Have you not read what they have said or are you ignoring it? No side and I mean no side suggests that they have to play home games in another location when they are meant to be representing somewhere else. It just doesn’t happen anywhere else and the reason why they are doing it is to simply shift their way back to North Sydney in the future.
Why would or should any location take that offer? I get the nostalgia perspective and the pro-Sydney thing but look at it the other way why would a person in NZ, Perth, PNG, Adelaide etc really buy into this club when they know this club doesn’t want to be there and at the first opportunity will take it back to where they want to be located?
Like seriously imagine if Penrith were trying to get a club and they brought back say the Crushers and moved them there? As part of the deal also they’ll take four games away from Penrith and play them in Brisbane. Would you take this prospective club seriously or would you see it for what it is?
No one is forcing anyone the join with the Bears though, Nor are the Bears not bringing anything to the table. Or the Firehawks if they base themselves in Brisbane.
Both clubs have
U17's
U19's
U21's
Open aged team.
That allows them to send the best kids over to play against other elite kids of the same age.
Not to worry about setting it up or the logistics of it but more importantly the finances of such a thing.
As for the 2 games.
Depends how many they think is viable to have on the Islands.
PNG
Samoa
Tonga
Fiji
Magic Round
Should host Warriors in NZ.
Broncos in Brisbane
A West Sydney team in Comm bank - to tap into the islander population.
That still leaves 4 Home games to allocate.
So again no one is forcing anything but these deals come with trade offs.
