and Craig Foster and technological undergarments that would let you enter the stadium and swipe your left but cheek to order a beer or something.........

Exactly. Melbourne Knights will most likely be one of the stronger bids and it would be difficult to justify not letting them in if they tick all of the required boxes.
That being said, if the FA are trying to decide between SU58 and another club, and they both have a similar spec'd application, I reckon the fan issues at the Australia Cup final may come into play. I also reckon the FA will actively limit the number of clubs they select that are associated with a single nationality. For example, I don't think we will see 4 Italian clubs, or 4 Greek clubs, or 4 Cro clubs, etc. I also reckon we won't see two clubs associated with the same nationality from the same state. Not saying that it's right, I'm just saying I reckon the FA will have that line of thinking.
Either way, in a FA owned and operated league, all clubs are going to be held responsible for any questionable fan behavior. They will need to be prepared to accept sanctions, points deductions, etc if their fans behave in a way that the FA don't approve of.

Thats not really fair mate... Why cant we have suspended sanctions and pretend "life bans" for fans like the franchises?

Well that's what I meant. They'll need to be prepared to accept a threat of sanctions, points deductions, etc.

Rumour Mill

Looks like my mail on Brisbane United could be on the cards, numklpkgulftumch.

I'd be interested to know at what stage in the process do the full list of current applications gets published.
 
Or is it only at the final declaration ?

They may not publish a full list of applicants, but I would imagine they would likely publish the shortlisted applications. This would be in April sometime.

Probably a fairly accurate assessment. But agreed, imo the ethnicity of the clubs founders should be irrelevant if we’re trying to move into a post NCIP era as a unified sport. We can’t really afford to be excluding some of our strongest clubs on that basis tbh, there’s already a fairly limited number of clubs which can probably actually sustain this. If its the case that 2 of those clubs in Melbourne happen to be “Greek clubs” and 2 of those clubs in Sydney happen to be “Italian”, so be it. We need our biggest clubs in this for it be given its best chance of success. Same goes for geographic location 

absolutely and in todays way of "inclusion" and all the FA would need to be veryvery careful on the grounds why X large Club that measures up to all the requirements applicable being incl in the NST sure will need to have covered their backs (with their lawyers advise)...........
Discrimination today is a lawsuit melting pot.

Fremantle City... :laugh:

They just used this as a ploy to poach junior NPL players from other clubs in WA.
"Come play for Fremantle, your son will be playing for us in the A-League in a few years. See, we even have a website saying so!".

Sadly, there were parents who fell for it.

I'm sure there are clubs doing the same thing now for the NST. 
Not just for juniors but also for their current NPL teams. 

"Join us this season for the NPL and you'll be playing in the second division next year"

Wouldn't surprise me....... How do you think Aleague academies lure their players btw? or more accurately the parents of their players?

Don't worry LFC, Im sure Nikou kept old Frank's notes on how to disguise racism ... 

Imo they’d probably just not divulge the exact reasons why a club wasn’t selected, just like a restaurant isn’t going to openly tell an applicant they didn’t hire them to wait tables because they’re too ugly. They’ll just say “thanks for your application, unfortunately you were unsuccessful, better luck next time”

1. Pick clubs that can draw more than 3k people
2. Don’t pick clubs that don’t even bother to apply (ie South)
3, Pick clubs that dont play on cow paddocks

 Cunning strategy by Frank

I think you are onto something.

I also think that you can't have an NST with mono ethnic clubs that are overwhelmingly from just 3 nationalities, ala NSL. Won't work. Many will be disappointed.

when is the deadline again? I guess we find out how many then

20 feb was cut off to register and 3 march is deadline to submit the EOI

Missing the 20 feb deadline doesn't really mean much. I understand you can still proceed to submitting an EOI without the previous registration.

And if they're the parents of kids at CCM or Adelaide United they made the right choice

2 out of 12 aint bad I suppose :)

1 . Well I guess most ISUZU ute clubs need not bother applying then.
2. Agreed.
3. See point 1.

Agreed, they should have a quota 4 x Greek Clubs, 4 x Croatian clubs, 3 x Italian clubs, 1 x Maltese, 1 x Northern Macedonian, 1 x Turkish, 1 x Serbian and 1 x Albanian.....

You'd struggle to get to 3 Italian clubs these days.

Marconi, Apia, Adelaide City ---- fixed :)

I couldn't care less what nationality clubs have association with. I just reckon the FA will walk that path and partially base their decision on some form of quotas. It should be whichever clubs can demonstrate they are most suitable.

Correct. Forgive my assumption, but The above is a very Victorian perspective. Unfortunate what’s happened in melbourne re the merger and de merger of Italian clubs chart, that essentially killed the historic connection many people felt to said clubs. Many Italians in Melbourne who have historically been heavily involved in soccer don’t believe the current iteration of Brunswick juventus to be the “real” Brunswick juventus for example. But in nsw and south Australia to this day some of the strongest clubs are Italian 

South Melbourne waiting for the grand entrance in the final week to express an interest.

Maybe we are not considering applying because there are too many "effnik" clubs already :)

what is the current list of eois?