18th club, whose next?

[Pippen94]

Yeh god forbid the clubs in Sydney were popular enough not to need away fans lol

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Lol, that's Dane & Perth red

 

[Bukowski]

Yeh they are freshening up the paint on the ground at Henson park and taking out the afl posts as we speak

or perhaps talking to the wests tigers to see when lo is available

LO? Given up trying to spell it? You were so close.

 

[Centy Coast]

Id take that sht show joint club over the even worse sht show that would be a ns bears owned club

Clearly you haven’t been to North Sydney Oval, have you seen the streets around Henson Park, lucky if they are one way if that.
Enjoy your junior pathways with Newtown lol, have you seen Newtowns NSW Cup roster ?, mostly all unused Cronulla NRL Squad players, atleast most of the Bears NSW Cup Squad are actually Bears players and not all from the Roosters.
Bears also have a Leagues Club and own Seagulls Leagues Club.

 

[Colk]

This is nearly as bad as the NZ thread. I hope Perth get up by announcement at the double header at Optus just to shut this whole bloody thread down.

That would be my hope but I’m not that optimistic that will happen.

 

[Pippen94]

Clearly you haven’t been to North Sydney Oval, have you seen the streets around Henson Park, lucky if they are one way if that.
Enjoy your junior pathways with Newtown, have you seen Newtowns roster, mostly all Cronulla players, atleast most of the Bears NSW Cup Squad are actually Bears players and not all from the Roosters.
Bears also have a Leagues Club and own Seagulls Leagues Club.

Bears probably connected to png

 

[Bukowski]

Clearly you haven’t been to North Sydney Oval, have you seen the streets around Henson Park, lucky if they are one way if that.
Enjoy your junior pathways with Newtown lol, have you seen Newtowns NSW Cup roster ?, mostly all unused Cronulla NRL Squad players, atleast most of the Bears NSW Cup Squad are actually Bears players and not all from the Roosters.
Bears also have a Leagues Club and own Seagulls Leagues Club.

Seagulls? On the Gold Coast?

 

[Centy Coast]

Seagulls? On the Gold Coast?

That’s the one

 

[Bukowski]

That’s the one

When and why did that happen? Was it an angle to be a gold coast Club?

 

[Centy Coast]

No it was way before that, I’m not even sure when, I just remember that it was bought up when the proposed Gold Coast takeover was suggested, but when the NRL said that the Gold Coast had to keep the Titans colours and logo the Bears pulled the plug on that idea.
If you look at the Norths Leagues logo and the Seagulls Logo they are virtually the same as they were designed to be that way.

 

[Dark Corner]

The NRL is supposed to represent the interests of the sport as a whole, not just the clubs that are members of the Telstra Premiership.

Having functional lower tier competitions of a high standard is in the sport's interest, and losing them will have long term impacts on the popularity of the sport outside of the NRL side's catchments going into the future. Just look at the state of the sport in country Qld as opposed to country NSW were RL's largely on it's knees if you need evidence of that. Or the 'affiliated states' as opposed to NSW and Qld as another example, though there's admittedly a bit more going on in that example.

Most towns and regions have local problems that need local solutions, and limiting the potential and exposure of their local clubs and RL institutions isn't helping them.

City Group and other large soccer conglomerations invest in clubs all over the world as a means to hoard talent in their system and to game the international transfer market, not because it's good for their brand.
Owning NYCFC, Melbourne City, etc has had negligible impact on support for Manchester City or vice versa. In other words very few Man City fans could give the faintest f**k about any of the other teams around the world and vice versa. If anything having unified branding has hurt some of their teams as being directly linked to Man City turns some fans off, namely supporters of other EPL sides.

The NRL clubs have similar motivations for wanting control of the state leagues as well BTW, and blokes like Gould have even said as much publicly in the past. They want as much of a monopoly on the talent pool as possible, to reduce the options available to players, and to not have to worry about negotiating with third party clubs outside of the NRL.

It's an anti-competition and anti-consumer move that's great for the 17, soon to be 18, NRL sides, but terrible for everybody else, and it's a travesty that the NRL has so far supported the clubs in this move instead of fighting them every inch of the way.

Good post and needs to be more opticans if you can' make the NRL then you go play in the NSW/QLD/Newcastle/Illawarra/Bush league's.

 

[Perth Red]

Clearly you haven’t been to North Sydney Oval, have you seen the streets around Henson Park, lucky if they are one way if that.
Enjoy your junior pathways with Newtown lol, have you seen Newtowns NSW Cup roster ?, mostly all unused Cronulla NRL Squad players, atleast most of the Bears NSW Cup Squad are actually Bears players and not all from the Roosters.
Bears also have a Leagues Club and own Seagulls Leagues Club.

Bears also want to own the club, I suspect that’s why the wa bid is maybe interested in partnering with jets. The club will be owned by wa consortium and help newton rebuild as a full nsw cup with jnr and women’s teams. Win win, I’m not taken with the brand and nrl doesn’t need another blue and white kit, and we shouldnt be losing any home games from perth, especially to venues of the quality being talked about.

I suspect as said before the wa bid backed by wa govt is talking with a number of possible feeder, partner option clubs and wouldn’t rule out the bears yet. The wa govt is on record as employing a consultancy firm to talk to all potential bid groups and jets is probably just one of a number.

 

[Pippen94]

Bears also want to own the club, I suspect that’s why the wa bid is maybe interested in partnering with jets. The club will be owned by wa consortium and help newton rebuild as a full nsw cup with jnr and women’s teams. Win win, I’m not taken with the brand and nrl doesn’t need another blue and white kit, and we shouldnt be losing any home games from perth, especially to venues of the quality being talked about.

