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The affiliation wasn't as a feeder club.
Precisely. News won the war, after all.. it was never about *actually* owning the game (although having a half stake for two decades was a pretty amazing achievement as far as conflict-of-interest dodging goes).. just getting Pay TV rights to themselves, driving out competitors in that industry & using that to manipulate the sport however they wanted to.didn’t he get the memo that news ltd has already decided who the winner will be?
The face of Brisbane Jets' bid to become the NRL's 17th team says he is "disappointed" by the limited opportunities he says were offered to put forward their case.
The NRL is expected to announce in the coming days that Redcliffe Dolphins will enter the competition in 2023, winning the race to the licence by beating out the Jets and the Firehawks.
Nicholas Livermore, though, believes the NRL and Australian Rugby League Commission should take more time so he can push his own bid further than he has been able to so far.
"If they've made their decision after one meeting I would be disappointed."
It does, however, seem a fait accompli the Dolphins will be announced as the winning bid.
Nine News understands the Dolphins have already been sent documents outlining conditions of the new licence, and an NRL announcement is imminent.
"So far we think we've put a really compelling case for the Brisbane Jets, and more importantly rugby league fans, to have a team," Livermore told Nine News.
"We would like to sit down and have another discussion. We've only had a one-hour meeting after the last 10 years of working on this.
"So we would like to think that the Commission knows what's at stake.
Obviously that hour, wasn't spent well, dolphins bid apparently went for 1-2 hoursdidn’t he get the memo that news ltd has already decided who the winner will be?
The face of Brisbane Jets' bid to become the NRL's 17th team says he is "disappointed" by the limited opportunities he says were offered to put forward their case.
The NRL is expected to announce in the coming days that Redcliffe Dolphins will enter the competition in 2023, winning the race to the licence by beating out the Jets and the Firehawks.
Nicholas Livermore, though, believes the NRL and Australian Rugby League Commission should take more time so he can push his own bid further than he has been able to so far.
"If they've made their decision after one meeting I would be disappointed."
It does, however, seem a fait accompli the Dolphins will be announced as the winning bid.
Nine News understands the Dolphins have already been sent documents outlining conditions of the new licence, and an NRL announcement is imminent.
"So far we think we've put a really compelling case for the Brisbane Jets, and more importantly rugby league fans, to have a team," Livermore told Nine News.
"We would like to sit down and have another discussion. We've only had a one-hour meeting after the last 10 years of working on this.
"So we would like to think that the Commission knows what's at stake.
The previous iteration of the team name The Comets most definitely were...... And we did get players from them, let me go digging through my old stuff.
Who said it was?
Just lied about how much money they’ve got lol
Did the affiliation end around the time the Cutters and Pride entered the Queensland Cup?@Get Rid of The Donkeys regarding rocky-
David Faiumu was one off the top of my head we nabbed off them and Mitch Zornig but he didn't play any FG (he ended up going back to rocky)I haven't had a chance to go through some old articles I have in a folder somewhere but there was a couple more.
I was up in Townsville in '02 or '03 for a game as I lived in Sydney at the time and got drinking with 2 lads at the Cowbs leagues after the game. After about 15mins they realised I was into my NQ footy a lot, they revealed who they were, they were both on the board of the Rocky leagues club/footy club and were in town to talk to Denis Keefe to try and get the Rocky RL and the Cowboys into a partnership. At the time we had been sending some players up to the Cairns Cyclones as well as the Young Guns in the NSW cup and then the Qcup. The previous management at NQ under Rabieh Krahyem had absolutely torched every bridge around the junior leagues in Cairns, Mackay and Rocky but these guys liked the cut of Dennis's gib and wanted to get into an agreement with the Cowboys (they probably saw opportunities for themselves to get some casts off or at least get some kids into the system that might then come back to Rocky). There's a couple of articles on the net that shows the alignment announcement but it's very light on like this one on LU
From memory, yeah it was.
www.nrl.com
Are you claiming that the Jets were a better bid?didn’t he get the memo that news ltd has already decided who the winner will be?
The face of Brisbane Jets' bid to become the NRL's 17th team says he is "disappointed" by the limited opportunities he says were offered to put forward their case.
The NRL is expected to announce in the coming days that Redcliffe Dolphins will enter the competition in 2023, winning the race to the licence by beating out the Jets and the Firehawks.
Nicholas Livermore, though, believes the NRL and Australian Rugby League Commission should take more time so he can push his own bid further than he has been able to so far.
"If they've made their decision after one meeting I would be disappointed."
It does, however, seem a fait accompli the Dolphins will be announced as the winning bid.
Nine News understands the Dolphins have already been sent documents outlining conditions of the new licence, and an NRL announcement is imminent.
"So far we think we've put a really compelling case for the Brisbane Jets, and more importantly rugby league fans, to have a team," Livermore told Nine News.
"We would like to sit down and have another discussion. We've only had a one-hour meeting after the last 10 years of working on this.
"So we would like to think that the Commission knows what's at stake.
Well said. The Dolphins have had a spot in the NRL has a long term goal for over a decade. They were the most financial and consistent of the bids. They did not waver and didn't need to consider a merger. They were strong and able to stand on their own feet. The whinging about this is insane. They are a huge RL club and will be a great addition to the NRL and will instantly draw more fans than most NRL clubs
Big call but hopefully you are right! Now we get to test the decade long argument that Brisbane has been crying out for a Broncos alternative.
No idea, didnt see the bid documents. It does seem plausible though that News ltd did well out of it all:
www.abc.net.au
Well, out of the boxes that you would want ticked for Brisbane 2, Redcliffe did it better than the other two bids, so it's not like they were the worst bid but got in anyway because of news, they were the best bid and they won.
I kind of feel like if the situations were reversed and the NRL were ploughing massive amounts of dollars into an Adelaide and a Perth team that weren't getting much traction, and the AFL promoted say Perth 3 and got it fully funded by the bid and got pay TV to cover the club's grant plus a bit extra, the AFL would be lauded for that and we'd be bagged for it.This would be hilarious if it wasnt so sad. Basically the games CEO acknowledging that if you invest then you will get reward, and saying thats the difference between NRL and AFL!!!
The Dolphins had been the unanimous choice of the expansion committee, and Abdo said that the league needed to know that the new team would be ready to go from day one, not requiring huge league investment.
"This is not something we wanted to invest tens of millions [of dollars] into," he said.
"That is the difference between AFL and NRL expansion.
"AFL will pour the money in, knowing they'll reap the rewards in the long run."
Dolphins the NRL's 17th franchise aim to grow the game in northern Brisbane
The NRL says the key to the success of the Dolphins' bid to be the 17th league franchise from 2023 was its focus on growing the game in the northern Brisbane corridor.
