Don’t kid yourself
There is just 20 exNSL bitters calling for this shit
Look at the above link
The best of the NPL draw 235 to 800 fans

This BS comp will never get off the ground it sinks of SELF INTEREST

With 235 fans —after you pay for the ref, the linesmen and the fourth official you have barely enough left to pay for the toilet paper to clean up all the shit......

Are the NPLs viable?

apparently not considering many of those clubs pay around 1k/week. do you ever get tired of being wrong?

Thousands of responses. 

No interest at all. 

‘Many if these clubs pay $1k per week’

What BS - which clubs ??????

All

No point discussing this topic when half the people here are multis

thats how the terrorists win

Well we know for a fact Brisbane Hollandia dont pay their players anything either so perhaps they need to be relegate to state 1?

Mods can see IPs too, but they don't do anything about it.

There's so much rubbish on here. Look at your history. Football leagues have been closed all over the world for decades. Even in England, the league has been a closed league for most of its existence. Finishing last in the bottom division did't mean you were out. A club would get voted out, or not! And of course, the number of divisions and clubs overall was once much less.

I point this out to show it's not the 'multi-tier' aspect of football leagues that drives improvement, but the overall 'critical mass' and the level of full professionalism WITHIN the system. That can be achieved via a large one division league OR via a large multi division structure.

The key words though are fully professional. Players will improve when they can play and train full-time. Clubs will improve and the standard of football will improve when they are able to have their players full-time and have full-time coaching, medical and administrative staff. It's not rocket science. 

I would love to see a multi division league of 20-30 odd fully professional teams here (I rally don't think we have the economy to sustain more than that). What I don't want to see is the hacks that held football back for years get back in positions of power and try to take us back to the dark ages. That to me, is what the AAFC and their sweatshop league look like.

The same old social clubs running semi professional teams for the glory of the club directors who can claim to be 'big men' in their local ethnic community, with football being only a vehicle for their egos or their businesses. Thats not good enough. This is 2017. We need to change the thinking.

A team in the top division or two must be good at football, but also good at the business of football. Sure, make a profit for your directors, but not at the expense of the kids, or by underpaying players. Every team in the second division MUST pay their players a decent living wage. Rather than a salary cap, there must be a minimum salary for any player. That's the way to improve players and improve the standard of football. If a current NPL club isn't big enough to achieve this, then they need to get bigger! grow the fan base, grow the sponsorship revenue, become a publicly listed company and sell shares to bring in capital. Geez, that is how it's done around the world! Or are we UNIQUE? if you can't do it alone, MERGE!

I love football. I love watching top quality football live here in my own city. I love it as a sport, more than I care for any individual club that I follow. If Victory folded or were taken over tomorrow, I'd be heartbroken, but i'd still follow the sport here, and eventually choose a team to watch in the top level. I don't see that is the case with the AAFC and some of the old NSL bitters, who seem to care more about their social club than the sport of football itself!

Mate with this attitude you should just back Real Madrid... until they lose the UCL final.... then you should back that team. 

Wouldn’t worry about all this now.
It’s all over now after today’s shenanigans.
FIFA is coming to town.
Everything changes.
AAFC will probably get 2 votes on Congress.
The Championship is starting in 2019.
The ALeague will be free from the FFA.
Gallop is gone.
The FFA Board will dismissed never to be seen again.

The restlessness of the aspirationals – Leopold Method
Pro rel soon enough 

I've got the champagne on ice ready to go.

Is this to do with the backflip by FFV or is there more?

Don't get me excited like that

You better watch out
You better not cry
Better not pout
I'm telling you why
FIFA is coming to town

AFC is making a list
And checking it twice
Gonna find out Who's naughty and nice
FIFA is coming to town

They see you when you're sleeping
They know when you're awake
They know if you've been bad or good
So be good for goodness sake!

O! You better watch out!
You better not cry
Better not pout
I'm telling you why
FIFA is coming to town
FIFA is coming to town

We'll still be kept waiting though..

Normalisation committee will be put in place and then they'll all knock off for Christmas/New Years holidays.

I've looked back on the last few pages and no one has argued anything along the lines of "If SM were promoted they would sell out the MCG weekly!!"

paulc gonna single handedly get this thread to 100 pages.

-PB

Why would they do that? They would have to rent it out. SM already have their own stadium. They don't have to pay extortion fees like A-League clubs have to.

Another thing Paukc neglects to mention when he cries sustainability.

Yeah, but only because Horto got banned.

There are a couple of members out there who I am positive are multis, but when you look at the IPs they are different.  Not much we can do if the user doesn't have a fixed IP or is using a VPN.

Yeah ignore Neymar and Ronaldhino too.

Roberts1 fear is wonderful.  Convinced that no-one is interested, but terrified that it's going to happen...  Claims it's just 20 people, can't quite grasp that there are over a hundred clubs signed up, each with memberships that support the move, that the PFA support it, that the HAL owners support it, that FIFA and the AFC support it, that the media supports it.  That virtually every person involved in the professional game, with the exception of FFA employees, supports it.  Yep, just 20 forum members on 442 driving the whole thing.  You can taste the fear...

How old were you when Victory were formed, and who did you follow before that?

And if Victory were relegated to a lower league (rather than taken over or folded) would you abandon them to watch City or the new local team in the top division?

You should all just agree with everything he writes for a week. He'll leave the forums soon after. 

I suggest Roberts1 and co listen to the Clubland podcast on FNR from yesterday.

They interviewed Troy Bingham who is the newly re-founded Gold Coast United CEO. He declared their aspirations for the club to play in the Championship and it really shows the level clubs are going to aspiring for the Championship and the level these 'ethnic' clubs will have to go to if they want to keep up. Really emphasises this is about growing football pathways and culture and not the 'ethnics' trying to wrest back control.

It's quite impressive the lengths some of these clubs are going to to set themselves up for future National League aspirations. How anyone can think the Championship is a bad thing, just hearing the minimal bits and pieces we have heard so far before a bid has even been put in, is beyond me..

Few points:

- Building relationships with grassroots clubs on the Gold Coast. Within 3 months they already have up to 15 clubs signed up who get expert coaching in return.
- Offering minimal fees for players to start with. 1-2 scholarship players in each age group. Through sponsorship's from local businesses, with in 2 years plan to have no fees for their players. Acknowledged how high some fees are and really emphasised they want every kid to have a chance at top level football. They had up to 120 kids trial for each age group which added up to well over 1000 kids.
- Have also set up an academy for players who don't quite make the squad but want to keep improving. Kids play and train with local FGC club and train 1-2 nights a week at GCU. Helps the club watch the development of players so none slip through the cracks. 
- Only 4 fulltime staff who are all coaches. 4 A-License coaches. Board are all volunteers.
-  Plans to build a boutique approx. 5000 seat stadium somewhere on the coast in the future. Want to have adjoining training fields and set up an onsite academy with world class training facilities. Set it up for a destination for overseas training camps etc leverage on the high interst of tourism throughout Asia for the GC.