Perry Park concepts looked great, but are no where near viable for $15-30 million, not to mention Strikers have given up. Lions play state league, how could they justify a 12,000 seat stadium paid for by the govt when they've just turned their clubhouse into disneyland with their pokie money. Ipswich City Council (who have bigger things to worry about) already had plans for a multi use stadium.

@ primetech. No I’m not in favour of it. Perry Park is a viable upgrade, upgrade that! Lions stadium would seat 12,000 with a $30m injection, upgrade that; give it to Ipswich and let Western Pride have a stadium. Just build FOOTBALL infrastructure not upgrade rugby infrastructure and have football pay for it ffs

@ primtech Sure. And Rugby gets a great new facility and football pays for it. We need $30m to go in to football infrastructure not a competing codes!!

@ primtech Sure. And Rugby gets a great new facility and football pays for it. We need $30m to go in to football infrastructure not a competing codes!!

The AFL has been averaging 16k at the Gabba for the last couple of seasons

Quick, throw them a few hundred million... can't make this shit up. Fucking leeches on every level of government in every state.

More people attend the arts than sports......


I doubt a lot of the stonewalling on the lobbying front is the FFA's fault.  In NSW there's the old boys network of Union and League and in Victoria it's the same but with AFL. Both mobs have the connections, corporate and political, to maintain the status quo for decades to come.  

You can lobby all you want but if annoying buggers like the Jehova's witnesses come knocking at your door do you let them in or tell them 'no thanks'.

LOL@ Performing Arts.  They sponge more off the government than AFL does.  

Was listening to Jack Reilly on the Santo sam and ed podcast, and his view was more that the FFA rarely lobby the government at any level and when they do they make a poor effort. People say a lot of negative things about the AFL but at the core of it they take very good care of their sport. That is something we can't say about the FFA. Sure the mountain is far harder to climb for football, but the current FFA make very little effort. If they spent as much time lobbying government as they did pursuing stupid gimmicks like trying to get players Cahill and Iniesta here maybe we would have better stadiums and other football infrastructure. 

Ha, and there you have it. Admittedly the Gabba is one of the most soulless stadiums in Australia and could do with an upgrade but it sums up government attitude. Next they’ll announce a plan to demolish Suncorp and build a replica in its place, hey, if NSWs are doing it ...

The AFL has been averaging 16k at the Gabba for the last couple of seasons

Quick, throw them a few hundred million... can't make this shit up. Fucking leeches on every level of government in every state.

@ Bohemia QLD is a strange State, especially when it comes to sport so as an investor this would be the last place I’d throw money at a club. The only thing stranger than our government is Perry Park - the “home” of football in Brisbane - it is a dump albeit a loveable dump.

I reckon so.  They haven't lost a game all season.

@ Catfield

I guess it doesn’t matter now does it - Strikers had a unique bid approach in that they reveal details after they’ve withdrawn.

Redevelopment of Perry Park would have come at huge financial cost (who was going to pay for this?), the local residents have already stated they will object to its redevelopment (so how were strikers going to overcome that?), and then there’s other things like government backing for a stadium to be built (how would strikers get that when QRU are pushing Ballymore and others a boutique stadium south of the river).

It beggars belief strikers didn’t approach Roar and seek a partnership - two teams at PP and derbies at Suncorp maybe?

And as for the quality of those images? I don’t care who did them, they just look photoshopped (look at the stuff that’s coming out of the Melbourne bid which are way better).

The feeling was strikers weren’t running a serious A League bid, you’ll probably contest that and maybe they were, but from the outside looking in they didn’t look serious.

Hopefully they’ll be going for the Div 2 option if/when it comes up, although there’ll be some stiff competition on the park for that, Strikers facilities at PP should give them an advantage.

@ southmelb None of the Brisbane bids have stadiums, even City will have to play out of Lang Park while Ballymore is made safe and the challenges of getting PP upgraded would be huge, so again strikers would start out at Lang Park. But the plans for the two southern Sydney bids have plans to get them (one to build and one to an existing stadium?) and at least one of the bids in Melbourne has plans to build a stadium ... Compare that to the Brisbane bids - no stadiums, no multi-million dollar academies, basically just a rinse n repeat of the QLD Roar launch.

Are Team 11 safe ?

@ Catfield. All good. Strikers were my preference to be honest, I could see a lot of 40-something dads who saw Strikers at their glory days going back, meanwhile their kids try to stick to Roar. Strikers v Roar has a rivalry too it, Roar “took” strikers licence and now they’re back ... Roar v Gladiators in a decaying rugby stadium ... meh. So a shame. But Strikers have the Perry Park asset and there’ll be a second chance - I’m not convinced any QLD team will get in this time around, looking at the quality in Sydney and Melbourne that’s what I’d expect to get in now. So Strikers need to be ready for Team 13/14 in 5 years ...

No way, 3 points above it.

What quality in sydney and melbourne?

In Melbourne 2 of the bids have no stadium and will require hundreds of millions of funding, whilst the other is pretty much blacklisted..

@ Catfield. All good. Strikers were my preference to be honest, I could see a lot of 40-something dads who saw Strikers at their glory days going back, meanwhile their kids try to stick to Roar. Strikers v Roar has a rivalry too it, Roar “took” strikers licence and now they’re back ... Roar v Gladiators in a decaying rugby stadium ... meh. So a shame. But Strikers have the Perry Park asset and there’ll be a second chance - I’m not convinced any QLD team will get in this time around, looking at the quality in Sydney and Melbourne that’s what I’d expect to get in now. So Strikers need to be ready for Team 13/14 in 5 years ...