18th club, whose next?

[Get Rid of The Donkeys]

Yes plus some discussions with the 1902 Canadian Rugby touring team as they explained the then gridiron rules with their 11 man team, 4 downs(tackles) and healing the ball to restart a tackle

Doesn't Canadian football use three downs and have a 12th player on each team?

 

[flippikat]

Yeah it's a funny one. There's been a few quotes from V'landys and Abdo that hint at the fact that a winning bid will be announced from each city with the Tigers up their sleeve if nothing suitable comes from NZ. Then they will attach a start date to each bid. E.G. Your consortium (Mr Cummins ) in 2027, Albo's PNG bid in 2028 and Christchurch / SEQ in 2030.

If NZ come up with something suitable, there will be some comment about the NRL taking a closer look at SEQ in the next round of expansion.

However, if NZ don't come up with something suitable then it's quite possible that Perth, PNG & SEQ get spots 18-20 and talk of expansion beyond that easily could go right to the back-burner.

There'd probably be no big compelling locations in NSW or Qld for teams 21 & 22 so the options left (NZ 2, Adelaide, Fiii most notably) would all be tough sells to traditionalists.

I know that sounds like fear-mongering, but I can see that being a roadblock to a bigger footprint.

 

[Get Rid of The Donkeys]

Don’t be daft, it makes perfect sense to put a club behind barbed wire in a country where people are beheading each other. How dare you question the logic of png lol.

V'landys shouldn't have allowed the proposal to get this far.

 

[Get Rid of The Donkeys]

However, if NZ don't come up with something suitable then it's quite possible that Perth, PNG & SEQ get spots 18-20 and talk of expansion beyond that easily could go right to the back-burner.

There'd probably be no big compelling locations in NSW or Qld for teams 21 & 22 so the options left (NZ 2, Adelaide, Fiii most notably) would all be tough sells to traditionalists.

I know that sounds like fear-mongering, but I can see that being a roadblock to a bigger footprint.

Let's hope we don't get PNG.

West Coast Pirates
South Island Kea
Brisbane Firehawks

CC Bears and Wellington would be good prospects in 2040 or 2050.

 

[Pippen94]

American football used to be like rugby league and lots of normal passes backwards

They rarely passed. Mainly ran too..

 

[Maximus]

American football used to be like rugby league and lots of normal passes backwards

Add the NFL to the list of things he's an expert on.

 

[Pippen94]

Add the NFL to the list of things he's an expert on.

He's 100% correct. You know the lyrics to American pie?!

 

[Wb1234]

Don’t be daft, it makes perfect sense to put a club behind barbed wire in a country where people are beheading each other. How dare you question the logic of png lol.

Massive rugby league fan here

 

[Perth Red]

Massive rugby league fan here

Says the Sydney swans fan lol