I'd agrue that the only clubs in strongly miss suited stadiums at the moment are the Roar and the Nix.
And yeah as posted elsewhere there are plans to redevelop Perry Park in Brissy the spirtual home of QLD Football. For the moment the QLD Govt has said no to the proposed $200M cost, but there has just been a change in state Govt in the last week, and the infrastructure spend up to the 2032 Brisbane Olympics is still being finalised.
Sure the other stadiums ain't perfect, but they are pretty good size and location wise. The greater problem being that some like Macarthur with their pitiful crowds, shouldn't be in the league at all. Have hope Western United will grow a reasonable supporter base once they move into their new ground, more embedding themselves in the community.
Re clubs owning grounds that ain't going to happen unless like Auckland you have two different billionaire owners. Seems Mowbray/Williams are more driving the Western Springs idea than Foley, though yeah looking at what he is doing at Bournemouth he will definitely be keen for Auckland to have their own ground and high class training facilities.
Canberra, The Gong, 2nd QLD team (likely Gold Coast), Tasmania and Christchurch. They would be my top 5 options for an expansion to 18 teams. With that the APL could look to split into 9 team A1 & A2 divisions with pro/rel.
I think the early success of Auckland shows that yes, you ideally now want expansion into markets that are new to the A League. But the APL also mentioned about 18 months ago a longer term plan to go to 20 teams (A1 & A2 of 10 teams each), so if that ever happened you'd think a couple of stronger NPL clubs like Sth Melbourne would be needed.
Note the NST is going to be run by Football Australia not the APL.
And yeah as posted elsewhere there are plans to redevelop Perry Park in Brissy the spirtual home of QLD Football. For the moment the QLD Govt has said no to the proposed $200M cost, but there has just been a change in state Govt in the last week, and the infrastructure spend up to the 2032 Brisbane Olympics is still being finalised.
Sure the other stadiums ain't perfect, but they are pretty good size and location wise. The greater problem being that some like Macarthur with their pitiful crowds, shouldn't be in the league at all. Have hope Western United will grow a reasonable supporter base once they move into their new ground, more embedding themselves in the community.
Re clubs owning grounds that ain't going to happen unless like Auckland you have two different billionaire owners. Seems Mowbray/Williams are more driving the Western Springs idea than Foley, though yeah looking at what he is doing at Bournemouth he will definitely be keen for Auckland to have their own ground and high class training facilities.
Canberra, The Gong, 2nd QLD team (likely Gold Coast), Tasmania and Christchurch. They would be my top 5 options for an expansion to 18 teams. With that the APL could look to split into 9 team A1 & A2 divisions with pro/rel.
I think the early success of Auckland shows that yes, you ideally now want expansion into markets that are new to the A League. But the APL also mentioned about 18 months ago a longer term plan to go to 20 teams (A1 & A2 of 10 teams each), so if that ever happened you'd think a couple of stronger NPL clubs like Sth Melbourne would be needed.
Note the NST is going to be run by Football Australia not the APL.