http://www.sportingnews.com/list/4695704-the-secret-agent-melbourne-to-get-a-third-a-league-club/slide/440689

id be very surprised if this doesn't involve south in some capacity, he is a long time fan, his son just signed for Alaves in Spain from Souths under 20s and since he parted ways with victory he has been around the club a fair bit again.

Gold medal soft drink Stamoulis? The bloke that owns the East Preston Observation Deck on Bell Street, near Darebin Creek?

Yes, should be said the family name would be nothing without his late father.

is the son any good, or is he living off the father's wealth?

Geelong.

Would a 3rd VIC team help or hurt in terms of the Victory/ City/ new club establishing their supporter base?

Obviously, Victory is fine - they are the mass-support team.
City- what is their identity?
New club - if it was South, would that kill City? Or would it give them an identity in opposition to the new team? I don't know...

Edited by AzzaMarch: 22/2/2016 03:57:46 PM

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm



-PB

kidding themselves

The Gong or you're wrong.

Shocking news.

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Listened to the entire song didnt care about the context

Why?

The money in local football is already there. A strong football culture is already there.
It's there, and nowhere else. That is the end of expansion for the foreseeable future IMO.

Fair enough. But as someone mentioned in another thread (Benjamin maybe) it's more about corporate/sponsorship and tv ratings than attendance. I'd assume a 3rd Melbourne team would beat a Wollongong side on both counts

I hope this is true! The stamoulis family are beautiful people, they are around south Melbourne a bit, so that's interesting.

Wollongong would be perfect but I'm sure the FFA would never let it happen. If it did it'd be a shithouse merged club shared between South Sydney and the Gong.

Possibly.
The only thing that gives me hope is how great the FFA were in setting up WSW.

Agree. Would love to see a Wollongong team. I reckon it would be a success.

If we want a feel good regional story I say NQ.

We don need another regional nsw team.


Edited by scott21: 22/2/2016 11:07:46 PM

I wouldn't classify Newcastle or Wollongong as regional NSW. They are major cities. Regional NSW is Coff Harbour, Dubbo, Griffith, ...

why the need for a new franchise?, there's a perfectly good A-League license ready and waiting to be bought, it's called the jets

If a third Melbourne club is doable and has potential for growth then bring them in but give the Wollongong wolves an a league license. I just want a 12 club competition. both Sydney clubs would take a lot of support down to Wollongong on away games. I think the crowds would be very decent down there. They have a great stadium for it, seems almost too perfect

and a crap one









but the Bakries want too much for it

Not in a million years would south overtake victory, honestly the idea is absurd even if we won the toilet seat every year.

We wouldn't need samaras to average 10k, we had just under 4K on Sunday for park football, the national spotlight alone would tip us close to 10k.

Absolutely, supporters would come out of the woodwork. I could see them having the angle tying their history and appeal of an "authentic" club, as such. Would expect a kind of hipster effect in Melbourne, people finding ties to South from before they were in the A-League.

Really, with up to 4 derbies each season, you'd absolutely expect 10k.

3 Sydney 3 Melbourne would be ideal.

A merged /shared club would be a massive failure. Unfortunately the metrics aren't there for Wollongong, the talent in the IPL would be close to that of NNSWNPL plus lots of great football infrastructure in the gong also.