CC_Roosters
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I think the best way forward for expanding the competition nationally in australia and across the Tasman is to have 2 conferences, expanding to 10 teams in each in the short to medium term.
It means you can add teams to each conference and have a full H&A season within each with rotating interconference matches each season. I think it would be best to split up the sydney clubs to even up the travel and make sure state media isnt biased to one conference.
My ideal setup is:
National Conference
Canterbury Bulldogs
Parramatta
Penrith
Manly
Central Coast Bears
Newcastle
WA Reds
NQ Cowboys
Canberra
SE QLD 2- Ipswich-Logan Jets is my preference
Tasman Conference
South Sydney
Roosters
Dragons
Cronulla
Wests Tigers
Melbourne
Warriors
2nd Kiwi- South Island or Wellington
Brisbane Broncos
Gold Coast
National Conf covers 3 Australian capitals in Perth, Brisbane and Sydney. The Tasman Conf covers Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne and Auckland.
Would have:
-18 H&A games within the conference per team
-5 Home interconference games
-5 Away interconference games
So you play every club at least once and every club in your conference H&A. 28 games in total, but i am assuming first grade squads are expanded to 30 players to cope with the extra games.
National conference reasoning
-Have maintained rivalries between Parra, Penrith and Bulldogs
-Triangle of hate between Central Coast, Manly and Newcastle giving 6 healthy rivalries
-Perth and NQ offsets the lack of travel across the tasman
-Canberra are interchangeable between the conferences but stuck them in here.
Tasman Conference reasoning
-Two kiwi sides together, honestly not having 2 derby matches would defeat half the purpose of a 2nd side IMO
-Maintained foundation rivalries between Souths, Easts and Wests Tigers.
-Maintained Dragons and Sharks derby H&A, plus key derbies in Dragons v Souths/Easts.
-Broncos give strong Qld presence, plus 2 X SEQ derbies with Gold coast. I feel it is important to have a Brisbane metro presence in both conferences thus the Brisbane sides have been split up. But GC rivalry makes up for this and they will still play jets once a year making it even more special when it rolls around
Should Conulla prove unsustainable they will be punted to Adelaide and swap conferences with the Raiders.
Shred and Criticise please.
It means you can add teams to each conference and have a full H&A season within each with rotating interconference matches each season. I think it would be best to split up the sydney clubs to even up the travel and make sure state media isnt biased to one conference.
My ideal setup is:
National Conference
Canterbury Bulldogs
Parramatta
Penrith
Manly
Central Coast Bears
Newcastle
WA Reds
NQ Cowboys
Canberra
SE QLD 2- Ipswich-Logan Jets is my preference
Tasman Conference
South Sydney
Roosters
Dragons
Cronulla
Wests Tigers
Melbourne
Warriors
2nd Kiwi- South Island or Wellington
Brisbane Broncos
Gold Coast
National Conf covers 3 Australian capitals in Perth, Brisbane and Sydney. The Tasman Conf covers Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne and Auckland.
Would have:
-18 H&A games within the conference per team
-5 Home interconference games
-5 Away interconference games
So you play every club at least once and every club in your conference H&A. 28 games in total, but i am assuming first grade squads are expanded to 30 players to cope with the extra games.
National conference reasoning
-Have maintained rivalries between Parra, Penrith and Bulldogs
-Triangle of hate between Central Coast, Manly and Newcastle giving 6 healthy rivalries
-Perth and NQ offsets the lack of travel across the tasman
-Canberra are interchangeable between the conferences but stuck them in here.
Tasman Conference reasoning
-Two kiwi sides together, honestly not having 2 derby matches would defeat half the purpose of a 2nd side IMO
-Maintained foundation rivalries between Souths, Easts and Wests Tigers.
-Maintained Dragons and Sharks derby H&A, plus key derbies in Dragons v Souths/Easts.
-Broncos give strong Qld presence, plus 2 X SEQ derbies with Gold coast. I feel it is important to have a Brisbane metro presence in both conferences thus the Brisbane sides have been split up. But GC rivalry makes up for this and they will still play jets once a year making it even more special when it rolls around
Should Conulla prove unsustainable they will be punted to Adelaide and swap conferences with the Raiders.
Shred and Criticise please.