, time to start your countdown clock ... set it for 6 weeks please :)

Your guess is as good as mine.

Our board and president are pretty optimistic about the whole thing ... could be rose coloured glasses .... dont really know until we know I suppose... 

If it doesnt work thats it ... no two bites at the cherry.

Yep, so relying on Expansion to get in is risky, and may not be available ever

and then the P/R mechanism (whenever it appears) is unlikely to be just winning NPLV

There'll hopefully be the other NPL champions to compete against for any available place(s)

All-in-all if this League turns out to be a goer, it might very well pay to be in on the ground floor

or it might turn out to be another closed Lemon, Knights breathing a sigh of relief

Not at all... Fact is there is currently no mechanism for P/R to happen to/from NPL and from what I understand the bottleneck is with the state federations not being able to clarify what it is they want to do. In VIC the "understanding" is that if even someone like Preston (who are currently not in VPL1 - old NPL 2) fall from NST they would be relegated into NPL VIC (top tier) however someone like Sunshine Coast (if they get in of course) would be relegated to........ where? Cavalucci is playing hard ball, forcing them to compete in English youth leagues ffs.... 

Without South and Avondale, Knights will be a heavy hitter in NPL Victoria and, should they have an avenue to be promoted, I would guess they would build a squad to fairly easily do that.. 

You seem to have given up on P&R being how you get into this League ?

Nothing wrong with riding it out to see which way the wind blows in a season or two I suppose... Just really grates that Avondale are in it and not Knights.... 

I hope they get their shit sorted...  really want them a part of this thing.

The word I have from someone heavily involved in the club is that they simply don’t have the funds. The couldn’t absorb any kind of faltering of the comp and if that were to happen they’d be in an untenable financial situation, therefor have decided to observe from a distance for now. 

Interesting that Knights say it should be delayed. The can has already been kicked down the road once, I can't see what difference another 12 months or so would make.

If Comparing the two clubs Bids for the NSD, i'd say its purely a Financial choice. 
Its a financial risk the knights are not prepared to take, whereas Sydney United will. 
United does have strong investors, sponsors and a wealthy president. 

Any idea what makes their stance on this so different to Sydney Croatia mate?

Its gonna be shit not having Knights in the league... I mean sure South will ALWAYS get drawn them in early stages of the Australia Cup but going to Somers Street for the derby is one of the highlights of every season. 

Melbourne Knights have rejected the NSD again, not surprised to be honest. 

So 5 months ago it was "we remain hopeful of a positive outcome ...our inclusion to the National Second Tier in 2025" bahahahaha