I suspect as said before the wa bid backed by wa govt is talking with a number of possible feeder, partner option clubs and wouldn’t rule out the bears yet. The wa govt is on record as employing a consultancy firm to talk to all potential bid groups and jets is probably just one of a number.

..jets will take off!! You'll learn to love brand

 

[Wb1234]

Bears also want to own the club, I suspect that’s why the wa bid is maybe interested in partnering with jets. The club will be owned by wa consortium and help newton rebuild as a full nsw cup with jnr and women’s teams. Win win, I’m not taken with the brand and nrl doesn’t need another blue and white kit, and we shouldnt be losing any home games from perth, especially to venues of the quality being talked about.

I suspect as said before the wa bid backed by wa govt is talking with a number of possible feeder, partner option clubs and wouldn’t rule out the bears yet. The wa govt is on record as employing a consultancy firm to talk to all potential bid groups and jets is probably just one of a number.

Hopefully Perth government also has some money left over to fix up leichardt oval

 

[Canard]

No it was way before that, I’m not even sure when, I just remember that it was bought up when the proposed Gold Coast takeover was suggested, but when the NRL said that the Gold Coast had to keep the Titans colours and logo the Bears pulled the plug on that idea.
If you look at the Norths Leagues logo and the Seagulls Logo they are virtually the same as they were designed to be that way.

That was all paper talk for mine.

 

[The Great Dane]

Bears also want to own the club, I suspect that’s why the wa bid is maybe interested in partnering with jets. The club will be owned by wa consortium and help newton rebuild as a full nsw cup with jnr and women’s teams. Win win, I’m not taken with the brand and nrl doesn’t need another blue and white kit, and we shouldnt be losing any home games from perth, especially to venues of the quality being talked about.

I suspect as said before the wa bid backed by wa govt is talking with a number of possible feeder, partner option clubs and wouldn’t rule out the bears yet. The wa govt is on record as employing a consultancy firm to talk to all potential bid groups and jets is probably just one of a number.

There is no bid backed by the gov yet.

The process the WA Gov are going through now is looking at hypothetical business plans to decide which they'll support as their preferred bid. They're contacting every consortium and person that's known to have been interested owning an Perth based NRL side, and other parties that may be interested in owning an NRL side as well (that's where Newtown came in), to make a provisional proposal for a Perth based NRL side to them. In other words they're doing the NRL's job for them and effectively looking to identify or even create the perfect bid from their perspective.

They're talking to a lot of people from all over the joint, and haven't made a decision yet. Their decision shouldn't matter a great deal to the NRL anyway because A. their priority is just to get any NRL side using HBF Park, and B. they've made it clear to the NRL that they're happy to support whichever bid team the NRL choices so long as it's based in Perth, and are only going through this process to keep the ball moving and make sure that Perth presents a strong bid if/when the NRL calls for them.

Currently all their discussions with interested parties have primarily been about those parties ideas for the team, i.e. what they'd do if they were given the endorsement, but discussions are ongoing and there's scope for change. In other words what you're hearing in the media about a Newtown backed Perth bid is just what Newtown would do in their ideal world, and probably not what a "Perth Jets" bid would actually look like if the WA Gov even chooses to endorse them at all.

 

[Pippen94]

There is no bid backed by the gov yet.

The process the WA Gov are going through now is looking at hypothetical business plans to decide which they'll support as their preferred bid. They're contacting every consortium and person that's known to have been interested owning an Perth based NRL side, and other parties that may be interested in owning an NRL side as well (that's where Newtown came in), to make a provisional proposal for a Perth based NRL side to them. In other words they're doing the NRL's job for them and effectively looking to identify or even create the perfect bid from their perspective.

They're talking to a lot of people from all over the joint, and haven't made a decision yet. Their decision shouldn't matter a great deal to the NRL anyway because A. their priority is just to get any NRL side using HBF Park, and B. they've made it clear to the NRL that they're happy to support whichever bid team the NRL choices so long as it's based in Perth, and are only going through this process to keep the ball moving and make sure that Perth presents a strong bid if/when the NRL calls for them.

Currently all their discussions with interested parties have primarily been about those parties ideas for the team, i.e. what they'd do if they were given the endorsement, but discussions are ongoing and there's scope for change. In other words what you're hearing in the media about a Newtown backed Perth bid is just what Newtown would do in their ideal world, and probably not what a "Perth Jets" bid would actually look like if the WA Gov even chooses to endorse them at all.

U don't have a good track record when predicting this stuff..

 

[The Great Dane]

Gee there`s a lot of doomsday merchants on these pages. Do you honestly believe that the ARLC are going to do something that will lead to a catastrophic reduction in the player numbers in a sport which probably draws 90% of its` participants from two states. I think they might have thought this idea through a little more than that if this was likely to occur.

Those decisions have already been made, most of them before the ARLC even existed...

Male participation numbers in the full contact version of the sport are way down on where they were 30 years ago, and have been consistently trending down. The numbers are even worse in the bush where storied century old clubs are regularly dying off and failing to field teams.

The NRL's decision to effectively reintroduce reserve grade isn't the cause of those issues, but it does exacerbate them.

 

[The Great Dane]

U don't have a good track record when predicting this stuff..

I didn't make a prediction in that post you dumb arse.

BTW, all my predications about the Dolphins have been accurate so far...

 

[Pippen94]

I didn't make a prediction in that post you dumb arse.

BTW, all my predications about the Dolphins have been accurate so far...

Lol, u predicted firehawks would get up. U also said dolphins would be new manly with niche support - they have over 30k members.

 

[Wb1234]

I didn't make a prediction in that post you dumb arse.

BTW, all my predications about the Dolphins have been accurate so far...

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