18th club, whose next?

[Vlad59]

Ain't that the truth, been down here 20 yrs, certainly, the most corrupt state in the country.

It’s actually got worse. Or maybe it’s just more transparent but it’s dire mate.

 

[Unicorn]

It’s actually got worse. Or maybe it’s just more transparent but it’s dire mate.

Agree, it's become the accepted norm, alas, most of the "born and bred" locals don't even appear to be aware of it or care.

 

[Vlad59]

Agree, it's become the accepted norm, alas, most of the "born and bred" locals don't even appear to be aware of it or care.

I tend to agree. I think we are just used to it. The latest scandals involving a former mayor from the North West running for the liberals are getting minimal coverage.

 

[Unicorn]

I tend to agree. I think we are just used to it. The latest scandals involving a former mayor from the North West running for the liberals are getting minimal coverage.

I live on the n/w coast, both our deputy mayor (Libs) and Mayor (Ind) are running in the state election, the Premier lives 6klms away and they are all mates.

 

[Vlad59]

I live on the n/w coast, both our deputy mayor (Libs) and Mayor (Ind) are running in the state election, the Premier lives 6klms away and they are all mates.

https://tasmaniantimes.com/2024/02/questions-for-vonette-mead/

Is this one of them?

 

[Wb1234]

Too old mate. I’m settling into semi retirement with low level part time work, babysitting grand kids, working out and drinking beer. I have no time or will for a fight anymore.

Is that working for the aru ?

 

[Vlad59]

Is that working for the aru ?

Yep. Im a rah rah 5th columnist

 

[Unicorn]

I tend to agree. I think we are just used to it. The latest scandals involving a former mayor from the North West running for the liberals are getting minimal coverage.

I live on the n/w coast, both our deputy mayor (Libs) and Mayor (Ind) are running in the state election, the Premier lives 6klms away and they are all mates.

https://tasmaniantimes.com/2024/02/questions-for-vonette-mead/

Is this one of them?

That's the one, I could chat to you for hours about this but it's "off thread" and I don't want to piss people off.

 

[Vlad59]

I live on the n/w coast, both our deputy mayor (Libs) and Mayor (Ind) are running in the state election, the Premier lives 6klms away and they are all mates.

That's the one, I could chat to you for hours about this but it's "off thread" and I don't want to piss people off.

All good mate

 

[taste2taste]

Yep 4 qrl cup clubs with nrl partnerships in s/sw Brisbane

Here's some good news for you, everyone knows Politis is the puppet master behind PVL, put it in your diary Perth will be the 18th team.

Why Politis’ two-conference vision for the NRL includes Perth, not PNG

From inside the swanky Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Los Angeles, the Roosters supremo has outlined his controversial vision for the sport.

www.smh.com.au

 

[Vlad59]

Here's some good news for you, everyone knows Politis is the puppet master behind PVL, put it in your diary Perth will be the 18th team.

Why Politis’ two-conference vision for the NRL includes Perth, not PNG

From inside the swanky Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Los Angeles, the Roosters supremo has outlined his controversial vision for the sport.

www.smh.com.au

Most of that is pretty spot on. Perth before PNG 100%

 

[Perth Red]

Here's some good news for you, everyone knows Politis is the puppet master behind PVL, put it in your diary Perth will be the 18th team.

Why Politis’ two-conference vision for the NRL includes Perth, not PNG

From inside the swanky Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Los Angeles, the Roosters supremo has outlined his controversial vision for the sport.

www.smh.com.au

Feb 2023 - "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

 

[Canard]

Here's some good news for you, everyone knows Politis is the puppet master behind PVL, put it in your diary Perth will be the 18th team.

Why Politis’ two-conference vision for the NRL includes Perth, not PNG

From inside the swanky Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Los Angeles, the Roosters supremo has outlined his controversial vision for the sport.

www.smh.com.au

@Get Rid of The Donkeys and @Wb1234

RU OK?

 

[Canard]

Seriously though, Sydney and Non-Sydney being two conferences is dumber then the Singapore NRL idea.

 

[Perth Red]

Roosters supremo Nick Politis has outlined his vision for rugby league for the next decade, imploring the NRL to split the competition into two conferences, involving an 18th team in Perth and not Papua New Guinea.

Politis, speaking to this masthead inside the swanky Beverly Wilshire Hotel on Sunday ahead of his team’s match in Las Vegas this weekend, proposed what he believes is the ideal model the NRL should adopt and wants the game’s powerbrokers to ignore the government’s push for a team in PNG in the immediate future.
The Roosters chairman, who took his players and staff out for dinner at the popular Greek establishment Avra in Los Angeles on Saturday night, wants the competition split into two conferences - a Sydney conference and a national conference - as soon as the 18th team is introduced and not wait for 20 teams.
Politis wants the nine Sydney clubs in one conference and playing against each other twice. The remaining nine teams would form a national conference and also play against each other twice. The teams would then play against the rival conference teams once, creating a 25-game regular season. He says the structure of the finals series requires a lot more planning.

