AFL CHIEF executive Andrew Demetriou remains confident the league can convince the clubs about the merits of expansion, despite ongoing concerns.

The AFL meets with the club presidents in Melbourne on Thursday at 2.30pm and much of the agenda will concern the AFL's determination to start new teams in south-east Queensland and western Sydney.

Hawthorn president and former Victorian premier Jeff Kennett was quoted as saying that the information he had received so far from the AFL about expansion was "gumph".

Collingwood president Eddie McGuire has also expressed concerns about the strategy. The Herald Sun reported on Thursday that McGuire had considered a special 'shareholders' meeting of presidents to demand more detail from the AFL about its expansion plans, but has instead collated a list of questions from the 16 clubs.

The newspaper reports they were forwarded to the AFL last week, with commission chairman Mike Fitzpatrick and league chief Demetriou poised to release key details of expansion in Queensland and western Sydney.

"We don't want to have another presidents' meeting where some presidents aren't given the full information and get frustrated and have a go, and the AFL gets frustrated and has a go back," McGuire is quoted as saying.

"The AFL have had these questions for a week and hopefully we will have some answers. I don't expect them to have all the answers tomorrow (Thursday) by any stretch, but I'm hoping to walk away with some of the philosophical discussion."

Speaking after a presentation on the state of the finances of the existing clubs on Wednesday, Demetriou said there was good news in expansion for all clubs.

"(There is) particularly good news for clubs who are not as strong financially as some of the other clubs," he said.

"We want an 18-team competition, so we don't want any teams not to be in the competition.

"We'll do all we can to demonstrate to the clubs in the next six to eight months that there are some really positive things that can come out of an expanded competition," he said.

The 16 club presidents have been invited to view the AFL's expansion plans before the discussion and it is expected much of the meeting will be taken up with the league explaining how it will spread its wings further.

"We think it is a great idea for the game to continue to grow. How best we go about it is what intelligent people with the game's good at heart will debate," McGuire said in the Herald Sun article.