A means by getting "market saturation" is by having a high presence. This is how the AFL get such market saturation in a city with a lot less people than Sydney. More teams mean more market saturation and in Sydney the clubs are being diluted. A very apt recipe to weaken the game of RL in Sydney.
Generational support is a massive advantage for sports clubs and to throw it away is looking for the certain way to losing fans and cultural recognition.
These fans and culture are replicated exponentially Australia wide and this is the sought of damage you are advocating by not valuing generations of recognition and support. Simple as that.
We seem to be going round and round in circles. Talk too long about a subject, your called a troll, talk about cutting back Sydney teams, you have a Queensland agenda or braindead for wanting to kill-off Sydney clubs.
You talk about generational support. That's fine if your got clubs in every city like the AFL soccer and Union.
Look, we are losing generational support if you ask me. Too many people are moving to other codes where they can see the game 'live' & weekly and get access to the game on TV.
Rugby league do neither well or at all.
I wish Sydney people would just move, f**k-off to another city, and see the damage Sydney is doing to the code by hanging onto something that does not exist any more.
This small tribe bullshit is just that. Nobody wants to sit on the hill anymore in the rain while yobbo's are shouting obscenities.
Every other code has moved on, ours is the only code hanging onto this last remnant of last century.
Only English super-league can do that, why, because they do it so bloody well.
You get sick of banging your head against a brick wall anyhow, i think Dave Smith understands what needs to be done, at least he spent the time to look at what is happening to the code in the bush, at grass-roots, and in Queensland where he can see that the game up here is in trouble as well if we dont start to act now. (union soccer and afl are growing strongly while league asleep at the wheel in Brisbane)
I have said, since we signed that TV deal our time is now.
It wont be if we do nothing, we would have let the code down again and sat back to once again protect Sydney clubs while outside Sydney where the real growth is to be made, we fail again.
To be honest, those generational fans your talking about, even they are disillusioned about the code, they have been beaten done by the game and are on their last legs, the only thing keeping them going now is the game itself.
No, this is last chance saloon, and as we have seen with players misbehaving, and code hoppers, and crap stadiums and crap time slots and crap planning, if the game gets it wrong this time.
ITS ALL FORKING OVER.
One game every second week in Brisbane, WTFORK.
One game every two weeks in NZ, ?
The AFL beat us at every turn because they were quick to see a market left open every second week, so they started to close that gap in the market.
Look, they either wake up rugby league or just put yourself to sleep, for good.
To think our code should become a National Treasure.
It is showing all the signs of becoming Dumb Meets Dumber and Dumbest.
Last time i will say this, we need to shut the backdoor, so players transfer to other clubs or codes after grand final.
Anyone mentions Union, either fined or shown the door.
Dont keep players who are going to union in the game for a extra year, that money should be going towards or to our league junior''s up and coming players. .
The game has been dumb for too long.
Get outta Sydney if you cant see this, your mind is clouded and muddied.
