18th club, whose next?

[Iamback]

Bullshit, they'll all pay, if they want to play

Well happy to have exceptions to getting direct funds but they need to pay up somewhere along the line

 

[Maximus]

Dolphins had $100m in the bank when they produced all their paperwork.

Brisbane Easts have huge amounts and missed out

PNG have the govt cash.

It seems to come in you need a load of assets or Govt support to ensure you are stable.

I have said many times overall, I see expansion in this country as being poor. So many teams have gone under in many sports.

So I have no problem with the bar being high

How does paying $20m to the other teams help stop a bid from going under? Wouldn't that $20m have been better used by the team?

 

[Matt_CBY]

Yeh, who'd have thought when the question was ' do you want to pay something for nothing' and the answer of 'no thanks' would cause so much upset!
Having written the Dolphins bid Freshwater probably said ' well it wasnt needed last time'.
Here's an idea NRL, if somethings a criteria of the tender make it mandatory in the submission, radical I know!

Love arguments based on the words “probably” and the other one I like is “guess”.

 

[Matt_CBY]

haha yeh of course they could. NS playing FIFO in Perth, Id give it three years or so before it went tits up.

It’s just the same unsubstantiated BS with you over and over isn’t it?

no one gives a shit about your predictions.

 

[Matt_CBY]

Like Cumins said, been there done that with the Reds. Only a dumb arse would set up a club to fail.

Cumins couldn’t even get to the “set up” part.

 

[titoelcolombiano]

Well maybe if you got in his ear and told him how things actually worked, he wouldn't have fkd up, I've told you plenty of times here, for several years, and counting, it's all about sureing up the club ceos votes, you get that, then you'll get the licence, then you can go and start doing all the other crap that needs to be paid for, he did it all ass backwards, started conjuring up money for the running of said club, and had fk all left to acquire a licence, one he obviously was told he never needed to pay for a licence, absolutely terrible advice, whoever told him that should be taken out back and shot

Also it's been reported that Cummins has zero relationship with Vlandy's, not even a coffee or chat. If true what did he expect? He's not handled the politics of this well at all

 

[MugaB]

Nz2 isn’t png or Perth

Their bid stacks up without needing govt investment

Go and read the breakdown of costs for the pngs bid of aus govt 600mil, there's a percentage of it going straight to the clubs as a sweetener (a licence fee)

 

[Wb1234]

Go and read the breakdown of costs for the pngs bid of aus govt 600mil, there's a percentage of it going straight to the clubs as a sweetener (a licence fee)

Yeh I know that

Doesn’t change things though

 

[MugaB]

Yeh I know that

Doesn’t change things though

Not sure what this means, but yeah if png bid is paying, so is everyone else from now on too