Major expansion U-turn is needed

[MugaB]

And yet here you are responding all the time, and offering nothing.

Mirror pal

 

[Maximus]

As a business, are you going to turn down govt money, please grow up

You guys keep saying the NRL isn't getting any money. Try sticking to a consistent argument.

 

[MugaB]

You guys keep saying the NRL isn't getting any money. Try sticking to a consistent argument.

You guys??? There's a theme with you, it's all them and us... anyone who doesn't agree with me is a them to you

 

[The Great Dane]

I agree with the premise of this thread. I think PNG is a mistake but I'll wait and see more details.

However, if it did proceed, I don't think it'd be a hot button election issue. That money is going to PNG with or without an NRL side. It is PNG that are wanting some of it spent on an NRL team which they hope to tie to social issues. Who are Victorians to tell PNG how to spend their aid money?

How's that theory worked out for stadium spending or public investment into private facilities for multimillion dollar professional sports clubs. . . I mean all that money is just going to be spent on infrastructure anyway right...

Let's put it this way; the LNP would have to be the most incompetent opposition party in the world to miss the opportunity to take advantage of the ruling party choosing to spend hundreds of millions of dollars propping up a professional sports team in another country during the worst cost of living and housing crisis in generations.

BTW, corruption aside, most foreign aid money is sent for a specific purpose and Australia already invests hundreds of millions of dollars into PNG. They'd simply use that money to fund an NRL side if it was just a question of being able to spend foreign aid how they wish.

 

[The Great Dane]

Agreed, completely devastating for the people of South Africa and my sympathy goes to them.

In other news... f**k Union and high-five that one of their strongest nations are collateral damage in all of this.

You say that, but who knows how South Africa's societal issues will impact RU going forward.

So far their struggles have benefited RU as they've both been used as a political tool and benefited from corruption that has seen increased investment into their sport. One area where they've seen huge investment is government backed programs to increase participation rates in the black and coloured (their terms not mine) communities to then funnel them into the Springboks.

I see no reason why the ANC, or any other potential government in the future, would cease those programs. After all they need bread and circuses to distract from the real issues facing the country as much as possible.

 

[Brian potter]

Yet more evidence if it was ever needed that NZ2 can’t come soon enough.



lucky if there’s 3k inside Eden Park for a top of the table super rugby clash.

 

[blue bags]

Southern orcas
Pasifika Grizzlies Bear's
Brisbane Bengals
And Brisbane Seahawks
Then NZ 2
That's 22 teams

 

[Get Rid of The Donkeys]

Yet more evidence if it was ever needed that NZ2 can’t come soon enough.



lucky if there’s 3k inside Eden Park for a top of the table super rugby clash.

NZ2
Bris3
NZ3

That's my preference.

 

[Centy Coast]

Yet more evidence if it was ever needed that NZ2 can’t come soon enough.



lucky if there’s 3k inside Eden Park for a top of the table super rugby clash.

Wow, that Stadium is virtually empty

 

[Brian potter]

Wow, that Stadium is virtually empty

Especially for a team in 2nd place.

 

[Vlad59]

You're the miserable merkin who cries every time I or others post something that you don't agree with.

Negative as always. Every thread. Absolutely negative.

 

[final say]

Negative as always. Every thread. Absolutely negative.

It's called a troll mate.

 

[Brian potter]

NZ2
Bris3
NZ3

That's my preference.

I’ll settle for just NZ2 in the short-term.

 

[Brian potter]

Wow, that Stadium is virtually empty

Even more incredible was that the blues were 2nd and brumbies 3rd going into the game.

probably the game of the round. lol!!

 

[blue bags]

Okay. Fast track NZ TWO
Who's the backers ?

 

[Brian potter]

Okay. Fast track NZ TWO
Who's the backers ?

Both bids need to come together you’d have to think.

 

[MugaB]

Both bids need to come together you’d have to think.

Yes this, just like they did in Brisbane last expansion

 

[Brian potter]

Yes this, just like they did in Brisbane last expansion

But with the desired end result unlike the Firehawks.

 

[Brian potter]

Southern orcas
Pasifika Grizzlies Bear's
Brisbane Bengals
And Brisbane Seahawks
Then NZ 2
That's 22 teams

Aren’t the southern orcas a NZ based team?

 

[MugaB]

But with the desired end result unlike the Firehawks.

You mean the Jets/Bombers