Surely it is time for the NRL.....

[Roosterphin1]

To be rid of some of the Sydney teams and put teams where the people are. Was just having a look at the Central Qld bid and you would have to say they deserve a team. Good $$ and guaranteed crowds. Also Perth and Ipswich also deserve a team as there are people there who will support them.

But no Gallop and co will continue with the merry chant of keeping existing teams but seriously many are going bankrupt and there crowds are awful.

My thoughts are that for a team to continue with it having a franchise licence they should have to meet definite criteria in terms of funding, profitability and support. f**k this living in the past propping up clubs that cant function on their own. Its the nRL now not the NSWRL anymore

 

[Deacon]

Agreed.
2 Sydney Teams will be gone within 5-10 years through relocation or financial hardship.
We need to grow the game

 

[RHCP]

Cronulla?

 

[_Johnsy]

To be rid of some of the Sydney teams and put teams where the people are. Was just having a look at the Central Qld bid and you would have to say they deserve a team. Good $$ and guaranteed crowds. Also Perth and Ipswich also deserve a team as there are people there who will support them.

But no Gallop and co will continue with the merry chant of keeping existing teams but seriously many are going bankrupt and there crowds are awful.

My thoughts are that for a team to continue with it having a franchise licence they should have to meet definite criteria in terms of funding, profitability and support. f**k this living in the past propping up clubs that cant function on their own. Its the nRL now not the NSWRL anymore

Out of curiosity

How would you react if the roosters were told they were being relocated?

 

[Feej]

Out of curiosity

How would you react if the roosters were told they were being relocated?

This....

 

[Phil McGrawhan]

Out of curiosity

How would you react if the roosters were told they were being relocated?

It would just be something to add to the long list of things to whinge & whine about.

 

[Tonearm Terrorwrist]

Out of curiosity

How would you react if the roosters were told they were being relocated?

I know that would be me done with RL all together.

F**k supporting another team or a relocation.

 

[RL1908]

It must be summer.

So have all the displaced Bears fans and sponsors joined other Sydney NRL clubs?

The suggestion to reduce Sydney teams makes superficial sense, but support is about emotional buy-in, not logic.

 

[Willow]

To be rid of some of the Sydney teams and put teams where the people are.

I agree. Time for Easts to be punted.

 

[Loudstrat]

Sydney population 4 575 000

Rockhampton population 76000.

Sydney clubs = 8.5. Average population per club: 538 000

Wow. Compelling argument. If 538000 people can support a squad of 17, therefore Rocky can support 2 props and a ball boy.

Think about it. The non Sydney clubs that have a bigger population than the Sydney average are Auckland, Melbourne and Brisbane. All the rest are smaller.

Roosterphin, you are a complete and utter brainless f*cktard. Mods, please put this thread in the bin with all the other stupid "cull Sydney clubs" threads.

 

[carcharias]

Just kick out the cap cheats

 

[Slackboy72]

I'd replace cronulla with at least one Brisbane club. We need at least one game in Brisbane every week. Why keep 5000 members of the tshirt brigade happy when we can get 30,000 more brisbanites sinking their support into league.

 

[Slackboy72]

Just kick out the cap cheats

That too.
We don't need melbourne or canterbury.

 

[Ianc]

Having a team in CQ is a stupid idea. The CQ bid wouldn't get the support it needs & the Cowboys would be drained as well. The population is too small to support 2 NRL teams.

It would be like bringing the Sydney problem to Qld only 10 times worse.

 

[Perth Red]

we won't be having a team in CQ. There are at least 4 better places for teams and as the league is unlikely to grow beyond 18 for the next 2 decades CQ has about as much chance as PNG.

 

[oval]

I would hate to see any of the Sydney teams punted. Each team has it's own unique rivalry with every other team, rivalries which cannot be replaced and will be missed when they're gone (such as the rivalry between Manly and Norths).

Sure, comparing the areas of Cronulla-Sutherland, Manly-Warringah, the Eastern Suburbs or Inner-South Sydney to large areas such as Melbourne, Brisbane or the Gold Coast reveals the gross lopsidedness of club catchment areas within the NRL. And some of you may believe that there is no room for these smaller clubs in a national competition.

But the population of Sydney is growing every year, so it's logical that the supporter base of each team will continue to grow. And you simply cannot replace history, tradition, rivalry and emotional attachment. People would not support new, logical Sydney mega-clubs, such as the South Eastern Fire-Breathing Egg-Laying Rabbit-Sharks, the South-West Tigpie Eeldogs or the Northern Eagles.

 

[Perth Red]

As long as clubs are
A) Contributing to the overall health of the game
B) Not holding the game back through not being able to compete on or off the field
C) Have a decent stadium and can maintain the crowd avg for NRL

then no one should be punted. If they can't then they should be encouraged to merge, relocate or drop to a lower league.

 

[Sameagle]

Or how about an EPL (English premier league) structure with relegations for the team that gets the spoon maybe relegated to NSW cup?
Could it work?

 

[PaddyBoy]

I think what people forget about Cronulla is they have sucked big time, and never built up a fan base as they were never really successful. If they ever had a team do reasonably well I think they would be way better than Manly or the Roosters for supporters. Both these clubs have had recent success and show little off the field to prove it.

But cutting teams is still dumb, no support for rugby league in north Sydney atm.

 

[PaddyBoy]

Or how about an EPL (English premier league) structure with relegations for the team that gets the spoon maybe relegated to NSW cup?
Could it work?

Big clubs basically collapse under these situations. Reeks of amateur hour.

Have a look at a club like Leeds to see what relegation does to a club especially when the bridge between the first division and the rest blows out.

Also, who pays the players contracts if they can't get back up and have no money? The championship in England is bikkies compared to the EPL and it's still in the top 10 most financially lucrative leagues in Europe. Clubs go bust when they go under, and drive themselves into debt to avoid it, making the drop even worse.

Plus, if Brisbane go down, there goes a huge chunk of the market.