By Ben Galvin
November 7th 2008 @ 1:55am
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Buckley hints more A-League clubs imminent
Football Federation Australia chief executive Ben Buckley today hinted further expansion of the A-League was just around the corner.
In Townsville to rubber-stamp North Queensland’s entry into the league as the tenth franchise in 2009/2010, Buckley said the FFA had ambitious plans for the next two-three years, which included the Fury’s inclusion next season.
“Our strategy is to invest in the growth of the sport, and expansion of the A-League into North Queensland is right for football,” Buckley said.
“It is a very important step for us at FFA, we have got a very ambitious expansion plan over the next two to three years.
“We believe we are creating one of the best national footprints for a sporting code in this country and I think importantly we now have the northern part of Australia represented and in particular North Queensland.”
Buckley sees the addition of the Fury as a stepping stone towards a 12 and possibly 14 team competition with discussions underway with a number consortia for entry into the 2010-11 competition.
“Expansion of the A-League is a critical issue to the continuing evolution and growth of football and this is a very exciting day for FFA,” Buckley said.
“We have already awarded a preferred bidder status in Melbourne, we are working with them over the next few months to try and bring that agreement to completion for their entry into the competition in season six.”
Buckley confirmed a number the A-League bids from NSW-based groups were under review.
“We have got and have received proposals from Canberra, from Wollongong, from the Western part of Sydney and Tasmania as well.”
“There is a lot of interest, there is a lot enthusiasm for additional A-League licenses and we hope to take advantage of that over the next months.”
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Midfielder said | November 7th 2008 @ 3:32pm | Report comment
Good to see … bring it on ……….bang a gong …… come feel the noise …. the A-league expanding Ya Hoooooo
Pippinu said | November 7th 2008 @ 4:25pm | Report comment
Girls grab your boys….
2nd Melbourne team all but rubber-stamped.
But why do we keep hearing references to a mysterious West Sydney bid, but then absolutely zero details?
If there is a West Sydney bid (and let’s be honest, the FFA is looking in that direction to the exclusion of anything else), then Tassie, Canberra and South Coast have buckleys and none (for hte moment).
Has Ms Fisher backed the wrong horse??
Millster said | November 7th 2008 @ 4:58pm | Report comment
Pip I agree but it makes me frown at the same time.
I agree that VIC is grossly under-represented with only one team in the league (especially considering QLD has moved to 3) but the 2nd Melbourne team needs quite some thought to make it work properly. It has to happen, but geez I hope they are careful and clever in getting it going.
West Sydney is quite amorphous to me whereas Illawarra/South Coast is very contrete and very attractive, and we’re also seeing Canberra now firm up with Tassie as another reasonably advanced option from the sounds of it (both very interesting prospects for the move from 12 to 14).
But in the next tranche of expansion, to me it would be outrageous to ignore the Illawarra bid due to chasing the west of the big smoke.
I must say, I also like the ‘feel’ of an eventual 14-team league that would have Townsville, Brisbane, Gold Coast, Newcastle, Central Coast, Sydney, Illawarra, Canberra, Melbourne, Vic 2, Tassie, Adelaide, Perth and NZ. Seems nicely balanced to me, with my hopes for the move from 14 to 16 being a Fremantle team and a Christchurch team to maintain that balance and shore up the extremities. You will note that I think NSW will be well enough represented without a West Sydney team.
Midfielder said | November 7th 2008 @ 5:21pm | Report comment
Pip
An old Slade fan too I see …….. I think there is a second Sydney bid and more than one from what I hear.
Mil agree with your teams but take out Tassie and put in a WS Team ……. you ES spoiled types ….. need to go out west and meet the heartland (beer, birds, builders, tradies, utes, vans) get away from the “wine sipping, curry puff eating” sorts.
