Id look to add one on 2023 and one in 2024/5 so you can at least get some revenue from the ninth game content.
Take baby steps and protect Titans: Legends on expansion debate
Baby steps should be taken with expansion, with one team added for 2023 and a second in 2028.
Do not foist a relocated team onto Brisbane or Perth, but they are the two cities where the next rugby league franchises should be planted.
Three former Test players who lived through the expansion and contraction that came around the Super League era – Mark Geyer (Western Reds), Ryan Girdler (Penrith Panthers) and Wendell Sailor (Brisbane Broncos) - felt there was enough player depth to sustain another one or two NRL teams.
All three want the Gold Coast Titans to stay and not be squeezed out to create a second Brisbane team.
Geyer said: "I'm a fan of expansion. But I want to see a team in Perth. I want to see another team somewhere else.
"I actually want us to get to 20 teams and play just one round each season – you could probably do that with 18 teams as well, maybe two conferences.
"It will never happen but we're getting more like NFL every day. The game is slowing down like NFL and they only play 17 weeks a year and every game is an event.
"We don't have to do it all in this broadcast deal for 2023. We'll have another deal in just eight years time.
"We need to go to WA (Western Australia) because if we really want to be a national competition – and we say we are – then let's be national, because we're not at the moment.
"We should be called the Eastern Seaboard League – ESL not NRL."
https://www.nrl.com/news/2020/03/08/dont-touch-titans-legends-weigh-in-on-an-expansion/
