The Charlatan
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Liverpool is the future for Wests. Huge growth area, and we could infringe on the Canterbury territory as well as secure the South West.
Liverpool is the future for Wests. Huge growth area, and we could infringe on the Canterbury territory as well as secure the South West.
Sydney would go from 9 to 10 teams.
WT only play 4 games a year in CT (and i would debate whether that is "not Sydney").
So that would take it from 8.66 teams to 9
(Where are you pulling the extra one from? Canberra and Newcastle are the 2 regional teams of the 11 in NSW)
Canberra's not in NSW.
I know it may seem pedantic, but if we don't keep correcting people they'll continue to keep lumping us together with NSW when we haven't been part of NSW for 102 years and don't plan to join back up with them anytime soon.
I think the fact that players from Canberra are somehow eligible for NSW in origin probably adds to the confusion. Is there actually some logical reason why that's the case?
I think the fact that players from Canberra are somehow eligible for NSW in origin probably adds to the confusion. Is there actually some logical reason why that's the case?
For one thing not many of our players are actually born in the ACT, but in the surrounding regions (Queanbeyan, Cooma, Cowra, Goulburn, etc, etc) before moving to Canberra/Queanbyan for all sorts of reasons.
But of the ones that are actually born and bred in the ACT and played their first 1st grade games for ACT based clubs (which the Raiders are considered to be because the headquarters of the football operations is in Bruce, which is in Canberra for those that don't know) nobody can really give you a strait answer as to the justification as to why they are eligible to play for NSW.
As far as I can tell it's simply because nobody outside of the ACT (and we are roundly ignored when it comes to all things RL, the NRL ignoring us and treating us like second class citizens is actually one of the main reasons why people from Canberra have been jumping off the Raiders in my opinion) has made a stink about it so NSW has been allowed to get away with it.
If Queenslanders were smart enough to be able to tell the difference between the ACT and NSW they could have prevented Bradley Clyde, Joel Monaghan, Josh Dugan, and probably others I've forgotten about from ever pulling on a Sky Blue jersey, but for some unknown reason they have never challenged it.
If Queenslanders were smart enough to be able to tell the difference between the ACT and NSW they could have prevented Bradley Clyde, Joel Monaghan, Josh Dugan, and probably others I've forgotten about from ever pulling on a Sky Blue jersey, but for some unknown reason they have never challenged it.
For one thing not many of our players are actually born in the ACT, but in the surrounding regions (Queanbeyan, Cooma, Cowra, Goulburn, etc, etc) before moving to Canberra/Queanbyan for all sorts of reasons.
But of the ones that are actually born and bred in the ACT and played their first 1st grade games for ACT based clubs (which the Raiders are considered to be because the headquarters of the football operations is in Bruce, which is in Canberra for those that don't know) nobody can really give you a strait answer as to the justification as to why they are eligible to play for NSW.
As far as I can tell it's simply because nobody outside of the ACT (and we are roundly ignored when it comes to all things RL, the NRL ignoring us and treating us like second class citizens is actually one of the main reasons why people from Canberra have been jumping off the Raiders in my opinion) has made a stink about it so NSW has been allowed to get away with it.
If Queenslanders were smart enough to be able to tell the difference between the ACT and NSW they could have prevented Bradley Clyde, Joel Monaghan, Josh Dugan, and probably others I've forgotten about from ever pulling on a Sky Blue jersey, but for some unknown reason they have never challenged it.
How many players are gonna say "nah, im from Canberra. Dont pick me for origin."???
If you want to make the point of NOT being part of NSW, then ACT people should be eligible for QLD. But thats literally the only alternative....
And, GD, youll have to explain why the distinction between NSW and ACT is important or even relevent in this context.
Functionally it is NSW; this is like arguing whether the Titans are actually a NSW club because they are so close to the border. What is the point of this distinction??
Interested to know by what measure you think the nrl ignore canberra?
Sure they get relatively few games on FTA but when you consider the main opposition the brumbies get none then its not such a bad deal. What other reasons?
Or how about this one?
Those mock logos are the ugliest things I've ever seen.