Also when you see how far it is and how bad the roads you will understand one of the key reasons why the Choppers get such por crowds ……… travel it’s a nightmare
Midfielder said | November 7th 2008 @ 5:25pm | Report comment
Pip juts for you http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLsw668PVyY now just have to work one out for KB
KB just for you … http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQi8wEHMm5Y next time Norm plays up show him this
Pippinu said | November 7th 2008 @ 6:49pm | Report comment
Millster
I have to agree with Midfielder that you can’t leave Australia’s biggest city with one team - but agree that this 2nd Melb team has “rushed” written all over it.
Midfielder
“Old” is the operative word - when I was 11 - no one and nothing was bigger than Slade (Daddy Cool were already on the slide by then) - I still love all the Glam rock stuff from around 1973 to this day.
jimbo said | November 7th 2008 @ 10:12pm | Report comment
Its good to see that despite all the gloom and doom and fierce competition from other codes, the FFA remains upbeat and continues to lead the way in football expansion.
Pip,
I can’t see why a 2nd Melb team won’t succeeed and meet the 10K benchmark.
Sydney might be the biggest city, but Melb has the biggest number of sports followers and the cross town rivalry might turn out to be bigger than we think. Who knows.
Midfielder said | November 8th 2008 @ 7:07am | Report comment
This is all Pips fault he started me on something so blame Pip. Remember it’s Pip’s fault
Pip loves Slade so I posted “Cum Feel the noise ”for him and it got me thinking about songs for all.
So Pip “Cum feel the noise” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLsw668PVyY
KB I have added some for you my first post was forever young http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQi8wEHMm5Y but I would like to add for you from T – Rex Children of the revolution http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xgcxd9wtXUE&feature=related and for following the Choppers Bonnie Tyler It’s a heartache http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8VGQTtENSs
MC ……. So many to choose in relation to football via vee AFL some thgo’s Hootie and the Blow Fish – Let her cry http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3V3YuBLI_r8 Dock of the bay by Ottis Reeding (for the words I am sitting here wasting my time) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6clpIug1siU then on your arguments MC I felt Talking Heads Road to Nowhere http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQXsuAey-NE
Westy re your Rugby Union side out west ……Barbra Stresian .. Somewhere http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=7vGUfe_SUW8 maybe Dovan – Catch the wind http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8hjEYTpwE8&feature=related
Mil .. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXO3OMGKPpw Niravana Smells like team spirit lost in France in love Bonnie Tyler http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9b7CgTIRKU
Jes …..the stones Paint it Black http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLEiLfHsPwk
Starting to get a bid hard so will give most only one song from here on
Das Bob Marley Buffalo Soldier http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEQXvsQJVnY
Tow Pink Floyd Comfortably Numb http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkJNyQfAprY and John Lennon Imagine http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEOkxRLzBf0&mode=related&search=
TT….. I am a union man Strawbs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oR6l3r5BRTo
Dave / Cap , Kam, Sledge, Onside , wife’s up soon so have to start to cut it short so http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dc86_Weoye0 Steve Earl Copper Head Road …the battle lies ahead
Now for me where to start in my music folder on youtube alone I have over 300 so for the mighty Mariners Cold Play Yellow http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qI8I6qcxWyU&mode=related&search= for my feeling about 2005 none better IMO than Reverse the Curse http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUIP6STNxSA but for all it stood for at the time George Bush and trying to stop them doing and saying what they want and demanding their place in the sun http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwc5YSAc-7g Dixie Chicks Not ready to Make Nice
WOW watch the Reverse the curse one for the 2005 experience and remember blame Pip
Midfielder said | November 8th 2008 @ 11:56am | Report comment
PIP, KB, Westy, Mil, Jimbo,
My last post by the time it was posted others had posted and I guess it has not be seen and maybe it may not so I tho I will make this post hoping you will look for Jimbo & Norm http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrLG07FxvaQ sorry I left off you off previous post sorry had to go with the wife anyway for you Tom Petty ..I wont back down.
vicentin said | November 8th 2008 @ 12:15pm | Report comment
Pippu - I wouldn’t laugh at you and the things you do ….. oops better stop there.
