the Roosters and Warriors did not pull out, they simply made the point to the NRL how much money they (and the other 2 club) were losing each season and wanted the grant increased.
It was misreported (there is a surprise for you) and the inaugural 4 teams will once again take part this year
Interesting Souths and Cronulla said the same thing the year before
And were not invited to play
siv has been pushing this barrow for a couple of years now. Bit tiresome tbhSouths and Cronulla did not say the same thing.
They said they would not be putting any of their own money into it. Also the Souths proposal was so amateurish that even if they had offered to pay $1m they still would have been laughed out of the process as they were.
Anyway thats enough lets celebrate that they are running the comp again
4 team comp would get more interest if they wore the
Kiwi
Queensland
NSW City
NSW Country
jerseys
Rather than trying to run the same comp in NRL kits
Hope so - there is the quality for it, just depends on the money I guess...I think it will def be 6 teams next year
Hope so - there is the quality for it, just depends on the money I guess...
I think they need to look at running them apart from the NRL semis. I know sponsors want it run with the NRL semis because of exposure. This weekends game is a prime example. Not many that are going to see Souths and Parra are going to come early to watch the women. Not many people at all that just want to see the women's games have been able to get tickets as it was sold out.
So this weekend the women's games will get very few people watching at the game, I think the first will be lucky to get 200 as all the tickets have been sold to people wanting to see the NRL game
IF they were to run these 2 games stand alone they would get a couple of thousand at least.