NRL rebellion: Rugby league clubs want CEO Dave Smith gone or threaten to leave comp

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so how are they going to chose which one is linked to the local platinum league side??? a lot of players who expected to live in sydney are going to have to move on and off to some tinpot town in country nsw and be away from their families - i'm sure they'd love that! why not just have the nsw cup where each nsw nrl team has their own nsw cup team, and teams like coffs harbor, dubbo, christchurch, etc. can be added??? you could have the same thing for under 20s, under 18s, under 16s

It already happens in the Qld Cup, it is not a big deal and dual registered players are FIFO for games when not required by first grade. Melbourne has an affiliate in Brisbane and another on the Sunshine Coast, the latter of who nearly linked with the Bulldogs and were originally Manly's feeder club.

They don't want a reserve grade because they are trying to decouple development from the clubs, in part because clubs don't want to fund a second side. It also allows for a greater reach of second tier and gives it its own identity.

 

[bad boy bubby]

If they are going to combine a certain areas ie: Cronulla/St. George/ Canterbury and Souths/Easts/Balmain, Surely they will align the areas with the club who have the most juniors.
In these cases it's quite easy, Cronulla and Souths have far more superior competitions than the others.
Besides, St. George will get the Illawarra.
Kungl hit it on the head, the NRL clubs are being "franchised", taking away their local associations and opening up for possible relocations.

 

[siv]

If we are going to revert to a state based RG U20 U18 U16

Then teams like Fiji Warriors and Perth and WSyd Academy and SW Syd Acadamy have no place in the new structure

Same goes for Melbourne in QLD

Victoria NZ and WA will now need to develop their own state based competitions

The blueprint doesnt deal with that situation very well

And why consider SOO as test matches ??? Dumb dumb dumb

 

[East Coast Tiger]

Weak as piss.

All the spin in the world can't hide how shit this admin is.

 

[Diesel]

If we are going to revert to a state based RG U20 U18 U16

Then teams like Fiji Warriors and Perth and WSyd Academy and SW Syd Acadamy have no place in the new structure

Same goes for Melbourne in QLD

Victoria NZ and WA will now need to develop their own state based competitions

The blueprint doesnt deal with that situation very well

And why consider SOO as test matches ??? Dumb dumb dumb

Nothing positive has really changed. Sydney's powerful clubs don't have to pay for development, SOO gets elevated to test level, exisiting clubs don't need to share the pie with new expansion teams, over 100 years of history for exisiting NSW clubs are potentially going and most people here think this is a poor result

 

[Perth Red]

:lol:Lol, Smith from day dot never supported expansion, to the point of being refered to in the media as 'anti-expansion'. He always maintained that the current clubs were the priority. There's an interview by Mark Scott on YouTube after Smith's first year saying as much. However there's absolutely no evidence to suggest he ever supported expansion.

Nice conspiracy theory though!

When he came into the job
Smith: Fundamentally, it is a growth agenda. We've made it clear we really have to get our house in order with the existing competition and clubs by the end of 2014. We need to think carefully about where expansion takes place and where the stadium strategy comes in. The growth of population in western Sydney.

My view is 10 years down the track. We'll have a national footprint, a stronger national competition. I'm not sure if that will be one competition or more than one. The game matters to all Australians and it doesn't have to be as eastern seaboard-focused in the longer term.

Rothfield: Sounds like you want teams in Adelaide and Perth?

Smith: Without being specific, the game needs a national footprint. With the great passion and tribalism, you can take the game wider.

As recent as Feb this year:

Meanwhile, Smith said one of Richardson’s first jobs was to investigate the possibilities for expansion. Asked if he expected a decision to be ready by the end of the year, Smith said: “Absolutely, it is a key question and it feeds into broadcast rights.

“But more importantly it feeds into keeping the momentum and progress that we have seen across the game.”

 

[El Diablo]

stop trolling every thread with the same shit

 

[siv]

Is there any supporting detail to the blueprint strategy paper ?

