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With the great success of the Western Sydney Wanders, should the league consider expanding the A-League further?
Yes.
The Wanderers are the talk of the town. Why not capitalise on this free and good publicity?
There are many reasons for not expanding the league any further in the next few years, not least of all the expanded clubs that are no longer with us: Gold Coast United, New Zealand Knights and North Queensland Fury.
However, the situation with those clubs was different. Now that the A-League has learned from these experiences and has a much more professional set up, why not expand?
But where? With the AFL continually denying Tasmania, the A-League could gain a foothold. There were 20,000 members for the AFL team that didn’t come – let’s convert them to football lovers.
It won’t have the impact the Wanderers had on Western Sydney straight away, but it will in the long term. Give it ago, what do you have to lose?
If they do add one more team that will be 11 teams in the A-League and nobody would won’t a bye every ten rounds.
So what about Auckland? They have already have a name and basic set up as the Auckland Kingz FC.
Why shouldn’t we give this city a go?
Yes New Zealand is obsessed with rugby but the ruby season is over when the A-League is played.
Therefore the FFA want have to worry about competing against the biggest sport in NZ.
Whatever happens there is one thing for sure – we need to expand the A-League as soon as possible.
There are also bids from Canberra, Darwin, Townsville, Geelong, Sunshine Coast, Wollongong and Ipswich.
All these cities have good reason to have an A-League team.
The FFA just needs to take a leap of faith in the Australian public.
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