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iSelect Gold Coast Titans granted new license

Teddyboy

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I feel they will have to shut them down & start again. There is too much debt & probably too much bad blood with the Titans brand

Do you think with what's going on and the outcome which could see them starting up again could knock Rugby League backwards bit like Super League on the Gold Coast and give the AFL Suns a big big leg up.
 

IllawarraGiant

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Do you think with what's going on and the outcome which could see them starting up again could knock Rugby League backwards bit like Super League on the Gold Coast and give the AFL Suns a big big leg up.


I dont know Teddy .. will knock back League in the area for teh couple of years it takes to get a new team up and running .. but it would be back to normal programming as soon as that happened I reckon.

And while it would be prefereable this never happens at all, the fact that it has(IF it has), does open a whole lot of doors that werent open before.. eg:

Year 1.
Vacant licence picked up by new team ...in Perth brining forward expansion
A new GC team entity created - hopefully private ownership free and , gets on its feet administratively and rebuilds bridges locally.
New GC team gets to negotiate a better stadium deal (which Titans couldnt/didnt)
New GC team takes modest lease at CoE without owning it.


Year 2:
New Team launches with 1 other expansion team and gets good PR just in time for Suns to collect their 3rd of 4th near bottom finish in AFL.
New team debt free with viable stadium deal.
Crowds and ratings back... .

Year 3:
Titans who?
 

Lockyer4President!

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I feel they will have to shut them down & start again. There is too much debt & probably too much bad blood with the Titans brand

:crazy:

There are more Nulla fans posting stupid shit about the Tits than there are actual paying fans at Nulla home games. Shite club & shite fans, never change.
 

Card Shark

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:crazy:

There are more Nulla fans posting stupid shit about the Tits than there are actual paying fans at Nulla home games. Shite club & shite fans, never change.

You don't deserve to use Lockyer's name in your alias you tool.

Use your brain mate. The NRL aren't gunna wanna fork out millions & millions of dollars for nothing. It just doesn't make sense to take on that huge debt if they don't have to. They may make a deal with creditors (say 50c in the dollar) but that's the best they can hope for.
 

BunniesMan

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Do you think with what's going on and the outcome which could see them starting up again could knock Rugby League backwards bit like Super League on the Gold Coast and give the AFL Suns a big big leg up.
It could be argued that the way the Tits have stuffed around small business in the area and the damage this has done to their brand is worse than any effects of giving the license to someone else and rebranding. Infact if the rebranding was done right it could create good will in the community.
 

Lockyer4President!

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You don't deserve to use Lockyer's name in your alias you tool.

Use your brain mate. The NRL aren't gunna wanna fork out millions & millions of dollars for nothing. It just doesn't make sense to take on that huge debt if they don't have to. They may make a deal with creditors (say 50c in the dollar) but that's the best they can hope for.

'For nothing'? Are you kidding?

Less than a year from now this will be sorted, the Tits will still be the second most popular club in SEQ and everyone will have forgotten this crisis.

I can never understand how Sydney RL people are always so quick to read a headline or two and then bring out the pitchforks and torches.
 

Card Shark

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'For nothing'? Are you kidding?

Less than a year from now this will be sorted, the Tits will still be the second most popular club in SEQ and everyone will have forgotten this crisis.

I can never understand how Sydney RL people are always so quick to read a headline or two and then bring out the pitchforks and torches.

Did you, your family, your friends or anyone you know lose money, a business or a job out of the Titans mismanagement.

Maybe not but there will be hundreds of families affected directly or indirectly. They won't forget in a hurry, & why should they.
 

Ray Mosters

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In another development, the Herald understands that the Titans football club is also a guarantor on the loan, made by the Commonwealth Bank for the building of the Centre of Excellence facility next to Skilled Park.

Read more: http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/rug...itans-under-20120323-1vpbp.html#ixzz1pwuCCQYI
f**kbeans. That's the link. It means the football club is into the property arm for a large proportion of the overall debt.

So now the only important question is, can the property arm be satisfactorily wound up? With enough of the debt paid off such that the CBA loan isn't called in beyond the club and the ARLCs ability or inclination to pay.

I wonder if they can pay out the poisonous bank loan first, and leave the other property arm debts to the bankruptcy. It increases their survivability a great deal.
 

BunniesMan

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That's pretty obvious. It's not like the bank gives out million dollar loans with no assets to guarantee them getting paid back. THAT is why everyone has been saying it is all intertwined. THAT is why Gallop said the entire Titans structure is under major stress.

Only deluded LU people and apparently Searle himself made the assumption that the Football club was totally separate from all the other Titan empire issues.
 

hellteam

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BunniesMan we all know you're in here because you want the titans to die because you think you will then sign Cronk. It won't happen, give up
 
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