New Zealand 2 will deal a massive blow to NZ rugby

[Colk]

I'd rather live in Logan because the weather in Canberra is horrible.

Each to their own mate on the weather.

I much prefer NSW weather than the f****** humid heat you get. Summers would be awful there. The feeling of sweating profusely after walking five to ten minutes anywhere is not particularly pleasurable.

In any case, I would put up with most weather (obviously not Siberia or parts of the Middle East) for better financial and job security and less crime which Canberra has in comparison to Logan.

 

[mongoose]

Logan doesn't have "woke" f**kwits like Canberra.

Logan actually likes rugby league and produces quality players. One of them plays for your shit team.

Canberra has an Ikea though, you should like it.

You're an idiot for thinking Tweed Heads is separate to the Gold Coast and should be in the NSW cup, you've obviously never spent any time around the area. People literally walk across the border every day just to get coffee or go to the bank or run errands.

 

[Get Rid of The Donkeys]

ARU was definitely at its strongest with just the 3 SR sides the rebels are an example of what could have been for the Storm had they not had success.
A-League shows the importance of picking the right locations, the MacArthur and Western united expansions were strange decisions and seem to have negatively impacted both Sydney and Melbourne markets, the next round of Canberra and Auckland make more sense but Auckland has a high possibility of negatively effecting Wellington. NBL has been pretty cautious against expansion but has quite a few very good candidates almost ready to go if they pulled the trigger

The Storm model is unsustainable in the long-term. News Ltd created the club when they held a 50% stake in the NRL. John Ribot and Chris Johns were assigned to the club by News Ltd. It was propped up by News Ltd for 15 years. When News Ltd withdrew their stake in the NRL they made the ARLC provide another $25-30m to the Storm until 2018. Without News Ltd there wouldn't be a professional rugby league club in Melbourne. I have serious doubts over the Storm's viability when Craig Bellamy retires. Support will dwindle when the club becomes also-rans. Adding a team in Perth might exacerbate the Storm's inevitable decline.

Rugby union in Australia needs to consolidate. Expansion weakened the game severely in its heartland. It should look at fielding two teams in a New Zealand competition. Brisbane Reds and Sydney Waratahs.

 

[Canard]

News propped up the Broncos and Cowboys for years also.

No Australian based club is unsustainable with the NRL grant on offer now.

Can anyone explain why it's fine for 9 NSW based teams to recruit from QLD, but an unsustainable DISASTER if it's Melbourne?

 

[Get Rid of The Donkeys]

Each to their own mate on the weather.

I much prefer NSW weather than the f****** humid heat you get. Summers would be awful there. The feeling of sweating profusely after walking five to ten minutes anywhere is not particularly pleasurable.

In any case, I would put up with most weather (obviously not Siberia or parts of the Middle East) for better financial and job security and less crime which Canberra has in comparison to Logan.

The crime ravaged parts of Logan are west of the motorway in the suburbs with high rates of immigration. I wouldn't want to live there.

I live east of the freeway near Springwood. This region has everything from shopping centres to bus stations and a business district and beautiful parklands rich in native wildlife. The rural area about 30 minutes south has the best produce at a very affordable price. I wouldn't live anywhere else in the world.

 

[Get Rid of The Donkeys]

Canberra has an Ikea though, you should like it.

You're an idiot for thinking Tweed Heads is separate to the Gold Coast and should be in the NSW cup, you've obviously never spent any time around the area. People literally walk across the border every day just to get coffee or go to the bank or run errands.

Tweed Heads Seagulls were thinking of joining the NSW Cup a few years ago.

I've met people from Tweed Heads. Biggest bogans and racists in the world. They're about 50 years behind the Gold Coast at a cultural level.

 

[Canard]

This is just trolling by now

 

[mongoose]

Tweed Heads Seagulls were thinking of joining the NSW Cup a few years ago.

I've met people from Tweed Heads. Biggest bogans and racists in the world. They're about 50 years behind the Gold Coast at a cultural level.

you really need to stop generalising everyone based on where they live. There is Tweed Heads which is just a continuation of Coolangatta and there is Tweed Heads South, across the river, which is a bit of a dump, like Logan.

 

[Get Rid of The Donkeys]

Likewise the Warriors, ARL essentially ceased to exist in NZ in 97.
Can get why some see it as those 95 clubs (bar the crushers) as ‘disloyal’ but with the financial burdens placed on them they’d be crazy not to jump at the opportunity to remove those.

