NRL and its clubs are expected to palm-off expansion until 2014 or 2015

[blukablu]

Bring on Super League 2 with the 7 bid teams and a few breakaways (Melbourne and 2 Sydney teams would do it)!!!! Perhaps thats why News is holding out?????!!!!!

Too bad the Bears wouldn't even get into that competition. They'd probably prefer Adelaide over them.

 

[Sgt. Kabukiman]

And do you seriously think a National Park is going to stop progress, let alone a country struggling with the lack of affordable housing and a population that looks set to double in the next 40 years? The trees will go first.

Yes, National Parks are protected by legislation and won't be going anywhere, no matter how many people a report in the paper told you Australia will have.

I made a mistake. So what.

Still a virgin huh?

You can come up with something better than that. Try harder.

 

[Raiderdave]

Firstly....
Gallop said its " HIS " preference for expansion not to take place til 2015
he also said it may come in Earlier .. why ?, cos its not his decision to make
he will have a big say of course ... but ultimately it will be the new commission making the final call

I say push ahead for 2013
lets not have our balls shrink at this very important time in the codes history
Perth & West Brisbane ... both for 2013.

 

[Plutonium]

I say push ahead for 2013
lets not have our balls shrink at this very important time in the codes history
Perth & West Brisbane ... both for 2013

If expansion in 2013 were to go ahead the announcement would have to be imminent. It’s already mid 2011 gives any new side 21 months before their first NRL match.

I believe the AFL/A-league gave their expansion sides approx that amount of time (if not more).

 

[Goddo]

Yeah 2013 has sailed. The delays to the commission make it near impossible now.

As has been said by Gallop, expansion teams and their locations will play a role in TV rights negotiations, which should be finalised by mid 2012 at the latest. So an anouncement on expansion will come probably between October 2011 and March 2012. That leaves plenty of time for 2014.

 

[adamkungl]

Accept it - the NRL needs a national footprint to maintain revenue streams and to continue to grow the game of Rugby League, in the interests of all. Put asside your club bias for just a second and you will see.

Excellent...Perth and CC it is.

 

[carlosthedwarf]

Excellent...Perth and CC it is.

Not having a new QLD team in the new expansion would be a waste of time and opportunity.

 

[Beowulf]

^ what, you actually want to go through super league again because your team is likely to miss out? Geez, talk about hissy fit.

The NRL is a franchise model competition. Do you truely apreaciate what that means?

The NRL has to carefully groom the competition to have teams in places that add revenue to the competition, because there is only a finite amount of resources to go around.

These growing pains are a result of a regional comp evolving into a state comp, East Coast comp, and now pushing national comp. In a franchise model not everyone gets to step up to the next level.

Even in promotion/relegation comps, you find the large wealthier population centres are concistently at the top. But we need a franchise structure because we have lucrative yet hostile markets we must be present in.

Accept it - the NRL needs a national footprint to maintain revenue streams and to continue to grow the game of Rugby League, in the interests of all. Put asside your club bias for just a second and you will see.

Stop taking yourself so seriously and trying to be the moderator of expansion debates. It was a joke. CC Bears plus another (who cares?) in 2013 or 2014 IMO.

 

[M2D2]

I cant be the only one who read that article and see the agenda of pushing the 2nd brisbane team.
They must have hired a GREAT PR guy.

 

[Spanner in the works]

Yes, National Parks are protected by legislation and won't be going anywhere, no matter how many people a report in the paper told you Australia will have.

You can come up with something better than that. Try harder.

You have your view and I have mine.

 

[Sgt. Kabukiman]

You have your view and I have mine.

It's not my view, it's fact - our National Parks aren't going anywhere and the Central Coast will never become part of Sydney. You were wrong.

 

[Spanner in the works]

It's not my view, it's fact - our National Parks aren't going anywhere and the Central Coast will never become part of Sydney. You were wrong.

