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My hope for the game in this country is a day possibly by 2030, we have a 20 team A-League, with a fully professional 20 team second division. We would have 2 teams being automatically relegated and promoted each season, with a playoff between 18th in the A-League and 3rd in the second division for the last spot. We would have the FFA Cup running throughout the season culminating in a final after the last match day. We would have no finals series, the best team after 38 games wins. We would have 3 teams automatically qualifying for the Champion's League and a fourth team that would be either 4th place or the FFA Cup winners playing in the playoff round. We would have a final day of 10 simultaneous kick offs. We would have no salary cap, we would have transfers and a loan system between Australian clubs. We would have no Wellington Phoenix and all 40 professional teams would be based in Australia. They would all have their own stadium which they own and control. We would have all of these professional clubs with world class academies producing the next batch of socceroos. This socceroos team would be making, and getting out of the group of all world cups, pressing on into the round of 16. We would have our A-League clubs pushing their way into Champion's League finals and semi-finals. But most importantly. We would have a country that is united in the purpose of trying to make football work in this country.