You're talking nonsense. Funding wa govt provides is drop in ocean of what's needed.
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I don't think you ever answered me when I asked how exactly a 3rd team in Brisbane increases the number of juniors from Brisbane?
I seriously doubt anyone choosing not to play League in Brisbane would suddenly overnight want to because there's a 3rd team, there are ZERO obstacles for anyone wanting to play league in Brisbane.
Doesn’t need to
You gronk, wb was saying wa govt need to support a cofe for rl, I was pointing out they have in nearly every sport in perth so shouldnt be a problem.
Does it? Why wouldnt they be interested now? It’s hardly like rl has a low profile in brisbane lol
As we are continuously told, apparently people in Sydney and now Brisbane only play RL if there's an nrl club based on their street
It’s a bizarre mindset for sure! When you think travelling 10km to support a club is too far then you know theres no hope!
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.
2025 MLB Team Salary Payroll Tracker
A real-time look at the 2025 salary payroll totals for each MLB team..www.spotrac.com
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.
There's no probably about it.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.
2025 MLB Team Salary Payroll Tracker
A real-time look at the 2025 salary payroll totals for each MLB team..
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.
That’s gold Jerry! Gold!
Haha what’s $200k between friends, but you make my point even stronger, Dockers corporate revenue is $17.7mill, more than nearly every nrl team, and they are directly competit with a very big brother In town (Eagles achieved $29mill in corp revenue in ‘22).
I wouldnt be so sure, I doubt the WA govt has set Aside $1/2mill for a bid application if the nrl has told them no chance. They could be speculating of course, just in case, but you’d hope the money has been made available as the nrl has said perth will be invited to bid.
The sooner the better, I'd be calling for both bids 18 and 19, at the same time, giving lots of time to see what bidders can come up with, in the case of perth a longer lead time would be good, ensuring they get the 19th bid outright, whilst the nrl lets either the pasifika or east tigers bids to battle it out for the 18th, for a 2025 start, knowing that Perth will get that 2027-8 slot will solidify their own set ups like the coe, stadium upgrades, coach, staff and players, no point in asking for just one bid to come along for 2025... its way too soon
There won’t be another team added until 2028. They’ve said they won’t look at it until later next year.
