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18th club, whose next?

Get Rid of The Donkeys

Get Rid of The Donkeys

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Perth Red said:
There is evidence investment = bigger participation rates.
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So investing more money on junior development will produce more players?

Cool. Makes more sense to invest money in Brisbane, Sydney, New Zealand, PNG, Samoa, Tonga and Fiji because it will produce players who are eligible for Origin and Test football. The game doesn't need players from Melbourne and Perth to represent Australia. Us Queenslanders and New South Welshmen have been pounding the shit out of the Poms for 50 years.

Perth Red said:
That is unquestionable, the only question is how much to get how many.
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Victoria has produced 5 players in 25 years. All of them have been immigrants from rugby league strongholds. Getting little Jake Smith the champion athlete from an elite inner Melbourne school to choose rugby league over fumbleball is highly unlikely, regardless of how much money is spent on development officers and junior clubs.

Perth Red said:
No reason at all Vic and WA couldn’t have 20k players in each state if the arlc got off its arse.
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Victorians and Western Australians prefer to play fumbleball because it's ingrained in the local culture. Money cannot change this unfortunate reality. Deal with it.

When I was a kid the Brisbane Bears sent a player to my school to run a clinic. No one became a fumbleball fan, although we were excited to meet a player. The next day we played rugby league at lunch.

Perth Red said:
the arlc absolutely has a clear and written mandate to invest and grow the game nationally. It’s in their constitution.
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Show me the part that says $9m needs to be wasted on development officers in fumbleball cities because some nutty prick in Perth thinks it'll lead to them producing more players than New Zealand?
 
Get Rid of The Donkeys

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Perth Red said:
Nrl doesn’t attract big crowds in any city, broncos still can’t get close to the equivalent afl clubs crowds. why you think it would in a afl city remains a mystery?
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Brisbane Broncos draw bigger crowds than the Brisbane Lions.

Brisbane Lions are an AwFuL club.

West Coast Eagles don't draw that much more than the Broncos, FWIW. Last year the Eagles drew 42,251 to their games.


Broncos drew 33k, despite having to shift games to the lowly Gabba due to the soccer.

Rugby League Tables / Attendances /Brisbane

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In what universe is an average of 33k not a big crowd?

It's more than four times larger than the tiny crowds Hull KR draw at their shithole ground.

Perth Red said:
You mean like the seq team whose crowds tanked? Newcastle aside it happens to every club, why your singling out the storm I don’t know?
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The Titans have been a disaster on the field for the bulk of their history.

You would have to be dumb to not see why I'm singling out the Storm. It's the only RL club in the world that was parachuted to the top of its respective league by the game's stakeholder so that it enjoyed sustained on field success. The club's fanbase has never had a bad season that made them question their support. Despite this, their attendances have been horrible in Australia's second largest city until the last few years.

The Melbourne Victory A-League team were generating larger crowds than the Melbourne Storm until COVID-19!

When the Lions went on a golden run 20 years ago they pulled 30k+ fans through the gate in a city half size of Melbourne. It proves Melbourne isn't a sports mad city that gets behind all of its teams. The fact News Ltd rigged the competition to keep the Storm on top proves how little faith they had in the Melbourne public supporting a rugby league team. The fact News Ltd made the ARLC fund an extra $30m into the Storm for five years after selling the club proves they know it is built on a very shaky foundation that will collapse when the shit hits the fan. There's no way News Ltd would have invested that much in the club if it thought there was a large fanbase willing to support them through thick and thin.

In 2010 the Storm fans threw a tantrum because they didn't get to play finals.

What happens when they get the spoon?
 
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Get Rid of The Donkeys

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Perth Red said:
Ever heard of football?

the two hull clubs draw about 8% of the population to games. The two Brisbane clubs draw about 3% hmmmm.
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If you believed half the shit you say then you would be against a city of 260k having two teams.

You whinge about Sutherland having an NRL team, yet you support a similar sized city in England having two?

Hypocrite.
 
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Get Rid of The Donkeys said:
Brisbane Broncos draw bigger crowds than the Brisbane Lions.

Brisbane Lions are an AwFuL club.

West Coast Eagles don't draw that much more than the Broncos, FWIW. Last year the Eagles drew 42,251 to their games.


Broncos drew 33k, despite having to shift games to the lowly Gabba due to the soccer.

Rugby League Tables / Attendances /Brisbane

Rugby League Tables - NRL Stats & Tables
afltables.com

In what universe is an average of 33k not a big crowd?

It's more than four times larger than the tiny crowds Hull KR draw at their shithole ground.



The Titans have been a disaster on the field for the bulk of their history.

You would have to be dumb to not see why I'm singling out the Storm. It's the only RL club in the world that was parachuted to the top of its respective league by the game's stakeholder so that it enjoyed sustained on field success. The club's fanbase has never had a bad season that made them question their support. Despite this, their attendances have been horrible in Australia's second largest city until the last few years.

The Melbourne Victory A-League team were generating larger crowds than the Melbourne Storm until COVID-19!

When the Lions went on a golden run 20 years ago they pulled 30k+ fans through the gate in a city half size of Melbourne. It proves Melbourne isn't a sports mad city that gets behind all of its teams. The fact News Ltd rigged the competition to keep the Storm on top proves how little faith they had in the Melbourne public supporting a rugby league team. The fact News Ltd made the ARLC fund an extra $30m into the Storm for five years after selling the club proves they know it is built on a very shaky foundation that will collapse when the shit hits the fan. There's no way News Ltd would have invested that much in the club if it thought there was a large fanbase willing to support them through thick and thin.

In 2010 the Storm fans threw a tantrum because they didn't get to play finals.

What happens when they get the spoon?
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Old mate is seriously claiming that 42k is "not much more" then 33k.

And that Melbourne having 5 teams averaging 45k to 63k is not into "sports" compared to Brisbane.

Cooked AF.
 
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