BREAKING: FFA to announce a new Western Sydney A-League team

Season 1 is all about engagement i.e. engaging the FOOTBALL FAN (new and old). You only get one go at making a first impression. That requires much thought on finding an engaging coach to lead, an engaging CEO for PR, an engaging brand of football, an engaging marquee player. The task of 'bringing football back home' is huge and engaging Greater Western Sydney will not be a 'walk in the park'...just ask the last consortium. A formula is needed to bring together AS MANY FANS AS POSSIBLE; from Campbellton, Liverpool, Fairfield, Parramatta, Blacktown, St Marys, Penrith and Baulkham Hills. I hate to say it but friendly cross town rivalry in sport works. Aussie Battlers vs Big City Slickers! To be frank, a brand new location for a Football Stadium is the best long term solution - this will give football its on unique identity. Look at Melbourne Heart, Perth Glory, Adelaide - football only pitch. Also, it has worked for USA MLS. Food for thought. Keep the debate going!

Yawn.

RealFootball----what on earth are you talking about.? My support for my football clubs are not the thickness of a piece of toilet paper like yours, which you have written here.. Paper thin loyalty, telling porkies are of your own making, which we (bloggers) have all read---not only just me. I at least have been consistent in my support for the club where I live and the club where I was born and bred in Sydney (SFC). I have never been a glory hunter like you.

Someone elsewhere posted the suggestion Sydney International, which seemed to resonate with me, though I really don't know why. However, I'm an outsider (as far as Sydney is concerned) and it's more important that the potential fans are happy!

Agree strongly GaryScomG.

Agree, NF, re the order of WS and NQ, but that's history now eh! Unfortunately there was great damage done to perceptions of football in NQ, and now being done in GC, but again that's history, and it's where we find ourselves NOW that counts. The one good part is that there are SOME of us who have had a taste, and have liked it. WE will now work very hard to get resurrected, despite the increased difficulties -- ONE DAY!

Fancy these new clubs being ---- CLUBS! What a novel idea! I've never been a strong supporter of relying on a rich benefactor, though I recognise their usefulness!

I'm with you. King.

Interesting thought, Punter. I've long believed that RL fullbacks make quite good GKs (with a bit of training)!

Realfootball, from my reading there are a couple who can cope with just the one idea at a time -- and probably I'm one too. In fact my strongest commitment is to our game. I think it was wrong to start NQF, though I thought to start GCU was right. Then, both having started, my commitment is to what then is best, and the damage done by closing a club down is huge. I think WSydney should be given a go -- though I'm concerned that there are still no people with money who want to back it (other than FFA) -- but I think GCU should have been supported at all costs for at least another year. That year's grace could have been made quite plain, that it's a period of probation. Yes, my one idea is I want the game to succeed. I suppose you and I see that as being achieved in different ways.

I think Chippers does have some coaching licenses because he was given some sort of role at Basel... I may be mistaken.

Axelv, for all of Clive's amazing outbursts, I'm not very aware of a great number of lies -- especially of the kind which lead people on and then trap them. In NQ we needed help because our initial owner went broke in the GFC. Although it would have been extremely sad, we could have coped better with being told straight away that we weren't going to get any, and that the dream was over already. As it was, we were told that we would be supported for two seasons to give ourselves time to get our house in order, and though we were well on track to achieving that with a good and well supported Community Ownership plan receiving legally enforceable promises of dough, we were cut short after just one season -- as soon as the WC bid failed. Had we been told that we had just one season, I reckon we'd have moved faster, and would still be here today. It's the original promises made which are at fault -- don't promise what you don't intend to (or can't) deliver. I recall many more incidents too, such as the original statement to Victory and Heart (and to Vic Football) that yes they could take part in the Vic KO Cup! I was thinkng (and hoping) that FFA had started doing better due diligence before its pronouncements, but this treatment of GCU would indicate that there is scheming going on, and there are lies in order to keep stringing someone along just long enough to then put in place what was planned all along. Did Clive partake in these "false-promises" activities? When NQF was first announced, I believed (and wrote it) that it was too early for us, and we weren't ready. However, having started, it was important that it not be allowed to die at any cost. I hope my friend that you are never on the receiving end of these "string-along" promises.

ICAR, you still have my best wishes. Yes, I do get some things wrong. I apologise for being sloppy in my wording. You did indeed mention the grassroots etc. I was sloppily going on just what Davidde's article had said, withoutn having noticed the details you had included. However, I personally still see that as support for the club -- even though it might be a little indirectly. Your statements are correct, but my wish is that ALL of us could need to rely less on government funding. (Nevertheless, I recognise that the need is a fact!) I'm sufficiently committed to football to want all that is attempted to work very well.

Westie, has $8M been enough to purchase votes in WSydney?

its thinking like that that has got Australia in debt. a million here. a million there. it doenst matter does. well it does. when you add it all up it becomes billions of waste.

I like Endeavor Sydney. But Giants colours? Why exactly? Yes the colours work well but we've got nothing to do with the Giants so why copy them? Besides there's also the Tigers in the NRL playing in orange and black. That colour combo is well and truely maxed out.

I like Endeavour. No EPL rip-offs or animal names please ,FFA. And nothing too tacky just for the sake of getting the attention of 8 year olds. What about... Sydney Alliance or Sydney Legion?

You really can only deal with one very simple idea at a time, can't you?

You're right, how does the AFL own and pour a few $100 million into the GWS and Suns? Lol

No. Western Bulldogs. Actually, shouldn't she be playing in the forward line. Ms Gillard recently joked that she had “more chance of lining up in the Western Bulldogs forward line than there being a change in the Labor Party leadership this year.”