Gold Coast Bears/Nth Sydney/Gosford

[jim_57]

Forget about it
The game isn't capable of attracting good administration. If they accidentally get involved in spite of all the resistance, the game spits them out because they arent real "league people"

Run by bogans for bogans.

Yeh true, I'm guessing this guy is currently being hailed as the 2nd coming on facebook etc.

 

[flippikat]

Forget about it
The game isn't capable of attracting good administration. If they accidentally get involved in spite of all the resistance, the game spits them out because they arent real "league people"

Run by bogans for bogans.

If UK Superleague gets the American expansion (and American money) right, it's gonna really shake the player market.. the NRL will be in panic mode if Toronto, New York & goodness knows who else start signing the stars.

 

[adamkungl]

If UK Superleague gets the American expansion (and American money) right, it's gonna really shake the player market.. the NRL will be in panic mode if Toronto, New York & goodness knows who else start signing the stars.

Don't worry, the RFL will make sure to nullify any potential gains

 

[siv]

With V'Landys in charge I can see the Bears back playing at NS Oval, in the name of expansion lol

Market saturation will be the catch cry

And returning RL to starved Northern Sydney and Central Coast

 

[flippikat]

Don't worry, the RFL will make sure to nullify any potential gains

To be fair, it's typical for the whole code to screw up or even betray expansion (Australian AND British-based competitions have had chances badly bungled).. so it would just be par for the code to make a total hash of a golden opportunity to capitalize on the North American market ahead of rugby union.

 

[The Great Dane]

Forget about it
The game isn't capable of attracting good administration. If they accidentally get involved in spite of all the resistance, the game spits them out because they arent real "league people"

Run by bogans for bogans.

It's not run by bogans (well maybe some of them are bogans), it's run by club men that put their clubs and/or state leagues interest and their personal wealth before the sport as a whole.

 

[The Great Dane]

To be fair, it's typical for the whole code to screw up or even betray expansion (Australian AND British-based competitions have had chances badly bungled).. so it would just be par for the code to make a total hash of a golden opportunity to capitalize on the North American market ahead of rugby union.

The RFL are already f**king it up by refusing to allow clubs from outside of England/the UK access to central funding. So though the Wolfpack, Catalans, and Toulouse make the RFL money they don't get a share of it back from the RFL in grants.

Sure the 'foreign' clubs get to keep any TV rights money from their country, but as soon as one of them gets a good contract that'll change because the big clubs in England will see the money and vote for themselves to get a share of it while continuing to block the foreign clubs from getting a share of the English contract.

It's already had an impact as well, Ottawa was all set to join League 1 in 2020 until the RFL told them they wouldn't get central funding, which they thought they would get because they bought the Hemel Stags so they thought they'd get Hemel's share. Now their entering the competition has been knocked back a year while Perez and the RFL fight over whether or not Ottawa will inherit Hemel's central funding.

 

[Perth Red]

Maybe Perth needs to look once again to SL as joining the NRL is never going to happen.

 

[siv]

Are we about to enter a RL era where some wrongs of the SL War NRL- News Ltd era are corrected

 

[The Great Dane]

Are we about to enter a RL era where some wrongs of the SL War NRL- News Ltd era are corrected

Considering that V'landys isn't talking about resurrecting Perth and Adelaide it's pretty obvious that they aren't interested in righting the wrongs of the SL war at all.

 

[The Great Dane]

Maybe Perth needs to look once again to SL as joining the NRL is never going to happen.

If a reasonable travel schedule could be figured out and the money can be found to get it off the ground, then honestly that is probably the best path forward for Perth.

Unless of course a rival competition could be organised. . .

 

[adamkungl]

Considering that V'landys isn't talking about resurrecting Perth and Adelaide it's pretty obvious that they aren't interested in righting the wrongs of the SL war at all.

More likely that he'll wrong some of the (largely accidental) rights of the Super league war

 

[flippikat]

Unless of course a rival competition could be organised. . .

Oooh but that'd be naughty.....

 

[siv]

If a reasonable travel schedule could be figured out and the money can be found to get it off the ground, then honestly that is probably the best path forward for Perth.

Unless of course a rival competition could be organised. . .

The rival comp

Is actually the Qld Cup promoted with Cowboys, Bronocos, Storm and Perth

 

[The Great Dane]

Oooh but that'd be naughty.....

I mean what has the NRL ever done for us right!?

 

[tri_colours]

Maybe Perth needs to look once again to SL as joining the NRL is never going to happen.

It worked out well for them last time so maybe they should!

 

[Perth Red]

It worked out well for them last time so maybe they should!

Nothing to lose this time

 

[siv]

The RFL are already f**king it up by refusing to allow clubs from outside of England/the UK access to central funding. So though the Wolfpack, Catalans, and Toulouse make the RFL money they don't get a share of it back from the RFL in grants.

Sure the 'foreign' clubs get to keep any TV rights money from their country, but as soon as one of them gets a good contract that'll change because the big clubs in England will see the money and vote for themselves to get a share of it while continuing to block the foreign clubs from getting a share of the English contract.

It's already had an impact as well, Ottawa was all set to join League 1 in 2020 until the RFL told them they wouldn't get central funding, which they thought they would get because they bought the Hemel Stags so they thought they'd get Hemel's share. Now their entering the competition has been knocked back a year while Perez and the RFL fight over whether or not Ottawa will inherit Hemel's central funding.

You raise a good argument for a breakaway USA and/or Euro mainland super league

 

[siv]

I mean what has the NRL ever done for us right!?

You'ev gone to the Mal school of politics

 

[The Great Dane]

You raise a good argument for a breakaway USA and/or Euro mainland super league

It'd cost hundreds of millions of dollars (potentially billions) to set up a professional RL competition of a reasonable standard from scratch in North America or Europe, which simply isn't feasible for the sport.

However tacking it on to the preexisting infrastructure of the SL (and potentially the NRL to a lesser extent) is way cheaper and much more feasible.

Who knows eventually if things go well they could split off from the SL and form their own comps, but we're a long way off from that, and I suspect that if the expansion was that successful that by that time the English clubs wouldn't want to be cut off from the money in North America and/or Europe.