“We haven’t been sent any more detail. Until any sort of formal expressions of interest gets released, we’re just waiting for more information like everyone else.”

Nonetheless, Windley is confident that, despite the lack of clarity around the details, the south-east Melbourne entity was agile enough to adjust itself to meet the requirements of either.

“We said that on the day that we missed out that we’d be willing to explore anything that delivered an A-League and a W-League team to the region,” Windley said.

“Everyone sort of knows that we were a different bid. It was really grassroots focused, community focused, about delivering outcomes for the community at large.

“We’ve got an end goal in mind, clearly the journey might end up being different to what we anticipated when we set out on the road three or so years ago, but it doesn’t change the determination to bring out a team.

“Around us in terms of where you play, the fact that the first stage of Casey Fields [development] is going to be finished hopefully later this month or early April gives a team a place to be based.

“And I think that facility is agile enough or can be delivered quickly enough to incorporate a venue more than capable of hosting NSD matches for sure.”

Casey Fields – earmarked by Team 11 during its A-League bid as a temporary home until their proposed stadium was complete – recently hosted 6120 fans in rectangular mode to see NRL side Melbourne Storm take on North Queensland Cowboys for a pre-season match last month.

Windley added: “Clearly the discussion around Dandenong [stadium] comes more into the fray when we’re talking more specifically about an A-League licence."