[16th team] Rugby Union on the Central Coast

[choc_soldier]

We need a lower division that includes WA/SA/Vic sides
One with Central Coast/and some current NRL teams
Have some more Qld sides.

Teams in NRL (needed)

Nth Qld
2 South Qld sides (lowest ranked each year plays the Qld Cup winner to decide relegation)
1 NZ team
Canberra
5 NSW sides (lowest ranked plays winner of a newly created NSW Cup to decide relegation)
1 Southern State (plays winner of Interstate league)
1 Wild card (Cup played between winner of Vicorian, SA, WA, NZ comps with relegated sides from other regions - winner of cup played at, end of season, is in the NRL)

NSW Cup would include:
North Sydney
Central Coast
Newtown
Other regional sides
with relegated current NRL sides.

Going on last year it would include:
Souths
Tigers
Manly
Cronulla

So going on that the NRL would be:

Melbourne
NZ Warriors
Brisbane
GC team
Nth Qld
Canberra
Penrith
Sydney
Newcastle
Parramatta
St George-Ill
Wild Card Cup winner


Next year could look like:

Perth
NZ Warriors
Another Qld Cup side
GC team
Nth Qld
Canberra
Penrith
Sydney
Newcastle
Parramatta
North Sydney
Central Coast

This way teams that don't achieve still can compete but not in the top flight.

I like the idea, but comps like the Queensland Cup and first division, are a notch below the NRL, and the non-league states a level below even still.

The point I'm trying to make is that any team that is "promoted" to the NRL will simply be cannon-fodder, and will more or less be the team that'll finish last, just like the English Premier League, where at least one of promoted clubs finish in the relegation zone.

This could be fixed if there was an open transfer system or a draft, but history shows that both of them have been rejected through court action.

I am all for the introduction of both the Central and Gold Coasts in the NRL, and perhaps a few years down the track, the introduction of a second NZ team, based in Wellington.

 

[Razor]

Lets not forget that Singo is going to fund the CC Bears himself for the first 3 or 5 years, thus the NRL will not have to cough up a cent for the Bears

But they'll still get the grant like every team in every single sporting competition in the world does. Divided equally amongst clubs. Remember the clubs don't keep their own merchandising money. It all goes to the NRL, and divided evenly amongst the clubs as part of the grant, same with TV money.