Adelaide Rams Bid

[Black Panther]

The Mole is an absolute dribbler.

 

[Foreign Legion]

With WA bid looking bad, bring back Adelaide Rams

 

[Pippen94]

With WA bid looking bad, bring back Adelaide Rams

Wait, what is bad about Perth team?!

 

[BuffaloRules]

With WA bid looking bad, bring back Adelaide Rams

Call them the Adelaide Crushers … try and bring back that nostalgia in Brisbane amongst the old Crushers fans …. Couple of games a year in Brisbane already …maybe they can take an extra home game a year there …imagine all the extra East Coast viewers tuning in each week..

Also bring back those beautiful jerseys and logo ..

 

[AlwaysGreen]

Perfect opportunity to bring back the biggest brand in Australian sport, the Glebe Dirty Reds and their 201000k supporters. With a further 27 million digicel subscribers they will be worth 60 trillion dollars to the next TV deal.

Southern Dirty Reds, make it happen.

 

[SirPies&Beers]

With WA bid looking bad, bring back Adelaide Rams

quality trolling, needs more bridge

 

[Pippen94]

quality trolling, needs more bridge

When I first starting posting here people like @Wb1234 and myself were considered conservative when it came to expansion. I'm a big supporter of Vlandys and his visionary agenda. I've always said the superleague approach was dated. Now we can see who have the narrow-minded view on these things.

 

[Foreign Legion]

Might b

quality trolling, needs more bridge

Gotta love Flava flav

 

[flippikat]

Call them the Adelaide Crushers … try and bring back that nostalgia in Brisbane amongst the old Crushers fans …. Couple of games a year in Brisbane already …maybe they can take an extra home game a year there …imagine all the extra East Coast viewers tuning in each week..

Also bring back those beautiful jerseys and logo ..

With that train logo they could get Tim & Eric to record a club song.

 

[Wb1234]

Once Perth bears are established and png is producing so many nrl players then Adelaide will be one of the teams ie team 23 or 24

If the game keeps growing then it will be interesting to see how many teams they end up with

 

[flippikat]

Once Perth bears are established and png is producing so many nrl players then Adelaide will be one of the teams ie team 23 or 24

If the game keeps growing then it will be interesting to see how many teams they end up with

Assuming
a) PNG sticks,
b) Perth & NZ2 are teams 19 and 20, and
C) no contraction of Sydney teams (ie no relocations, no more mergers, no "club goes broke & leaves NRL"),
we're looking at 22 or 24 to properly capitalize on all the opportunities:

18 PNG
19 Perth (whether Bears or not)
20 NZ 2 (Likely Christchurch)

21-23 Brisbane 3 or SE-Qld 4, NZ3 (likely Wellington I hope), Adelaide - in whichever order works.
24 - Open spot, see what bids shake-out for this... it could be a VERY lucrative open bidding process.

if it's 22 teams - then one of Brisbane 3/SEQ 4, NZ 3 or Adelaide misses out.

That's basically it, in a nutshell.

 

[i0Nic]

It’s easy.

Next tv deal (2032+)
Brisbane3 - team 21
Adelaide - team 22

Next tv deal (2038+)
NZ3 - team 23
Melbourne 2 - team 24

 

[AlwaysGreen]

Surely there's another deadbeat loser club that news ltd can push for the NRL to resurrect.

Maybe Cumberland?

 

[Wb1234]

21 ipsiwch
22 . And 23… Adelaide and nz 3
24. Fiji

After that if it ever happened, its places like central coast png 2 (playing In regional centres) Hawaii Asia or something weird like England or Canada

It all comes down to broadcast deal growing from previous expansion teams plus organic growth together with more players from png nz and the pacific

 

[Mother Nature's Son]

Assuming
a) PNG sticks,
b) Perth & NZ2 are teams 19 and 20, and
C) no contraction of Sydney teams (ie no relocations, no more mergers, no "club goes broke & leaves NRL"),
we're looking at 22 or 24 to properly capitalize on all the opportunities:

18 PNG
19 Perth (whether Bears or not)
20 NZ 2 (Likely Christchurch)

21-23 Brisbane 3 or SE-Qld 4, NZ3 (likely Wellington I hope), Adelaide - in whichever order works.
24 - Open spot, see what bids shake-out for this... it could be a VERY lucrative open bidding process.

if it's 22 teams - then one of Brisbane 3/SEQ 4, NZ 3 or Adelaide misses out.

That's basically it, in a nutshell.

It’s easy.

Next tv deal (2032+)
Brisbane3 - team 21
Adelaide - team 22

Next tv deal (2038+)
NZ3 - team 23
Melbourne 2 - team 24

The thing I love about this is that it isn`t just some pie-in-the-sky fantasy, if the tv dollars keep rolling in it is a very realistic scenario. Quite mind blowing really.

 

[AlwaysGreen]

It's pie in the sky unless you want the standard to be reduced to the French disabled 2nd division.

Despite the hype that PNG are going to provide a thousand billion nrl standard players in the next few years the reality is that having too many teams looks great on paper if the teams aren't competitive no one is going to pay to watch.

 

[AlwaysGreen]

Froot loops forgot to mention Antarctica and the Moon as teams 27 and 28.

Imagine how many players we'd get if we put a team on Mars!, the Martians love rugby league.

 

[flippikat]

21 ipsiwch
22 . And 23… Adelaide and nz 3
24. Fiji

After that if it ever happened, its places like central coast png 2 (playing In regional centres) Hawaii Asia or something weird like England or Canada

It all comes down to broadcast deal growing from previous expansion teams plus organic growth together with more players from png nz and the pacific

I'd be OK with that.

Fiji would be a great gateway to the Pacific Islands (maybe a game each season in Samoa & Tonga respectively as secondary markets?), and IMO it strikes me as more sustainable in itself than PNG thanks to more disposable income there.

Admittedly that's only in a scenario where we go to 24 teams (as above), and the NRL would need to weigh up whether it's better to just leave team 24 up to bids on the open market (in which case it likely goes to a big metro market) or picks the islands/Fiji as winner of that spot for strategic reasons, accepting it brings a bit less of an "entry fee".

 

[flippikat]

It's pie in the sky unless you want the standard to be reduced to the French disabled 2nd division.

Despite the hype that PNG are going to provide a thousand billion nrl standard players in the next few years the reality is that having too many teams looks great on paper if the teams aren't competitive no one is going to pay to watch.

You do realise we're not talking about going to 24 teams TOMORROW, right??

Of course, growing the top level by that much is going to be a years/decades long proposition - but the key thing is that these sort of aspirational goals need to be there, then planning takes place over getting the juniors, coaching, refereeing pathways in place so the pipeline of skilled people is there to support each phase.

 

[flippikat]

It’s easy.

Next tv deal (2032+)
Brisbane3 - team 21
Adelaide - team 22

Next tv deal (2038+)
NZ3 - team 23
Melbourne 2 - team 24

While Melbourne 2 seems an attractive proposition, the experience of the AFL in creating derbies in "non heartland" metros (Adding GWS & Gold Coast Suns) shows we need to tread VERY carefully when considering that move... and if a derby in a non-heartland city is an option worth taking, it could conceivably be Perth if their juniors/local league really fires - because 2 teams there means a guaranteed game in that timezone every weekend, and it's a far less saturated winter sports market, given they only have 2 AFL teams.