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why are you ignoring the other $9.5mill in corporate revenue Dockers earn? Not to mention they are fighting the bigger club in town for similar sponsors, an nrl club is likely to attract different sponsors looking for exposure on the east coast.
Cough, 110k viewers in perth last night, cough.
Or Storm, Or souths, or warriors.
Wa govt has funded cofe’s for union, soccer, basketball, athletics, netball and hockey. No reason why it wouldnt for RL.
If the ARLC was proactive they would have no trouble getting funding from the WA Gov and Fed Gov for an upgrade to Perth Oval and a new high performance training centre.
We’re talking Centre of excellences you idiot
And advertising/signageich is also corporate revenue stream. Like I said last year Dockers generated $17.5mill in corporate revenue all up. More than 15 of 16 nrl clubs. Not sure what point you’re trying to make lol
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That’s a lot of words and emotional ones at that just to say I want another Brisbane team.
If you want evidence or a reason why you don’t do it, look around at every other sporting competition. There’s also a little thing called laws of diminishing returns which runs into this.
For example, let’s take Major League Baseball. By rights, you could have 5 or 6 teams from New York or Los Angeles and they would probably be worth a lot more money than any one of the Oakland Athletics or the Tampa Bay Rays or the Colorado Rockies and a probably a fair few others. Have a look at the money spent on rosters over there to get an insight into what I’m taking about.
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If I looked at the NBA or the NFL you would probably find the same thing happening.
Even closer to home you could look at the fumblers 30 odd years ago. They could have decided instead of going to Brisbane and Sydney, we’ll just put extra teams in Adelaide and Perth. They would have been a lot easier to run and would have been a lot safer. Now, 30 years later, we have a RL team in Brisbane using that same code as a reason for them to get in because we are supposed to be scared of them . It’s embarrassing that we as a code don’t get it.
All of these examples are why it is not sensible as an overall strategy. Because any and every business has to go to new markets in order to get new customers. Any time you do the opposite, all you are doing is splitting the existing customer base. So, unless all of Australia is just going to live in NSW and Qld in the future, then you go and take your product to customers who can’t participate in it or have access to it.
Now you can disagree with me all you want but putting another team in Brisbane is not growing your customer base, however you want to spin it. If there were no other options and you have exhausted all your potential markets, then go for your life. But until then I don’t see the point and I don’t give a f*** about your or their concerns about it either if I were to quote you.
