Canberra ready but West Sydney wanted?

A-League4Canberra has investors, sponsors, a great ground, training facilities, foundation members 1700, 13,000 grassroots signatures but the FFA are pushing hard to get West Sydney.

Stories continue to be in my view "made up" around the West Sydney bid as the FFA and others attempt to stoke the fires. Little substance around any of the stories.

Fair enough. A Fox Tv deal with a second Melbourne and Sydney team makes sense to me. But if Canberra's bid is "the best ever seen," can we have 13 teams?

FFA stoking the fires

FOOTBALL Federation Australia boss Ben Buckley confirmed to Parrot that, as suggested in this paper last week, the backers of South Coast FC's A-League bid are considering extending their reach to Sydney. "There has been some discussion with the Wollongong group that they might look to expand their territory to include the western part of Sydney," Buckley said. "Wollongong has talked to us about having a western Sydney identity as well." WIN Stadium remains a headache but here's the tricky bit for South Coast - FFA won't split a team between two regions. "They need to be based in western Sydney or Wollongong, not have a halfway house," Buckley said. "If they were to be in western Sydney and have a relationship with Wollongong, that might work."