Yeah - probably true - I still think 26 is way too small and would like a 30 game minimum plus other games. At this stage a lot of teams just play 27 games but if you can keep a team together for a couple of seasons you can rack up decent game totals.

League 1 and the Scottish League (assuming you avoid injury) gives you proximity and eyes on you from the other English and European leagues and much longer seasons.

Canberra and another Melbourne was the given in the question. I was giving 3 for the final two and Hobart don't have a stadium the APL would accept. TBH I always thought the Gold Coast would end up being RB Gold Coast . Townsville and Gold Coast had better attendances (in spite of the self...

Wherever there is a stadium that fits straight away. So Gold Coast and Adelaide or Townsville

I don't want to play 40 games in the A-league against only the current sides . But let's bite the bullet and expand quickly. 16 team ALM, 16 team Championship. That's 30 games, then up to 5 games for the ALM in the Australia Cup, more for the Championship sides. Then a 'League cup' with the top...

He can't be that old - I remember Uncle Doug from his 2GO days while I was holidaying at Avoca Beach.

As for the being emotionally investment side of things I followed the Balmain Tigers from about the age of six. They merged with Western Suburbs and the merged entity means nothing to me or the NRL as a whole. My connection to the NRL is now through the Holman Barnes Group and their tie-in to...

I worked with a guy from Melbourne who was a mad St Kilda fan. He went down to watch a game and came back with a few days worth of the Herald Sun. I expected the AFL to dominate the back pages, which it did. What I didn't expect was the banishment of any real news from the front pages as the AFL...

The AFL in the southern states and the NRL and NSW and QLD should not fear us. The simple fact is that at a national level football operates for the most part in their off season and football doesn't dominate there either. You have the big horse racing carnivals, the real national sport cricket...

I agree - it seems to be pretty hard to break into the ALM from the NPL. e.g. John A.