18th club, whose next?

[Perth Red]

You’ll find that’s exactly how they do business. Look at the changes PVL has done in his short spell as the games leader.

Doing an Olympics/Soccer WC hosting type announcement for 3 sides simultaneously is something PVL would 100% do.

He can hang the carrot to PNG and have a reason not to bring them in immediately next due to their infrastructure or lack of but at the very least they’ll know they have a team coming and won’t bow down to China’s will - keeping Australia’s (US) government happy.

They likely wont announce clubs 19 and 20 until they know what tv revenue is post 2027, and then will probably wait until they get a sense of tv revenue 2032 onwards. Bringing 3 new clubs in is a $60mill plus drain on revenue at todays grants. They'll want to be sure they are covering that and then some I suspect.

If Perth is club 18 announcement then I can see Govt funded PNG being club 19 before the 2032 tv deal gets done as Govt picks up the bill. If PNG is club 18 then it'll be a few years off announcing club 19, if ever.

 

[Brian potter]

Probably same reason why he walks around in jets jersey when he's a souths fan. Pollies like to be popular in their electorate

Had to laugh the oter day when a radio group were talkign about WA premier being a mad Bears fan without evebn realising its the Willagee Bears he follows not NS lol

Just be grateful we got 17&18 after all these years.

 

[MugaB]

You’ll find that’s exactly how they do business. Look at the changes PVL has done in his short spell as the games leader.

Doing an Olympics/Soccer WC hosting type announcement for 3 sides simultaneously is something PVL would 100% do.

He can hang the carrot to PNG and have a reason not to bring them in immediately next due to their infrastructure or lack of but at the very least they’ll know they have a team coming and don’t bow down to China’s will…

While it is something he would be famous for, that doesn't create competitive tension between bids if all was laid out bare, also there leaves room for rival codes or rival clubs to stab said bids in the back, perth for example might have force or afl use the media to down play any new nrl franchise as would the courier mail does in Brisbane, not that any of them could really affect a new teams entry, but any bad press in non heartland areas hurts expansion, and hurts the game overall, PNG being the frontrunner to get A licence is a safe announcement, 2 reasons being, theres no rival there so no one cares if RL expands there, ditto for the TAS afl expansion, we laugh at it, but its not really threatening of the sports landscape, now if NRL announce a rival NZ2 team for the warriors, then you'll have all the Super Rugby teams plotting to drag down that new team... but NZders are nice, they watch both codes and aren't too fussed with the code wars as much as the Melbourne vs Sydney crew

 

[Perth Red]

Just be grateful we got 17&18 after all these years.

Its taken the commission 10 years to bring in 1 club, seems fanciful we will get 3 more in 10 years.

 

[Vlad59]

Bring back 2 sydney clubs, so Rugba Leeg.

“For example, if the NRL is looking to Perth, they can say one of the conditions of getting a licence in that market is you are named the Bears. It’s not difficult."

Ikin is such a simpleton lol

Wtf is Albo on about? Start the season and shut the idiots up.

 

[Foreign Legion]

Shows how out of touch you are with rugby league in Australia

He's a f...'en looser of a PM. Bring back the the Crushers, Mariners, Rams and Reds!

 

[Miller was a legend]

I’m praying they bring Bears back as Perf. That is perthfect

 

[MugaB]

I’m praying they bring Bears back as Perf. That is perthfect

Perf..ection

 

[Vlad59]

While it is something he would be famous for, that doesn't create competitive tension between bids if all was laid out bare, also there leaves room for rival codes or rival clubs to stab said bids in the back, perth for example might have force or afl use the media to down play any new nrl franchise as would the courier mail does in Brisbane, not that any of them could really affect a new teams entry, but any bad press in non heartland areas hurts expansion, and hurts the game overall, PNG being the frontrunner to get A licence is a safe announcement, 2 reasons being, theres no rival there so no one cares if RL expands there, ditto for the TAS afl expansion, we laugh at it, but its not really threatening of the sports landscape, now if NRL announce a rival NZ2 team for the warriors, then you'll have all the Super Rugby teams plotting to drag down that new team... but NZders are nice, they watch both codes and aren't too fussed with the code wars as much as the Melbourne vs Sydney crew

That’s a hell of a long sentence bro

 

[Perth Red]

I’m praying they bring Bears back as Perf. That is perthfect

Under the right conditions and if it means we are in as club 18 then I'll take it

 

[Brian potter]

Under the right conditions and if it means we are in as club 18 then I'll take it

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Yeah, f#ck the bears 4 non-negotiables.

They get the name and colours and 1 game at the NSO or nothing .

 

[Vlad59]

Yeah, f#ck the bears 4 non-negotiables.

They get the name and colours and 1 game at the NSO or nothing .

They can have a mad Monday league tag match. Everything else must be in Perth.

 

[Brian potter]

They can have a mad Monday league tag match. Everything else must be in Perth.

1 regular season game at the NSO is plenty but I’d rather see it played on the central coast.

 

[Maximus]

He can hang the carrot to PNG and have a reason not to bring them in immediately next due to their infrastructure or lack of but at the very least they’ll know they have a team coming and won’t bow down to China’s will - keeping Australia’s (US) government happy.

The problem is that given the funding is an Albo brain fart, it's now or never for them.

 

[Perth Red]

1 regular season game at the NSO is plenty but I’d rather see it played on the central coast.

If its as big a draw card as they reckon then it should be v Manly at Allianz - $$$'s.

 

[baggygreen man]

"We have to go to 20 teams and we have to go to Western Australia. We need more content and to make it a truly national sport, not just one played on the East coast."- Nick Politis

Have been saying the same for years. Will it ever happen Nick.

Wasnt there an almost unanimous vote among NRL coaches recently for a WA side.

 

[Brian potter]

If its as big a draw card as they reckon then it should be v Manly at Allianz - $$$'s.

Do manly fans travel?

 

[Vlad59]

Do manly fans travel?

No. And Bears fans don’t exist.

 

[Perth Red]

Do manly fans travel?

I guess we'd find out lol.

I am highly skeptical of the fanbase claims but lets say there are 5k fans willing to pay to watch the Bears in Sydney (a big if I know!) then Perth could offer a 5 game Sydney membership.
3 games at Allianz: v Manly home game, then away games v Roosters and Souths,
a pre season game at NSO
and a 1 game ticket for a game in Perth.

If the Perth membership included the Allianz game v Manly, and the NRL werent dumb in scheduling it, then we'd travel over for the weekend to watch it each season.

Play home games in the Western Reds inspired kit above and away games in more traditional NS jersey. everyones happy.

 

[MugaB]

"We have to go to 20 teams and we have to go to Western Australia. We need more content and to make it a truly national sport, not just one played on the East coast."- Nick Politis

Have been saying the same for years. Will it ever happen Nick.

Wasnt there an almost unanimous vote among NRL coaches recently for a WA side.

Almost unanimous? FMD it was 50% thats not almost unanimous, thats just half,and not are all coaches, most are assistants..
As for those polls they are a utterly useless metric, as the voters are the nrl club ceos, and theyll vote purely based on what affects their bottom line, not the feel good factor of being a national code or the bring back the bears nostalgia,
Perth has been in the top picks for expansion for over 20 years, yet still no perth.. im not bagging it, just looking at it objectively... they don't seem to care about being national, its a selfish business rugby league, if you want to predict expansion (if it happens at all) you need to heavily factor the selfish infighting that goes on between each club and who knows who