18th club, whose next?

[Wb1234]

Remember when Perth red said there were no nz bids

now there are five

 

[Bukowski]

Are we ruling out multiple Perth bids?

 

[Centy Coast]

It's all a waste of time if PNG and the Bears are allowed in.

The Perth side will flounder if it isn't a genuine attempt at an authentic Perth/WA side, but I guess that doesn't really matter when the whole point is just to use Perth as an avenue to get the Bears back into the league. At that point who cares if the WA side of the venture struggles, the team isn't really for them anyway.

There's no legitimate business case behind the PNG side and all the proposed geopolitical advantages of giving PNG an NRL license have already been consistently disproven by the PNG government continuing to actively deal with China throughout the whole bid and being in the process of selling off ownership of their power grid to China. It's just an expensive gift from the Australian taxpayer to the corrupt oligarchs of PNG, while the average Papuan continues to live in abject poverty.

The NZ bids that are public lack any substance at all. Who knows what's going on behind the scenes and the NRL could definitely make NZ work if they were willing to get proactive, but they've consistently proven that they're not willing to get proactive when it comes to expansion and why put that effort into NZ over more lucrative markets if that changed.

More Brisbane/SEQ sides is just pandering. Any new teams there are superfluous luxuries at best, and necessity should always trump luxury.

The next 3 sides being Perth, NZ, and Adelaide shouldn't even be up for debate, and the long term consequences of not going down that route will be significant. It's literally Arko and Quayle being celebrated for pandering to their mates in Sydney and the media while frogmarching the sport to disaster 2.0.

Adelaide would never ever work.
They are AFL mad, way worse than VIC.

 

[BuffaloRules]

Adelaide would never ever work.
They are AFL mad, way worse than VIC.

Adelaide will be begging for a team in 5 years ... Their Premier will be annoying PVL even worse than WA guy has been doing

 

[BuffaloRules]

Are we ruling out multiple Perth bids?

Yes ?

is this a trick question ?

 

[Wb1234]

Yes ?

is this a trick question ?

The article is worded a bit loosely

it can imply every location (Perth png Brisbane nz) has multiple bids

 

[BuffaloRules]

The article is worded a bit loosely

it can imply every location (Perth png Brisbane nz) has multiple bids

the whole article is really nothing more than speculation…

The only real new thing is the Wellington bid confirmation ,,,,

 

[Bukowski]

Yes ?

is this a trick question ?

Why? It seems there is a lot of interest in buying a team in the NRL and it looks like Perth has been put ahead of the pack as next location. Why wouldn't there be the possibility of another bid?

 

[BuffaloRules]

Why wouldn't there be the possibility of another bid?

Maybe there is a bid from Broome as well…

Could call them the Broome Sweepers

 

[Bukowski]

Maybe there is a bid from Broome as well…

Could call them the Broome Sweepers

Just as likely as Fiji or 5 from NZ to be honest.

 

[final say]

It's all a waste of time if PNG and the Bears are allowed in.

The Perth side will flounder if it isn't a genuine attempt at an authentic Perth/WA side, but I guess that doesn't really matter when the whole point is just to use Perth as an avenue to get the Bears back into the league. At that point who cares if the WA side of the venture struggles, the team isn't really for them anyway.

There's no legitimate business case behind the PNG side and all the proposed geopolitical advantages of giving PNG an NRL license have already been consistently disproven by the PNG government continuing to actively deal with China throughout the whole bid and being in the process of selling off ownership of their power grid to China. It's just an expensive gift from the Australian taxpayer to the corrupt oligarchs of PNG, while the average Papuan continues to live in abject poverty.

The NZ bids that are public lack any substance at all. Who knows what's going on behind the scenes and the NRL could definitely make NZ work if they were willing to get proactive, but they've consistently proven that they're not willing to get proactive when it comes to expansion and why put that effort into NZ over more lucrative markets if that changed.

More Brisbane/SEQ sides is just pandering. Any new teams there are superfluous luxuries at best, and necessity should always trump luxury.