Didn't they say that about Penrith?

 

[Quidgybo]

the Central Coast will never become part of Sydney.

Call it Sydney, NSW, Greater Sydney, or the Newscastle - Wollongong corridor. We all know exactly what that means in Rugby League terms. The real question is, while *that* area has 10 existing franchises should any new franchise be granted there at the expense of any desirable and qualified candidates from outside that area? Surely we don't need an atlas and a measuring stick to understand that question in the context of Australia and New Zealand's highest club competition, the NRL?

Leigh

 

[BuffaloRules]

Bring on Super League 2 with the 7 bid teams and a few breakaways (Melbourne and 2 Sydney teams would do it)!!!! Perhaps thats why News is holding out?????!!!!!

What a grub!

 

[flippikat]

Call it Sydney, NSW, Greater Sydney, or the Newscastle - Wollongong corridor. We all know exactly what that means in Rugby League terms. The real question is, while *that* area has 10 existing franchises should any new franchise be granted there at the expense of any desirable and qualified candidates from outside that area? Surely we don't need an atlas and a measuring stick to understand that question in the context of Australia and New Zealand's highest club competition, the NRL?

Leigh

Spot on.

We're talking about the premier Rugby League competition of the Southern Hemisphere here - and ultimately that competition needs to be somewhere between the AFL (Australian wide - teams in all the major cities) and the Super Rugby (a reasonable representation for New Zealand, 2 perhaps 3 teams).

 

[Spanner in the works]

Spot on.

We're talking about the premier Rugby League competition of the Southern Hemisphere here - and ultimately that competition needs to be somewhere between the AFL (Australian wide - teams in all the major cities) and the Super Rugby (a reasonable representation for New Zealand, 2 perhaps 3 teams).

There is no reason why in 25-30 years time, we can't start seeing teams throughout Oceania. Fiji, PNG, Vanuatu, New Zealand, Samoa, Tonga etc etc could all have teams by then, or at least be in the process of bidding. Don't need to have one in all of them, but teams in Fiji, PNG, NZ are definitely viable if not now (NZ) then in the next ten years. As long as the Australian side of the competition is well covered, then they could certainly be an option.

 

[Teddyboy]

It shouldn't be about expansion but more about the relocation or kicking out of certain clubs.

 

[Teddyboy]

The future of the NRL is the youth of today/tomorrow and what the NRL should do is to give the boot to a few Sydney clubs be it by merge/relocation or extermination and place there sides in CC/Perth/QLD and NZ.It might f**k off the long suffering fan/die hard fan of clubs like the Sharks,Roosters or Penrith but any fans who will be lost to Rugby League like what happend with Super League will be replaced by the younger generation who just want the options to see hard tackling,free flowing game with tries involved and not f**king penalty shoot out's or blokes in tight shorts getting points for missing goals.

 

[Spanner in the works]

The future of the NRL is the youth of today/tomorrow and what the NRL should do is to give the boot to a few Sydney clubs be it by merge/relocation or extermination and place there sides in CC/Perth/QLD and NZ.It might f**k off the long suffering fan/die hard fan of clubs like the Sharks,Roosters or Penrith but any fans who will be lost to Rugby League like what happend with Super League will be replaced by the younger generation who just want the options to see hard tackling,free flowing game with tries involved and not f**king penalty shoot out's or blokes in tight shorts getting points for missing goals.

?????

The Roosters made the grand final last year. Hardly suffering. And you want to get rid of Penrith? I'm a Roosters fan, but of all the options you gave Penrith has to be the last to go - let alone in the entire comp!

 

[Teddyboy]

?????

The Roosters made the grand final last year. Hardly suffering. And you want to get rid of Penrith? I'm a Roosters fan, but of all the options you gave Penrith has to be the last to go - let alone in the entire comp!

No offence to Roosters and Penrith fans but with the Sydney clubs there are too many fat bastards fighting over the last piece of pie.