 

[franklin2323]

Well, now that the ARLC is putting $100m into it each year, maybe they should chanel that cash back into the club and stop bitching about how broke they are...

um we never bitch about being broke because we aren't Warren Wilson fixed that

 

[Captain Apollo]

As I suspected, the NRL Players Association have issues with some of the stuff in Richo's proposal raised. The magic words "restraint of trade" were used - http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/...ixed-response-from-clubs-20151215-glocp2.html

The relevant part, from the above article, I'll quote below -

New RLPA chief executive Ian Prendergast expressed concerns about the potential of "restraints on players' trade".

"It's important we're included in a meaningful way and our views are given appropriate weight," Prendergast said. "When you're talking about putting limits on an age a player can sign a contract and play in the competition and a cap on what they can get paid….they need to be correctly bargained for."

 

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When he came into the job
Smith: Fundamentally, it is a growth agenda. We've made it clear we really have to get our house in order with the existing competition and clubs by the end of 2014. We need to think carefully about where expansion takes place and where the stadium strategy comes in. The growth of population in western Sydney.

My view is 10 years down the track. We'll have a national footprint, a stronger national competition. I'm not sure if that will be one competition or more than one. The game matters to all Australians and it doesn't have to be as eastern seaboard-focused in the longer term.

Rothfield: Sounds like you want teams in Adelaide and Perth?

Smith: Without being specific, the game needs a national footprint. With the great passion and tribalism, you can take the game wider.

As recent as Feb this year:

Meanwhile, Smith said one of Richardson?s first jobs was to investigate the possibilities for expansion. Asked if he expected a decision to be ready by the end of the year, Smith said: ?Absolutely, it is a key question and it feeds into broadcast rights.

?But more importantly it feeds into keeping the momentum and progress that we have seen across the game.?

where does it say he wants to add new teams?

He said clubs were the priority when he first came in and by his third year the NRL owned 2.5 of them and bailed out a fourth, safe to say they weren't 'in order by the end of 2014'.

 

[adamkungl]

Best part of this is that it's only a discussion paper and will be torn to bits by the clubs by March.

 

[Perth Red]

where does it say he wants to add new teams?

He said clubs were the priority when he first came in and by his third year the NRL owned 2.5 of them and bailed out a fourth, safe to say they weren't 'in order by the end of 2014'.

He said he had a vision for a national competition. If that is new clubs or relocation is irrelevant, the Richo plan has nothing in it so far about how this goal of a national competition will be reached.

 

[TheDalek079]

Having a team based in Perth would be a mistake. Happy that they're focussing on NSW first

 

[siv]

He said he had a vision for a national competition. If that is new clubs or relocation is irrelevant, the Richo plan has nothing in it so far about how this goal of a national competition will be reached.

Agree cant see how Perth SA NT Victoria or Tasmania RL are going to benefit

Seems to be more interested in Fiji

 

[LeagueXIII]

Why couldn't we have a Perth team in the nrl and Adelaide, NT etc in the second tier

 

[Perth Red]

Having a team based in Perth would be a mistake. Happy that they're focussing on NSW first

Agree, the NRL are clearly not mature Enough yet to run a national competition and all that entails. Hopefully one day they will catch up with other codes but for now better they stay a big fish in a small ponds and concentre on nsw lol.

 

[gallagher]

how is it that soccer, rugby union, netball, women's soccer, women's big bash and other poorly funded competitions are national but the NRL isn't?

 

[Perth Red]

Don't forget the mighty sports of baseball, water polo and hockey who all manage to have a Perth team in their national comp lol. In fact every prof sport has a team in Perth except one. I'll let you guess who the one is! As I said better they stay where they are until they get people in charge who have the ability to take our game to where it could be.

 

[gallagher]

People in Perth arnt gonna continue to shell out $40 a ticket to watch teams they dont follow year after year if there isnt the prospect of getting their own team. Ive gone to every game including trails over the last 11 years or so but I;ll be buggered if I'm paying money to watch manly v warriors.