calling them a regional name like Moreton bay will put people who are 20-30mins in a 360 degree radius of the stadium off for sure. The dolphin brand is great and might help but why would you alienate any potential fan in that arc?
according to google it’s a 60min plus trip by public transport, and that doesn’t include getting from your house to the train, if you wanted to get to a Friday night game for 7.30pm, can only imagine Friday night traffic means the drive wouldn’t be much quicker by prime you’ve found parking near Suncorp.
https://www.google.com.au/maps/dir/...5e1!5e2!5e3!6e0!7e2!8j1617989400!3e3?hl=en-au
Hey bro how do you know where i live, ...im actually 50 mins away from Suncorp...
If you mean its 60min train travel from Redcliffe station to Milton, then it probably is, and might even have free community buses from the leagues club from moreton to suncorp, as many clubs in sydney have away buses in the same city, from their leagues club, panthers do...
but that's only for the redcliffe living fan, which if im a cowboys fan living in cairns, i travel!!!
Being the 2nd Brisbane based side either Dolphins or Jets will have this 40 min distance issue, and its better for the league to pick one of these, coz if it works then it can be done again from the other direction a decade later. By then Dolphins would have upgraded their stadium or play more in Sunny Coast (ala St.Merge style 1/2n1/2)
and Brisbane Jets from Ipswich enter as Suncorps new tennant, then after that if Springfield gets a 25k seater stadium, they"ll move there and Easts get the nod the following expansion to become brisbanes second team... by then population increase might require a 4th Brisbane team or the Bronx 11th wooden spoon will get boring enough that expansion would improve ratings in the area.
If you start with Easts before the other two, its finished you wont draw fans from greater SEQ as far as Moreton or Ipswich if its strictly a inner city team of Redlands this way you are creating rusted on fans from under a hour away from Suncorp to watch overtime as the teams create and grow themselves via stadiums and moving closer to their respective communities of where they train 7 days a week