Expand to WA and SA by demerging Wests Tigers

[AdelaideRLFC]

The NRL currently has 17 teams, which is unfavourable. The NRL also wants to expand out west.

Split up Wests Tigers.

Western Suburbs = Western Magpies
Balmain Tigers = Adelaide Tigers

Boom - 18 teams and two expansion states covered with one move.

 

[Get Rid of The Donkeys]

I support this move.

 

[Angry_eel]

Not going to happen. The central area of Sydney and potentially the outer South West will be completely lost to the game.

The population would be half that of Adelaide and Perth but those cities are in AFL states, converting people to NRL will take a long time.

I'd love to see teams in those two cities but don't know if this is the way to do it.

 

[westerntiger]

On one thread they're trying to merge us with Easts Tigers, on another thread they want to move us to Singapore and here they're trying to de-merge us and send us to places indifferent to rugby league.

Crikey.

 

[MugaB]

Not going to happen. The central area of Sydney and potentially the outer South West will be completely lost to the game.

The population would be half that of Adelaide and Perth but those cities are in AFL states, converting people to NRL will take a long time.

I'd love to see teams in those two cities but don't know if this is the way to do it.

Not that i am for this, but the south west, would get the bulldogs attention (as gould has been pushing for) and central area probably would have souths, dogs, and easts eating into it also.. looking like a smart move from wests to get the CoE at concord, the home of the western suburbs

 

[Get Rid of The Donkeys]

On one thread they're trying to merge us with Easts Tigers, on another thread they want to move us to Singapore and here they're trying to de-merge us and send us to places indifferent to rugby league.

Crikey.

No one wants to send the Tigers to Singapore. I suggested the Tigers rebrand as The Tigers and take one game to Malaysia each year as it's part of the Commonwealth of Nations and tigers are endemic in that part of the world.

Teams take games to small country venues, some of which only draw 5k people. If a team could start promoting their brand in south-east Asia then over time they could develop a niche following that brings them much needed money.

 

[AdelaideRLFC]

No one wants to send the Tigers to Singapore. I suggested the Tigers rebrand as The Tigers and take one game to Malaysia each year as it's part of the Commonwealth of Nations and tigers are endemic in that part of the world.

Teams take games to small country venues, some of which only draw 5k people. If a team could start promoting their brand in south-east Asia then over time they could develop a niche following that brings them much needed money.

Beautiful

 

[Pippen94]

No one wants to send the Tigers to Singapore. I suggested the Tigers rebrand as The Tigers and take one game to Malaysia each year as it's part of the Commonwealth of Nations and tigers are endemic in that part of the world.

Teams take games to small country venues, some of which only draw 5k people. If a team could start promoting their brand in south-east Asia then over time they could develop a niche following that brings them much needed money.

Just be a wild weekend for players including emptying plane bar on long flight

 

[Pippen94]

The NRL currently has 17 teams, which is unfavourable. The NRL also wants to expand out west.

Split up Wests Tigers.

Western Suburbs = Western Magpies
Balmain Tigers = Adelaide Tigers

Boom - 18 teams and two expansion states covered with one move.

Great, let's grow by killing off dedicated supporters.

 

[Get Rid of The Donkeys]

Just be a wild weekend for players including emptying plane bar on long flight

They might get caned in public for doing that in Malaysia and Singapore.

 

[Wb1234]

I’m an ex Balmain fan

they should demerge and use the tigers brand for a new expansion side

the magpies however should move to Campbelltown

 

[Wb1234]

Not that i am for this, but the south west, would get the bulldogs attention (as gould has been pushing for) and central area probably would have souths, dogs, and easts eating into it also.. looking like a smart move from wests to get the CoE at concord, the home of the western suburbs

That kind of makes sense

dogs would need a new ground though at Liverpool for that for work

 

[The Penguin #6.]

Just be a wild weekend for players including emptying plane bar on long flight

They might get caned in public for doing that in Malaysia and Singapore.

And knowing the Tigers that`d follow the caning they`d get on the field by whoever they take up there to play against. Ouch !!

 

[Canard]

Completey re-brand a club for the sake of one game a year.

That's blue sky thinking

 

[marshall stalin]

Not that i am for this, but the south west, would get the bulldogs attention (as gould has been pushing for) and central area probably would have souths, dogs, and easts eating into it also.. looking like a smart move from wests to get the CoE at concord, the home of the western suburbs

The Tigers would have been better off building the CoE in Macarthur and basing themselves there - The junior numbers out that way will surpass Penrith's in the not too distant future.

A name change to Macarthur Wests Tigers would galvanise the 3 factions as one entity so they all be on the same page - i.e Wests Ashfeld/Balmain/Macarthur Wests Magpies

 

[Perth Red]

The Tigers would have been better off building the CoE in Macarthur and basing themselves there - The junior numbers out that way will surpass Penrith's in the not too distant future.

A name change to Macarthur Wests Tigers would galvanise the 3 factions as one entity so they all be on the same page - i.e Wests Ashfeld/Balmain/Macarthur Wests Magpies

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The corporate moneys in the city, they ain’t moving away from the $’s. not to mention at some Point they will wake up and play all their games in a decent stadium and commbank of Allianz are the only obvious choices.

 

[The Rosco]

And knowing the Tigers that`d follow the caning they`d get on the field by whoever they take up there to play against. Ouch !!

You follow saints, right ?

 

[The Penguin #6.]

You follow saints, right ?

Touchy !

 

[Wb1234]

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The Tigers would have been better off building the CoE in Macarthur and basing themselves there - The junior numbers out that way will surpass Penrith's in the not too distant future.

A name change to Macarthur Wests Tigers would galvanise the 3 factions as one entity so they all be on the same page - i.e Wests Ashfeld/Balmain/Macarthur Wests Magpies

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Absolutely agree

 

[Bukowski]

The corporate moneys in the city, they ain’t moving away from the $’s. not to mention at some Point they will wake up and play all their games in a decent stadium and commbank of Allianz are the only obvious choices.

You give them too much credit