Keep telling yourself that of it helps you sleep better. Meanwhile AFL continues to pull away and dwarf RL. $271million a year more revenue. Just let that sink in and consider what advantage that gives them.
More scoring plays in fumbleball mean more commercial breaks for a game that is played 20 minutes longer than RL. TV networks have stated this works against RL. Putting teams in Perth and Adelaide isn't going to add an extra 20 minutes to each match and increase the amount of advertising breaks for commercials.
What part of this do you not understand?
Fumbleball's memberships and crowds are twice the size of the NRL. They make far more money from gate keepings than the NRL does and are taking a massive hit from COVID-19 because of it. This will hurt them for years to come.
I will note that the biggest crowds and membership bases for fumbleball come from the city that has the most clubs.
lol, take it from someone whose been there no where in Pakistan is hockey more popular than cricket!
I am basing it on what I have heard from other people who have spent a lot of time in Pakistan.
I'm against Logan having a team as there is a better option, a city wide appealing Brisbane club, or at the very least half a city appeal.
Brissie is big enough to have
4 clubs, including one specifically for Logan.
You're not from Brissie and you know nothing about the area, so it's rich for you to tell people from Brissie what we can and cannot have. We will decide what we want, thank you very much.
Brissie needs 4 teams. Brisbane 1 ( Broncos), Brissie 2, Logan and Ipswich would work.
There is no better option in NZ than either Auckland 2, but I think that would damage the Warriors too much, or the Southern Orcas concept based in next biggest city but with a wider regional appeal and reach.
There is no viable bid from NZ but plenty from Brissie. I think that says everything we need to know about where the 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th teams should be from.
Does NZ deserve to even have a team in the NRL?
They don't have an Aussie RU team in their national competition, and the ARU could use one, that's for sure. Maybe it's time for Australia to look after itself and tell NZ to stand on their own two feet for once. Let them create their own competition, instead of demanding us Aussies to pay their way and make spots available for them at the expense of areas in Australia.
Why should Australia always bail them out?
What do we get out of it?
I want to see the game grow and overtake AFL as the countries biggest footy code. It cant do that by consolidation, only by expansion.
re England, not really, sure I would love to see us win an ashes or RLWC before I cark it but when you compare the money gap in both hemispheres I'm staggered we are as close as we are. SL clubs operate on less than half of NRL clubs revenue and jnr funding would be a tenth in UK. If anything Id say Australia are under performers given the advantages they have, bit like the Broncos really.
England haven't defeated Australia in a match since 2006.
The media and big businesses will always favour fumbleball due to its ties with the upper-class. Plonking teams in Adelaide and Perth won't change it.
If you think it will, you're deluded. After 22 years of unrivaled success on the field, the Storm are still a failure off it. Only 2,000 people in Victoria play the game for goodness sake. Don't ramble on about a lack of development officers being the reason. If a kid likes a game they will ask mummy and daddy to play it. There are clubs in Victoria. They don't need a development officer to come knocking on their door and guide them to the local club and bribe them with a backpack and McHappy meal from Macca's. Daddy can pick up the Yellow Pages. When I was a kid I would look up the local clubs in the Yellow Pages. It's not hard.