I'm calling out his hypocrisy and lunacy on expansion. The bloke has a vendetta against Brisbane and Sydney because both cities are more important to RL than Canberra. He gets really angry and abusive when I and @titoelcolumbiano talk about adding a third team in Brisbane. For years he ranted like a lunatic at anyone who suggested a traditional BRL club enter the NRL as Brisbane's second club. He still rants and raves about Redcliffe getting the 17th licence.
A few weeks ago he went psycho at
@Perth Red for pointing out that Adelaide is decades awaybfrom having a team. Perth Red is right.
At one stage he wanted Brisbane 2 to be a "neutral" club called the Sawfish. LOL
In this thread he's ranted and raved about the ARLC needing to extract as much money as possible from Magic Round. He's attacked Queenslanders in the process. This is the same bloke who has argued for years that expansion should be about growing the game in new markets and not bending to the wishes of the broadcasters. If the ARLC were to follow his advice then the broadcasters would offer less money for the rights. From that we can say he doesn't give a f**k about extracting the best deal from the broadcast rights. Yey here he is ranting that the sky will cave in if Brisbane continues to host Magic Round under the same deal that was secured in 2019.
He pretends that Brisbane has the same sort of stranglehold on the game as Sydney. Brisbane has been underserved since 1998. This is just the fourth year since 1988 that Brisbane has had more than one club. Ironically, the reason Melbourne Storm are where they are today is because of the void that was created when we lost the Crushers and Chargers in the 90s. It led to RL fans from SEQ who didn't like the Broncos having no one else to support. Melbourne wouldn't be where they are without that support in SEQ. I don't see him or any of the other suspects thanking RL fans in Brisbane for taking a hit 24 years ago to prop up our game's only true expansion side. All I see is bitching and moaning because they think Brisbane should pay the price for Sydney being oversaturated. At one stage he equated a third Brisbane team with Sydney's nine teams.
He once claimed the Cowboys wouldn't generate so much revenue from sponsorship and corporate hospitality if they didn't have such a great stadium. The club didn't move into the new stadium until 2020. It was making more money from sponsorship and corporate hospitality than most clubs long before it moved into the new stadium. The reason the Cowboys were kept around in 2000 was because their revenue from corporate hospitality was the third highest in the league. Brad Walter mentioned this on NRL.COM.
