PNG's back.

[Get Rid of The Donkeys]

Pretty good, finished higher than the dolphins managed in yr1 and had a crowd avg better than 12 heartland clubs.

Bringing up on field performance doesn't favour your argument. The Reds drew an average of 13k to their games at the WACA. Dolphins drew 32k to their games at Lang Park.

Imagine how shit the crowds would have been for the Reds if they finished last?

 

[Perth Red]

Bringing up on field performance doesn't favour your argument. The Reds drew an average of 13k to their games at the WACA. Dolphins drew 32k to their games at Lang Park.

Imagine how shit the crowds would have been for the Reds if they finished last?

13k in an afl city of 1 million, better than 12 heartland clubs!
finished better on the field than dolphins managed.
yeh perth sure sucked lol

imagine how sht the crowds would have been if dolphins had played all games at kayo lol

 

[Get Rid of The Donkeys]

13k in an afl city of 1 million, better than 12 heartland clubs!
finished better on the field than dolphins managed.
yeh perth sure sucked lol

imagine how sht the crowds would have been if dolphins had played all games at kayo lol

Imagine how shit the Dolphins crowds would have been if they played all 12 games at PRS as the West Coast Pirates?

 

[mongoose]

wow, every thread is just GROTD vs PR...

well except the one death riding NZ RU

 

[Canard]

wow, every thread is just GROTD vs PR...

well except the one death riding NZ RU

It's rats fighting over cheese

 

[MugaB]

It's rats fighting over cheese

 

[Maximus]

It'd be good to have a mod here to keep donkey's repetitive crap to one of the 13 threads he/pippen set up about Perth.

 

[Perth Red]

It'd be good to have a mod here to keep donkey's repetitive crap to one of the 13 threads he/pippen set up about Perth.

I’ve been calling for one for years! I’ve offered my services

 

[Perth Red]

been quiet on png for a while

 

[MugaB]

I’ve been calling for one for years! I’ve offered my services

Fk that, you aren't a mods arsehole... your way too bias especially on every expansion thread, just the mere mention of the ARLC chairman and you go all postal... you also come up with too many hypocritical agendas against the NRL decisions on basically everything, so yeah no one should be expecting you to be a moderator

 

[MugaB]

been quiet on png for a while

Maybe they are keeping the actual bid they have quiet, you know like your imaginary Perf bid

 

[Get Rid of The Donkeys]

Maxipad is still upset about getting owned yesterday.

LOL @ Perth Red thinking he's moderator material.

Another LOL @ Perth Red for insinuating the PNG bid has been quiet. We all know what he means by that. Funny how he doesn't use the same criteria against the Perth bid.

 

[Get Rid of The Donkeys]

Is V'landys serious about PNG, or is he just using it as a political football to attract media attention?

 

[Wb1234]

Perth isnt Melbourne. It’s an easier sell here, adelaide probably a harder sell given the neglect of the place by RL.

Wasn’t for union or soccer who have much stronger junior bases and roots in Perth

 

[Get Rid of The Donkeys]

Wasn’t for union or soccer who have much stronger junior bases and roots in Perth

On the one hand Perth Red says the Force are no threat to a Perth-based NRL team because rugby league is the more popular sport. On the other hand he says the only reason rugby union has three times as many players as rugby league in Perth is due to the city not having an NRL team.

How does he explain Melbourne?

There's 12k rugby union players versus 5k rugby league players in Melbourne. The Storm were around for a dozen years before the Rebels were created.

This number is similar to Perth, which has 12k rugby union players versus 4k for rugby league.

If the game was as popular as he claims then Western Australians would be playing rugby league in larger numbers. The excuses he makes for rugby league's impotency in Perth don't add up.

 

[Colk]

Wasn’t for union or soccer who have much stronger junior bases and roots in Perth

That’s because union and soccer are horse s### professionally in this country. Their leagues (if they don’t die) are more likely to become even less relevant than they are now then somehow become a competitor to league and fumbleball.

Look at the A-League: outside of say Melbourne Victory and Sydney FC nobody cares. Nobody cares about Union outside of some pockets of Sydney either (maybe Canberra as well)

It’s mind boggling and an insult that people on here keep comparing the A-League and Not Super Rugby to NRL and fumbleball.

 

[Bukowski]

That’s because union and soccer are horse s### professionally in this country. Their leagues (if they don’t die) are more likely to become even less relevant than they are now then somehow become a competitor to league and fumbleball.

Look at the A-League: outside of say Melbourne Victory and Sydney FC nobody cares. Nobody cares about Union outside of some pockets of Sydney either (maybe Canberra as well)

It’s mind boggling and an insult that people on here keep comparing the A-League and Not Super Rugby to NRL and fumbleball.

Two fellas who never leave their suburb just showing their ignorance again.

 

[AlwaysGreen]

For me International rugby league will always be the pinnacle of the game, not two states playing each other.

How can it be the Pinnacle if your mob is so woeful?

 

[The Great Dane]

That’s because union and soccer are horse s### professionally in this country. Their leagues (if they don’t die) are more likely to become even less relevant than they are now then somehow become a competitor to league and fumbleball.

Look at the A-League: outside of say Melbourne Victory and Sydney FC nobody cares. Nobody cares about Union outside of some pockets of Sydney either (maybe Canberra as well)

It’s mind boggling and an insult that people on here keep comparing the A-League and Not Super Rugby to NRL and fumbleball.

TBF, the A-league and Australian RU's struggles are almost solely down to chronic mismanagement and infighting.

Though it could be much larger than it is now RU will likely always be smaller than RL and AFL in Australia, but soccer could be reasonably competitive with the NRL and AFL overnight if it could just get even half of it's fanbase in this country to start actively supporting the local competition and teams.

You're right to say that their struggles don't have much relevance to the NRL or it's issues though.

 

[The Great Dane]

On the one hand Perth Red says the Force are no threat to a Perth-based NRL team because rugby league is the more popular sport. On the other hand he says the only reason rugby union has three times as many players as rugby league in Perth is due to the city not having an NRL team.

How does he explain Melbourne?

There's 12k rugby union players versus 5k rugby league players in Melbourne. The Storm were around for a dozen years before the Rebels were created.

This number is similar to Perth, which has 12k rugby union players versus 4k for rugby league.

If the game was as popular as he claims then Western Australians would be playing rugby league in larger numbers. The excuses he makes for rugby league's impotency in Perth don't add up.

RU is a bigger participation sport than RL in Canberra as well. There're numerous cultural and historical reasons why, but aside from a short period in the 90s RU has always had been a bigger participation sport here. Aussie Rules has generally had larger participation numbers here as well.

Are you gonna argue that the Brumbies are more successful commercially than the Raiders now?

Local participation numbers has got less than f**k all to do with the success of professional sides, and you're simply disconnected from how the modern sport's industry functions if you think otherwise.

In this day and age you can literally have multiple regions with highly successful pro teams that don't produce any local talent at all.
The NHL would probably be the best example, where Canadian players still make up a majority of the talent pool despite a minority of the teams being based in Canada, and where the Tampa Bay Lighting and Las Vegas Golden Knights have won the Stanley Cup 3 of the last 4 seasons, and it genuinely wouldn't surprise me if there isn't a single player in the NHL from either city.