Midfielder - that Forever Young video was a serious nostalgia trip for me - memories of my Bain Super Flex board…. I had to double-check i didn’t still have those scabs on my elbows that were a constant part of me for about two years. There was probably a young Sheyne Horan amongst that crowd - he seemed to be one of the faces of local skateboarding in the seventies.
cheers
Expansion? Oh yeah, excellent idea!
dasilva said | November 8th 2008 @ 12:44pm | Report comment
Das Bob Marley Buffalo Soldier
Why by the way?
Midfielder said | November 8th 2008 @ 1:00pm | Report comment
Das
You have said you come or your parents come from overseas, ……… and the soldier part fighting for football ……cornie I know
dasilva said | November 8th 2008 @ 1:02pm | Report comment
Midfielder
THat’s cool no worries.
Though I don’t listen to much reggae
Midfielder said | November 8th 2008 @ 1:09pm | Report comment
Das
If you have not watched go back to my post and watch “Reverse the Curse” in near the end of the post in my songs.
Midfielder said | November 8th 2008 @ 1:14pm | Report comment
Vicentin
Just went to look at forever young and the links been taken down so KB her is another link to the same youtube …… gotta love the net someone always backs these things up .. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4yd7BrtFxs I to feel nostalgia about this clip. Takes me back to a different life the cars the hair AHHHHHHhh to be that age again.
Dave said | November 8th 2008 @ 1:15pm | Report comment
Midfielder
Thats for the links
One of the joys l had from watching English Football on the TV back in the 70s (even tho it weren’t live) was the way the crowd picked up on the popular songs of the times and turned them into their own battlecries/anthems.
Remember watching a Man U game in about 1974 when they were in 2nd division playing v Nottm Forest at the City Ground. United fans packed behind the Trent goal bouncing and singing “United are back” to the tune of Gary Glitters “Good to be back” when it became clear United were going to win promotion back up to 1st Division again.
Norm said | November 8th 2008 @ 2:21pm | Report comment
Midfielder..an accountant with a sense of humour..we may have to add you to world heritage listing..
dasilva said | November 8th 2008 @ 2:25pm | Report comment
Cheers about the Reverse the curse
ahh good times. Me, my brother and my grandfather (who’s over 90) stood up and scream when Aloisi scored that penalty
I would have liked to see some other soccerroos disaster like Australia getting knocked out by the iran/kuwait in 1978. kiwis in 1982 and israel/kiwis in 1990. Though I guess it wan’t as dramatic as a elimination by playoffs
Midfielder said | November 8th 2008 @ 2:46pm | Report comment
Das
You asked 1997 Iran V Australia http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pziKluqYnd4&feature=related Kool played a magic that night and was hacked all night.
But if we had won those pricks that where the old NSL would still have been running the game ….. maybe it was good in the end but I did not sleep for three days.
Kazama said | November 8th 2008 @ 2:52pm | Report comment
Cheers for all that Midfielder. Liked Reverse the curse…brought back some memories. The 2nd leg v Argentina was the first football match I ever watched. I was in primary school at the time and my whole year level stopped working to watch the match. As I’ve said before, I can’t remember anything about the Iran second leg (thankfully). I remember the first clearly though. Uruguay ‘01 still hurts like hell. I went to the first leg at the MCG and went nuts when Muscat scored. I remember people singing “we’re going to Montevideo! Monte-vi-de-o!” as I was leaving the stadium. Then in the second leg…remember the 2nd Morales goal that killed us, broke down in tears soon after. Then 05 - first leg thought we’d blown some chances to get a goal (eg the Viduka header) but felt like we were going to do it. Won’t go on about the return leg but being there was fantastic, best moment of my life so far. I was lucky enough to be at the goal / penalties end of Stadium Australia as well.
