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Gerard heads the South Australia consortium, who took over the club from Football Federation Australia (FFA) on Monday, which includes Dr Richard Noble, Bruno Marveggio and lawyer Greg Griffin, who will also immediately become the club's chairman.

Both Griffin and Noble are heavily involved with SANFL club North Adelaide and Gerard said his dream of 'code sharing' will see both clubs and codes benefit from the exercise.

Gerard acknowledged with the Hyundai A-League running in summer and North Adelaide playing in winter, he hopes incentives such as dual memberships will be the way of the future.

"The other thing I would say is we're going to have a fair bit of North Adelaides in here with us," he said.

"I've got this little dream of mine that there's going to be a bit of code sharing in the years to come. I don't believe in any town you can just have one code of it. We've got a summer game and a winter game and I think we can put a lot of backroom and admin and all that together.

"We can put a lot of the clubs together. And we can have club rooms and make those clubs very, very strong. And we can do things with membership, dual membership.

"Perhaps we can get a little bit of the people that follow soccer watching the AFL in the winter time and we'll have our members at the Roosters coming here watching you play in the summer.

"I think dual codes have a future, I really do. This might start something here and around Australia. Perhaps dual codes have a better way of going."

Incoming chief executive Griffin said the consortium was looking to take the club into a new era and make it financially successful, although he didn't disclose how much they paid for United.

"We paid more than we wanted to and less than they (FFA) wanted," he said. "We think we can actually turn this around financially. We expect to return the club to profitability ...

"We're not here to lose money, we're actually here to make it."

United, who have been under FFA control since May 2009 when then owner Nick Bianco pulled out, have been forced to operate on a shoe-string budget and failed to secure a marquee signing this season due to their lack of funds.

Despite being on the job for 'all of an hour', Griffin admitted he will be meeting with head coach Rini Coolen immediately in assessing the needs of the squad, with the possibility of signing a marquee player in the January transfer window.

"My next meeting is with Rini," Griffin said. "Undoubtedly Rini will tell us the sort of expectations he has of us as the new owners in terms of going to the market and finding players.

"But, essentially we want this club to be extremely successful."

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