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Yeah, let's admit Ipswich or the Bombers because one media organisation wants it. Remember back in the 90's when a certain media organisation wanted to cull/ merge all but a few Sydney teams in the name of "progress"? That worked out really well, didn't it! The people of Adelaide turned out in DROVES to support their new team, with far more fans than any of those silly old Sydney clubs going down the gurgler like Easts, Souths, Balmain, Manly or Norths! Nobody outside inner city Sydney ever supported those teams anyway! Why should all 500 of them get to continue riding the bus to all their teams' home games at dilapidated home grounds with grass hills, then sink Tooheys Old at the Leagues Club afterwards like they had done every Winter weekend since they started attending matches in 1955, when there were BILLIONS of people in China who couldn't wait to see a Sharks game live and watch their hero Andrew Ettingshausen run around? It turned out there was even enough support in the Hunter for a second team! Who was the stupid, short sighted person who thought it wise to kill them off?
Plastic clubs with SFA support who will lose money faster than a drunken sailor. I can just imagine the amazement of some of the posters on here when/ if either bid gets the nod ahead of the Bears and then, 1 year in, they are pulling less at Suncorp than the Roar for a regular season game and going the same way as the Hunter Mariners. Or, more pointedly, the mighty South Queensland Crushers...
No guaranteed money or support- just promises along the lines of "Let us in, then we'll give you the money and the fans!" If the IC is dumb enough to fall for that, I've got a coathanger shaped bridge they might be interested in buying. I am still yet to see any sound logic as to why we should admit some half-arsed, fly by night, $2 shelf company with ZERO fans over an established bid like the Bears with a stadium, access to a region 10 times the population size of Ipswich, sponsors paid up and ready to go and thousands of paid up members ready to support the team. Or would nobody watch the Bears on telly? I suppose, after all, every single person who votes for Bears games (and gets them aired) on Chooseday Night Football is a sad old delusional Bears fan within a stones' throw of NSO or Bluetongue...
"But...........but...........too many NSW teams!!! :crazy:" Notice how many people still regard 1994 as the games' best ever season with the most widespread support? Like now, there were 16 teams in the comp. Unlike now, 14 of those teams (Canberra and Brisbane being the only exceptions) were based in NSW. Thank f**k Super Media Organisation saved us with their "vision" or the game would be dead by now, with all those NSW teams crowded together ruining it for everybody! Nobody outside NSW and Brisbane wanted to watch the game back then, did they?
It amazes me how many people think one of the Qld logos on paper is a certainty at being awarded an NRL licence over the Bears because the newspapers from one media source continue telling them it's a fact. Interesting that it's the same media organisation who gifted us with their "vision" back in the 90's, isn't it? If they printed stories about ET making guest appearances in Beijing with a picture of some dude with his head Photoshopped on top of it shaking hands with the Chinese Olympic team, you'd find enough people on here claiming it was fact...
