Don't get me wrong, I think North Sydney were great. they just had nothing to offer Rugby League and we're better off without them. The bus stopped, they were kicked off, the bus went on. No loss, no people in the streets or riots. Loss to rugby league, nil.
Well this is probably a troll but what the hell worth a reply
Nothing for rugby league??? Wow, you're a reasonably ignorant brisbane fan, but then many are.
Norths were one of the foundation members, on the other side of the bridge to the rest, Fighting hard for our place in the sporting landscape, until the harbour bridge opened and suddenly our working class area was replaced with union toffs. Still we fought on maintaining rugby leagues presence.
1947 and Manly came into the comp. North Sydney were very supportive of Manly's bid to enter the NSWRL, despite the effect it would have on us, because we put the game first. Sure enough Manly are entered and, sure enough, we lose half our team and many ressies to Manly due to the residential rule.
Fast forward 50 years and we stayed loyal to the ARL in the face of Ribot and co arse raping our game. With the 'criteria' coming along what do we decide to do? Help the game again by moving to the Central Coast, despite our 90 year history and being the only club to be at the one home ground for our existance. We are encouraged all the way by the NRL in this case, them ensuring us it would mean we miss the cull as we wont be a sydney club anymore.
We go ahead to do this, building a stadium in the process. It rains. Alot. (before not raining alot for 6 years).Things go wrong from here, as we have no home ground all of a sudden, no way of bringing in money and even when moving back to North Sydney we still get the rediculous fees from our dickhead council. Things crumble on the field and the rest is history.
So what does this brave sporting governing body in charge of the game, the NRL, do? Do they support us despite our debt (which could've been paid off reasonably quickly from the next season, infact is possible we had a bunch of money aside from the leagues club). No no no. Instead of pushing forward with having a side there they decide, in their infinite wisdom and utter rorting, to turn around, say the CC is not a country area (despite this being the whole reason we pushed so far ahead with moving) say we are a sydney club and kick us the f**k out. f**k them.
So no Rastus, we did nothing for the game did we. Never did a f**king thing you brisbane supporting Twat.
