18th club, whose next?

[Pneuma]

I grew up in Ryde, and your still a peice of shìt from Logan, hope you enjoyed your broncos win last night
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The whole city is yours.... even that shìthole logan

Nice jersey. Love the Nswrl on the chest.

 

[Pneuma]

So the dragons are a bigger brand?

How many people would care if the sharks moved to Perth tomorrow? It's not losing the brand, it's moving it to a better place.

I'm a Raiders fan mate.

That explains it. All my raiders mates are insane.

 

[Chief_Chujo]

That explains it. All my raiders mates are insane.

Yea but we play a pretty key role in the health of the game. Sydney has one too many clubs, and criteria point to one club in particular.

 

[Pneuma]

Yea but we play a pretty key role in the health of the game. Sydney has one too many clubs, and criteria point to one club in particular.

Keep lighting the flame mate. You’re getting damp.

 

[Perth Red]

Ideally, and for max revenue for the game, we’d have a twenty team comp that included perth, Adelaide, brisbane south side, and nz2. Unfortunately we don’t have 4 spots free. So we lose someone or except we aren’t going to maximise what we can be. Nrl don’t have the balls to lose a weak link from sydney.

 

[Chief_Chujo]

Ideally, and for max revenue for the game, we’d have a twenty team comp that included perth, Adelaide, brisbane south side, and nz2. Unfortunately we don’t have 4 spots free. So we lose someone or except we aren’t going to maximise what we can be. Nrl don’t have the balls to lose a weak link from sydney.

20 teams isn't possible until NZ2 are established. That's the source for more talent.

 

[Perth Red]

20 teams isn't possible until NZ2 are established. That's the source for more talent.

better pathways, png, England and France, union. Nz, islands. So much untapped potential for pathways and new players.
Any plan for a 20 team comp, and there isn’t one yet, must include a pathways plan that developers these opportunities for greater player depth.

 

[Get Rid of The Donkeys]

The best case scenario for PNG is to identify the best 12yo kids playing the game at school level and get them into an academy that provides them with a good diet and education. This would be a better allocation of funds from Albanese and the ARLC.

 

[Perth Red]

The best case scenario for PNG is to identify the best 12yo kids playing the game at school level and get them into an academy that provides them with a good diet and education. This would be a better allocation of funds from Albanese and the ARLC.

Yep, one of wa clubs is now sending their best 3 kids to the raiders every year. PNG could do same with top 15 year olds getting scholarships with nrl clubs into their elite pathway systems. Or a new nrl club could have a proper and serious long term development pathway with pngrl. Hunters is one way but that isn’t yet really delivering many nrl players

West Australian teens chasing rugby league career will have to leave their home behind

Western Australia's young rugby league players hope the sun hasn't set on the state's prospect of joining the national competition, as the state prepares to host the sport's biggest event.

www.abc.net.au

 

[Perth Red]

Abdo on expansion. Starts at 5min
Basically nothing decided, nothing imminent.

Andrew Abdo: We're very close to announcing the new CBA - ABC listen

NRL CEO Andrew Abdo says the new Collective Bargaining Agreement required a long and complex negotiation but its almost a done deal. He told Andrew Moore and team they are close to signing off on a deal that includes new arrangements for Men and Women's competitions. He also discussed...

www.abc.net.au

 

[taipan]

Stains are a marketable brand that can capture that whole market. You guys won the granny and it added zero to the game. Giving the shire it's own team is exactly what Bennett is talking about when he says Sydney is selfish. Perth sharks makes sense and despite your bias you know it.

They used to be very marketable, they have lost that mystique, in contrast to Souths. But crap coaches ,neglect of the City part of St George on juniors, and internal squabbles, they can't fill Kogarah on many occasions. If you think moving Cronulla is going to enthuse Cronulla fans and their big junior league to come over to the Dragons, good luck.They can't even capture Kogarah and surrounds

 

[taipan]

Abdo on expansion. Starts at 5min
Basically nothing decided, nothing imminent.

