Dobsons Revenge

Touche! Well done Clive

Until someone actually uses it

amazing what Stress and Kyrgyzstan hookers can do for you

I was thinking this too. I know some people like to moan about rival clubs using the same stadium, but if it saves Brisbane a couple million a year it's a no-brainer.

Roar are in year 2 of a 5 year deal

It works well in Milan, among others. Agree with you. However, a smaller stadium would suit both Roar and the new team - both play out of Bally more in years to come?

Band aids everywhere. After all the criticism this now seems like a rush to judgement to silence the justified criticism levelled at the FFA. 

Consortium with links to Brisbane City FC. Major announcements coming in the next hour or so. This certainly looks like the real deal

Lunacy

@ ToldyaSo

City is probably the best run club in the city and is well connected via the financial and property development community. Not to mention the Italian community which is pretty strong. It looks like they'll have plenty of people involved that know Roar over the years which may be good, or they may just repeat the same mistakes lol.

Ballymore makes even more sense now, you'll be able to park up at BCFC and walk across to Ballymore - so if they do a good deal on the stadium they'll be $2m a year better off than Roar.

But I recon this is it now - Brisbane "City" and South Sydney will be approved to join for 2018 sometime in the next few months, driven by Fox and cocked up at every step by gallop. Lunacy is a good word for it mind you because this entire process has been so messed up it's hard to see gallop surviving now;

Thanks for update Waz, will the announcement be via their twitter page, facebook etc ?

There's some launch event taking place at lunchtime apparently, Marco's got a story coming out later today with more to follow tomorrow, presumably they'll have their own site up and running soon and we'll go from there. But there's various fox personalities in town for this (Harps, Rudden) which shows the push Fox are prepared to put behind expansion and, more importantly, to support who they want.

Wow, so this really is the genuine deal, great stuff. Cheers.

What are BCFC's colours? Will they change them? How big is their support, financially and crowd-wise? 

Lunacy was O'Rourkes description not mine.

Brisbane City are ethnically Italian. Bearing in mind the story goes the club will have an "interest" in the new franchise it may only be that. But they play in blue, have the Italian flag within their badge, have a stadium next door to Ballymore, and have an academy down to U6s already. The only football journalist in town (Marco) used to play for them even lol.

Thanks Waz for updates. Great news.

Oh Fuck, Gladiators

paulc meltdown incoming

Gladiators will just be the nick name though right. The actual name will be Brisbane City FC though, correct?

:D:D:D

Think of the derby, the Gladiator battling Roary the lion. 

Half time entertainment!

Where's Miron ?

I'd watch that :laugh:

Someone is not happy.

geez, they have really expressed their italian heritage through displaying an azzuri jersey on the stage and having green and red balloons everywhere. Looks like their point of different from the roar will be their remote but boutique 20k stadium and their italian identity