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Yes, but right now the decision is simply, should they add a 17th team in Brisbane. And if so, which bid is the best. If the two main challenges are financial and player depth, you need to see how the 17th team affects the comp before you decide on an 18th.
Currently 16 clubs x 12 home games. Add a team - 17 clubs x 12 home games. It would need to be 26 rounds if you want to keep 24 matches. One bye each week (26 byes, plus 8 other byes to schedule around origin time). Not ideal, but no other way to run 17 teams.
Monday night. NZ2 could lead to at least one game per week being played at 2pm AEST Sunday or 6pm AEST Friday.
A strong Titans is good for the game, but they'll need to start showing results sooner or later. Their membership tally and TV ratings are only ahead of the Warriors.
I hope they do become a powerhouse, but if they become a top 4 team and still struggle to draw a crowd, members and TV ratings, then serious questions will be asked about their viability.
You have everything wrong buddy, as soon as someone challenges the titans to be better as an entity a few pages ago, 1st instinct in your head was, give up their licence to a brand new entity, that has 0 runs on the board, over a team in Gold Coast which has 15 years to grow, yes they've been a bit disappointing, but have finally got their shít together these past 2 seasons, with there on field roster, and become somewhat the better qld team of the lot, but no jump on the train of cull the team already, this is the shít i keep seeing on these threads from you, get it together EXPANSION is all clubs plus one!
Didn't the 150/250 page report from Lachlan Smith say that expansion was unviable?
The Titans are owned by local businessmen Rebecca Frizelle and Darryl Kelly. There were Brisbane-based consortiums bidding to take over the Titans when their licence went up for renewal, but Frizelle and Kelly were given the keys. They chose to be a Gold Coast team run by local businessmen, so the onus is on the local community to support them in large enough numbers to justify them having a licence ahead of Brisbane 2, Perth, NZ2 and Adelaide.
I don't trust the attendance figures stated by the Titans. Whenever I watch their games I see 75% to 85% of the seats empty, yet they've apparently drawn more than 50% of capacity every season bar 3 seasons. They don't even open the southern stand.
Then it's not EXPANSION, and you are always the first to suggest a movement of licence, or a merger or culling of a team, you can't accept that expansion can be a good thing if pursued with good intentions, yet having another new qld team start up, all you want to do is cull its nearby neighbours, keep jumping at media shadows... sharks are going no where, its time to stop using that as a form of data, Greenberg has been moved on, most probably for suggesting just that. and in his tenure had not advanced any expansion of the game, nor improvements within the game itself or money the game was hemorrhaging due to his poor governance, since PVL and abdo had stepped up, all those metrics have improved, and hopefully expansion is upon us, if SEQ works, then we'll see other areas we can expand to.
The games I've attended always had a strong crowd for the away team. It's weird seeing the away team have more fans cheering them on.
Mate, you’ve now lost any support I had for you. You love throwing stats and figures out to justify your own opinions, but when they don’t, you “don’t trust” them. That is a perfect example of cherry picking data, and you’ve proven yourself unreliable and completely biased.
