Understand your points Raj, but realistically why would any of the big card players get into the Australian football card market?
Nobody believes the FFA's own press about how popular the a-league is. Just have to look at actual membership numbers of other codes...AFL 900,000+, NRL 300,000+
A-league membership was 117,415 in 2016/17 - the highest ever the FFA trumpet!! That number is dominated by 2 clubs - Victory 26,000+ & WSW 20,000.
IMO...There simply isn't the market in Australia to make profit for those big players. In many ways I am surprised that TnP are even going ahead with another release for 2017/18.
You'd hope that if TnP are going to go again it is a quality realease, not just more of the same. But that is probably wishing for a bit too much. Of course the counter argument is that there should be no release if it's going to be a sub-standard release.
Time will tell & the market will judge it accordingly.
PS....congrats on your award from @Matt26 as the most negative person on the OZCT forum (as per post in the upcoming TnP Ashes cricket release thread). I thought I was giving that award a fair shake with some of TnP's earlier releases.