https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCW5oCd6vSc

Interview with Tasmania Jackjumpers CEO on success. I've not watched this but the following video has some reports on team success in different sports and areas. It doesn't go into the depth of the delicate topic. I do find we've missed the boat and a green yellow kit for Tasmania FC would've been awesome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wVFn2m5Bpk

No one wants to spend the money in Australia. Hence, rescue packages for existing clubs taking priority (it's cheaper for the new owners)

Jets are looking a little shaky may only be a 12 team league yet?

WTF is going on with Canberra? The last thing we need is a 13 team league next year. 

They also were there before Andrew Barr took control of the ACT government. 
He only took over the leadership just before the Asian Cup, and probably would have done a Dan Andrews / Comm Games on that if he could have, considering he didn't put Canberra forward as a host for the Women's World Cup, when he is the probably one of the biggest "Diversity Kings" I've ever seen in government.

Neither needed to cut a 25 million cheque to get in

That sounds a bit odd.  They support the Brumbies and the Raiders so why wont they support an A-League club? 

Told everyone already, ACT Gov doesn't want anything here but AFL, so they're dragging their feet on any government support, and the Canberra team ain't happening without a bit of input from them.

What's going on with Canberra?

Townsend also confirmed that Auckland’s entry into the 2024-25 A-League was likely to be confirmed by the end of the week after Football Australia ratified the entry of a second New Zealand club into the competition.

However, the addition of a Canberra club to the 2024-25 men’s A-League competition won’t be confirmed until after the start of the upcoming season.

https://www.news.com.au/sport/football/fans-to-enjoy-better-understanding-of-var-decisions-in-new-aleague-mens-season/news-story/4e243f0f0a9bca0622ead67a31581b9f

Hopefully it is true and Canberra is also on track too, as we need some more good news.

Good news for Auckland fans.... 

On NZ TV news last night (geoblocked), in a report on building on WWC momentum, NZ Football chairman Andrew Pragnell talked about how excited he was about the upcoming September announcement of Auckland A-League men's and women's teams. But I can see no reporting on this anywhere else.

I heard a wild rumour that the inaugural Canberra coach will be Ufuk Talay

Is Canberra still coming in to the a-league its gone dead quiet.

Getting close now ..... should hear the news soon.... 

Granted your right but they don't need to do anything more than set up an "Academy" and poach existing youth players from around Australia to do that... They dont need a strong football league (below the Aleague) nor a strong national team.... 
They can get a strong 15-16 year old into their "system" play him/gher up a year level in the NPL, give him/her a season or two of Aleague and then sell.... 

Which begs the question .... who would spend $25 million to do that?

Owners are motivated by different things and it's not necessarily just being in a lesser league makes you a selling club. Some clubs make it to the EPL and are still selling clubs. I think someone buying an al club strictly for cashing in on transfers is in for a hiding. The highest fee ever received is 2 million in basically 20 years. That's 1 or 2 years losses for one club alone...

So they can sign more players and sell them on too? It sounds cold-blooded but that is football economics in the modern day world, unfortunately.

Amazing if it is actually the case.... What incentive would a foreign corporation have in doing this though... as long as the "production line" of players is streaming one way (out of Australia) what would they care?

I'm as concerned as anyone that, unless things turn around dramatically in the next three years (and the GF decision isn't helping), the next TV deal is going to be a massive cold shower for the APL.

But I would say that international ownership groups aren't focussed so much on broadcast income. They'd more be looking to harvest players and on-sell them to overseas clubs. Which to be frank A-League clubs could get a lot better at doing. Our players have tended to be criminally under-valued, for a variety of reasons, including the absence of domestic transfers, prevalence of short-term contracts, a short season in the summer heat with relatively few games and the absence of relegation meaning the stakes of games are low. But it's also down to clubs not understanding well how the international transfer market works, and so they're just leaving money on the table.

Fortunately this seems to be changing of late, e.g. Melbourne City getting $2m for Bos. If more internationally-owned clubs invest in academies, sell players to Europe for decent coin and then invest the proceeds back into the game, then that is a good thing for the league. It's an income stream the other codes don't have and can enable the A-League to close the gap with them financially.

MLS, incidentally, was in the same boat but they're starting to learn how to work the transfer market. Almiron sold from Atlanta to Newcastle for £20m, and Castellanos looks like he will be going for €15m to Benfica (from New York City). We might not be able to command those kinds of fees but if clubs can start selling players for millions rather than hundreds of thousands that can make a big difference to their bottom line.

Yeah and apologies for the SwiftKey incoherence 

Yeah, that is an absolute doozy - money that's isn't price sensitive. Ffs is this client from another planet.?  Did he finish high school? Flat out embarrassing. 

The Croatian community in Auckland came over in the late 19th century to dig kauri gum and found vineyards, not in 1946 for "reasons". The Croatian community in NZ just doesn't have the Ustaše fringe.

But an Auckland A-League team won't happen because no-one, including ACFC, has the money Townshend is looking for.

"What we've kind of found is, certainly the global money, isn't price sensitive,"  Money isnt price sensitive .... theres a new one 

Im soooo looking forward to all the Vince Rugari and Frank Brunoskevic "articles" later this year when the NSD clubs are announced..... I predict Danny Boy will promise you all air conditioned stadiums, a 56 franchise 4 division closed shop league, two Brazilians for every franchise, direct qualification into Europa League.... anything under the sun to keep from "jumping ship" 

Mate, they can pretty much state whatever garbage they want these days, the only ones who believe it (or rather don't really believe it but chose to hope anything is better than the old NSL Effniks being proven right) are those desperate for the Aleague to remain, pure, white and franchised..... 

Love the" kind of ".  Seriously, when you can't even use an idiom of basic linguistic competence. The whole sentence is nonsensical. 

There is some seriously delusional thinking out there. We've all seen the TV metrics. They are abysmal. Who  on the earth would stump up 25 mill when it is impossible to see how anything broadcaster will pick up the next tv tights deal? 

Pretty much aiming for "MLS lite" status...... Chasing 150 million over the next few years .... good luck to them, hope it all fails in a steaming pile of garbage.