16th Team Bid

[Dragon Fanatic]

In you opinion who will get the bid for the 16th NRL club to be entered in 2006?

 

[Dragon Fanatic]

Wellington. As the Gold Coast and Gosford have both had teams representing their area(and in the case of Gosford North Sydney as well) and both have folded. Where as in NZ they have had one team for a while and they are really going well. Except for the thrashing they recieved from penrith!

 

[beast]

Has to be Gosford, the Central Coast Bears would be a great league force and an existing team will relocate or be relocated to the Gold Coast.

 

[Mayor_Quimby]

Has to be Gosford, the Central Coast Bears would be a great league force and an existing team will relocate or be relocated to the Gold Coast.

The central coast won't support a team known as the bears, well thats the feeling i got.

God they are ingrates

 

[GBT]

I can't believe Gosford - which is really an outer suburb of Sydney, little further than Penrith from the CBD - is included. But that's parochialism for you. We suffer from they same desease in the UK, or should I say, the M62 corridor.

No wonder the AFL are pissing themselves.

 

[SP]

Id like to see gold coast back

 

[Mr Angry]

Has to be a QLD side - it really is that simple.

 

[Mayor_Quimby]

Has to be a QLD side - it really is that simple.

yep, even if it is just to piss Singleton off :lol: :lol:

 

[salivor]

I'd like to see it be the Gold Coast but I think the Central Coast has a better chance of working. Singleton seems to have a plan worked out, they've paid off the debt, they've got plenty of juniors and its apparently one of the fastest growing areas in Australia. Logic says that the Central Coast is more likely to be financially stable, well supported and in the long term quite successful.

 

[Mayor_Quimby]

I'd like to see it be the Gold Coast but I think the Central Coast has a better chance of working. Singleton seems to have a plan worked out, they've paid off the debt, they've got plenty of juniors and its apparently one of the fastest growing areas in Australia. Logic says that the Central Coast is more likely to be financially stable, well supported and in the long term quite successful.

time will tell

 

[Mr Angry]

I find it funny the two leading contenders - Gold Coast and Gosford - are essentially retirement villages. How many of the population are actually young enough to spawn future players? At least the Gold Coast could poach some Brissy, Logan, Redlands Juniors. Not sure where Gosford juniors would come.

 

[Anonymous]

Does Wellington even have a bid together? I don't think its on the agenda. Correct me if I'm wrong but who is in charge of the bid, if any?

Gosford is part of Sydney... I know the fine folk of Woy Woy and beyond would disagree but whatever you look at it, Hornsby is just down the road. If the plane is to get less teams in Sydney (and I believe it is the plan) then Gosford are on a sticky wicket. But at least they have a serious bid in the pipeline.

The Gold Coast is the only rational choice. The city has a population of over 450,000 and growing fast. In addition, They have huge footprint which stretches from the NSW Northern Rivers up to Logan.
This includes the Group 1, 2, 18 and 19 competitions. Any team which relocates to the Gold Coast gets all of that and no doubt will still have a claw in it's old junior base as well.

On top of all that, its almost universally accepted that SE Qld must have a second team in the NRL.

 

[Mayor_Quimby]

I’d say that the storm will move up to the gold coast in 2005. And then maybe a central coast team, which would make it a 16 team comp and no need for the crappy bye :twisted:

 

[salivor]

I don't think Wellington have a bid at all. I'd love to see a team here but sadly its probably a good decade away. Theres no financial backing for it, no real junior base and I don't know if theres a strong enough supporter base. I think a Sydney team rellocating is the only option for Wellington in the short term. I think Wellington is only getting a mention because of a few comments from Gallop and the NRL.

 

[Alan Shore]

It should be Perth, or even Adelaide. THe two areas that need teams most.

But if I had to choose from the above list I'd go with the Gold Coast.

 

[GBT]

It should be Perth, or even Adelaide. THe two areas that need teams most.

But if I had to choose from the above list I'd go with the Gold Coast.

Agreed! Especially a Perth team. Weren't they making progress at grassroots level before the NRL pulled the plug?

 

[Alan Shore]

It should be Perth, or even Adelaide. THe two areas that need teams most.

But if I had to choose from the above list I'd go with the Gold Coast.

Agreed! Especially a Perth team. Weren't they making progress at grassroots level before the NRL pulled the plug?

Hell yes! Junior numbers were on the rise, along with WARL support and some WA juniors have played 1st Grade. Some played for the Reds, and the Eels' Petersen is from Perth. Cronulla prop Nathan Vagg is a South Australian junior.