By Monoethnic Social Club - 16 Oct 2024 4:22 PM
+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+xWow thats pretty dire, especially considering their success on the pitch... I hope if they do hand back their license they at least keep their NPL club alive and continue to participate at state league level at least for their fans and members to have a hope of keeping their support going. I feel for the Mariners fans, not exactly in the same situation as us, but similar, stay strong and follow your club no matter what league it’s in. I don’t know if it’s a seperate license for competing in the NPL but hopefully they can keep the club going. Hey, maybe in the Championship if it ever gets going 🤞. Fingers crossed for you and Mid and Huddo and all the CCM fans... Hope your clubs survives this disaster. All jokes aside the Mariners (and a couple of other Aleague clubs) in the NST isnt the worst call in history.... Operating at a more cost effective model would make them powerhouses in a power league and drive revenue through a better match day experience..... Id love to see them play at Lakeside :) Unless clubs can get backing from multi millionaires or private equity investors (a la the MLS) then I can’t see many surviving, certainly not the Mariners. I haven’t ever been to Lakeside so that would be a good away game to make a trip to.👍 Its why I believe the franchise model just doesnt suit this country... We built the "palaces" before figuring out what we wanted them to look like All a club like Mariners really needs is a council owned ground thats well maintained and cost effective to rent, somewhere to train and community buy in from stakeholders that care about the club (and by extension the sport) above everything else. Being "forced" to spend waaay beyond their means every year to match some sort of "professional" standard as dictated by a diverse bunch of investors in an as diverse range of markets is insanity... In the Aleague CCM is a minnow club but in an NST it would be a giant and its presence would drive growth for all other clubs in the leagues below..... I think only the ‘big four’ from Melbourne and Sydney are suited to a franchise model. If the A league changes to a Nations super league it might have a chance to survive so smaller clubs like Mariners, Jets, Roar etc would be far better off in a Championship type league. Mariners, Jets and maybe Perth would be well suited but I feel that other "clubs" need the safety bubble of collectivist franchise model to sustain themselves. The Aleague doesnt need to "change" to a super league, it already IS one :) By ‘nations super league’ I meant a league involving Australia, Singapore, Indonesia, India and New Zealand where clubs have millionaires backing them. I seem to remember this kind of thing being touted during the FFA reign.
I think this would appeal to the ‘MLS’ style that the APL wants to foist on Australian football.
As for the rest of the clubs, it would be beyond them financially. That would be the only real "expansion" that makes financial sense for the model. Would mean a lot less live football for the existing Aleague fans though, I doubt they would be too happy... I think they could be ‘converted’ to Championship fans.👍
Don't know about that mate... 20 years of rusted on support is hard to break a love affair with a club... Sure , many dropped off the old NSL clubs for the new shiny franchises but lots didn't.
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