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Which is your preferred option for a national second tier?

Which is your preferred option for a national second tier?

  • 1) NPL post-season Champions League tournament

    Votes: 1 2.5%

  • 2) League format aligned with NPL season

    Votes: 9 22.5%

  • 3) League format aligned with A-League season

    Votes: 16 40.0%

  • 4) League format seasonally aligned with nothing

    Votes: 13 32.5%

  • 5) A form of conference system

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • 6) Nothing. It’s unsustainable

    Votes: 1 2.5%
  • Total voters
    40
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If/hopefully when it does, become a full time home and away season, will the NPL teams that play in the NSD keep teams in the NPL?

Ideall id like the NSD to consist of a few existing NPL teams, and some new teams, for example a Tasmanian team, Canberra team etc.
 
Surely an 8--12 team league full home and away season could have been achieved rather than this chmapions league crap.

And rather than having instant promotion/relegation, could have made it so that the winner of NSD has a playoff against bottom team in A-league just too start of with.

Would have been exciting. Hiedelberg would have beaten, Perth, Brisbane or CCM this year.
 
Beretta said:
i believe all tiers in football should run at the same time, and not separate.
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I totally agree. But I left out that option just because it absolutely won't happen anytime soon.

The lower leagues won't shift from winter (I assume), and the top tier (whatever it is and whoever runs it) won't ever shift from summer. The crowds and broadcast dollars all increase for a summer comp (although the league isn't peaking right now), and it's aligned with Europe, Asia, and the rest of the world's timing. Historical facts backing it up are there to see as well. A summer top tier won't ever change. I'm trying to list realistic options.

Would our lower leagues ever shift to join the ⚽world calendar of August to May? Summer leagues work for local cricket... might be possible. I'm not comparing sports, rather amateurs and employment, schools and juniors etc.
 
biggiemic said:
If/hopefully when it does, become a full time home and away season, will the NPL teams that play in the NSD keep teams in the NPL?

Ideall id like the NSD to consist of a few existing NPL teams, and some new teams, for example a Tasmanian team, Canberra team etc.
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Apparently South Melbourne will field juniors in the NPL and seniors for OPL. So it could be similar to how APL have juniors in the local leagues as well.
 
biggiemic said:
If/hopefully when it does, become a full time home and away season, will the NPL teams that play in the NSD keep teams in the NPL?

Ideall id like the NSD to consist of a few existing NPL teams, and some new teams, for example a Tasmanian team, Canberra team etc.
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1) If the A-League clubs can field reserve&youth-teams in their respective State NPLs, I can’t see why NSD clubs wouldn’t do the same.

2) Ideally that’s where all created-from-scratch franchise-expansion sides(not that there should be any more, apart from a few specific locations I mentioned in another thread a while back) should begin from now on, instead of being parachuted straight into the top-flight ALM.
 
HappyGuus said:
Would our lower leagues ever shift to join the ⚽world calendar of August to May? Summer leagues work for local cricket... might be possible. I'm not comparing sports, rather amateurs and employment, schools and juniors etc.
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It’d be the single biggest logistical-undertaking in the history of the game in this country(moreso than the eventual implementation of pro/rel to the ALM, dare I say)…which is precisely why it’ll never happen.

To be honest, it’s not particularly vital IMO.
 
BA81 said:
It’d be the single biggest logistical-undertaking in the history of the game in this country(moreso than the eventual implementation of pro/rel to the ALM, dare I say)…which is precisely why it’ll never happen.

To be honest, it’s not particularly vital IMO.
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I don't think it's sustainable to do that to be honest.

I know UK is like this, but do European schools run by calendar year, or Sep-Jun like the UK? Youth football is a big part of re-aligning, and I think that's going to be the kicker - making sure it's aligned with the school calendar.
 
BA81 said:
It’d be the single biggest logistical-undertaking in the history of the game in this country(moreso than the eventual implementation of pro/rel to the ALM, dare I say)…which is precisely why it’ll never happen.

To be honest, it’s not particularly vital IMO.
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Does everyone grasp that fact that, depsite it only being a champions league format for now, this year will be the first time EVER, in any code that ALL states (baring NT) have a representative side in a nation competition... that isn't a pure cup format.

The Australian Championship > AFL, NRL, NSL, NBA .... I hope this is the new beginning we are hoping it is.
 
Monoethnic Social Club said:
Does everyone grasp that fact that, depsite it only being a champions league format for now, this year will be the first time EVER, in any code that ALL states (baring NT) have a representative side in a nation competition... that isn't a pure cup format.

The Australian Championship > AFL, NRL, NSL, NBA .... I hope this is the new beginning we are hoping it is.
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That is quite an achievement tbh

Watch AFL do something for the lulz and say they invented it
 
biggiemic said:
If/hopefully when it does, become a full time home and away season, will the NPL teams that play in the NSD keep teams in the NPL?

Ideall id like the NSD to consist of a few existing NPL teams, and some new teams, for example a Tasmanian team, Canberra team etc.
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If the NSD is closed off from NPL (eg, option 3 in the poll), Ideally all clubs in both A-League and NSD would field academies in the NPL pyramid in the same way A-League clubs do now. This is of course assuming open P/R between A-League and NSD and being a level playing field between the two tiers (eg salary cap, player points cap, whatever)
 
2nd tier - H/A season aligned with either A-League or NPL.

3rd tier - NPL champions league (top 2 each state + last two placed clubs in 2nd division)
 
0x3mp1r3 said:
2nd tier - H/A season aligned with either A-League or NPL.

3rd tier - NPL champions league (top 2 each state + last two placed clubs in 2nd division)
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If all seasons ran alongside eachother at the same time - this is my ideal format too, or something like that (even if it's just the premiers of each state NPL + bottom two from 2nd division for 2x groups of 5, or bottom from 2nd division if NT also are part of this)
 
NicCarBel said:
If the NSD is closed off from NPL (eg, option 3 in the poll), Ideally all clubs in both A-League and NSD would field academies in the NPL pyramid in the same way A-League clubs do now. This is of course assuming open P/R between A-League and NSD and being a level playing field between the two tiers (eg salary cap, player points cap, whatever)
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Salary cap has to be scrapped if we are to have promotion/relegation.
 
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