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Was also reading about Team 11. I thought that City had shamelessly stolen Team 11's ideas for the southeast of Melbourne, but it seems Team 11 actually teamed up with City a few years ago. Dandenong council are still very keen to get that stadium built next to the train station. I'd love to know the hold up... I'm guessing the government is ignoring the funding request.

www.greaterdandenong.vic.gov.au

Proposed Dandenong Stadium

The proposed Dandenong Sports and Events Centre was an important part of the Team 11 A-League and Women's League bid and the announcement that Melbourne City Football Club is relocating to South East Melbourne marks a step forward in bringing that plan to life. The City of Greater Dandenong has...
www.greaterdandenong.vic.gov.au www.greaterdandenong.vic.gov.au
 
I kind of just want 14 aus based teams so we can in theory have as many pathways as the nsl era

Then a full h and a nyl and we might finally start seeing a functional production line again
 
TheSelectFew said:
Lowys too. He gave the fat prick the licence in the first place and Tinkler. JFC. Must have a type.
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was he really forced to take GC's license? If Palmer acts like a wally that sux, but less than having 1 less club..
 
southoftheyarra said:
Wow this is super amazing, interesting how the term 'mainstream' is used and floating created teams in place of South and Knights. Where did you find this? Are there more treasures from Australian football obscurity we can try and search for?
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Yeah there are a few familiar ideas in there. I found the document in two places. On Ozfootball and the website of the company that did the proposal, it's still there after 20 years!
 
HappyGuus said:
Yeah there are a few familiar ideas in there. I found the document in two places. On Ozfootball and the website of the company that did the proposal, it's still there after 20 years!
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Top sleuth work mate!! Remember having eyed it somewhere ages and ages ago, but stupidly hadnt kept a copy for reference!
 
HappyGuus said:
Geez I've learnt a lot these past few days 😅 . Anyone heard of the Australasian Premier League? A proposal in 2003 for a new league with second division!


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Never heard of this one at the time, nothing. All I(& I suspect most of us left over from those days) knew about was the PFA’s proposed model(which Lowy & O’Neill cherry-picked to form the conceptual basis of the ALM):

 
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