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Brisbane3 - What is needed to make it a successful bid?

İzmir Zaferi

Juniors
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I genuinely think they made a mistake with Dolphins, especially being Redcliffe oriented.

İt leaves the two Brisbane sides being Northside oriented.

İt 'could' be solved by Dolphins adopting "South Queensland", opening an Ipswich Academy, and possibly considering the possibility of basing some games in that area 'if' they were to get a stadium out west that was sufficient (at least 20k)

The Lions have made a home in the west in Springfield and Rugby League does need some stronger presence but it may not need another club.
 

BuffaloRules

Coach
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İt 'could' be solved by Dolphins adopting "South Queensland", opening an Ipswich Academy, and possibly considering the possibility of basing some games in that area 'if' they were to get a stadium out west that was sufficient (at least 20k)

I think there is little chance that happens now that they are already in the competition in their preferred area IMO and where all there infrastructure already is established…

It’s too early to make a call one way or the other with the Dolphins …three years in and still limited success on the field …. I think they will be very popular when they start having some real success …
 

cinders7

Juniors
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93
Ideally the NRL should've planned to add Easts and Ipswich instead of Redcliffe, would've made a lot more sense geographically and it would be so much neater with the divisions.

But like the introduction of the Broncos instead of a northside and a southside BRL club we're stuck with the mess we're in.

On the bright side Redcliffe will always be successful off the field and it's only a matter of time until they find onfield success. They'll always be in the top quarter of the clubs, dragging up everyone else.
 

titoelcolombiano

First Grade
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I genuinely think they made a mistake with Dolphins, especially being Redcliffe oriented.

İt leaves the two Brisbane sides being Northside oriented.

İt 'could' be solved by Dolphins adopting "South Queensland", opening an Ipswich Academy, and possibly considering the possibility of basing some games in that area 'if' they were to get a stadium out west that was sufficient (at least 20k)

The Lions have made a home in the west in Springfield and Rugby League does need some stronger presence but it may not need another club.
Dolphins and Broncos fans come from all over. Location of their training base is irrelevant. Ditto Lions to a lesser extent as their fan base is much smaller.
 

Red&BlackBear

First Grade
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There’s been one of a couple preliminary draft’s proposed as SQ Jets.

4 games CBus, 6 games Suncorp, 1 Sunshine Coast, 1 Toowoomba and maybe 1 away game rocking Newtown colours.

Based in Ipswich. Ipswich reserve upgraded with center of excellence.

Aim to enter NRL between 2030-2033.

Proposed 25k stadium in Ipswich by 2040/42. Then 90% of home games played there, 1 remains in Toowoomba.

Ipswich Jets, Easts Tigers and Western Clydesdales (if they’re still around) to be direct feeder clubs.

Ipswich Jets, Easts Tigers & Private Funding/Public Ownership model.

Unsure of how proposed ownership split would look like but my guess is it could be Tigers 40%, Jets 35%, Private Sector 15%, Public Membership 10%. That’s just an estimation though.

Not sure how this will progress to being an actual bid but some higher ups in QLD RL and a couple corporate heavies are keen for it to be something like the above. That’s all the info I have for now.

We shall see how it all plays out.
 
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Canard

Immortal
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There’s been one of a couple preliminary draft’s proposed as SQ Jets.

4 games CBus, 6 games Suncorp, 1 Sunshine Coast, 1 Toowoomba and maybe 1 away game rocking Newtown colours.

Based in Ipswich. Ipswich reserve upgraded with center of excellence.

Aim to enter NRL between 2030-2033.

Proposed 25k stadium in Ipswich by 2040/42. Then 90% of home games played there, 1 remains in Toowoomba.

Ipswich Jets, Easts Tigers and Western Clydesdales (if they’re still around) to be direct feeder clubs.

Ipswich Jets, Easts Tigers & Private Funding/Public Ownership model.

Unsure of how proposed ownership split would look like but my guess is it could be Tigers 40%, Jets 35%, Private Sector 15%, Public Membership 10%. That’s just an estimation though.

Not sure how this will progress to being an actual bid but some higher ups in QLD RL and a couple corporate heavies are keen for it to be something like the above. That’s all the info I have for now.

We shall see how it all plays out.
Holy f**k!

We see you Wests Tigers and we going to make you look like the most stable club in history by comparison.

This is a fever dream of bad.
 
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