My Immortal was an interesting choice for background music…forgot how much I liked that song.
Kazama said | November 8th 2008 @ 3:06pm | Report comment
Midfielder: “But if we had won those pricks that where the old NSL would still have been running the game”
Exactly, so it all turned out for the best in the end. I’m not a believer, but 2005 felt as close to fate as anything ever has for me.
Pippinu said | November 8th 2008 @ 5:41pm | Report comment
Midfielder
I enjoyed my offering thoroughly - I never tire of hearing it!
Pippinu said | November 8th 2008 @ 5:44pm | Report comment
On another thread I wrote down the words: “poor little greenie” - any one recall what classic glam rock song those words come from? (one of the all time great guitar rifts too)
vicentin said | November 8th 2008 @ 6:01pm | Report comment
Jean Genie - too easy. And yes, the I’m a Man is one of the classics. Jean Genie was in the charts at the same time as Blockbuster by The Sweet which of course had the same riff.
dasilva said | November 8th 2008 @ 6:26pm | Report comment
Good to see a bowie fan
Although I think rebel rebel riff is a bit more catchy
Dave said | November 8th 2008 @ 6:42pm | Report comment
Sorry to mention Man U again but l did like their take of the Liverpool anthem “You’ll Never Walk Alone” … Stretford end used to sing to the Scousers when playing Liverpool…”You’ll Never Walk Again” same tune
One of my favorites, and many sets of supporters sang it, was/is… We shall Not Be Moved…with 10-15,000 supporters singing in unison could be very powerful.
Midfielder said | November 8th 2008 @ 6:49pm | Report comment
Dave
Just piped back from the beach is getting cold but you want a good Kob sing song
You will never for a Dutch I think Doco http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nfFi-_Hb2A … enjoy Dave
Midfielder said | November 8th 2008 @ 6:53pm | Report comment
Vincetin
Ahhhhhhh http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qA29BVtCCpM Jean Genie Bowie good choice
Dave said | November 8th 2008 @ 7:47pm | Report comment
Midfielder
Ever worked as a DJ?
No more scousers stuff thanks!
Dave said | November 8th 2008 @ 7:57pm | Report comment
Midfielder
If you like the Liverpool supporters in full voice then Kop this vs St Etienne 1977 European Cup at Anfield
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9B26fXTj4c&feature=related
Pippinu said | November 8th 2008 @ 8:01pm | Report comment
Vicentin
I should have known you’d get it! I think we’ve discused the likeness to Blockbuster some other time?
Strangely, I’m not a huge wrap for Blockbuster, but I absolutely love Jean Genie!!
Pippinu said | November 8th 2008 @ 9:22pm | Report comment
Midfielder
that’s the clip I remember! How innovative is that for 1972?!
And how cool was Bowie during that period?
dasilva said | November 8th 2008 @ 9:38pm | Report comment
As a more younger person who wasn’t around in the 70’s. I can appreciate Bowie as a musician and a song writer
However I can never get around the fashion of the times or the ultra extravagant dress sense of the glam rockers. Jean Genie, Space Oddity, Ziggy Stardust, Starman, Life On Mars. All great songs. However watching the video clips of those songs makes me cringe.
Midfielder said | November 8th 2008 @ 9:44pm | Report comment
Pip
Just for you on glam rock http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxLn5WYO8NI plus that Bowie link went down so here is a replacement http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Ue089Gpvv_k
See my baby jive you cannot hel[ but sing along with the first link
vicentin said | November 8th 2008 @ 11:55pm | Report comment
Pippinu - both happily sat on my turntable in 73. As did these guys (ok maybe a few years later) - bought a few reissues a few weeks ago of their better albums …some cracking stuff.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XT54T42ldec (Mick Ralphs with a white Gibson Firebird 1 with a P90 pickup - to die for,,,, and a couple of other very ugly instruments)
… what the hell, here’s another (w Ariel Bender on guitar)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7zRbDkm4Jo&NR=1 (with a white T-bird bass to die for ….)
