800 signed-up! Hope spreads across Canberra, and the Region

800 have now signed up, that's 2400 potential members in my opinion.

I'll keep you posted when we get more publicity. Of course we dominated the Nearpost radio tonight, I host the show!

And I've been interviewed......

for FourFourTwo for their website, and that will take us into the football community across Australia. Slowly we have been appearing on fans forums as the news filters out across the Net.

And, of course, everyone has been helping, Doing their bit. And Anthony Hatton and I thankyou. Together we have a powerful voice, talk is spreading across town, many signing up, already, for something that doesn't exist. How many would sign-up for the real deal?

Some feedback:

"I've forwarded the email to 100 people," said Chris. I've never met him!
"I reckon I forwarded it to 200 maybe 250," said Jean. I've never met her.
"Let's just see where this thing goes," said another fan who'd had his hopes for a Canberra side dashed again and again. You could feel he was just slowly, daring to hope. Could we really get a team in our great city?

"We're planning a supporters group, we've been emailing and thinking," said another.

Where once we feared to tread, or so we were told, Canberrans and those in Albury, Queanbeyan, Bateman's Bay, Cooma, Goulburn and even Adelaide, Sydney, Wollongong and beyond continue to sign up. Maybe we were just never given a chance, a voice.

My mind flashed forward. If we have a team in two or three years, can you imagine the interest the hope in the new team.

The excitement as names, colours and coaches are discussed. Who would play from Canberra? Who would come from overseas? Is there a role in the club for recently retired Ned Zelic, or former Fulham FC fitness and conditioning coach Andrew Young?

And locally would Milan Milanovanovic coach, or maybe Tom Sermanni, Alex Tobin...so the list goes on.

And for you. A new job, a new shop, a new shirt, a new routine. We are daring to dream. Each name and we're starting to shock and rock a few in the Canberra community and indeed across Australia.