Gosh what a flog Nick Meredith is. His hatred of anything old school is absurd, someone must have screwed him over at Sydney Olympic back in the day.

gives credence to the rumour that Team 11 is in, if, Vic Govt come up with the money

If the Andrews Government do commit to fund a stadium at the Dandenong site than I'm happy to admit they would be the other obvious license along with SWS.

Three teams playing out of Melbourne Rectangular Stadium for 1-2 seasons is far from ideal though. Perhaps FFA could grant the license but stagger their entry to the 2020-21 season. Hardly the end of the world as it will give them another 12 months to prepare (the 9-10 months of preparation time the successful bids will face is a steep mountain to begin with).

Team 11 are planning to play out of Casey Fields while the proposed stadium is being built. It's far from an ideal venue for football, but is in their catchment area.

What colours and name do people think Team 11 should have?

Same colour as there bid, Brown like sh1t.

Name: Melbourne Team XI
Colours : red and white 

I do hope they stick with the black and green.

It only has 300 seats and the pitch is miles from the terraces which have no evaluation.

IIRC They're being replaced straight away 

is Casey fields where the womens AFL play games?  you can't play A-League on that!

Yep the aflw is played there. Id be very surprised if they werent heading to AAMI Park for 2 seasons.

Team 11 have already said they'd put in temporary stands at Casey Fields in the interim.
With a supportive council behind them it will get done.

so the AFL benefits again!

Casey Fields is more or less an AFL training venue out in the middle of nowhere. There are no real spectator facilities and viewing/comfort would be an absolute nightmare even with temp stands etc. Just need to look at the Spotless Stadium farce to realise what a bad idea that would be. It's laughable that it's even being considered for temporary A League venue. Can't believe people think it's that easy to get govt funding/approval and build a stadium on budget and on time. Team 11 should come in once the stadium is built. 3-4 years playing in a shit heap would kill them off.

True, this would be even worse than spotless.  I'm not even sure it's an enclosed ground.  It would actually be a lot worse than playing at Mudgee.

Bring Team 11 in in a couple of years whilst they build their stadium, you can't play on a pitch like that.

Western Melbourne at least have a legitimate temporary venue up their sleeve (albeit in Geelong). Bring them in first then Team 11/Dandenong in a couple of years.

A little bit like how Sydney Rovers became WSW for the West of Sydney in terms of timeframe etc.

There are a range of fields for different sports in Casey fields, I doubt they'd be using the oval.

Looks like South Melbourne are the only viable team from Melbourne at this stage. Playing at a suburban oval would kill Team 11 off while West Melbourne is a rubbish bid full stop. Acting like there's some crossover between Geelong and St. Albans (much less a connecting "identity" like WSW have) is laughable. 

Werribee connects us all

We get the powers have a hard on for geography and team11 is the likely team of choice, why not just do it properly and bring them in when the stadium goes up? If the state government agrees to build it they will be ready to go in 3 years, introduce them then, any goodwill this team has will be massacred if they play out of that dump in Casey fields, and AAMI Park is going to annoy the omg no 3 teams in the city crew, they will piss everyone off long before they step foot in any new venue, they all claim to be the next Wanderers yet conveniently forget that parramatta stadium was there ready to go and those first 2 formative years at the venue were key to building up the support base.

If they’re trying to rush this just so South never get a sniff then they’re are bigger idiots then I gave them credit for. Just say you don’t want South and have the next Melb team ready to go when they actually are ready to go, same goes for West Melbourne if that was the preference.

If Team 11 can get Casey Field like Lower Hutt and like Perth Oval when the Glory first came in then it will be fine for a few seasons.

If it stays like it is then it will be a shithouse arrangement.

““We still have to look at the future of Wellington beyond that 19/20 season and if Wellington is not in the league then I think we could easily take another one or two teams in two years time“ ~ Heather Reid, Deputy Chsir, FFA Board

https://dailyfootballshow.com/ffa-deputy-chair-heather-reid-talks-growing-the-w-league-reforming-wnpl-and-a-league-expansion/

THIS time next week will be 24 hours away from finding out who's in next year! 

Interesting to read those comments from Heather Reid. Well structured thought process she uses, articulated well, which gives me some confidence about the future of the game.

For the Wellington decision, that would more than likely be something for the independent HAL to make, in whatever form that takes.

Honestly, as much as there is value in a NZ side, my opinion on this is that priority should be given to a club in Australia, but I will leave that up to the decision makers on what they plan to do.

Rob Morrison with some common sense regarding A-League expansion (first couple of minutes of this segment - came at the end of a chat with Piney about the Perth game).

http://120.138.20.16/WeekOnDemand/radiosport/2018....

First 2 minutes - common sense

Independent A-League will fix that issue, 10 more years thanks. 

Nix gone, thank god. 

She makes no mention of the 'NLWG" reporting back to FFA with a new Independent A-league Structure by March 2019. 
What Billionaire wants to be a millionaire on a Gamble not knowing the future of the league they are buying into or if they will have a place in the new A-league  

She wouldn't happen to be a big supporter of one of the bids looking to replace the Nix would she ?