Brisbane Tigers make their bid to be 18th team

[titoelcolombiano]

It isn't 'owning up to it' if you never claimed otherwise, as opposed to you who is still dishonest enough to claim that comparing GWS's attendance to the Raiders is a reasonable way to measure the popularity of each sport in the city with a straight face, and still hasn't admitted that the TV ratings he alluded to were nonsense as well.

Wollongong being included in "Canberra's" ratings was good enough for you, so why not include the Dragons average attendance in Wollongong into your attendance numbers in Canberra as well?

No, not at all. I said NRL outdraws AFL in Canberra which is true including teams not called GWS that have played there. That's all we have to go on and it is more to go on that your opinion

 

[AlwaysGreen]

Porky Richardson sounds as bitter and jealous as AFL Red.

 

[Perth Red]

No, not at all. I said NRL outdraws AFL in Canberra which is true including teams not called GWS that have played there. That's all we have to go on and it is more to go on that your opinion

Brisbane3, take it tothe fight club!

 

[titoelcolombiano]

Brisbane3, take it tothe fight club!

SEQ 4, the region is bigger than Brisbane which is why we can accommodate more teams. Western Corridor makes complete sense and the NRL knows it.

I'd go Perth next, then NZ, then SEQ 4

 

[siv]

Don't Brisbane Easts own the Broncos Leagues Club already

They should just buy shares until they own the football club

 

[MugaB]

Porky Richardson sounds as bitter and jealous as AFL Red.

Salty Mofo...
Great administrator tho, he should be courted by the west tigers not easts, but he is right broncos have slackened off for decades or atleast since their last premiership.. i would rather have suggested instead of the titans coming in in 2007, a 2nd Brisbane side would have challenged the bronx to be better, but hindsight is a wonderful thing.... good thing we haven't wasted our expansion licences up until now hey?

 

[MugaB]

Try this one...

An expansion turf war has erupted in Brisbane after Firehawks bid chief Shane Richardson accused the Dolphins of stealing his club’s blueprint and claimed the Broncos should have won 30 straight premierships.

The Brisbane Tigers – formerly known as Easts – are ramping up their bid to become the NRL’s 18th team and pushing hard to join the competition from 2026.

They have enlisted one of the NRL’s most experienced administrators in former South Sydney chief Richardson to lead their campaign for a licence.

Richardson has presented a compelling campaign for the Tigers’ bid, which was called the Brisbane Firehawks when they took on the Dolphins and Jets in the battle to become the NRL’s 17th club, to be included.

Richardson made some sensational claims on The Bye Round podcast with James Graham recently.

“We are a real rugby league club, we’ve been doing it for 90 years and have pathways from under-6s,” he said.

“We’ve got our own ground, no debt, $80-90 million worth of assets debt-free and $26 million in the bank. We ran second to the Redcliffe side in the last bid and I think our marketing plan was better. I know it was better because I think they’ve stolen most of it.”

Richardson rubbished the case for an NRL team in Perth, Cairns/PNG, New Zealand or the return of the North Sydney Bears and said Brisbane could sustain a third club. He claimed the Broncos were never supportive of expansion and should have won many more NRL premierships due to their stranglehold on Queensland.

“When the NRL came up with the 17th team, they were really heavy on ‘I think this is going to cannibalise Brisbane’,” Richardson said. “Brisbane made that point too. They were never supportive of it. They had the whole control of Brisbane. They’ve had the greatest run. They should have been premiers every year for the last 30 years. They had the whole of Queensland under their control and have had the whole of south east Queensland under their control forever.”

Well done Vee, thanks for posting that..
It was just an article detailing his podcast interview with james graham about a fortnight ago, theres a link on one of these pages posted by Grotd,
It was a pretty in depth interview regarding expansion, pathways, and his time floating around as admin at Penrith, Souths and his relationships with Russell Crowe and Big Sammy Burgess, then also talks up the firehawk (and not calling that anymore) bid, but of course the couriermail spin was to point out the blaming Dolphins and Broncos for them not getting greenlit, not the firebirds shortcomings as bidders who looked like a bunch of arrogant twats

 

[titoelcolombiano]

I didn't just look at the number of clubs. I laid out the number of clubs and teams in Canberra, and proved conclusively that Aussie Rules has more participants than RL in the ACT (not including touch and tag, which is a grey area, and a debate for another time), though it's very close, like I said it would be.

Since you were late to the argument let me make it crystal clear; the argument has nothing to do with measuring the Raiders fanbase or market size for sponsorship, broadcasters, etc. The argument began when I claimed that Aussie Rules and Rugby league are similarly popular in Canberra, and that a Canberran AFL side would be of similar size to the Raiders, if not slightly bigger, from day one.

