EXCLUSIVE: A second West Sydney A-League bid has confirmed it will use ANZ Stadium as its home ground if accepted into the competition.
The Joe Meisner-backed bid confirmed today that despite initially favouring Penrith's CUA stadium, ANZ's recession-busting deal has swung the bid.
It's understood the stadium has offered a deal that means a franchise cannot lose money on playing at the 82,000 seat venue - even though it is likely to be largely empty, as it is for many NRL games.
"We're at an advanced stage with ANZ Stadium and I'd say we'd be probably playing out of that stadium for most of our matches," Meisner told au.fourfourtwo.com today.
"I still favour CUA, but the problem is the best I can do is maybe get CUA for nothing, ANZ will pay me to play the team out of there"
ANZ Stadium is also favoured by the Richie Williams-Chris Tanner bid although the 20,000 capacity Parramatta Stadium is the venue of choice for the Paddy Dominguez bid.
The Meisner bid, with Bertie Mariani as CEO, will meet with the FFA on Wednesday to discuss their plans. It's understood a decision on the west Sydney bid will be made in July.
"All we can tell you is the truth and the truth is, we're ready to go," added Meisner.
The Meisner bid did interview Gary Van Egmond for the job of head coach, but the Jets boss took the job as head coach of the AIS football program.
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