18th club, whose next?

[Perth Red]

It's a common saying, but that doesn't make it true. Some merkins need to be called out as merkins, and the world would be a better place if less people were afraid of calling out some of the merkins in the world.

pippen is a merkin. There, the worlds a better place

 

[Pippen94]

we get it, you're anti-expansion (new teams in QLD isn't expansion btw) but you don't need to reply to every comment

I'm not anti expansion & there's no limit on replies I can make. Put me on ignore if u don't like it.

 

[Pippen94]

pippen is a merkin. There, the words a better place

You've spent the last 2 pages trying to argue that somebody said something which they didn't. So..

 

[The Great Dane]

pippen is a merkin. There, the worlds a better place

I was think more about calling out corruption, subversive and dangerous movements, chancers, etc, etc, but I'll allow it.

 

[Perth Red]

You've spent the last 2 pages trying to argue that somebody said something which they didn't. So..

You still havent told us what you think he meant when he said to catch up to AFL's revenue we need to a have a national competition. What exactly do you think he meant by that?

 

[Perth Red]

I was think more about calling out corruption, subversive and dangerous movements, chancers, etc, etc, but I'll allow it.

Apologies, I thought you were talking about dckheads

 

[AlwaysGreen]

There’s only so many times you can keep ignoring us before we’ll just give it up. That’d open up perth nicely for a third afl team eventually.
Nrl needs to grow some balls and expand the game into new markets, and I’m not talking Vegas lol

The NRL is well within its rights to ignore you as you don't actually offer as much as you think.

Your sport will put another team in Perth regardless of whether there is an NRL team there or not, so that attempt at blackmail won't work. That said, I'm not sure how many more white people there are in Sa, Vic and WA to form another team.

 

[Pippen94]

You still havent told us what you think he meant when he said to catch up to AFL's revenue we need to a have a national competition. What exactly do you think he meant by that?

I'm not going to put words into uncle Nick's mouth. It's a broad statement. Specifically, nobody but u has said afl gets more TV money because it covers all metros. Makes me wonder why other "national" comps like the A league getting dumped by fox or nine eagerness for more qld teams.

 

[Pippen94]

Apologies, I thought you were talking about dckheads

Oh, two granddad's having a moment

 

[Perth Red]

I'm not going to put words into uncle Nick's mouth. It's a broad statement. Specifically, nobody but u has said afl gets more TV money because it covers all metros. Makes me wonder why other "national" comps like the A league getting dumped by fox or nine eagerness for more qld teams.

haah. you dont need to, he has literally told us what he thinks. National comp = more revenue. Any sane person can see what it means. It means to match AFL revenue we need teams in perth and Adelaide. according to Uncle Nick anyways.

Your comparing tier 1 sport with tier 2 and 3 sports. You think ALeague gets same money as now if only in 3 capital cities?

 

[AlwaysGreen]

I'm pretty sure Politis never continuously mentions afl in his interviews. A bit rough associating an innocent bystander to your game.

 

[Pippen94]

haah. you dont need to, he has literally told us what he thinks. National comp = more revenue. Any sane person can see what it means. It means to match AFL revenue we need teams in perth and Adelaide. according to Uncle Nick anyways.

Your comparing tier 1 sport with tier 2 and 3 sports. You think ALeague gets same money as now if only in 3 capital cities?

I'm starting to think ur mad; reading into other's comments stuff which isn't stated. Like that woman who thought a TV host was sending her cyrptic messages in his opening monolog every night.

National comp is no silver bullet. Superleague would've kept rams & reds otherwise. A league is now a joke..

 

[Perth Red]

I'm starting to think ur mad; reading into other's comments stuff which isn't stated. Like that woman who thought a TV host was sending her cyrptic messages in his opening monolog every night.

National comp is no silver bullet. Superleague would've kept rams & reds otherwise. A league is now a joke..