“We need to do it when we go to 18 teams, not wait for 20,” Politis told this masthead.
“Eighteen is perfect. We’ve got to do that. I think it makes sense. It’ll be great for the gate. Playing all the Sydney teams twice is better for us than playing the Titans or Dolphins at home. Revenue will go through the roof. You’ll get better crowds. It’s fair

“They should fast-track it. Bring in the Bears in Perth. We can’t ignore Perth when you have the Premier [WA Premier Roger Cook] wanting to come into the competition. I met the Premier myself who said they have a lot of big businessmen ready to back them. I told [ARLC chairman Peter] V’landys and [NRL CEO Andrew] Abdo. Now they’re looking at PNG.”

The Australian government is in conversations with the NRL to bring in a PNG-linked team into the NRL. The financial benefits will be enormous for rugby league but it poses a logistical nightmare.
“You can’t have an Australian team linked with Papua New Guinea,” Politis said.

“It’s not going to work. PNG is its own country. For me, it makes sense for the [North Sydney] Bears to merge with Perth. That gives you another market for the TV deal and helps us focus on growing the sport across the nation. Eventually we should get to 20 teams, but Papua New Guinea should come after Perth. They should be patient over the next five to 10 years and spend money on developing players in the Pacific then look at PNG
One suggestion is a PNG team could be based in Cairns to help attract players and develop an Australian fan base, but Politis believes that is not a good idea.
“You can’t have a team based in Cairns playing out of Port Moresby. Who’s going to want to do that? Guys over the age of 35 only signing for money? If you spend the next five or 10 years developing the players in PNG they’ll be ready for when you bring a team in.”

The NRL schedule has long been a bugbear of Politis, who doesn’t like the way the NRL creates its draw.
“It’s not a draw. Don’t use that word,” he said. “A draw doesn’t exist. We have a TV schedule. V’landys needs to fix it. We get back to playing a proper draw, not all over the place like it is now. That’s fairness.
“Now the top clubs play each other twice and the bottom teams play each other twice and we end up somewhere in the middle and get a close comp. Everyone says we’re geniuses, but we’re not. It’s engineered.”

While Politis was critical of the process surrounding the schedule, he sang the praises of the NRL under the leadership of V’landys and Abdo. He says it’s the first time that the clubs have felt like partners in the game.


“It’s the best I’ve seen since I’ve been involved,” the long-serving administrator said. “V’landys was correct; we are the game. We provide the product but before we were going broke because the people in the game had this anti-club attitude. Don’t give them money they’ll just blow it. It’s a major turnaround in thinking brought in by V’landys.”

Why Politis’ two-conference vision for the NRL includes Perth, not PNG

From inside the swanky Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Los Angeles, the Roosters supremo has outlined his controversial vision for the sport.

www.watoday.com.au

 

[MugaB]

Here's some good news for you, everyone knows Politis is the puppet master behind PVL, put it in your diary Perth will be the 18th team.

Why Politis’ two-conference vision for the NRL includes Perth, not PNG

From inside the swanky Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Los Angeles, the Roosters supremo has outlined his controversial vision for the sport.

www.smh.com.au

Politis is a major f**kwit, he runs the roosters ...nuff said, i like his conference idea just not the teams he has pooled together, having an all Sydney centric conference will only strengthen Sydney as players will want to play in Sydney moreso due to the less travel factor, whereas the other conference will be at a constant for travel, needs to be fair, with half the Sydney teams between each conference and populate the rest into it, a north/south divide, otherwise all your doing is creating a haves and have nots conference

 

[Perth Red]

Seriously though, Sydney and Non-Sydney being two conferences is dumber then the Singapore NRL idea.

Not sure it needs conferences but there should be a draw that maximises attendance and every sydney club playing each other x2, every qlnd team playing each other x2 makes commercial sense.

Mind you it would be interesting to look at the data. Does Cronull a v Manly really draw many more than Cronulla v Melbourne?

 

[MugaB]

Feb 2023 - "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

Here we go PR is on board full steam ahead, would you like me to blow your balls aswell mr.politis, please sir anything for the bears to come to WA

 

[Perth Red]

Here we go PR is on board full steam ahead, would you like me to blow your balls aswell mr.politis, please sir anything for the bears to come to WA

I keep telling you we got this lol

 

[MugaB]

I keep telling you we got this lol

What you got is "the bears" brother, you got nothing actually other than a city to showcase a sport we love, thats why we come there for origin, if you land the next licence, i will love that, coz yeah its a must, but don't think for a second you worked for it, if they wanted the bears in Adelaide it would be the exact same thing