Not hugely important for the moment, given CU won't actually play any home games, the 5 regular season hubs being hosted elsewhere.
Any anti CU thoughts from others in the CHCh club community might soften, if they recruit players from other ChCh clubs for their OFC pro squad. So it has more of a wider Cantab feel?? And of course alot of ChCh football fans will have no real strong parochial allegiance to any local club, just be keen to watch the highest level of live football available.
But yeah if a Sth Island/Canterbury A League club ever happens, it needs to be seperate from Christchurch United. Just like Auckland FC have had very little association with Auckland City - which a bit CU like is (was) a dominant force locally, and not everyone's club of tea.
Ivan Vukich very much wanted to be involved with an Auckland A League club but it didn't happen that way. Might be for the best it's the same with Slava Meyn.
Read some NZ % population growth projections (2023-2053) by region today.
Projections - Welly 14% growth. Canterbury 33% growth
2043 projected popn (18 years from now)
Welly 593K
Canterbury 831K
An A League club will at some point come to the South Island.
Any anti CU thoughts from others in the CHCh club community might soften, if they recruit players from other ChCh clubs for their OFC pro squad. So it has more of a wider Cantab feel?? And of course alot of ChCh football fans will have no real strong parochial allegiance to any local club, just be keen to watch the highest level of live football available.
But yeah if a Sth Island/Canterbury A League club ever happens, it needs to be seperate from Christchurch United. Just like Auckland FC have had very little association with Auckland City - which a bit CU like is (was) a dominant force locally, and not everyone's club of tea.
Ivan Vukich very much wanted to be involved with an Auckland A League club but it didn't happen that way. Might be for the best it's the same with Slava Meyn.
Read some NZ % population growth projections (2023-2053) by region today.
Projections - Welly 14% growth. Canterbury 33% growth
2043 projected popn (18 years from now)
Welly 593K
Canterbury 831K
An A League club will at some point come to the South Island.