We have some influence. Imagine if NRL selected Firehawks after closed campaign? Public sentiment was with dolphins..
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They do this so there isn't a public outcry after they go toe to toe thru the media like politians before election, the best bids usually have all there shit together and aren't needing to go around scare mongering for public perception... ala the dolphins, whilst the firehawks and Nick livermore's Bombers were entrenched in "fighting off AFL" and also each other then a last minute merger with each other, all to no avail...
All I got was milhouse is a complete and utter fuķwit blah
They don't want public feedback, they just wanna make sure there is no public backlash, from said feedback, like for example, if there was 3 Perth consortiums, reds, bears and jets, all have there own ups and downs, but they find that the bears is the better bid, the public already are backing the home grown reds revival, they chuck a milhouse style tantrum, and boycott the bears or NRL in general, but I doubt it, coz Perth have been starved of the sport, you'd think any of them should take off, bit different with the nz2 or past Brisbane bids where the Warriors and Broncos are already there respectively
We don't have to trust it, we aren't the decision makers, nor are we paying for the rights to choose, this is completely upto the ARLC and its stakeholders to want to expand and trust in the bidders themselves, that one of them will become one of them
That's a pretty good take
Well the members own the NRL. The members will vote on expansion and the members are the 17 clubs, plus the NSWRL and QRL.
No they don't, we own a subscription to Foxtel/kayo.
