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  1. The Great Dane

    26 June expansion meeting (Predictions?)

    People mocked me 25 years ago when I started saying that continued participation in SR would lead to a slow painful death for Australian RU. They'd totally misrepresent everything I'd say, call me a 'mungo' as if that somehow discredited me, and say things like 'look at the crowds and ratings'...
  2. The Great Dane

    26 June expansion meeting (Predictions?)

    How do you propose that the sport grows junior participation numbers in South Australia when the sport has next to no exposure in the market, South Australia has a comparatively low rate of expats from the eastern states to push growth, there's literally no money within the sport locally to...
  3. The Great Dane

    26 June expansion meeting (Predictions?)

    Never said you could.
  4. The Great Dane

    26 June expansion meeting (Predictions?)

    I guarantee they won't, but that doesn't make it right. SA should be being discussed as a serious option for expansion, the fact that it isn't says a lot about the state of the NRL and the attitudes and biases of the people in it's administration.
  5. The Great Dane

    26 June expansion meeting (Predictions?)

    The Dolphins were a bad choice, most just haven't realised it yet (in the beginning most wouldn't accept that the Titans were a bad choice either, but give it some time), and my position was always that none of the options in Brisbane were particularly good. The Firehawks were probably the...
  6. The Great Dane

    26 June expansion meeting (Predictions?)

    With the right backing an Adelaide/SA side could launch tomorrow and be amongst the more sustainable clubs in the league within 20 or so years. With the way the industry works these days a club in a market of 1.8mil could do the absolute bare minimum to develop a few solid income streams and...
  7. The Great Dane

    26 June expansion meeting (Predictions?)

    I suspect that they'll announce that they've given PNG a provisional license with an eye to them entering the league some time around 2030 and that the 18th team will be the "Perth" Bears/Jets (almost certainly Bears) to enter in either 2026 or 2027. I also expect them to refrain from announcing...
  8. The Great Dane

    Commentators - Good and Bad

    Are there any really good NRL commentators left anymore? Warren Smith isn't offensive, but pretty much everybody else is somewhere on the scale of annoying to insufferable these days. The amount of open bias that's been allowed to creep into NRL commentary and punditry in recent times is...
  9. The Great Dane

    Rugby Australia to target top NRL talent

    Though that's true to an extent, particularly pre-80s, it's also way more complex than that. The reality is that Argentine politics, like most South and Central American politics, doesn't mesh very well with the standard Western conceptions of the left and right wing of politics for the most...
  10. The Great Dane

    The Game Future NRL Stadiums part II

    Meanwhile in Canberra the Government is continuing to pay lip service to the rectangular sports whilst quietly getting all their ducks in a row for a run at BBL and AFL licenses-...
  11. The Great Dane

    2024 Jerseys, Sponsorship, Logos discussion etc

    That's really nice. Could make an excellent home or away jersey out of it.
  12. The Great Dane

    18th club, whose next?

    Host is exactly right. The Bears will leech off of Perth for as long as they have to, but as soon as the opportunities start presenting themselves they'll start subtly shifting the focus of the club. If they're smart they won't even be the ones that push for the change, they'll simply neglect...
  13. The Great Dane

    18th club, whose next?

    It won't. The NRL is in a too big to fail phase, so the side won't fold, but it won't be a success by any measure that matters either. It'll be a dysfunctional mess that exists primarily for the benefit of boomers in Sydney/NSW and patronised mainly by expats seeking a footy fix in WA, and not...
  14. The Great Dane

    18th club, whose next?

    Perth should sack up and refuse if PVL and his yes men insist on forcing them to "merge" with the Bears. A merger with the Bears will be a WA side in name only that destroys any hope of a genuine WA side joining in the future, so Perth have got nothing to lose by playing hardball and demanding...
  15. The Great Dane

    New Zealand 2 will deal a massive blow to NZ rugby

    And? It seems like the Warriors slashed ticket prices at their own cost to boost attendance numbers. The cost of RU tickets is irrelevant to that.
  16. The Great Dane

    New Zealand 2 will deal a massive blow to NZ rugby

    I've literally never said any of that. I've also been saying for at least a decade that "my" Brumbies are screwed unless there're massive change in the way RU is administered in this country as well. It's an open secret down here that the Brumbies averaged under 5k if you don't include their...
  17. The Great Dane

    18th club, whose next?

    Speaking of people who lack a conscience and are comfortable selling the future in pursuit of their own self-gratification in the present. . . Norths are still demanding 100% ownership and control of the branding, home games at NSO ('ideally four' was the number Dickson gave last time I heard...
  18. The Great Dane

    New Zealand 2 will deal a massive blow to NZ rugby

    Okay, but what happens when the economic realities force the Warriors to pass those costs back onto the fan, and suddenly all those fans that are used to getting in cheap are expected to pay the genuine cost of attending a game? The answer is always bad things. Furthermore you'd think the fact...
  19. The Great Dane

    PNG's back.

    You're using the janky, lets say influenced, post Super League NRL admission criteria findings. LOL. No the "fact" that something on the other side of the country happened 30 years ago under completely different circumstances has no impact on the realities of today. Firstly I never said it was...
  20. The Great Dane

    PNG's back.

    I'd be asking for more than that if I was them. We may as well all take our share if we're going to be forced to participate in this grift. If I was the Raiders I'd have been demanding a stadium for my support, and encouraging other clubs to do similar. It's the AFL's Tasmania strategy. It's a...

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