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The club is facing a potential crisis on Friday when other A-League teams will be able to sign their best stars for next season...and Fury are currently unable to do anything to stop them.

Temporary owner Football Federation Australia have banned Fury from extending any of the current one year contracts until the club's future is more secure.

Under A-League rules,  from October 1, clubs can try to cherrypick their rivals' best players for next season - and Fury will be unable to make any kind of counter offer.

But Fury's football operations manager Robbie Middleby was confident the problem wouldn't become an issue for the club.

"With our low budget compared to other teams, we were always going to have to face the situation that if the players here do perform or show potential, other clubs are going to come in and offer more money," he said.

"Regardless of the situation, it was going to happen anyway. If we lose anyone now, we were going to lose them anyway."

The club is relying on the tight family unit created under coach Franz Straka to bond the players firmly to the club - and the fact that Fury have offered them regular game time where other clubs did not.

With a core of young players, many like Isaka Cernak and Chris Payne spent previous seasons in the youth league or on the sidelines with other A-League clubs and little chance of serious gametime.

Now their careers have been transformed at Fury where they have been given the chance to shine and earn plaudits and accolades for their exciting brand of football.

Management hope the players are eager to carry on the adventure next season at Fury rather than risk a possible backward career step at other clubs purely for money.

"They will come looking," said Middleby. "But it's not just the other clubs - it's the agents as well. You can't control them..."

The gamble may well work out though - the impressive Cernak doesn't even have an agent, Payne spurned a late offer from Sydney to join Fury, and potential superstar Dave Williams ignored other clubs to stay at Fury at the end of last season.

But Middleby would not say he was confident the club's future was secure yet.

"From what I see myself, it would be a tragedy if there wasn't a club up there," he said.

"What we've created at the moment , with the coaches, the players and the atmosphere, and what we're trying to do in the community up there as well, I think it looks bright."

He admitted: "There was a doubt there beforehand. They have to work the whole budget out properly - not just the football budget but the whole budget to make sure it's final.

"I know that's what [Fury CEO] Rabieh Krayem is trying to do back in Townsville right now. The support we are getting from Townsville is tremendous at the moment.

"It will take some time to get the community ownership nutted out but I see it as something that will definitely happen in the future and the ownership will take place."

Middleby also dismissed the oft-quoted 7,000-crowd break even figure the club has been said to need to survive at their Dairy Farmers Stadium home.

"I don't know where they got that from," he said. "We still have the rugby league happening up there at the moment and the Cowboys get a great support.

"As soon as that finishes, I think it's definitely achievable for us, especially if we start getting some results."

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