18th club, whose next?

[MugaB]

He goes on to talk about 20 teams

png Perth bears them chch makes the most sense given his previous comments

He has never mentioned chch, he had talked up vic2 tho

 

[Bukowski]

It is all dependent for me on how bullish they are. They are a bit too bullish for me atm.

That's what had put me off them

 

[Wb1234]

He has never mentioned chch, he had talked up vic2 tho

'An enormous market': NRL boss backs New Zealand for 18th team

Andrew Abdo says the traditional case against such a move is now moot.

www.nzherald.co.nz

which vlandys also repeated
Vic2 wasn’t serious lol

chch makes the most sense

 

[MugaB]

'An enormous market': NRL boss backs New Zealand for 18th team

Andrew Abdo says the traditional case against such a move is now moot.

www.nzherald.co.nz

which vlandys also repeated
Vic2 wasn’t serious lol

chch makes the most sense

I don't want to upset you, but you have PVL the chairman of the ARLc and the nrl ceo Abdo confused, where was PVL in that article?
Besides abdo doesn't even mention a city/region let alone chch... basically he wants one, but there's no bids yet

 

[Get Rid of The Donkeys]

Poor old Perth Red is going to be beside himself. As long as there is an ironclad agreement and maybe 1 game max at North Sydney then it is fine.

I'd laugh my guts out if the Bears pulled off a deal with the South Australian Gov to become the Adelaide Bears and got a licence at Perth's expense.

 

[Get Rid of The Donkeys]

1. You keep clinging to that mate. That doesn’t disprove the quality of all of those players you want to discount. Unless you are arguing that Mal Meninga scored all of the tries, made all of the tackles etc from centre. You are saying a centre (albeit a great one) was the only reason we won those premierships. It is an incredibly idiotic statement.

I'm saying Meninga provided the x-factor that got the Raiders over the line. The only ball running outside backs I can think of that have as much impact on the game are Latrell Mitchell and Greg Inglis.

2. I was wrong with that statement and I apologise however I still wouldn’t class him a great player and if you were to class him a great player then you would have to class Nic Cotric, Jordan Rapana and Ken Nagas as equally great because they played just as much and in some cases more rep football then Kyle Feldt. You won’t though because that would defeat your argument.

Ken Nagas would have played more Origin games if he wasn't poached by NSW to sit on the bench in 1994.

3. That doesn’t change the fact that the conditions in 2024 are massively different to the 1980’s right up to and including the Super League. You can argue as much as you want but trying to compare 1997 or the 1980’s BRL era to the fully professional and cashed up NRL now is disingenuous at the very least.

It costs more to run a club now than it did back then. If a Perth-based teams wants to be run like the Melbourne Storm then it'll need a lot of money over its first 20 years. Storm got their money from News Ltd.

Where will Perth get its money from?

4. Really so the fact that all of those articles have stated that Queensland is more conservative than other states is proof that they are not more conservative. Ok then go and tell all of those political analysts that they are wrong because you have a few family members that don’t vote across conservative lines. By the way if you bothered to actually read the articles they are saying that Queensland is socially conservative but vote Labor in state politics because of two general reasons: that the national party decided to essentially form a formal Coalition with the Liberal Party (which they previously hadn’t) and that the Labor Party have essentially targeted the rural working class which were and are socially conservative and which had previously voted for the National Party under Joh Bjelke Peterson. Essentially focus on the delivery of services to the large regional populations has been a key factor. Heck, I don’t know maybe your personal analogy is more reflective than data and experts.

Springborg amalgamated the National and Liberal Party together in the 00s. Nationals had been on the nose in Queensland for 20 years by the time the LNP was formed. Queensland hasn't had a truly conservative Premier since Joh.

 

[Wb1234]

I don't want to upset you, but you have PVL the chairman of the ARLc and the nrl ceo Abdo confused, where was PVL in that article?
Besides abdo doesn't even mention a city/region let alone chch... basically he wants one, but there's no bids yet

You’re not reading my posts buddy
I said which vlandys also repeated

 

[Wb1234]

I'd laugh my guts out if the Bears pulled off a deal with the South Australian Gov to become the Adelaide Bears and got a licence at Perth's expense.

Shows the only way Perth can get info for nrl is tacking onto a long dead (at the top level) nswrl club for money juniors and relevance

 

[mongoose]

I'm saying Meninga provided the x-factor that got the Raiders over the line. The only ball running outside backs I can think of that have as much impact on the game are Latrell Mitchell and Greg Inglis.



Ken Nagas would have played more Origin games if he wasn't poached by NSW to sit on the bench in 1994.



It costs more to run a club now than it did back then. If a Perth-based teams wants to be run like the Melbourne Storm then it'll need a lot of money over its first 20 years. Storm got their money from News Ltd.

Where will Perth get its money from?



Springborg amalgamated the National and Liberal Party together in the 00s. Nationals had been on the nose in Queensland for 20 years by the time the LNP was formed. Queensland hasn't had a truly conservative Premier since Joh.

Raiders were looking red hot favourites for the premiership in the final few rounds of 93. Stuart gets a season ending injury in a 68-0 drubbing of Parramatta.
Raiders go out in straight sets in the finals. Meninga and Walters still in the side, no Stuart though.

 

[Bukowski]

I just hope they do PNG right because there won't be a second chance.

 

[Get Rid of The Donkeys]

Shows the only way Perth can get info for nrl is tacking onto a long dead (at the top level) nswrl club for money juniors and relevance

I'd love to see Perth Red's reactuon to Perth saddling up with the Brisbane Tigers, North Sydney Bears or Newton Jets.

 

[Get Rid of The Donkeys]

Raiders were looking red hot favourites for the premiership in the final few rounds of 93. Stuart gets a season ending injury in a 68-0 drubbing of Parramatta.
Raiders go out in straight sets in the finals. Meninga and Walters still in the side, no Stuart though.

Stuart and Meninga were great players.

 

[Brian potter]

I just hope they do PNG right because there won't be a second chance.

Unless they can find a way to heavily fund PNG indefinitely then it won’t succeed.

 

[Bukowski]

Unless they can find a way to heavily fund PNG indefinitely then it won’t succeed.

That's only 1 issue. I guess we'll see.

 

[Canard]

The Bears have 200,000 members?

V'landys when he said that

 

[Brian potter]

That's only 1 issue. I guess we'll see.

It is but it’s a rather a big and important issue.

 

[Centy Coast]

Can't argue with 200k members.

Yeah not 200k members, maybe fans spread throughout NSW, QLD and NZ lol.

 

[Iamback]

The bears would be very 'meh' for me. But I'd be happy to get to go to regular games.

It is a rich area of the state atleast, Not sure they will bring many juniors but they have Pathways in place. That is a bonus so tick some nice boxes but depends on the Business plan

 

[Iamback]

I just hope they do PNG right because there won't be a second chance.

I feel confident with them going through Deloittes with their business plan and have a former club CEO as CEO. Atleast they are doing things the correct way... Whether they have a solid business model is the question

 

[Centy Coast]

I'd love to see Perth Red's reactuon to Perth saddling up with the Brisbane Tigers, North Sydney Bears or Newton Jets.

There will be no other option for a Perth team