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18th club, whose next?

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Perth Red said:
I love how a 20 team comp was a new concept and not considered until politis suggested it. Strategic plans are so overrated lol

that Vlandys wasn’t on the phone to cook as soon as he was appointed is pretty poor, again shows the difference in quality of management between afl and nrl when it comes to govt relationship management. Makes you doubt the nrl has presented a list of must haves to the WA govt like afl did for tassie doesnt it?

as for the article, new week new favourite for club 18 lol. We’ll just add to the pile of who Vlandys is keen on. There’s only poor nz who haven’t been mentioned this year as favourites!
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Why the f**k would Darth V'landys immediately get on the phone to the WA premier?

You're the dumbest whingiest merkin that ever took a step on these shores.
 
The_Wookie

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Pippen94 said:
In a lot of areas NRL has capacity for greater improvement than afl.
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This isnt meant to sound flippant, but Its easy to have great improvement when coming off a low base - the AFL does this with GWS and Gold Coast for example. And while that may seem true, it also implies that the AFL is just going to sit around chillin with the NRL does their thing.

In 2013 for example, the NRL had 223,000 club members, at most theyve added 160,000 since. The percentages look great though.

Since 2014, the AFL and NRL have had near identical increases in Membership - by percentage - NRL 50%, AFL 49%

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NRL Memberships estimated for the last two years due to several clubs not posting.
 
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The_Wookie said:
This isnt meant to sound flippant, but Its easy to have great improvement when coming off a low base - the AFL does this with GWS and Gold Coast for example. And while that may seem true, it also implies that the AFL is just going to sit around chillin with the NRL does their thing.

In 2013 for example, the NRL had 223,000 club members, at most theyve added 160,000 since. The percentages look great though.

Since 2014, the AFL and NRL have had near identical increases in Membership - by percentage - NRL 49%, AFL 50%

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NRL Memberships estimated for the last two years due to several clubs not posting.
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Afl has culture of club membership which NRL does not. I remember when the big bash went to channel 7 & their commentators who also worked on afl started banging on about franchise membership. That's the room for improvement
 
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Pippen94 said:
Afl has culture of club membership which NRL does not.
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this was true 10 years ago, it is far less true now. Clubs have been pushing them for 13 years now. Membership levels are pretty much exactly where the AFL clubs were after 13 years (in 1997).

Pippen94 said:
I remember when the big bash went to channel 7 & their commentators who also worked on afl started banging on about franchise membership. That's the room for improvement
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Theres always room for improvement in general terms. Seven have been an AFL broadcaster for most of the last 50 years. Theres always been a sense of them working together as a partnership, where Nine and the NRL have been uneasy bedfellows for some years now.
 
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The Penguin #6. said:
You should be absolutely stoked with that article released earlier today, it all but confirms we are going to have a W.A. Gov`t. backed team in the NRL.
And if you hadn`t read the article with such a jaundiced eye you may have noticed it said that "an official proposal " from the W.A. Gov`t was about to be put forward.
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I can relate to him being sceptical with anything coming out of nrl hq. Our hopes over here have been dashed before.
 
The_Wookie

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Centy Coast said:
Think I’d go with the NRL’s numbers that the Storm have submitted than anything from one of their officials lol
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I wouldnt. I mean the Eels published numbers on the NRL season are from last season, and one or two others were behind the official club tallies on their sites with nothing at all for the Bulldogs and Titans despite the clubs releasing information in the last few months.
 
Perth Red

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The bid to become the 18th NRL team has been thrown into even more uncertainty as Perth have shot into serious contention.

New West Australian premier Roger Cook has reportedly wasted no time in office, after making a phone call to independent commission boss Peter V'landys to begin his efforts to make sure Perth is the next side in the NRL, according to a Daily Telegraph report.

Following the on-field and off-field financial success of newly instated Dolphins in the NRL, Perth's interest has skyrocketed especially after another successful origin match in the city last year, followed by a NRL double header in the coming weeks.

It seems Cook's cries for a team are not falling on deaf ears as V'landys is already giving the proposal serious thought.

"Perth has to be high on the table now, especially with a premier so passionate about wanting to have a team there. They warrant serious consideration," V'landys told the publication.

www.zerotackle.com

Perth premier in talks over expansion, every option for NRL's next team analysed

With possible rapid expansion incoming, who will make the cut?
www.zerotackle.com www.zerotackle.com
 
Brian potter

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Perth Red said:
The bid to become the 18th NRL team has been thrown into even more uncertainty as Perth have shot into serious contention.

New West Australian premier Roger Cook has reportedly wasted no time in office, after making a phone call to independent commission boss Peter V'landys to begin his efforts to make sure Perth is the next side in the NRL, according to a Daily Telegraph report.

Following the on-field and off-field financial success of newly instated Dolphins in the NRL, Perth's interest has skyrocketed especially after another successful origin match in the city last year, followed by a NRL double header in the coming weeks.

It seems Cook's cries for a team are not falling on deaf ears as V'landys is already giving the proposal serious thought.

"Perth has to be high on the table now, especially with a premier so passionate about wanting to have a team there. They warrant serious consideration," V'landys told the publication.

www.zerotackle.com

Perth premier in talks over expansion, every option for NRL's next team analysed

With possible rapid expansion incoming, who will make the cut?
www.zerotackle.com www.zerotackle.com
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I mean seriously what more could/would Perth have to do get a team in the NRL?
 
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