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I recall Andrew Abdo saying one reason the Dolphins were chosen was because there's over 800k people in Moreton Bay and the Sunshine Coast. The club has links with Northern Suburbs Devils and Central Queensland Capras.
Do you have evidence it is just $10m?
Numerous articles have listed it as $50m:
A new Queensland team armed with a $50 million bank guarantee will officially be invited to join the NRL in time for it to begin competing for player signatures from November 1.
New cashed-up Queensland NRL team to splurge on players from November 1
A new Queensland team armed with a $50 million bank guarantee will officially be invited to join the NRL in time for it to begin competing for player signatures from November 1.amp.smh.com.au
If the Dolphins aren't Bri2 then they shouldn't have been admitted. We all know that they are Bri2 though.
That article is 12 years old. But even then I'm not suprised, Homebush is a white elephant and needs to play tenant's to use it.Stadium rent to cost a bomb for Brisbane
If the Brisbane Bombers do get off the ground as the NRL's 17th team, they are likely to pay the steepest rents in Australia.
More expensive to rent 52k capacity Suncorp for origin than 83k accor
Did you even read the articles you posted? LolDo you have evidence it is just $10m?
Numerous articles have listed it as $50m:
A new Queensland team armed with a $50 million bank guarantee will officially be invited to join the NRL in time for it to begin competing for player signatures from November 1.New cashed-up Queensland NRL team to splurge on players from November 1
A new Queensland team armed with a $50 million bank guarantee will officially be invited to join the NRL in time for it to begin competing for player signatures from November 1.As the NRL confirmed an expansion would take place from 2023, the game’s finances were also on the agenda, with the new club required to have a $50 million bank guarantee to carry it over the next five years without handouts from head office.They will not be required to pay a licence fee.
Millions in public money poured into Dolphins’ dash to be ‘NRL-ready’
The Redcliffe Leagues Club, touted as favourites in the running for the NRL’s 17th franchise, has held 30-year hopes of again hosting a top-tier team. A final stadium-led push was driven largely by public funds.www.brisbanetimes.com.au
Armed with a $50 million bank guarantee and the likelihood NRL coaching icon Wayne Bennett would lead the team, the Dolphins won every category assessed by the Australian Rugby League Commission's bid team and they had next to no time to do set up
A WA team would need concessions, says Dolphins’ boss
The CEO of NRL expansion team the Dolphins says a WA franchise makes ‘perfect sense’ but would need the salary cap and recruiting concessions they never received.thewest.com.au
$400k a game in 2022. But they got $17mill in revenue from game day activity so don’t feel bad for them lol
Mate I can't be bothered reading all this BS. Especially not when the first thing you do is attempt to twist something I said years ago into stating something that it clearly doesn't say.You bragged about the Bombers being backed by wealthy investors who have a foot in the local RL community:
I mean they've got solid money behind them (or at least they did prior to covid), they seem to have successful businessmen behind them, and they've already got strong connections in the footy community, and the money to get good footy minds behind them.
Weren't the businessmen you were talking about powerbrokers who held a position with the Broncos Thoroughbreds in the 1990s?
If so then they were as local as it gets.
So it's okay for Adelaide and Perth to have financially weak clubs that lack fans, but Brisbane 2 needed to be a carbon copy of the Broncos?
Do you know how obnoxious and stupid you sound with these double standards?
You try to come across as an intellectual, but it's obvious you've got a massive chip on your shoulder against the status quo and argue for the sake of it.
You're entitled to be a hypocrite and have a stupid opinion, but don't pretend it's a "fact". What you think should happen isn't a fact. It's just your opinion. The ARLC's refusal to embrace your opinion doesn't mean they're incompetent.
The club did make a huge mistake not playing all of its games at Lang Park.
It was dumb holding games at a venue that has a capacity of 11.5k. However, ghose games were sold out and the club drew an average of 32k fans to the 7 or 8 they played at Lang Park. The only reason you're including the games at Dolphin Ovalis because you cannot bear to admit that the Dolphins were able to draw an average attendance of 32k at Lang Park.
The Dolphins' attendances at Lang Park were just 4-5k below the Broncos'.
Reasonable people would acknowledge that the Dolphins' attendances at Lang Paek aren't far behind the Broncos'.
How many did you predict they would get at Lang Park?
I didn't abandon the club. I have health issues and commitments that make it very difficult to attend NRL games.
Why are you comparing the Dolphins with the Titans?
One club is a started from scratch with a neutral brand in a regional city. The other is a traditional BRL club from the world's second largest rugby league city.
You praised them for having a neutral brand and support from the businessmen associated with the Broncos Thoroughbreds.
I found this gem from Sept 22 2020:
The AFL alienated a huge portion of the potential fan base for the second Adelaide club when they announced it would be Port Adelaide instead of a neutral club.The NRL can't afford to do that in Brisbane, mainly because it's f**king stupid to knowingly alienate so many potential customers, but also because none of the QRL clubs have demonstrable support large enough to support an NRL club.At the end of the day it really comes down to whether you want a small suburban club or a club with mass appeal. Why you'd want a suburban club that struggles to make ends meet IDK, but that is the question.Redcliffe put their hand up
you keep picking out one metric and using it to judge whether a team in valuable or not, this time it's ratings in New Zealand. So Perth is not valuable because people in NZ won't watch them? seriously? Who said Skysports is going to fork out big money for a second NZ team anyway? do they even...forums.leagueunlimited.com
The Dolphins drew an average of 32k fans to Lang Park over 7 or 8 games. That suggests their fanbase is more than big enough to make ends meet. Just accept you are wrong. Everyone can see it but you.
Because he assumed that nobody else would read it either and thought he could get away with it.
It’s hilarious he posted an article he couldn’t read that literally said in it what he was arguing against! One of donkeys best lol,
LOL, no.
And what exactly? Effectively allow a genocidal authoritarian government to take control of the whole region, subjugating multiple nations and ethnic groups and completely destabilising the whole globe and f**king the economy globally in the process?!
that would mean showing some balls - unlikely to happen
In your opinion
Excellent post as was the next one you made