Again would Aleague be more or less valuable with only 3 capital cities involved?

and again, you dont need to interpret anything, he literally spelled out what he means. A national comp will earn more revenue, in his opinion.
“if we’re going to be a national sport and want to grow our revenue, we have to grow our sport and be in every state.” -Politis

 

[Pippen94]

Again would Aleague be more or less valuable with only 3 capital cities involved?

and again, you dont need to interpret anything, he literally spelled out what he means. A national comp will earn more revenue, in his opinion.
“if we’re going to be a national sport and want to grow our revenue, we have to grow our sport and be in every state.” -Politis

Keep posting the same thing 100 times. A league has 5 metros & NRL has 3. NRL is worth infinitely more to broadcasters. Being "national" is not factor

 

[flippikat]

Roosters & South's aren't moving from center of richest city in this country to the central coast. Fact that think that probably means u have no idea how world works

Two issues here - the club grant (as it is) makes it unlikely that ANY club will feel pressure to move, plus the NRL's track record has been to do everything to accommodate a club NOT moving.

Also worth considering is the appeal of the Central Coast versus currently unrepresented metro markets (Perth & Adelaide) without any NRL club. While CC is part of RL heartland, those 2 cities have a concentrated-in-one-city mass of people & corporates that may be compelling for a relocation.

 

[Perth Red]

Keep posting the same thing 100 times. A league has 5 metros & NRL has 3. NRL is worth infinitely more to broadcasters. Being "national" is not factor

Again you're comparing two very different levels of popularity of sports. the question you actually need to ask is would Aleague be less valuable with only 3 capital cities and would NRL be more valuable if it had all 5.
Politis clearly agrees with me that the answer is yes to the latter.

 

[MugaB]

Two issues here - the club grant (as it is) makes it unlikely that ANY club will feel pressure to move, plus the NRL's track record has been to do everything to accommodate a club NOT moving.

Also worth considering is the appeal of the Central Coast versus currently unrepresented metro markets (Perth & Adelaide) without any NRL club. While CC is part of RL heartland, those 2 cities have a concentrated-in-one-city mass of people & corporates that may be compelling for a relocation.

That and PRs persistence in bringing up metros when really all he cares about is getting perf into the NRL, thats it, every argument points towards that end and that end of...

 

[Centy Coast]

Two issues here - the club grant (as it is) makes it unlikely that ANY club will feel pressure to move, plus the NRL's track record has been to do everything to accommodate a club NOT moving.

Also worth considering is the appeal of the Central Coast versus currently unrepresented metro markets (Perth & Adelaide) without any NRL club. While CC is part of RL heartland, those 2 cities have a concentrated-in-one-city mass of people & corporates that may be compelling for a relocation.

The NRL will not allow a team on the Central Coast as that will have a negative impact on clubs like the Roosters, Newcastle and Manly plus there are nine clubs in Sydney and 11 clubs in NSW.

 

[flippikat]

The NRL will not allow a team on the Central Coast as that will have a negative impact on clubs like the Roosters, Newcastle and Manly plus there are nine clubs in Sydney and 11 clubs in NSW.

In the current setup, the only way I can see a Central Coast NRL team happening any time soon is if the perfect storm hits the Roosters (bad form, dropping crowds, severely reduced revenue, Nick passing away etc etc), they get no bailout from the NRL, and decide to move there rather than sell-up to a new owner "as is, where is"

Extremely unlikely.

 

[Perth Red]

In the current setup, the only way I can see a Central Coast NRL team happening any time soon is if the perfect storm hits the Roosters (bad form, dropping crowds, severely reduced revenue, Nick passing away etc etc), they get no bailout from the NRL, and decide to move there rather than sell-up to a new owner "as is, where is"

Extremely unlikely.

Roosters have a massive asset base, a strong corporate support and decent crowds. With the NRL grant now they're are financially very secure and financial strife is the only way any club may move, but even then the NRl would bail them out first.

Why people keep talking about relocations or dropping clubs when it has zero chance of happening I dont know.