and in case you didn’t get my earlier reference …. and maybe I misremembered the lyrics slightly
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8QpO3yVI2Q
Pippinu said | November 9th 2008 @ 8:05am | Report comment
dasilva
at the time, to impressionable 11 to 13 years olds - the make up, gear and platform shoes was the best of the best! (I still own a pair of original platforms from the period, and people refuse to believe that we actually wore these babies)
Mid
good review clip of glam rock - but Cooper released Poison almost 30 years later! - Gudbuy to Jane was always one of my favourite Slade songs - those Roxy Music covers! - Alvin Stardust, there’s a blast from the past! - Marc Bolan was one of the best - The Osmonds??!! what are they doing there?! - they played Joan Jett over Suzi Q!!! Sacrilege!! - Pity about the Glitter name these days, but for a two year peiod back then he was HUGE!!
Just watched the Jean Genie clip again!!
Vicentin
Great song!
dasilva said | November 9th 2008 @ 8:25am | Report comment
Well Pip nice to hear that.
I’m quite sure 30 years in the future
People will look back and watch the dress sense of the modern day goths and emo’s and metal band and wonder WTF as well. So it’s all good
Midfielder said | November 9th 2008 @ 8:35am | Report comment
Das
Why the fashion; because it said who you where, like I guess tats for people in the 90’s.
I had some great gear my favourite was a white body shirt (for body shirt read fitted like a stocking and the material looked the same) purple belt less flares stove pipe tight to the knees and flared out hugely by the time they got to your feet, burgundy colour boots come half way up to your knees with a platform heel raised about two inches. Wore this outfit as well as a crazy tie of the time massively big, about three times a big as ties today again full of colours and weir shapes woven into the tie, my hair was about half way down my back ……Man did I look the part ……anyway I have been in the bank about 3 months and they promoted me to the systems and procedures department in their new high teck offices. When I arrived the security refused to let me in called the police and the manager was brought down and I had my transfer papers so by lunch I was allowed to my desk.
Other great gear monkey shirts (from the band on TV) double breasted shirts a bright red and blue one both had gold buttons, with brilliant white jeans , boots, two inch silver studded black belt. Sometimes with the white or deep blue jeans wore black pointie toed shoes.
Das it was as much about following fashion and also a statement of sorts like my experience at the bank and parents would say “ young people today” . You felt noticed and Oh how the girlies loved those body shirts and the pants …….. mate the shirts were so tight you had to be fit to wear em they showed everything every bit of flab no matter how small. As for the flares so tight from the waist to knees F**k they we hard to put on, but if you had a good shape …….. the girlies noticed and I liked the girlies noticing me ……. So fashion / a statement from the youth / posing and sex ………. Great times where’s that Dr Who we you need em.
Midfielder said | November 9th 2008 @ 12:16pm | Report comment
Das & Pip
One of my all time favourites from around this time was the Skyhocks an Aussie band Pip saw them at the Fairfield School of Arts ………. This is a great pub sing along not to many words and a great beat …..Shirley at his best …. A song made for his type of voice.
Das as I said a great pub sing along I always thought this could be made into a great football team chant with RRRRRRRRRRR RRRRRRRRRRR RRRRRRRRRRR insert Mariners / or whatever anyway enough said hope you enjoy this Das its called Women in Uniform IMO a true classic. There is a click button to improve the picture
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sb4AdU6rbFc&feature=iv&annotation_id=event_313394
Pippinu said | November 10th 2008 @ 8:52am | Report comment
I still own an original “Living in the 70s” album - one of the best all time Australian albums.
Very few rock singers/bands have been able to sing about Australian themes as well as them - ever.
Pippinu said | November 10th 2008 @ 8:56am | Report comment
Mid
I just noticed that Iron Maiden version of Women in Uniform - pretty good cover!