Rockin Ronny
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His point being that if these companies want to advertise into the Brisbane market and use NRL as that vehicle then they currently can't as there is only one club. You could argue why don't Bundy sponsor a different NRL club outside Brisbane which would be a fair question unless Bundy specifically want their product associated with a Brisbane NRL club for what ever reason.
The bigger issue is incompetence in existing clubs.
Nothing shits me more than these gormless football club executives whining about a bigger grant - which might add $500K or $1 million each year - when they really need $10-15 million to be viable.
If th IC is fair dinkum, they should say to eah bid - "right, you need $15 million a year to run a team (excluding the grant) - so come back with binding commitments/ contracts from your sponsors for a guaranteed $75 million for the next 5 years". Watch most of these bids go to pieces OR come up with some bullshit centre of excellence development/deferred payment scheme.
Rugby league management has a chance with thes TV rights negotiation/expansion to show other codes how professional we are. Being owned and a slave to news limited (with a News Limited CEO) has made our game a laughing stock. It's time the game was run professionally.