18th club, whose next?

[Get Rid of The Donkeys]

Yet he got the Titans into the NRL at the 11th hour, despite the Central Coast Bears being verbally accepted ?.

The model he built the Titans on turned out to be a dud. Cumins is advocating for Titans 2.0.

 

[Wb1234]

Michael Searle f**ked the Titans' reutation beyond repair with his dodgy business deals.

Titans will have their time in the limelight

Crowds are good despite poor on field form

and number one is beating afl

 

[Get Rid of The Donkeys]

Titans will have their time in the limelight

Crowds are good despite poor on field form

and number one is beating afl

The club needs to become a top four team.

 

[Wb1234]

The club needs to become a top four team.

Hopefully down the track the salary cap works and no club is a regular top four side

 

[Get Rid of The Donkeys]

Hopefully down the track the salary cap works and no club is a regular top four side

I cannot wait until the Storm get the spoon.

 

[Iamback]

Without Australian govt handouts, the Hunters don't exist.

Same goes for Fiji in Super Rugby. There will always be funding for that level in the Pacific

Hell Perth is being handled by the govt. if you take government funding out entirely sport in this country would look very different.

A difference between assisting with travel and underwriting a $20m a year franchise

 

[Wb1234]

I cannot wait until the Storm get the spoon.

But they’ve got those 5k Victorian juniors to sustain them

 

[Canard]

A difference between assisting with travel and underwriting a $20m a year franchise

The NRL isn't some 10 week half arsed competition like Super Rugby though.

It's going to require much more capital to run a team in the best Rugby competition in the world for around 28 weeks a season.

Any team that relies solely on taxpayer handouts will be in danger of going arse up at any time.

Unlike you, I'm hugely concerned with our game being left with a ticking time bomb and being a puppet of the political class.

 

[Canard]

I cannot wait until the Storm get the spoon.

They already did in 2010.

Learn some RL history.

 

[MugaB]

yep I think it will keep them all very happy. They are all making a profit now off the back of the last expansion pay off, add in another $2mill and I'd be happy if I was a club owner! PNG making it or not wouldnt matter to clubs, in fact theyd probably be seeing it as an easy 2 points.

The states are going to court over money, again a bit of a backhander is all they care about.

I mean if you are talking business case how could it possible stack up as a stand alone? Only way I can see it does is if
1. The stadium gets massive upgrades
2. Theres confidence there are 20k fans who can pay NRL prices for tickets and merch in port Moresby
3. Theres a big enough sponsorship portfolio to hit NRL level revenue in corporate box sales and sponsorships

Maybe that is all there, but its seems highly doubtful in a developing nation wouldn't you say?

Now your getting it, so what exactly is Perth going to deliver? They can't offer a 2mill bribe per club, you need to keep with this train of thought... I told you all this years ago, png will get the next one purely on the basis of club greed, if you want to predict the expansion prospects, you need to think as an NRL club ceo, ... ala "whats in it for me, Why are you the best candidate", there's zero carrots in Perth, unless you think tinkler will fund a jet plane for the NRL to use as they wish

 

[MugaB]

They already did in 2010.

Learn some RL history.

That wasn't due to failing or lack of talent, which I think he is getting at, that was a salary cap breach, I'm not sure anyone who thinks the storm failing is trustworthy... they are representing a market of 8 million, just in Victoria, they need to be strong and stay that way, not to say we bend rules or anything on field, but until there is more teams there or RL becomes more than Nichè, the storm should be praised as one of RLs best achievements especially since its the AFLs largest base heartland

 

[Centy Coast]

The only worry I have with rugby league getting a foothold in W.A. is the schools, in NSW and QLD every kid would be kicking a steeden around, and you would play league for your school.
In WA I would assume most kids would surely be kicking around a sherrin and you would play AFL for your school.
How is rugby league accepted in schools in W.A., are the kids who play it treated like outcasts or classed differently to the AFL kids like the AFL kids are over here on the East Coast ?.
Is this the main reason it has taken the Melbourne Storm so long to create their pathways ?.
Aside from the Polynesians do all of the talented kids play AFL as that is the States favoured Code ?.

 

[mongoose]

Dolphins are a BRL club you goose. They were added in 2023.

Try again.

1 BRL team in 35 years since the NSWRL expanded to QLD, yeah the NRL is so eager to add BRL teams

 

[Wb1234]

The only worry I have with rugby league getting a foothold in W.A. is the schools, in NSW and QLD every kid would be kicking a steeden around, and you would play league for your school.
In WA I would assume most kids would surely be kicking around a sherrin and you would play AFL for your school.
How is rugby league accepted in schools in W.A., are the kids who play it treated like outcasts or classed differently to the AFL kids like the AFL kids are over here on the East Coast ?.
Is this the main reason it has taken the Melbourne Storm so long to create their pathways ?.
Aside from the Polynesians do all of the talented kids play AFL as that is the States favoured Code ?.

The Perth zealots will count one wa nrl player as the equivalent of 100 players from either nsw or qld

in Victoria and wa we are poaching the dregs of talent whereas everywhere else we get the elite

These people are ashamed of our heartlands and are desperate to turn the nrl into an afl lite competition

 

[Wb1234]

1 BRL team in 35 years since the NSWRL expanded to QLD, yeah the NRL is so eager to add BRL teams

Imagine not knowing the dolphins were a brl club

 

[docbrown]

Titans will have their time in the limelight

Crowds are good despite poor on field form

and number one is beating afl

14th season as the Titans.

In contrast the original era Gold Coast teams had 4 names in 11 years.

Titans are doing okay and success breeds culture. A few years of regular finals appearances and then they become a hot ticket.

 

[Get Rid of The Donkeys]

Imagine not knowing the dolphins were a brl club

I got a good laugh out of him not knowing the Dolphins are a BRL side.

 

[MugaB]

14th season as the Titans.

In contrast the original era Gold Coast teams had 4 names in 11 years.

Titans are doing okay and success breeds culture. A few years of regular finals appearances and then they become a hot ticket.

The next "wahs" of the rank

 

[Iamback]

The only worry I have with rugby league getting a foothold in W.A. is the schools, in NSW and QLD every kid would be kicking a steeden around, and you would play league for your school.
In WA I would assume most kids would surely be kicking around a sherrin and you would play AFL for your school.
How is rugby league accepted in schools in W.A., are the kids who play it treated like outcasts or classed differently to the AFL kids like the AFL kids are over here on the East Coast ?.
Is this the main reason it has taken the Melbourne Storm so long to create their pathways ?.
Aside from the Polynesians do all of the talented kids play AFL as that is the States favoured Code ?.

That is where the govt involvement needs to come in. It isn't cash outside of a CoE it is getting the sport into schools

 

[NRLMad]

The talk from the NRL has been biggest sport in the Pacific, Adelaide doesn't need to be there for that. NZ 2 is needed though.

That’s the point, when they can do this and they are paying the most they will get all of the Islanders too join the NRL which leads to battle internationals and more money so doesn’t need to come from PNG directly. Every individual commitment doesn’t need to lead to profit.