The next 3 sides being Perth, NZ, and Adelaide shouldn't even be up for debate, and the long term consequences of not going down that route will be significant. It's literally Arko and Quayle being celebrated for pandering to their mates in Sydney and the media while frogmarching the sport to disaster 2.0.

I kinda agree with a lot of that.
Perth- yes
NZ 2 - yes
PNG - No
Brisbane 3- No

I think the only thing is perhaps Melbourne 2 over Adelaide for team 20.

 

[Pippen94]

It's all a waste of time if PNG and the Bears are allowed in.

The Perth side will flounder if it isn't a genuine attempt at an authentic Perth/WA side, but I guess that doesn't really matter when the whole point is just to use Perth as an avenue to get the Bears back into the league. At that point who cares if the WA side of the venture struggles, the team isn't really for them anyway.

There's no legitimate business case behind the PNG side and all the proposed geopolitical advantages of giving PNG an NRL license have already been consistently disproven by the PNG government continuing to actively deal with China throughout the whole bid and being in the process of selling off ownership of their power grid to China. It's just an expensive gift from the Australian taxpayer to the corrupt oligarchs of PNG, while the average Papuan continues to live in abject poverty.

The NZ bids that are public lack any substance at all. Who knows what's going on behind the scenes and the NRL could definitely make NZ work if they were willing to get proactive, but they've consistently proven that they're not willing to get proactive when it comes to expansion and why put that effort into NZ over more lucrative markets if that changed.

More Brisbane/SEQ sides is just pandering. Any new teams there are superfluous luxuries at best, and necessity should always trump luxury.

The next 3 sides being Perth, NZ, and Adelaide shouldn't even be up for debate, and the long term consequences of not going down that route will be significant. It's literally Arko and Quayle being celebrated for pandering to their mates in Sydney and the media while frogmarching the sport to disaster 2.0.

Lol

 

[Pippen94]

It's not a 'half-arsed' attempt at expansion though. . . We can only speculate as to the reasons why, but they're intentionally undermining expansion in places like Perth for example and salting the earth for any others who would make a genuine attempt in the process.

Frankly incompetence doesn't explain this. The only reason you'd do things the way they are is if you are cynical and malicious.

This is conspiracy stuff..

 

[Pippen94]

I kinda agree with a lot of that.
Perth- yes
NZ 2 - yes
PNG - No
Brisbane 3- No

I think the only thing is perhaps Melbourne 2 over Adelaide for team 20.

Bids before locations..
Bros before hos
Pal before gals
Chicks before di..

 

[Pippen94]

Remember when Perth red said there were no nz bids

now there are five

& Only one Perth bid NRL doesn't want

 

[Perth Red]

Are we ruling out multiple Perth bids?

There could well be a Perth Puddy led bid for all we know. Its only 2 years ago he said he wanted to bid and had investors.

 

[Perth Red]

I kinda agree with a lot of that.
Perth- yes
NZ 2 - yes
PNG - No
Brisbane 3- No

I think the only thing is perhaps Melbourne 2 over Adelaide for team 20.

WC pirates
Adelaide Bears
NZ2

Then Brisbane3, Melbourne2

A 20 year expansion strategy.

that would have been the ideal outcome if the NRL wasnt so weak and actually backed itself to grow our game.

Whilst AFL throws $300mill at making sure Tassie Devils are a success NRL will leave it to the the NS Bears to try and make Perth work. sigh.

 

[Pippen94]

There could well be a Perth Puddy led bid for all we know. Its only 2 years ago he said he wanted to bid and had investors.

Unnamed investors NRL is not impressed with

 

[Pippen94]

WC pirates
Adelaide Bears
NZ2

that would have been the ideal outcome if the NRL wasnt so weak and actually backed itself to grow our game.

Whilst AFL throws $300mill at making sure Tassie Devils are a success NRL will leave it to the the NS Bears to try and make Perth work. sigh.

Gws & gold coast show we shouldn't blindly follow AFL strategy.

 

[Perth Red]

Gws & gold coast show we shouldn't blindly follow AFL strategy.

$1bill revenue suggests we maybe should