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Sunshine Coast will be 16,500, cairns 20k. Don’t really understand why for the olympics they’d do sunshine coast or Toowoomba rather than redcliffe though?
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Sunshine Coast will be 16,500, cairns 20k. Don’t really understand why for the olympics they’d do sunshine coast or Toowoomba rather than redcliffe though?
I don't get it either.
Big concern with that though is we aren’t getting a second brisbane club, we are getting a small outer suburb club. Think manly with a nicer stadium.
I'd only bring in the Dolphins as a regional club in the 2030s, about a decade after the Firehawks have established themselves as Brisbane 2.
You want to repeat sydneys problems by adding small suburban clubs to brisbane?
And you want to repeat Super Leagues problems by putting clubs in cities that don't give a damn about rugby league.
And money.
There's over 400k people in Moreton Bay and that number will rise over the next 30 years. They could become a team for Moreton Bay and Sunshine Coast, which will have close to a million between them in 15 or so years from now.
Manlys got money. What it doesn’t have is sustainable income from its football operations, much like a outer suburb brisbane team would suffer.
that’s like saying north Sydney has 1 million people plus gosford as well so manly are fine, reality is they aren’t supporting manly so why would someone not from redcliffe support Redcliffe? Sunshine Coast is similiar distance from Redcliffe as gosford is from manly!
They can split games between Dolphin Oval and Sunshine Coast Stadium.
They can but manly could split games between brookvale and cc stadium, but neither will with only 11-12 home games a Year.
Everything seems to have gone quiet on the expansion front.. understandable, given the number of headaches with relocating the whole competition (and the bubble rules).
There is a difference between Dolphins and Sea Eagles.
Spot on. The team has to train somewhere. It just happens to be in Redcliffe. The problem with RL in Sydney is not where the clubs are located - they are actually spread out reasonable well - it is simply that there are not enough RL fans for 9.5 teams. Brisbane won’t have that problem with two (or three) teams.
Nine teams is too many for Sydney. There's just not enough commercial opportunities for nine teams in a city of 5 million and just 3 FTA games on Ch9.
There're at least two massive gaps in the coverage of Sydney, Northern Sydney and Macarthur/South West, and that is un-f**king-forgivable in a competition with 9 teams in the one city and with other smaller regions within the city that have multiple teams.
So if Manly changed their name to Sydney everybody would just forget their history and they'd siphon a bunch of support off of the other Sydney clubs? Because that's what you are suggesting will happen if the Dolphins change their name to Brisbane/whatever, and it's just as delusional in both cases.
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