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Everyone at The Roar loves a good expansion topic, but where should the next teams come from? When will they enter the league and how should they go about collecting public input?
The most common trend is where the next expansion should be placed. Wollongong and Canberra seem to be the common cries from this site, and wouldn’t that be nice?
Getting more regional towns in boutique stadia with a large amount of community input; that would, in a perfect world, be a marvellous idea.
Sadly smaller towns have always struggled to have a stable team, and every second week there is bad news emanating from the Hunter or Gosford. Not being able to pay the bills and other financial issues, and the absolute current fiasco out Newcastle has put the writing on the wall for future regional teams. It’s just a fact that towns like Townsville, Wollongong andCanberra don’t have the financIal support or major pulling force to bring new singings.
The biggest footballing heartland in Australia, Newcastle, has being struggling in the last five years with the player quality, financial backing and sponsorship. The biggest regional area in football (sit back down Gold Coast) has not being able to have a financially stable team. So what would that mean for the non-footballing heartlands and smaller populations of Canberra and Wollongong?
Will it be Gold Coast or Townsville all over again? The proof is in the pudding, out of the four new expansion teams to date (Wellington doesn’t count) two have succeeded, and two have failed. The two succeeding being the teams who have been placed into a major city, while the two failing teams being dropped into regional towns.
As much as it may not seem so, Melbourne City (nee Heart) have survived, and managed their job of being a stable team, because not once have I heard of financial troubles from the citizens. Meanwhile, Gold Coast and North Queensland Fury folded, and folded fast.
Although the two foundation regional teams have survived, and will hopefully continue to, they are small financial fish of the leagues, and we need big fish, the type we created in with Western Sydney Wanderers.
Why not create another, but in an area that can actually produce financial success? Where that is is not for me to deicide.
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