don't need to be a local authority, the Sharks membership, crowds and financial reports tell me what I need to know about the reach of your club .Lets hope these new people moving into the area are A) RL fans B) not affiliated with an existing club C) Want to support the sharks. An increase of 16k people? Wow, how are you not a super club? Same period Perth's population went up 600k! No wonder Dockers and eagles are so well supported.
AFL have never been strategically shy to relocate or expand into new areas, If they have decided to not base a club FT in Tassie it is for a reason. Or do you think they just don't like Tasmanians?
For years we've been hearing about what tomorrow will look like for the Sharks, then the financial annual report comes out and it looks as bleak as the year before. When you produce an annual report showing, at least, a neutral bottom line then these predictions of becoming this wealthy NRL club might start to look like a reality. If you don't manage to do it this year with the success on the field then you'd better hope the new tenants are all pokie addicts.
You might have missed it but I have come to the conclusion that now is not the time for a perth NRL team. The NRL simply isn't popular enough, rich enough, visionary enough or run well enough generally to make it a success. Hopefully they will be one day and we may see the game grow. Until then we'll keep propping up clubs and ignoring AFL and its national perception positioning as Australia's Game.
Strangely we want the same thing, NRL will not expand and grow until current clubs are sustainable. You want your club strong, I want the game strong. I have my doubts that we will get to that point in the next 5 years, probably longer, I will be very happy to be proved wrong.
My opinion on if the game should stunt growth due to rescuing failing clubs is hardly going to play any significant role on if the NRL will expand any time soon lol. Even I don't have an ego that big!
Sorry mate,you don't rely on history, you learn from it,it's what is planned and is happening at the present time.So it's nonsense to suggest you don't need to be a local authority,if you have NFI on what is currently going on.
You crap on about the past financials ,get yourself into the present,we know about the past.ASADA,and the club having huge debt bears no relevance to the future,once the final development washout is realised.
You may as well bring up the financials of the GC or the Knights,it;s not ongoing.
There is a requirement for 10,000 dwellings in the Shire for the next 5 years,in addition to the many developments currently in progress.That is a National planning assessment.
Funny you should say that I see plenty of attendees at times with other clubs' jumpers and their club not playing at the field ATT.Yes its funny about Perth and its growth,that they are just about overwhelmingly AFL fans.
And with that growth your numbers for NRL games played there have actually fallen.Look in your own backyard
it's hardly booming for the NRL based on attendances.So you're right the NRL is not popular enough in Perth,it would appear.And many East Coasters are coming back as the mining jobs are drying up
The Sharks club will have over 2,000 residents right next door and that could increase further with another 120 units planned on the Eastern side with a hotel.But of course tucked away in Perth you are right on to this LOL.
Already with new suburbs nearby at Green Hills and Shearebrook Landing a couple of thousand more have moved and will move in.And a huge development at Caringbah High site.
Of course there is no guarantee population increase means the same increase for the Sharks.That's a Dorothy Dixer.
We're in the process of being a super club,own our own ground have min $40-$50m in the bank,a refurbished licensed club,$1m pa rental,full sponsorship bank and a rebuilt stadium planned.
Brisbane with 2m gets a 30,000 average ,think he Sharks(15,000) have a higher proportion of fans per capita.
They(AFL) are hardly doing wonders in Qld with the L:ions and GC ,and their clubs lost $90m plus this year.Yep they are doing wonders $100m here and there ,like throwing confetti in the air.
Have to laugh with your snipe the Sharks average 14,577 was higher than South Sydney with a huge membership,Warriors 14,302,Eels 13,929 .GC Titans 13,806,Canberra 13,214 and only a couple of thousand less than the Cowboys.
The AFL haven't gone into Tasmania for what reason?.There is plenty off support there .That code knows how to sh*t off their fans,thumb their noses at Tasmanians,give confetti money to the Nthn Clubs $200m so far,and the Qld effort has turned into a nightmare.And upset many local Vic clubs.
You do understand the NRL doesn't have ATM an extra $40m pa to throw at any 2 clubs.
You need to look at TV deals concluded from 2005 right through to 2015,and see why the AFL has had the jump financially,and why after the SL war the code had zero funds on hand.The 2005 deal with Gallop $500m over 6 years AFL $780m over 5 years.Ask yourself why the fumblers had the extra money from the start.
If you believe letting clubs like the Titans,Knights,Tigers fold is going to assist the code,it shows exactly why you living over in Perth has no idea of the effect losing those clubs would have.Yet you couldn;t give a rats.
You are either trolling or sucking on too many bitter lemons.
