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They'd go close to winning it if the whole season was over there.
And whose going to pay for it?
There're ways of acknowledging the Warriors sacrifice without forcibly negatively impacting the the Australian clubs.
The NRL HQ could offset some funds per club that takes a home game to NZ, as l0ng as it isnt in Auckland, there are lots of towns that could host 12 away warriors games, Christchurch could have 3-4 alone, wellington also, hamilton, Dunedin, etc could take 1-2, they could even hold magic round in Auckland, and make sure warriors are the away side there too, would be good timing also during the women's soccer world cup, where bronx, dolphins and titans might be affected in that period
Clubs expect $300-500k to lose home games. That’s $3.5-6mill the nrl would have to stump up plus travel and accomodation costs unless they could get NZ cities to chip in. There’s only mt smart and christchurch available during the WC.
And that doesn't even account for the fact that most clubs are contractually obliged to play X amount of games at X stadium. Each one would have to seek permission to break those contracts, and most would probably incur penalties for doing so.
Which just shows how shit the Sydney clubs are for not winning it every year, despite having to travel the least during the season with a guaranteed grand final in Sydney, hey?
If every Australian club took their home games against the Warriors to NZ then the 6pm Friday game wouldn't be such a drain on gate receipts. Clubs could go from drawing 10k fans to 15k if done right.
But they’d lose money on value of memberships, corporate sales and in all likelihood ticket sales, plus as mentioned contract agreements with smc’s. It’s a non starter other than maybe moving the games impacted by the WWC to mt smart and/or Christchurch.
Its only asking one home game from 12 teams, not everyone will need to do it, if anything they'd be a few clubs who'd welcome it, penrith will be at bankwest next year, i don't see them wanting to use that stadium for all their home games, theyll be one in Bathurst, they could take one to NZ, then there's plenty of other clubs that would welcome it, manly and wests have previously taken home games NZ, im sure there's others, and as i said before the QLD teams during the world cup will have to play somewhere
Teams whom are in a position to take a game to NZ on such short notice are the exception to the rule.
Even then if somewhere else is offering better deals to host a games the club's are going to take those deals over taking those games to NZ most of the time.
as it should be, they are businesses not charities!
I'm not disagreeing mate.
