Anyone that wishes a club to fold is just a f**kwit, All clubs go through good times and bad. The NRL shows no loyalty to clubs that made the game what it is.
The game made the clubs famous not the other way round.
It's bad enough clubs had to merge to accommodate new clubs let alone this. We may as well just kill most clubs off and let Brisbane play Melbourne every week.
When did that happen!?
I can't remember any clubs merging to accommodate new clubs ever in the history of Australian RL,
I can however remember new clubs being sacrificed left right and centre so that Melbourne could be introduce and as many Sydney clubs could be accommodated as possible.
Apart from the Rabbitohs not one Sydeny club was cut after the SL war (and even they eventually made their way back into the competition), they all continued in the competition in some form or another, obviously the Bears died eventually but they weren't cut.
The Reds, Rams, Chargers, Crushers, and Mariners (though the Mariners were no loss) were all cut or forced to close, and the Warriors were going to be cut before they were saved at the last minute by a rich benefactor (and even then he only saved the brand not the club it's self), so frankly who was accommodating who!?
And yes you can point out that the Rams and Mariners were sacrificed by News to introduce the Storm, and that the Crushers were effectively murdered by the Broncos, which is all true, but even so the NRL had the power to save them if they really wanted to and chose not to so they could save as many of the Sydney clubs as possible (specifically the ones that were loyal to the ARL).
That decision to sacrifice the Rams, Reds, and Crushers because of politics is the biggest mistake in Australian Rugby League history.
