If you were creating a national comp from scratch, today...

[t-ba]

It's probably better to just completely start from Scratch. I wouldn't even bother trying to use the old club names. Let them keep their identity in a state league.

 

[Man_of_Steel_1982]

It should have happened in the 1980s.

 

[t-ba]

It should have happened in the 1980s.

It was basically the plan. The NSWRL made the mistake of working through the clubs (Trying to kill clubs like Newtown and Wests and encourage mergers) rather than working over the clubs to create completely new entities.

 

[ozbash]

. Sydney x 4 (city, north shore, western x2)
5. Wollongong
6. Central Coast
7. Newcastle
8. ACT
9. Brisbane x 2 (city, south)
11. Gold Coast
12. Sunshine Coast
13. Townsville/Cairns
14. Perth
15. Adelaide
16. Melbourne x 2 (city, east)
18. Auckland
19. Wellingtonn
20. Christchurch

I like this but with the addition of either 2 Pacific Island teams and a PNG side.
Split them into 2 divisions with a promotion/relegation setup and scrap NSWRL Premier League.

 

[eels_fan_01]

I like this but with the addition of either 2 Pacific Island teams and a PNG side.
Split them into 2 divisions with a promotion/relegation setup and scrap NSWRL Premier League.

I couldn't imagine any of the Pacific islands running a side.

 

[_Johnsy]

1-Parramatta Eels
2-Penrith Panthers
3-Eastern Suburbs Roosters
4-Manly Sea Eagles
5-Southern Sydney Sharks
6-Central Coast Bears
7-Newcastle Knights
8-Canberra Raiders

9-Brisbane Broncos
10-Gold Coast Titans
11-North Queensland Cowboys
12-Melbourne Storm
13-Adelaide Rams
14-Western Tigers (Perth)
15-New Zealand Warriors
16-Darwin

Interestingly enough you keep parra and penrith seperate, yet merge St George Illawarra and Cronulla.

Imagine my surprise :sarcasm:

 

[Slackboy72]

Darwin???

 

[Loudstrat]

If I was stqarting the code from scratch, for a 16 team comp, why not go...

Sydney
Brisbane
Auckland
Melbourne
Perth
Canberra
Newcastle
North Queensland
Leeds
Bradford
Manchester
Liverpool
Paris
Avignon
Moscow
Wigan?

 

[Loudstrat]

13. Sydney City
14. Sydney Suburbs

One club for 4 million people, another for 200 acres of offices?

1. Central Sydney
2. Eastern Sydney
3. Northern Sydney
4. Southern Sydney
5. Western Sydney

Given that Western Sydney will have 100 times the population of Eastern Sydney, how does that solve a problem?

8. Northern Sydney Sea Eagles
9. Balmain Bulldogs
11. Parramatta Panthers
12. Southern Sharks
13. St George/Illawarra
14. Sydney City Roosters
15. Western Tigers (Perth)
16. Central Coast Knights (Rotate between Central Coast and Energy Australia)

Yep. Merge everyone except the smallest. The roosters 6 suburbs would really do well against the 600 suburbs represented by the rest. May as well cull all Sydney clubs, and then base 4 new clubs at Birdsville.

Gotta love these people who know NOTHING about Sydney.

 

[Big Mick]

well you need a team to represent te east of Sydney you goose otherwise you just give up on thousands of supporters.

Have a team east, 2 teams west, 2 teams south, 1 team north, then Central Coast and Hunter Valley

All axies sorted.

Maybe you know NOTHING about Sydney.

If you don't put a team in the East you lose thousands of potential supporters. You can't just totally ignore one section of Sydney.

 

[pennywisealfie]

2 sydney clubs is enough, one city club playing out of aussie and the west sydney playing out of homebush. sydney cant sell out origin, they wont sell out club games. so get everyone in sydney to support either side and we will be getting 40000+ crowds every week, problem solved.

 

[Loudstrat]

So you play out of 2 stadiums in the same half of the city?

And each side is twice as big as any other side outside their area?

 

[t-ba]

Umm, Pennywise, Homebush is in the Inner West which is in fact in the Eastern Half of Sydney...

 

[herbert henry1908]

2 sydney clubs is enough, one city club playing out of aussie and the west sydney playing out of homebush. sydney cant sell out origin, they wont sell out club games. so get everyone in sydney to support either side and we will be getting 40000+ crowds every week, problem solved.

Do you think the broadcasters would only want two sydney teams?

 

[Big Mick]

2 sydney clubs is enough, one city club playing out of aussie and the west sydney playing out of homebush. sydney cant sell out origin, they wont sell out club games. so get everyone in sydney to support either side and we will be getting 40000+ crowds every week, problem solved.

You are kidding arn't you

If you do that...then kiss goodbye the juniors in Sydney then as well...where you gonna get them to come from?

2 teams my arse.

 

[_Johnsy]

well just piss off Brisbane, they can play in the qld cup. Admit a sunshine coast side to take their spot. Now thats a problem solved.

 

[Red Bear]

So we're going to ignore the heartlands in preference to population centres, is that your plan? Illawarra has been tried before and couldn't stand alone, hence their merger. What's going to be different this time around? Three teams in Brisbane? Logan and Ipswich perhaps, or Redcliffe? Not that any of those are in Brisbane of course. Sunshine Coast? With its sprawl and lack of a venue?

Bugger it, let's just have the old NSWRL plus some SEQ teams.

You're kidding. I feel more stupid just answering you.

Illawarra is a rugby league heartland tho, look at the amount and quality of players produced.

Anyway 16 team

Brisbane - suncorp
Gold Coast - robina
Sunshine Coast/second brisbane - either new sunshine coast ground or suncorp
North Queensland - DFS
Aukland - Mt Smart
Canberra - Bruce
Melbourne - New Melbourne
Perth - Subiaco redeveloped

Newcastle - EAS
Central Coast - Graham Park
Illawarra - WIN

North Sydney - North Sydney Oval )) seriously maybe New ground that area
Sydney (covering eastern suburbs and the inner west over the roosters, balmain, newtown and some of souths territory) - SFS
South Sydney - St George, Cronulla and part of Souths area - SFS unless some sort of newer ground could be built
Western Sydney 1 - campbelltown, liverpool blacktown canterbury etc - ANZ
Western Sydney 2 - covering the Parra and Penrith regions and out of a Parra stadium with increased capacity.

 

[Blind Freddy]

18 team National comp the AFL would cream their pants to have. Sad thing is we could easily have his if we werent so hopelessly held back by many geniusing factors.

Sydney
Northern Beaches
North West
Southern
Eastern
Inner West
Greater West

Country NSW
Wollongong
Central Coast
Newcastle

QLD
Gold Coast
Sunshine Coast
Brisbane
North QLD

Other states/territories/pacific region
Canberra
Auckland
South Island
Perth
Melbourne

Future expanding areas: Adelade, Port Moresby, Pacific Islands, North Coast NSW

 

[pennywisealfie]

i just dont know why everyone wants a bunch of clubs that get 10000 crowds each week.

 

[Chapsta]

2 sydney clubs is enough, one city club playing out of aussie and the west sydney playing out of homebush. sydney cant sell out origin, they wont sell out club games. so get everyone in sydney to support either side and we will be getting 40000+ crowds every week, problem solved.

And we can call the sfs team "Sydney FC", aint that right penny? Brisbane can be called the Qld Roar.