Titanic bid for PNG to coast in - Titans to be sold to PNG Consortium?

[El Diablo]

But Tony won't push the interests of his local NRL club, eh El?

is this a sign you've given up?

handing out jerseys is now akin to handing out money :lol:

 

[Green Machine]

ohh ffs

why do i have to do something that's already been done in this thread?

it is not my fault you haven't f**king read it

but because you're a simpleton http://forums.leagueunlimited.com/showthread.php?p=7895959#post7895959

What's Andrew D Demetriou's views on migrants got to do with issues between the AFL and the government?
Clutch a few more straws,

 

[Green Machine]

so you have admitted you haven't read it

here's a hint

Anna Bligh

now read the thread as i'm not going to quote old posts especially for a lazy tard like you

I did read that about Anna Bligh.
I also read something about the Sydney Showground. A grant that was made about the same time as the former NSW Government gave a heap of money to the NRL to keep playing the Grand Final at ANZ Stadium,

 

[El Diablo]

What's Andrew D Demetriou's views on migrants got to do with issues between the AFL and the government?
Clutch a few more straws,

is that a serious question :lol:

you ask for something pre 2007 and got it

now you're somehow saying this wasn't a conflict :lol:

Mr Demetriou famously incurred the wrath of Liberal MPs including federal Treasurer Peter Costello in 2005 after he criticised Australia's attitude toward migrants at an Australia Day speech.

 

[El Diablo]

I did read that about Anna Bligh.

no you didn't otherwise you wouldn't be fixated on Federal Labor and 2007

I also read something about the Sydney Showground. A grant that was made about the same time as the former NSW Government gave a heap of money to the NRL to keep playing the Grand Final at ANZ Stadium,

about time too as they were paying a pittance for the money it brings in

 

[bobmar28]

What stadium did the AFL buy?

Docklands?

 

[bobmar28]

I don't think your Mt Pritchard Community Club was too happy with the agreement to build a casino between the Bulldogs and the Labor dominated Liverpool Council on council land. I suppose the whole thing was no chance once the Bulldogs scam was identified, with paying players though a council project,

The 40k stadium right here in Liverpool would have been great.

 

[bobmar28]

Bullshit article but it does show that a joint darwin png team has potential.

Back on topic. Thanks. I remember talk of a Darwin/PNG team. What happened?

 

[docbrown]

Docklands?

They don't own it yet. It will be at least another 10 years.

It's something the NRL needs to do - get friendlys on management boards and have a long term goal of owning a stadium in Sydney to cut down future operation costs.

Once they own Docklands they can make money but hiring it out to other sports and events. That said, they will have competition now from MRS.

 

[clarency]

Perhaps a socialist model? Whereby every games gate takings is collected by the NRL and divided evenly between the teams? I believe the AFL, NFL and several other big leagues do this, or something similar.

It has its weaknesses but certainly removes the issue of differing operation costs.

 

[Perth Red]

Back on topic. Thanks. I remember talk of a Darwin/PNG team. What happened?

Realism set in!

 

[rednblack]

why would the NRL have helped the GC out when they were competing with CC for a spot in the comp?

they would have been favouring one side

Exactly.
And do you not think they already have a "favorite" or two in mind for the next expansion?
They will be doing all that they can to get their preferred bids over the line, I have no doubt. Otherwise, it will come down to which bids are the best. This is how it happened last time around. I'm not certain that the two BEST bids will necessarily get in because of this.

 

[my2centsworth]

Realism set in!

How much harder is it for the Gold Coast to attract players with this hanging over their heads and the salary cap constraints.

For a one off game maybe...but for 5 to 13 games you couldn't pay me enough to partially relocate over there.

 

[El Diablo]

How much harder is it for the Gold Coast to attract players with this hanging over their heads and the salary cap constraints.

For a one off game maybe...but for 5 to 13 games you couldn't pay me enough to partially relocate over there.

the artcile is bullshit and has been retracted by the DT

 

[my2centsworth]

the artcile is bullshit and has been retracted by the DT

Still where there's smoke there's fire...actually to relocate to the Gold Coast they should be paying a premium anyway

 

[NRL-TGG]

lol

 

[Rockin Ronny]

Exactly.
And do you not think they already have a "favorite" or two in mind for the next expansion?
They will be doing all that they can to get their preferred bids over the line, I have no doubt. Otherwise, it will come down to which bids are the best. This is how it happened last time around. I'm not certain that the two BEST bids will necessarily get in because of this.

Precisely.
The way the Central Coast bid was treated was an absolute disgrace. Apart from the clear superiority of the bid on all counts, after Gallop gave the Dolph/Tits the nod - he then offered a huge carrot ($8-10 million) for any club to relocate to Gosford BUT not the Bears!

 

[Perth Red]

TBF we all moan at the lack of strategic vision from the NRL yet in this instance where they actually had a clear strategic direction of where they thought the comp should expand to some still complain!

I'd be quite happy for them 5 years ago to have determined the best two cities to expand the game into, whenever they deemed it best, and been working on it since then so we hit the ground running and in the very strongest position to make expansion succesful.

 

[Perth Red]

Precisely.
The way the Central Coast bid was treated was an absolute disgrace. Apart from the clear superiority of the bid on all counts, after Gallop gave the Dolph/Tits the nod - he then offered a huge carrot ($8-10 million) for any club to relocate to Gosford BUT not the Bears!

come on Ronny you know the relocation is as much about reducing the number of Sydney clubs as much as it is getting a team on the CC (more so in fact). Do you think he would have offered the relocation money to say Canberra or NQ?

 

[rednblack]

come on Ronny you know the relocation is as much about reducing the number of Sydney clubs as much as it is getting a team on the CC (more so in fact). Do you think he would have offered the relocation money to say Canberra or NQ?

If it were that simple, why wouldn't he have brought the best bid in at the time, and offered other clubs $ to relocate to the GC instead?
I suggest that it's partly because after having removed the bears a decade ago, it would've been an embarrassing backflip to concede that they should have been re-admitted (especially since only a couple of years previously the bunnies made a comeback). I think its (at least in part) a face-saving exercise for Gallop. If someone other than the bears successfully managed to claim the central coast, he wouldn't be left in the position of having to admit past mistakes.
If he'd accepted the best bid at the time, he still could've offered for a team to relocate to the GC, and still would've been able to remove a sydney team.
As for a relocation being more about reducing the number of Sydney teams than anything else - if you were to listen to most people in here, it wouldn't make a difference, since Gosford is apparently next to Gordon or Turramurra (or may as well be, since it is part of Sydney). Some people in this forum would have you believe that nothing would change if a Sydney team relocated to Gosford (there's still the same number of "Sydney" teams), yet in the same breath tell you that if a struggling club moved, it would solve all the overcrowding problems! I gave up fighting that particular argument a while ago. However, if it was all about removing a Sydney team as you say PR, then more effort should've been exerted trying to find a team to move to the GC instead of introducing the Titans.