18th club, whose next?

[Wb1234]

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.

The way you and your Perth mate hang onto a Perth standalone bid despite all the evidence against it is hilarious

 

[Pippen94]

$1bill revenue suggests we maybe shou

I'll spend like a billionaire because Jeff Bezos has huge profits each year

 

[Perth Red]

The way you and your Perth mate hang onto a Perth standalone bid despite all the evidence against it is hilarious

we can but live in hope that common sense will triumph over sydney centric myopia.

 

[Wb1234]

$1bill revenue suggests we maybe should

 

[Wb1234]

we can but live in hope that common sense will triumph over sydney centric myopia.

Just makes the inevitable defeat more soul crushing

plus adopting the bears as your team becomes an even more bitter pill to swallow

 

[Pippen94]

Don't say anything positive about NRL. Need to make case NRL is failing and Perth will rescue sport.

 

[Wb1234]

Don't say anything positive about NRL. Need to make case NRL is failing and Perth will rescue sport.

It’s going to be funny seeing what Perth red posts about once he gets a team

taking out his anti rugby league posts would be 99 percent of his content

 

[Pippen94]

It’s going to be funny seeing what Perth red posts about once he gets a team

taking out his anti rugby league posts would be 99 percent of his content

..they already setting up "Perth is designed to fail" argument.

 

[Perth Red]

Just makes the inevitable defeat more soul crushing

plus adopting the bears as your team becomes an even more bitter pill to swallow

nah I'll be at HBF park enjying a beer and watching the NRl regardless of the teams brand.
Just a shame that rugba league keeps shooting itself in the foot time and again and missing the opportunities.

 

[Perth Red]

Don't say anything positive about NRL. Need to make case NRL is failing and Perth will rescue sport.

nice diversion from discussing expansion lol.

 

[Wb1234]

nah I'll be at HBF park enjying a beer and watching the NRl regardless of the teams brand.
Just a shame that rugba league keeps shooting itself in the foot time and again and missing the opportunities.

Given your views on rugby league in England that’s hilarious

 

[Chief_Chujo]

Whilst I dont disagree with the sentiment I've come to accept NRL will never be as proactive about expansion and growing the game as AFL is. That means we have to just accept the half arsed way they go about it and keep fingers crossed it somehow works.

Dolphins have entered and are thriving and they have said they will go to 20 teams by 2032. How is that not proactive?

 

[Perth Red]

Dolphins have entered and are thriving and they have said they will go to 20 teams by 2032. How is that not proactive?

Dolphins are a heartland team. Its hardly ground breaking expansion to bring in a club in a no brainer location that should have been in the league from 30 years ago. And even then there is argument that they took the soft no risk option rather than create a genuine Brisbane2 club that could be the size of the Broncos.

And yes they will hopefully go to 20 clubs in the next decade, but in the softest no risk way possible without any strategy or planning behind it or investment in it. ones being paid for by tax payers, ones been told it has to be a sydney club with pokies and we dont yet know what the other will be.

 

[Chief_Chujo]

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.

 

[Chief_Chujo]

Dolphins are a heartland team. Its hardly ground breaking expansion to bring in a club in a no brainer location that should have been in the league from 30 years ago. And even then there is argument that they took the soft no risk option rather than create a genuine Brisbane2 club that could be the size of the Broncos.

And yes they will hopefully go to 20 clubs in the next decade, but in the softest no risk way possible without any strategy or planning behind it or investment in it. ones being paid for by tax payers, ones been told it has to be a sydney club with pokies and we dont yet know what the other will be.

WTF are you on about? The favourites are Perth, PNG and NZ2. How is that no risk?

No strategy or investment sounds more like AFL and their arrogance in putting money sink teams into NRL heartlands. Sure glad the NRL didn't make that mistake and waited for local interest(as shown by the bids coming in) before manufacturing a club in an area that hates the game.

 

[BuffaloRules]

we can but live in hope that common sense will triumph over sydney centric myopia.

”living in hope”…. but not listening to PVL and Politis apparently

 

[BuffaloRules]

Dolphins are a heartland team. Its hardly ground breaking expansion to bring in a club in a no brainer location that should have been in the league from 30 years ago. And even then there is argument that they took the soft no risk option rather than create a genuine Brisbane2 club that could be the size of the Broncos.

And yes they will hopefully go to 20 clubs in the next decade, but in the softest no risk way possible without any strategy or planning behind it or investment in it. ones being paid for by tax payers, ones been told it has to be a sydney club with pokies and we dont yet know what the other will be.

On the eve of getting a team after 20 years …you still complaining deluxe … i dont think you will ever be happy … there is more to life than a ”perfect” football competition…

 

[Pippen94]

Dolphins are a heartland team. Its hardly ground breaking expansion to bring in a club in a no brainer location that should have been in the league from 30 years ago. And even then there is argument that they took the soft no risk option rather than create a genuine Brisbane2 club that could be the size of the Broncos.

And yes they will hopefully go to 20 clubs in the next decade, but in the softest no risk way possible without any strategy or planning behind it or investment in it. ones being paid for by tax payers, ones been told it has to be a sydney club with pokies and we dont yet know what the other will be.

Dolphins matched broncos 2022 membership numbers in their second year lol

 

[Pippen94]

Dolphins have entered and are thriving and they have said they will go to 20 teams by 2032. How is that not proactive?

..because red & Dane predicted dolphins would fail lol

 

[Wb1234]

Dolphins are a heartland team. Its hardly ground breaking expansion to bring in a club in a no brainer location that should have been in the league from 30 years ago. And even then there is argument that they took the soft no risk option rather than create a genuine Brisbane2 club that could be the size of the Broncos.

And yes they will hopefully go to 20 clubs in the next decade, but in the softest no risk way possible without any strategy or planning behind it or investment in it. ones being paid for by tax payers, ones been told it has to be a sydney club with pokies and we dont yet know what the other will be.

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