Andrew Abdo: We're very close to announcing the new CBA - ABC listen

NRL CEO Andrew Abdo says the new Collective Bargaining Agreement required a long and complex negotiation but its almost a done deal. He told Andrew Moore and team they are close to signing off on a deal that includes new arrangements for Men and Women's competitions. He also discussed...

www.abc.net.au

Why would expansion proposals, decisions, be imminent ,when they have just introduced a team in a considered and tested manner ? And it needs time to settle in after all the hoopla jazz.

 

[Perth Red]

Why would expansion proposals, decisions, be imminent ,when they have just introduced a team in a considered and tested manner ? And it needs time to settle in after all the hoopla jazz.

Last week they were talking about 2025 lol

 

[AlwaysGreen]

Ideally, and for max revenue for the game, we’d have a twenty team comp that included perth, Adelaide, brisbane south side, and nz2. Unfortunately we don’t have 4 spots free. So we lose someone or except we aren’t going to maximise what we can be. Nrl don’t have the balls to lose a weak link from sydney.

Only an idiot would suggest culling a team from the capital of a rugby league state that is the epicentre of an economy of 588 billion with a population of 5.2 million.

 

[Colk]

That explains it. All my raiders mates are insane.

Hey not all Raiders fans are insane.

 

[The Penguin #6.]

Meanwhile rugby`s Moana Pasifika side continue to languish, and that`s putting it politely, 0 from 5 and flogged 60 zip this weekend.
We don`t want whatever they`re having.

 

[The Great Dane]

Apart from your fragile self this harmed what and who else?

As usual whinging for the sake of whinging .

The sport's image for one.

It's pretty hypocritical, and embarrassing, for us to criticise astroturfed "rivalries" in other sports, like The Battle of the Bridge for example, then turn around and pull the same BS corporate waffle with 'The Battle of Brisbane'.

I mean tell me with a straight face that nonsense headlines like this aren't embarrassing- Why the Broncos-Dolphins rivalry has changed rugby league in Brisbane forever. There would have to have been time for an actual rivalry to develop before it could change anything FFS.

 

[The Great Dane]

It's way to early to suddenly plonk another Brisbane team into the comp is the point @The Great Dane was making, for mine.

It's at least another 5 to 7 years(and realistically 10), to give the Dolphins some breathing room.

Rush it, and we end up diluting the market and becoming the A League.

It depends on how they're going I guess, but I'd probably look to give it even longer than that.

10 years minimum would be my bet, but who knows, you might be able to push it through quicker if the Dolphins and Broncos are flying in a few years time. I still wouldn't give Brisbane another club before Perth and Adelaide have their first though, but that's a different discussion.

 

[AlwaysGreen]

The sport's image for one.

It's pretty hypocritical, and embarrassing, for us to criticise astroturfed "rivalries" in other sports, like The Battle of the Bridge for example, then turn around and pull the same BS corporate waffle with 'The Battle of Brisbane'.

I mean tell me with a straight face that nonsense headlines like this aren't embarrassing- Why the Broncos-Dolphins rivalry has changed rugby league in Brisbane forever. There would have to have been time for an actual rivalry to develop before it could change anything FFS.

I don't give a hoot what anyone thinks.

And the NRL can't control what the media writes.

 

[T to the T]

Anyone advocating culling a club or moving it is moron who clearly doesn't understand the effects the SL War had on the code. There's a reason why there is a feel good factor in RL again and the future is looking rosey. The competition is growing, not f**king about with existing sides. There is a feel good factor again. Give Perth their own side, then go NZ2 (or PNG) and a 3rd Brisbane side in time to ride the Brisbane buzz for the 2032 Olympics.

Bennett is wrong here. f**king around with existing sides is stupid and just gives AwFuL and yawnion a leg up like what happened at the turn of the millennium.