It's All Over Rover (Nearly)

It's All Over Rover (Nearly)

http://au.fourfourtwo.com/news/183077,lowy-set-to-ditch-rovers.aspx


Rovers unlikely to happen, where do we find the 12th team now? Canberra? Christchurch?

Snap!!

Haha, classic. Just noticed that too, exactly the same time.

Canberra should be the next cab off the rank

Dump Newcastle and have 10 sides!!!

The Hakoah mafia? Is this a Jewish conspiracy theory?

ETA: But seriously, if Canberra come up and get the franchise, they will be my second team. Us capitals got to stick together.Doloras2010-09-14 10:17:25

Wasnt Tim Cahill going to be putting cash into this?

As much as I would like to see ChCh get a team, its probably too soon, and doubt the FFA would want to annoy the AFC more. So hope they might consider Canberra aswell as some of the older bids for the 2nd sydney spot.

There shouldn't really rush to bring in another club, the focus should be on making sure the current clubs are viable.

But I still feel the league needs an even amount of teams, be it 12 or 10. They possibly develop a second tier type of competition in a few years.

A-League Div 2, on a semi-pro basis, with promotion/relegation if a Div 2 team has the funding to go pro? Canberra, Tasmania, Christchurch, Auckland, West Sydney, whoever finishes bottom this year...?

Needs more Darwin Dingo's!

I think you'd need 8 teams, and i'd like the top two to be promoted. A semi professional team in Christchurch would be fantastic.

Can't see that working tbh.

Well, it would certainly need many more Aussie teams, it's just I don't know enough about Oz football to know where they'd be. And probably only one Kiwi team.

It'd just ruin the state leagues, but I'm sure there's plenty of current state teams who would be keen to apply for what's affectively a similar league, just interstate and a pathway to the a-league.

Would that be in any way viable for Chch or Auckland though? I can't see a semi-professional team having the funding to cross the Tasman every other week

Obviously some people think money grows on trees.

One day EG....one day.

Absolute no to a 2nd division. Wouldn't work in the Australian context, certainly not financially.

Hmm, I'd prefer my tree to grow Ben Franklins over George Washingtons. Or even better Grover Clevelands (ideally you'd want Woodrow Wilsons, but that's just too greedy).

I agree, how about the phoenix moves to one of these country's national leagues, that way when NZF becomes part of CONCACAF the cross-confederation issues will be dealt with, and the A-League won't have byes.

Exactly my thoughts.

Rovers should be thankful that the Victory and Heart are getting record crowds to give the A-League some credibility. Credibility which should have allowed Rover to enter.  Unfortunately they aren't taking advantage of it.

Need money, so much "f**k off" money it's unbelievable.

Robb that's completely wrong. The focus on the west is for a number of reasons but the NRL issue is secondary.

- West Sydney is the football heartland of NSW and has double the number of registered football players than league, has a huge working class ethnic community, and has the majority of the traditional NSWPL clubs.

- West Sydney is the fastest growing area of Sydney, the urban area stretches almost from Balmain to the Blue Mountains. FC are seen as an inner city/eastern suburbs club no matter how they try and market themselves

- Sydney FC draws its fan base from the west, many of whom have stopped travelling in. If you can only get 12k in the football mad biggest city in the country then there is a big problem. West Sydney done well will be the best

AFL is really an issue for the NRL and union. Canberra might be a club for the future and may end up replacing GC in a 12 team league - the coast isn't a football town. But West Sydney done well and playing out of Parramatta is an absolute no brainer. They just need to take the time to get it right. My old man is a Campsie boy and my uncle lives in Penrith and they've been playing and watching football out that way since the 60s

"We're having a party when Gold Coast dies..."

Big smile, but a brain dead comment.
This should be about football not petty things, you w**ker.

yeah some people need to look at the bigger picture. we wouldn't like it if people said that about the nix (matt morris) would we? Comments like that are unnecessary.

George Costanza2010-09-15 21:09:37

i really hope canberra gets the next team!!!!

Rather than start a new thread thought I might attach this link to this thread.

Is there more trouble brewing for GCU and NQF? hopefully not in terms of A-League expansion and general health but here's the sauce....

www.theaustralian.com.au/news/sport/north-queensland-and-gold-coast-could-be-cut-from-a-league-later-this-season/story-e6frg7mf-1225930275684
RedGed2010-09-30 11:06:19

merge GCU and NQF!

Furious Coast United... bit angsty.
Golden Queens United..sounds peachy.Hmm....

so instead of an 11 team league it falls to a 9 team league - still byes and less games merging clubs rarely works......need to find more $$$$$$$

Golden Furries!

Seriously, to be fair, all those club mergers in the NRL worked out pretty well, as did the Brisbane/Fitzroy merger in the AFL.

Northern Eagles?

This Illawarra supporter disagrees, although the Wests Tigers merger is certainly a great example to uphold. Brisbane Lions too if you ignore the paddle pop lion controversy.

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monkeyfish2010-10-17 00:19:26

Good old Ray Gatt and the Australian.It is a paper that is hell bent on bringing the A-League to it's knees by reporting on everything bad about football.