1. You know what is embarrassing and tiresome? Having every thread polluted by you with the same tropes: NSW has too many sides or it was really unfair that Queensland players were taken from the BRL competition 30 odd years ago et al.
Essentially you need to learn that you can’t change history. History is defined by winners or significant events not by losers or a thousand what ifs. For example annybody arguing for the restoration of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire? Would a Frenchman demand that King Louis not have his head chopped off? You can bitch and moan about it as much as you want but NSW had more money than the QLD competition and their clubs had every right to take QLD’s players if they wanted. They are the facts so get over it.
2. You are probably the most vitriolic and emotive poster on here so it is a little ironic to whinge about other posters doing the same. When other posters correctly point out the above they are called stupid or dumb or ignorant or whatever else. What’s dumb is arguing against history.
3. It’s absolutely risible that you think that the only reason that I and two others are against another Queensland team (I am only arguing against it being the next team as well - you are arguing context remember) is because of some weird argument (that you have made up in your head btw) that we are so worried about the impact that it’ll have on the team that we support.
The only thing you have to justify this position is coincidence that we happen to be against this side and also happen to be Raiders supporters. Oh and the fact that we bought a few great players from QLD in the 1980’s; notwithstanding the fact that most of our rep players (Lazarus, Daley, Clyde, Stuart, Mullins, Furner, Nagas, Jason Croker, Ben Kennedy, Wighton et al) have come from NSW/ACT (although I’ll take that as you conveniently forgetting that for the parameters of your argument). Furthermore, if you want to go personal and throw shade at the Raiders and say that we don’t produce players but the Cowboys do (by inference) then you probably should wait until the Cowboys produce anywhere near that level of talent or maybe inquire about why so many of your players come from NSW or NZ for instance (sorry other fans of the Cowboys for any offence but this guy is taking absolute s*** and needs to be told that)
I’ll give you my perspective; even though you’ll misrepresent it. If my views were only based on me being a Raiders fan, I’d argue for less sides, not more. Secondly, any new team/teams, wherever they are based, will have an impact on every other club. It will make it harder to source talent because there is more demand for it and it will be harder for any side to win it. That’s just common sense.
So no my view isn’t based on some Raiders bias, my view is based on my want for the sport to be bolder, to grow and to think not only of QLD and NSW all the time.
