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Oh no..... think of all the WA punters
I remember that quote too, although not sure it was PR who said it... might have been that Alt
Lol with the problems crown are having I very much doubt it!
doesn't change the fact there are 9 clubs just down the road and 1 just up....
I put Reflector on Ignore aged ago. He's boring and doesn't have a clue. The bloke thinks the world begins and ends in NSW and wants to revert back to the old days. He doesn't understand basic economics or the fact RL is no longer semi-professional.
If Perth get in it will be down to them presenting a strong business case after 12 or so years of lobbying for a team and V'landys having the sense to do what other administrators were too gutless to do. V'landys is the best leader we've ever had.
Which will make life tougher for the strugglers from Sydney who cannot generate enough money from sponsorship and corporate hospitality to compete with the big boys. They'll jump and and down and demand they get more funding from the ARLC to cover the shortfall. We're seeing it right now. It'll lead to the death of the game at the community level. Other sports, particularly fumbleball and RU, will fill this void, especially in the country.
After costing the game hundreds of millions of $’s? That’s a big call!
I couldn't care less about the money he cost us. It would have been squandered on greedy players and clubs while the game withers away and dies at the grassroots level. Under Greenberg, Smith and Grant the money was spent on greedy clubs, most of whom don't belong in a national competition. Thanks to those idiots granting so much money to pissant clubs with few fans in Sydney we're now stuck with them.
That’s incorrect and somewhat unfair
They f**ked the Queensland Cup and didn't expand the NRL. It is thanks to them that we're stuck with small Sydney clubs and will never be able to truly expand to become a national sport.
Didn’t Vlandys fight to keep Cronulla in? He’s Upped the club grant to the point even the smallest club is now profitable and safe? And also picked a far north brisbane team when they city really needed a south city brisbane club? you watch him put the fifo bear into Perth next.
V'landys has made some f**k ups, including the ones you mentioned.
And the state leagues with their veto rights
Who says we ever needed a "south Brisbane city" team??? You sound petulant coz the best bid out of the 3 one, again for the dolts out there the firehawks would have cannibalized both SEQ teams, and were run by arrogant morons... watch shane richo and his brother fumble thru their bid launch
best bid for news ltd. not for Brisbane or the game maybe?
His decisions in Brisbane have completely screwed the sport going forward to the point that it would have been better not to expand at all, and though it might please you, bringing a 'genuine' Perth club into comp will do little to nothing to compensate for those negative impacts.
Wtf do you know or care about brisbane, my family lives in marsden, the community there aren't either way fanatical regarding the bronx or the titans, yet they are stuck right between the two, the league heavyweights in QCup are mostly on the east and north of the city, thats Easts, Redcliffe, Norths and Wynnum.. the rest are making up numbers, and the bronx are exactly west of those 4 teams... souths has been a shambles since taking on the logan area, and ipswich might as well be Newcastle from syd, as they are so far out west... if you want people who are interested in RL, you plant a team in that area, northeastern brissy, aka redcliffe... easts shat the bed with their bid
