18th club, whose next?

[MugaB]

HahHhhaa

phins up

Phins Right UP YA!

 

[Bukowski]

I didn't make a prediction in that post you dumb arse.

BTW, all my predications about the Dolphins have been accurate so far...

Waste of time mate. Intelligent posts threaten them. Bored pensioners .

 

[Ride the Lion to Zion]

Yeh they are freshening up the paint on the ground at Henson park and taking out the afl posts as we speak

or perhaps talking to the wests tigers to see when lo is available

You must mean Garry Lo and Castleford Tigers. He became available after helping West Yorkshire Police with their inquiries into something or other. Only made one appearance.

Subsequently pitched up at Carcassonne. Followed by a spell in French Union. Then went back to PNG Hunters. Last I heard he was playing for Waghi Tumbe in the Digicel Cup.

 

[The Penguin #6.]

You must mean Garry Lo and Castleford Tigers. He became available after helping West Yorkshire Police with their inquiries into something or other. Only made one appearance.

Subsequently pitched up at Carcassonne. Followed by a spell in French Union. Then went back to PNG Hunters. Last I heard he was playing for Waghi Tumbe in the Digicel Cup.

I think you`ve got your Lo`s mixed up, I think he was referring to the half-time entertainment and whether J-Lo would be available. Think big.

 

[Ride the Lion to Zion]

I think you`ve got your Lo`s mixed up, I think he was referring to the half-time entertainment and whether J-Lo would be available. Think big.

Lo and behold. Few more couch connoisseurs might turn up at Campbelltown.

 

[flippikat]

In other words they're doing the NRL's job for them and effectively looking to identify or even create the perfect bid from their perspective.

Great point. The NRL *seem to be* muddling around, directionless - or at least that's the impression you get from their comments. Every day a different location gets talked-up, and it changes like the wind.

Meanwhile the WA Government are getting well stuck-in to it.

 

[Wb1234]

Great point. The NRL *seem to be* muddling around, directionless - or at least that's the impression you get from their comments. Every day a different location gets talked-up, and it changes like the wind.

Meanwhile the WA Government are getting well stuck-in to i

Directionless? Lmao

There are multiple articles saying png is next and they want 20 teams by 2032

 

[The Penguin #6.]

Great point. The NRL *seem to be* muddling around, directionless - or at least that's the impression you get from their comments. Every day a different location gets talked-up, and it changes like the wind.

Meanwhile the WA Government are getting well stuck-in to it.

I doubt it very, very much. I suspect they (the ARLC) know exactly what they are doing by playing one potential bidder off against the other, which they can afford to do, when you`ve got a highly desirable product as is the next NRL franchise. And to cap it off, getting loads of free publicity thrown in as well, further amplifying the desirability of the product.

 

[Bukowski]

I doubt it very, very much. I suspect they (the ARLC) know exactly what they are doing by playing one potential bidder off against the other, which they can afford to do, when you`ve got a highly desirable product as is the next NRL franchise. And to cap it off, getting loads of free publicity thrown in as well, further amplifying the desirability of the product.

I think they know where they want to go next but as you say playing bidders against each other.

 

[Perth Red]

There is no bid backed by the gov yet.

The process the WA Gov are going through now is looking at hypothetical business plans to decide which they'll support as their preferred bid. They're contacting every consortium and person that's known to have been interested owning an Perth based NRL side, and other parties that may be interested in owning an NRL side as well (that's where Newtown came in), to make a provisional proposal for a Perth based NRL side to them. In other words they're doing the NRL's job for them and effectively looking to identify or even create the perfect bid from their perspective.

They're talking to a lot of people from all over the joint, and haven't made a decision yet. Their decision shouldn't matter a great deal to the NRL anyway because A. their priority is just to get any NRL side using HBF Park, and B. they've made it clear to the NRL that they're happy to support whichever bid team the NRL choices so long as it's based in Perth, and are only going through this process to keep the ball moving and make sure that Perth presents a strong bid if/when the NRL calls for them.

Currently all their discussions with interested parties have primarily been about those parties ideas for the team, i.e. what they'd do if they were given the endorsement, but discussions are ongoing and there's scope for change. In other words what you're hearing in the media about a Newtown backed Perth bid is just what Newtown would do in their ideal world, and probably not what a "Perth Jets" bid would actually look like if the WA Gov even chooses to endorse them at all.

