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You’ve expressed this opinion 100s of times on this forum so you have to expect a response. Every sport in the professional world will have links to gambling revenue. In your case you seem to use your criticism as an excuse for another shot at Sydney clubs. Needless to say this annoys people as your agenda is clear. Personally I could not care less. I gamble regularly on horses and grey hounds and enjoy it immensely.
How can they sell away games when they don’t get the ticket revenue
Probs because of his status
So your Name ?.
I don’t think there’s a whiteboard at Rugby League HQ marking out a strategy on how best to exploit the vulnerable for profit. I guess what you’re trying to say is the game should take the moral high ground and find a revenue stream that doesn’t harm anyone. Clubs have woken up to finding other revenue streams, particularly after covid. I know the roosters pokies profit gets reduced year on year and their investment portfolio is growing. Don’t think pokies will ever go away but with the exception of a couple of clubs, they’re not going to be the big gambling dens they once were.
agreement with the hosting club. Warriors used to do a Sydney membership for its fans. So the hosting club gets X $'s per membership sold. Lets say that a Perth Bears Sydney supporters membership is $150 for 3 NRl games plus pre season NSO game. Souths and Roosters get $20 each for every membership sold. Or something along those lines. NRL crowds in Sydney would be much bigger if they all did reciprocal membership agreements for games.
Do you have a 'f**k off were full' sticker on your car?
That's the risk with expanding into Perth. Regardless of whether it's a transplanted Sydney team or a new entity owned by a local consortium, it will need to win more games than it loses to win over a parochial fumbleball market.
Same could be said for any new club (and in fact any established club barring one or two). How big do you think the dolphins will be if they stay 13th for the next 5 years?
All 12 games would need to be played at PRS. A couple of trials at NSO won't hurt.
Either would do, though West Coast is more inclusive of the whole state but Perth is more recognizable as a location. As long as its not "The" Bears I'm not fussed! I woudl like to see the brand freshened up though. This still remains one of the better ideas thats been done
True but my initial point was if it was to be the Perth bears then how long before we start hearing the calls for to relocate the struggling Perth bears to the central coast/NSO?
I would prefer just the Perth bears/pirates.
Ownership does away with that issue. As long as its owned by WA, based in WA and the only link to NS, in terms of decision making, is through a pathways partnership then it wont matter what the sydney nostalgics want.
Won’t matter they will always have a strong core of fans
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