Anyone got any news about the new team and it can go in here.
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/sport/afl/story/0,26576,23463740-19742,00.html
Western Sydney Football Club Ltd registered as new Sydney AFL club
Damian Barrett | April 01, 2008 12:00am
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Western Sydney Football Club Ltd is the name settled on by the AFL for the second club to be based in New South Wales.
It has been registered under the corporations act.
AFL chief executive Andrew Demetriou said the team, when formally introduced to the competition some time after the 2010 season, would not necessarily boast the registered name.
Final naming rights will rest with the parents-to-be, they being the members of the consortium chosen to run the AFL's 18th licence.
"It is more of a pre-emptive thing," Demetriou said of the registering of Western Sydney Football Club Limited.
"It is in case someone else ended up having the name, to take a bit of control of what we are doing there.
"Basically, it is to protect the name, and to give the group that is successful with the licence the option of using it."
As well as formally lodging the name, the AFL has created a legal framework for the new club in establishing a constitution under which it must operate.
A document relating to the company name and constitution was signed on March 14, a day after the AFL received unanimous support from the current 16 clubs to forge ahead with its expansion plans in both western Sydney and the Gold Coast.
The Gold Coast team was officially conceived late last year, when, on Christmas Eve, the AFL formally registered the name Gold Coast Football Club Ltd.
"As we did with the Gold Coast, it is just us being very prudent, so that we don't get caught out in setting up the club," Demetriou said of the official lodgement of a name under the corporations act.
"That name may be the one decided on . . . what if we didn't find out until after the event that it was taken?
"It is similar to domain names with websites. We wanted to make sure we were on the front foot rather than catching up later."
A clause in the constitutions of both the western Sydney and Gold Coast clubs states the new entities must be registered with not just the AFL but also Football Victoria.
The AFL's general manager legal and business affairs Andrew Dillon said nothing should be read into the need to "join and subscribe to the Associations known as the Australian Football League, Football Victoria, their successors and/or any other body having a similar object or objects".
"There is nothing to be read in to that, it is just a standard constitution we have rolled out, and it was more just to reserve the name as opposed to anything else," Dillon said.
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Western Sydney Football Club Ltd registered as new Sydney AFL club
Damian Barrett | April 01, 2008 12:00am
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- THE AFL's newest baby has been officially conceived.
Western Sydney Football Club Ltd is the name settled on by the AFL for the second club to be based in New South Wales.
It has been registered under the corporations act.
AFL chief executive Andrew Demetriou said the team, when formally introduced to the competition some time after the 2010 season, would not necessarily boast the registered name.
Final naming rights will rest with the parents-to-be, they being the members of the consortium chosen to run the AFL's 18th licence.
"It is more of a pre-emptive thing," Demetriou said of the registering of Western Sydney Football Club Limited.
"It is in case someone else ended up having the name, to take a bit of control of what we are doing there.
"Basically, it is to protect the name, and to give the group that is successful with the licence the option of using it."
As well as formally lodging the name, the AFL has created a legal framework for the new club in establishing a constitution under which it must operate.
A document relating to the company name and constitution was signed on March 14, a day after the AFL received unanimous support from the current 16 clubs to forge ahead with its expansion plans in both western Sydney and the Gold Coast.
The Gold Coast team was officially conceived late last year, when, on Christmas Eve, the AFL formally registered the name Gold Coast Football Club Ltd.
"As we did with the Gold Coast, it is just us being very prudent, so that we don't get caught out in setting up the club," Demetriou said of the official lodgement of a name under the corporations act.
"That name may be the one decided on . . . what if we didn't find out until after the event that it was taken?
"It is similar to domain names with websites. We wanted to make sure we were on the front foot rather than catching up later."
A clause in the constitutions of both the western Sydney and Gold Coast clubs states the new entities must be registered with not just the AFL but also Football Victoria.
The AFL's general manager legal and business affairs Andrew Dillon said nothing should be read into the need to "join and subscribe to the Associations known as the Australian Football League, Football Victoria, their successors and/or any other body having a similar object or objects".
"There is nothing to be read in to that, it is just a standard constitution we have rolled out, and it was more just to reserve the name as opposed to anything else," Dillon said.
