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The Premiership Plate is fast becoming the most sought after trophy that the clubs want to win with first ACL spot up for grabs. This season’s HAL Ver. 5 holds the most exciting finish to an Australian Football season yet.
Three clubs from three different states can take out the Plate ,right down to the last round: Melb Vic, GCU and SFC.
However, will Australian Club Football history be made in Version 5 of the HAL with the Sth East Queensland outfit from the Gold Coast?
Home attendances for the GCU have been abysmal.
However, this has not stopped them from forging ahead with a brand of football that has defined them as being worthy Premiers or both with a Championship double and the Plate.
I have no doubt about that, with their own exciting brand of football created in the main by Bleiberg and Okon coaching partnership with the supporting staff.
The question, though, has to be asked: is that enough to endear them to the Queensland football fraternity?
Judging by the home gates, it seems not. But the Queenslanders are starting to warm to this great footballing outfit.
I am sure the Brisbane Roar FC would’ve been recording record home gates if the team’s squads and coaching were swapped over. But for the tempestuous GCU FC, not so.
The club had to do some smart PR and marketing to win over the hearts and minds of the Queenslanders in the main to back them for the HAL final, because of some big mistakes that were made with crowd capping and high priced ticketing, and an owner who had unceremoniously declared they would enter the comp and win it undefeated in their first year.
However, this has now all been rectified. But will it have been in time when, and if, they make the final of the Championship?
I am almost convinced that the Premiership and Championship double is in the hands of Clive Palmer’s GCU FC – if a few things go their way.
So the question that has been playing on my mind is, should it be played on the Gold Coast at Skilled Stadium or in Brisbane at the magnificent Suncorp stadium?
I think a good venue would be the Suncorp Stadium Brisbane (home of the NRL Broncos and the ROAR FC), a lucrative 55k capacity attendance and a windfall for the FFA.
Not since the old glory days of the old Brisbane Strikers has Queensland had a team on the cusp that can go all of the way.
Will we see a team based in Queensland play out the final of the HAL? I think yes.
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