When I made those claims I was referring directly to the city of Canberra itself, not the broader region, and attempting to insert Queanbeyan and the rest of the region into the discussion at best fails to address the point, and at worst is either an attempt to move the goal posts or a non sequitur.

BTW, one of the major reasons why, among other things, Aussie Rules and Rugby Union are more popular participation sports than RL in the ACT is because there is no ACTRL that exists independently of the Raiders to administer the sport in the region. But that's a whole other discussion.

Excluding touch and tag is dodgy, they are social forms of the game, which the NRL owns to get participants involved in a non contact form of the game.

If your beloved AFL had a similarly successful version they would absolutely count the participants and then multiply them by 3

 

[Wb1234]

Try this one...

An expansion turf war has erupted in Brisbane after Firehawks bid chief Shane Richardson accused the Dolphins of stealing his club’s blueprint and claimed the Broncos should have won 30 straight premierships.

The Brisbane Tigers – formerly known as Easts – are ramping up their bid to become the NRL’s 18th team and pushing hard to join the competition from 2026.

They have enlisted one of the NRL’s most experienced administrators in former South Sydney chief Richardson to lead their campaign for a licence.

Richardson has presented a compelling campaign for the Tigers’ bid, which was called the Brisbane Firehawks when they took on the Dolphins and Jets in the battle to become the NRL’s 17th club, to be included.

Richardson made some sensational claims on The Bye Round podcast with James Graham recently.

“We are a real rugby league club, we’ve been doing it for 90 years and have pathways from under-6s,” he said.

“We’ve got our own ground, no debt, $80-90 million worth of assets debt-free and $26 million in the bank. We ran second to the Redcliffe side in the last bid and I think our marketing plan was better. I know it was better because I think they’ve stolen most of it.”

Richardson rubbished the case for an NRL team in Perth, Cairns/PNG, New Zealand or the return of the North Sydney Bears and said Brisbane could sustain a third club. He claimed the Broncos were never supportive of expansion and should have won many more NRL premierships due to their stranglehold on Queensland.

“When the NRL came up with the 17th team, they were really heavy on ‘I think this is going to cannibalise Brisbane’,” Richardson said. “Brisbane made that point too. They were never supportive of it. They had the whole control of Brisbane. They’ve had the greatest run. They should have been premiers every year for the last 30 years. They had the whole of Queensland under their control and have had the whole of south east Queensland under their control forever.”

Richo talks a lot of bs

I used to think he was a good administrator from his time at south’s and gatehead

 

[Wb1234]

Excluding touch and tag is dodgy, they are social forms of the game, which the NRL owns to get participants involved in a non contact form of the game.

If your beloved AFL had a similarly successful version they would absolutely count the participants and then multiply them by 3

Auskick numbers

Nathan Cleary counted as an afl junior

 

[Perth Red]

Richo talks a lot of bs

I used to think he was a good administrator from his time at south’s and gatehead

Yeh he had great success at Gateshead lol

 

[Vee]

Richo talks a lot of bs

I used to think he was a good administrator from his time at south’s and gatehead

Just a salesman with an agenda these days.

 

[Wb1234]

Yeh he had great success at Gateshead lol

He mortgaged his house to keep the club alive and almost lost it since the poms weren’t giving the club a share of the tv deal

 

[MugaB]

Just a salesman with an agenda these days.

Depending on who he is working for really, at the moment the bid for east tigers he is running it with his brother, so he has family invested, so lf he sounds unusual or agenda bias then its coz he is trying to win for his brothers sake, not because he believes in it

 

[Perth Red]

He mortgaged his house to keep the club alive and almost lost it since the poms weren’t giving the club a share of the tv deal

he built the club on straw and they didn’t survive past one year. Sounds a roaring success lol

 

[Wb1234]

he built the club on straw and they didn’t survive past one year. Sounds a roaring success lol

Had a n average crowd higher than most clubs Including yours

wonder how many clubs would survive without a share of the tv money

 

[Perth Red]

Had a n average crowd higher than most clubs Including yours

wonder how many clubs would survive without a share of the tv money

Get a clue, their lowest gate was 1500 and Their avg around 4500!
they lasted one year, cracking business plan lol

 

[Wb1234]

Get a clue, their lowest gate was 1500 and Their avg around 4500!
they lasted one year, cracking business plan lol

What do you think the super league average was then

what did hull kr avg then 800?

 

[Perth Red]

What do you think the super league average was then

what did hull kr avg then 800?

We werent in SL then! Our first year in SL we avg’d 7,500 and didn’t go bust after one year lol

 

[Wb1234]

We werent in SL then! Our first year in SL we avg’d 7,500 and didn’t go bust after one year lol

Cause you got a full share of the tv deal

hull kr have gone broke loads of times

they were losing up to 800k pounds in super league until recently

crowds at the magic in Newcastle shows what Gateshead could’ve achieved