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Fair enough. But is the usual method any better? Where fast forward, and the league or commission has to resort to pushing mergers, relocations, or telling clubs to go away and die? My main focus was just on preserving the honored histories of all local clubsz not killing them, not putting them in some hard to meet expectation national comp set up where finances etc can spell doom. Thinking of a way to serve both ends.
Sorry, my mistake. But yeah, the league would be so more national by now. Perth and Adelaide perhaps held on and grown in time.
Unfortunately for the NRL like the AFL they'll just have to put up with the existing Sydney clubs.
Surely that’s the point, if you do it properly with strategy and investment then it can work very succesfully, as the swans and to a lessor degree lions shows. Problem we have in nrl is no one wants to see anything that supports clubs that need support to thrive, we have this stupid communist approach that all are equal and get the same when in reality if you want to be successful you need additional assistance sometimes.
While I'm no leftwinger (my political views would put me at odds with most league fans) and yourself being from Western Australia wouldn't understand this but rugby league in Sydney is extremely left wing with the socialist mentality.
That was a one off never to be repeated again.
You provide a good soundboard of realism to most of our positivity. Still, it'd be worse to just abandon all hope, all attempts, and what? Revert to a NSW - QLD only comp. RL still needs to fight and expand, try to get a fully national junior development and support that long term growth by propping up some teams in AFL states. The international reach of RL is an advantage to possibly one day seeing AFL dwindle in Australia. Gotta try.
Look mate,
It’s a foolish notion to believe all clubs are equal therefore need the same support. It’s held the game back for decades, take your sharks, you’re never going to be a powerhouse due to not having the advantages some other clubs have, so why not help you step up to be equal with others? take dolphins, they’re struggling to sign players as going to a new club isn’t that exciting anymore when there’s serious money on offer from established ones, so help them be succesful from day one by giving them cap concessions for first 5 years. Our current system makes little sense and the proof is in the pudding with clubs continuing to be on the brink of insolvency or languishing at the bottom whilst the big boys sit pretty at the top every year due to the advantages they have.
In its current thinking I agree, change the thinking if you want to grow the business!
In an ideal world the game should have an AFL style draft, we did have a shortlived one in the early 90's but it was taken to court by then Souths centre Terry Hill who wanted to join the old Western Suburbs Magpies but was drafted by Souths' arch rivals Eastern Suburbs (the now Sydney Roosters). But obviously they'll have to take the same steps the AFL did to put the legal framework in place to stop the draft ever being challenged in the courts again.
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Super League should have given the Newtown Jets a licence, rebranded as the Sydney Jets.
A variable grant scheme will just make the richer clubs like Brisbane and Easts richer and the poorer clubs poorer.
How many times has your club died and been revived by the governing body?
That's a complete furphy.
australias national football code ....
it helps that brisbane was the only team in a city of 2.5 million people.
