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The Australian Championship Thread

KostaV92 said:
💰 The $500k bank guarantee was refunded in recognition of the significantly lower costs of a champions league model vs full H/A season

🏟️ Our source had been given no indication the competition was ending because of the refunded guarantee
📊 H/A season cost was estimated at over $1mil. Champions league model well below $500k for a season.

➕ Another RFP will open with the goal of adding more clubs in 2 years’ time

📺 Broadcaster announcement is close, we were told within 2 weeks, and it will be on a streaming service

💵 No entry fee this season, next season is expected to be under $50k

♻️ FA will create a transfer window after the NPL season for AusChamp clubs to sign players
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So, we had no league launch in 2024, no league in 2025, no league in 2026, and as the next RFP phase will be in 2027 so there will be no league that year either. They absolutely don't want this thing to launch and dragging their feet towards 2034.

I can't see how the foundation 8 automatically qualify for next year's tournament now that their guarantee has been returned, they're entitled to nothing now, I assume. I'd say they qualify this year for a number of reasons, like FA keeping the interest payments on the $500k, being too late to pull out after the league was cancelled, and just general goodwill for screwing them over.

I reckon we're heading for at least three years of this group format. But from next year the 16 teams should come from the top of each fed, two each. Then use these results to base the third season's and future spots on coefficients.

And I think the $50k entry fee is ridiculous. FA should be funding this tournament, the clubs will be paying their own players and staff.

I'm so pissed off. To paraphrase Eric Bana in The Castle, "May I say how disenchanted I am in our football system".
 
HG Nothing surprises anymore when it comes to AU football. Worse still when its weighed up with the money still owed by aleague to FA, more than enough to have funded the whole championship for the first years but lets leave that alone also! Now that she has got 'the job done' maybe the gig will remain with her permanently with the blessing of some very relieved overlords ofcourse!

The FA's desire to require the equivalent of 2 football sides to run a league is the icing on the cake when it comes to costings.. that is other level incompetence! @grazorblade That fantastic sunshine coast interview needs to be followed up with the owners and the info leaks/rumours then set tobthe F8 clubs..

And with that very incompetence and distrust in place we can all understand the logic of SMFC continuing to push its desire simultanously (or perhaps solely at this rate) for the OFC!

Shambles!
 
HappyGuus said:
So, we had no league launch in 2024, no league in 2025, no league in 2026, and as the next RFP phase will be in 2027 so there will be no league that year either. They absolutely don't want this thing to launch and dragging their feet towards 2034.

I can't see how the foundation 8 automatically qualify for next year's tournament now that their guarantee has been returned, they're entitled to nothing now, I assume. I'd say they qualify this year for a number of reasons, like FA keeping the interest payments on the $500k, being too late to pull out after the league was cancelled, and just general goodwill for screwing them over.

I reckon we're heading for at least three years of this group format. But from next year the 16 teams should come from the top of each fed, two each. Then use these results to base the third season's and future spots on coefficients.

And I think the $50k entry fee is ridiculous. FA should be funding this tournament, the clubs will be paying their own players and staff.

I'm so pissed off. To paraphrase Eric Bana in The Castle, "May I say how disenchanted I am in our football system".
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I understand that you are pissed off - but maybe you are reading this incorrectly.

Another RFP will open with the goal of adding more clubs in 2 years’ time

I take that as adding clubs in 2 years time - not opening a RFP in 2 years time.
 
patjennings said:
I understand that you are pissed off - but maybe you are reading this incorrectly.

Another RFP will open with the goal of adding more clubs in 2 years’ time

I take that as adding clubs in 2 years time - not opening a RFP in 2 years time.
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Ahh yes, you could be right there. A number of pods have discussed it, and it came across as the RFP will be in two years. But I hope/think you're right.
 
patjennings said:
I understand that you are pissed off - but maybe you are reading this incorrectly.

Another RFP will open with the goal of adding more clubs in 2 years’ time

I take that as adding clubs in 2 years time - not opening a RFP in 2 years time.
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We would like to hope so but this is what we have to date:
1. FA secrecy and only news being that the comp runs as is for 2 years.. we ignore that and focus on some supposed commitment from FA, ok!.
2. APL against it!
3. Clubs despite clearly elegible being denied on the most rediculous reasons (sunshine coast).
4. FA not dealing with football qld or football tasmania who have elegible clubs to put them in place and get clubs cemented in.
5. The requirement of minimum state participation from get go, despite the logistical nightmare!

All these and more are what lead to being sceptical... along with a loooong history of distrust!
 
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