Football in Brisbane: Steady as she goes

in theory i like the idea of clubs earing there place, in reality it would just be clubs from Sydney and Melbourne that would get through and we have enough of those, a compromise would be to pick a specific and let clubs who are interested prove there worth from there, Gold Coast United Version 3's whole reason for being founded it to eventually play in the top flight

prior to COVID-19 and Social Distancing every week I Would Walk Past Holloway Field and Spencer Park to get to Taekwondo and based on what i have seen on the current site there is no way to expand Spencer Park without encroaching on Holloway Field which is a State Government Owned Facility so that would never happen, even if a new site further down or up the creek was selected issues with funding and transport would still be a problem

who would pay for a new stadium in a recession through?

Holloway officially opened in 64 with the Royals being there since the beginning but underwent reno’s in the 80’s and again in 2013 but was not always called Holloway through

who said build a stadium there? But it could easily be done – small boutique, on existing clubhouse, far less flooding there than the other side (caravan park which floods badly). My point is that Bris City just expanded and there is a string of parks along Enoggera Creek highly suited to football fields, lots of room for a small stadium and other playing/training facilities from Newmarket to past Ballymore and Finsbury. Your dates are wrong re Holloway – we played cricket there up until 1968. Locals certainly never called it Holloway, it was always Spencer Park. I do recall Greg Chappell or his kid being involved there in the very early days, and he didn’t some to Brisbane until early 70s (he lived in Newmarket btw). I’d say somebody is doing history with an imagination.

my point is no one in there right mind is going to close of a walkway and build over a creek for a new/upgraded stadium especially if its not for League

Lived In Brisbane my whole live just a lot younger then you, Spencer Park Opened in 63 and Holloway Field opened in 64, Baseball has Always been there but until Recently has flown under the raider, the Windsor Royals have been there since Holloway Opened

Spencer Park is nowhere near Enoggera road and has a creek, a bunch of houses and business in-between?? What are you talking about? It’s the same creek that Spencer Park is on – winds away through these suburbs, floods – that’s why there’s a string of parks, on the flood areas. It’s only a couple of hundred metres at most, I walked it near every day for over ten years.

You're obviously quite new to the area. So happens, I grew up there, 1960s, house backed onto Spencer Park. Newmarket fc at McCook park was the main club then, with the Italian club from early-mid 60s at Spencer Park, long before baseball. There was no Holloway field, we used to play cricket there and it was all Spencer Park. I don't recall football there (it was all at McCook Park across the road) but the Italian club obviously set up to play there, their large (for then) social club in Ruby Street overlooked Spencer park (building is still there). The old bowls club is only a few hundred metres away which is no doubt why city has developed new pitches there recently. But yes, it is suburbia and across busy Enoggera Road, but there's parking at the bowls club anyway, and buses. Should turn out to be a great facility. GPS rugby was at Finsbury Park which borders Spencer Park on the Windsor side (in Finsbury St). They moved to Ashgrove (where I went to school) way later (actually to an old ausy rules ground). What's at Finsbury Park now? It was vacant a few years back. and beyond - lots of parkland, underutilized. Still, you missed my point. There's playing fields right along Enoggera Creek, past Ballymore, would be ideal for long term, but the Bandits ABL somehow managed to get ground right in the middle of it.

You would assume the people doing the club webpage (based in Sydney working for the FFA) are amongst the 75% of staff that have been stood down.

Albany Creek is a part of the Moreton Bay Region just FYI great article through

the League for a time might have to be less picky on stadiums for a time ie. if it's to big or the wrong shape thats the way it might have to be for now

it is to expensive, Big it's only 27,500 but if a team is not doing well people won't show up in Australia, location before the tram was awful but now 2 stops on the train then tram is easy enough

there is a new AFL ground being built at Springfield

Spencer Park is nowhere near Enoggera road and has a creek, a bunch of houses and business in-between, Holloway Field opened a year after Spencer Park and has been home to the Windsor Royals since it opened and the Brisbane Bandits since 2013 and GPS Rugby is out at Ashgrove

Yes, The Gold Coast city council want a 10-15k venue that will cover both smaller sports events and concerts and are proposing funding 50% of it with the state government covering the rest. The fact that Robina is under-utilised doesn't stop it being too big, too expensive, in a terrible location and fails to attract major events anyway. The fact that the Titans were considering moving their games to Redcliffe says it all.

I hear the comments on expansion, a day late apologies, but for me we've got to stop this nonsense of A and not B. Here's an opportunity to rebuild football's structure here, no rush as money will be tight. Let the clubs play off for a place, pro/rel. There will obviously be some set criteria before promotion, like ground or finances or fan numbers, to be set by the experts. And obviously, the existing clubs franchises must be honored. But let expansion clubs earn their place. Redlands FC has long had it as their vision to play in a national league and ultimately A League, and they build that into their strategic plan and work their way up. They may not make it for another twenty years, but it gives everyone in that club, even an U8 goalkeeper, a reason to keep going. If we just waddle along cherry picking regions like we have in the past we'll just get back to where we came from. And we all know we can do better. BTW Andrew, I haven't felt that big country town vibe in Brisbane since my return. It was like that when I left in the early 70's, but now I don't get that vibe at all.

guess that's why they expanded across Enoggera Road, but who's at the old GPS rugby ground these days, nearby at Windsor? The whole sprawling group of parks along the creek to Ballymore would be ideal for long term, but the Bandits ABL somehow managed to get ground right in the middle of it.

Yeah, I walked past there ahin this morning and it would be an embarrassment to have the Roar play out of there.