There is a difference between voluntarily selling off a game and sharing your identity with another club.
I don’t buy the argument that taking on the bears name and playing any amount of games at NSO will make it any easier for them to compete.
The only reason this would even be considered is because of where the money is coming from which is fair. My issue is you don’t want to risk the long term performance of your team for short term dollars. We want the people of Perth to back this team so they can build a nice supporter base like what the storm have managed. You do that by building your own identity in the place you’re expecting fans to come from.
The articles that had direct quotes in it from Cummins. He mentioned they need to find $30m to help with start up costs.
Newtown Jets - ( John Singleton ) confirmed the same.
I look at clubs like Souffs who have private guys buy into the club. Cannon-Brooks for example has a seat on the board as a result.
So the question is what are Perth willing to give up to get the cash, Then is Norths Leagues getting a seat any different then other examples?
So depends on the final makeup for me there examples of similar working and I'd expect lots of questions to be asked by those making the decisions