Top post.that’s exactly what it looks like is happening. Which is what the wa govt said they would be doing. Looking forward to seeing who presents the strongest case for their support.

 

[Bukowski]

It's a pity western suburbs arnt broke. They could dissolve that merger thing , Balmain go with Brisbane tigers and wests with Perth.

 

[The Great Dane]

I doubt it very, very much. I suspect they (the ARLC) know exactly what they are doing by playing one potential bidder off against the other, which they can afford to do, when you`ve got a highly desirable product as is the next NRL franchise. And to cap it off, getting loads of free publicity thrown in as well, further amplifying the desirability of the product.

There's very little point in playing bidders who have no chance of succeeding off of those that do. All you're doing is tricking people into wasting significant amounts of money, burning bridges in the process, and running the chance that one of those bids that has no chance actually ends up presenting the best bid.

The ARLC would be better off announcing it's target market if it has a definitive plan and knows which markets it would like to go to next. If not just have an open bidding process, and tell PVL to butt out and stop trying to manipulate the bids for publicity.

 

[bad boy bubby]

I'll take a guess and say that they will announce all 3 expansion teams at once, with one team to come in 2025-27 years and the next two 2027-30.
Time to get all infrastructures in place, and create the hype.

 

[Canard]

Do people think it's sustainable or even realistic that the NRL grows by 3 teams within the space of 4 or 5 seasons?

 

[AlwaysGreen]

Of course its sustainable because PNG, Perth and Pasifika*, who have barely produced 20 players between them in the last 30 years are going to all of a sudden produce hundreds of first grade footballers as soon as the NRL announces expansion.

* born and bred Australians of Pasifika origin excluded

 

[Perth Red]

Do people think it's sustainable or even realistic that the NRL grows by 3 teams within the space of 4 or 5 seasons?

No and it wont happen. Lets not forget the NRL hadnt even considered this until Politis made a suggestion at end of last years Chair's meeting! If the NRL had been planning it for years and had been putting in place the building blocks, maybe. But its a knee jerk reaction to a club chairman suggestion and is as likely to happen as me bedding Margot Robbie.

We will get club 18 for 2028 (Perth by looks of it). Then they will see what the Tv revenue is doing and how the 2 clubs are travelling. The chances of them feeling confident enough to bring in two more by 2033 is slim, very slim. This is a very risk adverse organisation. They may bring in Easts as Club 19 sometime in that 2033> tv deal period Id suggest is more likely. Then maybe NZ2 2038>

 

[The Great Dane]

Do people think it's sustainable or even realistic that the NRL grows by 3 teams within the space of 4 or 5 seasons?

It'd probably hurt the on-field product in the short term, but the league would grow into it relatively quickly assuming that it's done sensibly.

I kind of doubt that you'll see team 19 and 20 any time soon anyway, but who knows with PVL running things.

 

[Wb1234]

I'll take a guess and say that they will announce all 3 expansion teams at once, with one team to come in 2025-27 years and the next two 2027-30.
Time to get all infrastructures in place, and create the hype.

Gives the Perth govt a few extra years to fix up lo or Henson park

No and it wont happen. Lets not forget the NRL hadnt even considered this until Politis made a suggestion at end of last years Chair's meeting! If the NRL had been planning it for years and had been putting in place the building blocks, maybe. But its a knee jerk reaction to a club chairman suggestion and is as likely to happen as me bedding Margot Robbie.

We will get club 18 for 2028 (Perth by looks of it). Then they will see what the Tv revenue is doing and how the 2 clubs are travelling. The chances of them feeling confident enough to bring in two more by 2033 is slim, very slim. This is a very risk adverse organisation. They may bring in Easts as Club 19 sometime in that 2033> tv deal period Id suggest is more likely. Then maybe NZ2 2038>

ignorant as always

Vlandys and polities would’ve discussed it beforehand and once vlandys got politis on board got him to break the ice

this is how politics works in the real world and Peter v is a master politician

 

[Wb1234]

It'd probably hurt the on-field product in the short term, but the league would grow into it relatively quickly assuming that it's done sensibly.

I kind of doubt that you'll see team 19 and 20 any time soon anyway, but who knows with PVL running things.

You make it sound like a bad thing

 

[Bukowski]

Wasnt he talking about 20 tabs by 2032? I think that's possible if funded correctly.