Crowds for the Warriors and Cowboys were strong in 97.

Perth and Townsville weren't ready for professional rugby league in 1995. The ARL should have waited until 2000 before admitting new teams. The TV deal between 93-00 was too small to support expansion. Packer was ruling the game off and it hurt many clubs. If Packer paid the game what it was worth then Super League never would have happened and we wouldn't have lost so many teams. Thankfully, Super League killed that TV deal and led to the formation of the NRL.

 

[The Great Dane]

I'd rather live in Logan because the weather in Canberra is horrible.

Tell me you’ve never spent time in Canberra without saying it lol.

The only part of Australia that genuinely experiences all four seasons, low humidity, relatively low precipitation on average, but not so low that you’re in drought. Warm in summer, cool in winter, and only a couple hours from both the sea and the snow.

The weather and atmosphere doesn’t get much better than autumn in Canberra and surrounding regions.

 

[Matua]

Surely it is time to close this thread.

It is a waste of space and like children bickering over nothing.

I think the opportune time was 562 pages ago.

 

[Maximus]

The Storm model is unsustainable in the long-term. News Ltd created the club when they held a 50% stake in the NRL. John Ribot and Chris Johns were assigned to the club by News Ltd. It was propped up by News Ltd for 15 years. When News Ltd withdrew their stake in the NRL they made the ARLC provide another $25-30m to the Storm until 2018. Without News Ltd there wouldn't be a professional rugby league club in Melbourne. I have serious doubts over the Storm's viability when Craig Bellamy retires. Support will dwindle when the club becomes also-rans. Adding a team in Perth might exacerbate the Storm's inevitable decline.

Rugby union in Australia needs to consolidate. Expansion weakened the game severely in its heartland. It should look at fielding two teams in a New Zealand competition. Brisbane Reds and Sydney Waratahs.

Given you have repeatedly stated that Melbourne is not valuable to News Ltd, why did News Ltd prop them up for so long?

 

[Maximus]

The crime ravaged parts of Logan are west of the motorway in the suburbs with high rates of immigration. I wouldn't want to live there.

This guy called other people racist by the way.

 

[Babyface O'reilly]

Tell me you’ve never spent time in Canberra without saying it lol.

The only part of Australia that genuinely experiences all four seasons, low humidity, relatively low precipitation on average, but not so low that you’re in drought. Warm in summer, cool in winter, and only a couple hours from both the sea and the snow.

The weather and atmosphere doesn’t get much better than autumn in Canberra and surrounding regions.

My experience of Canberra is f**king hot in summer and f**king freezing in winter

 

[Wb1234]

Tell me you’ve never spent time in Canberra without saying it lol.

The only part of Australia that genuinely experiences all four seasons, low humidity, relatively low precipitation on average, but not so low that you’re in drought. Warm in summer, cool in winter, and only a couple hours from both the sea and the snow.

The weather and atmosphere doesn’t get much better than autumn in Canberra and surrounding regions.

Cool in winter

it was 3 deg for a Sunday nrl game

My experience of Canberra is f**king hot in summer and f**king freezing in winter

Most humans would agree

 

[Babyface O'reilly]

Cool in winter

it was 3 deg for a Sunday nrl game

Most humans would agree

Wasn’t there a Raiders game played in the snow once?

 

[Wb1234]

Wasn’t there a Raiders game played in the snow once?

Vs tigers

 

[Get Rid of The Donkeys]

Given you have repeatedly stated that Melbourne is not valuable to News Ltd, why did News Ltd prop them up for so long?

Why was News Ltd so eager to hand them off onto some one else?

 

[Get Rid of The Donkeys]

Vs tigers

I remember that game. A kid threw a snowball at the Foxtel sideline reporter. It hit him in the head.

 

[Get Rid of The Donkeys]

Tell me you’ve never spent time in Canberra without saying it lol.

The only part of Australia that genuinely experiences all four seasons, low humidity, relatively low precipitation on average, but not so low that you’re in drought. Warm in summer, cool in winter, and only a couple hours from both the sea and the snow.

The weather and atmosphere doesn’t get much better than autumn in Canberra and surrounding regions.

It's freezing in Canberra during the winter and hot as f**k in the summer.

Your mate mongoose fled to Brisbane as a refugee because he got frost bite on his cl*t at Bruce Stadium. He thawed it out on a Gold Coast beach and got sand up his vag.