That last SE Queensland expansion team was such a success, I can see why he wants to emulate it. And clearly there's thousands of football fans in Perth just waiting for another team to support in derbies against the Glory.
This man is a strategic visionary.
And the idea that you should make more teams in places where there's already heaps of members is just genius. On the basis of those metricsSydney and Melbourne could easily accommodate 4 teams each.
Honestly though, this whole thin seems to be because the FFA set it's own metric target to be 1 million A League members in 20 years. Having measurable goals is a good idea, but this seems to be an arbitrary metric being usedas a proxy measurement for community engagement. Memberships are a very poor way to measure that. They have just created a situation where they are incentivising behaviour to artificially inflate membership numbers, while effectively sending a message to the footballing public in centres with less than a million people that they have no place in the future of professional football inAustralia. I really don't think that concentrating on the number of club members is really telling you much about the health of the competition or football as a whole.
On the plus side, now we know why the membership metric is so fudgeing important to the FFA we can just start handing out memberships for free to anyone who 'likes' our FB page. Boom! That's 100,000 right there.