NRL's growth mindset points to 18th team. And it ain't Perth.

[The Great Dane]

I agree with you hence why I said it is a low reward option. Your post should be directed at Siv who is the person advocating for such an option.

It is directed a Siv... Just not directly.

 

[siv]

Newcastle Knights would be impacted the most by a team on the Central Coast. @T-Boon has the right idea about Newcastle expanding their footprint to include the Central Coast.

Central Coast formally divorced itself of Newcastle & Hunter regions the other week

Newcastle has plenty of room up to the Coffs and out to Armidale

 

[siv]

Haha it doesn’t take a day by car. It’s about an hour or so

Closer to go from Manly to Bondi

But we choose to accept the natural Sydney harbour as a barrier

But not accept a bigger harbour and 3 major national parks as a barrier even though bush fire sesson can isolate

 

[Colk]

Central Coast formally divorced itself of Newcastle & Hunter regions the other week

Newcastle has plenty of room up to the Coffs and out to Armidale

Yeah Newcastle and Hunter is separated from the Central Coast but it’s obviously much closer there than it is to Taree and Coffs. There is nothing stopping the Knights from targeting some areas of the Central Coast at the very least.

 

[Colk]

Closer to go from Manly to Bondi

But we choose to accept the natural Sydney harbour as a barrier

But not accept a bigger harbour and 3 major national parks as a barrier even though bush fire sesson can isolate

Manly has the need to expand. So too the Roosters. It makes more sense to do that then to I don’t know put another team in that area

 

[Get Rid of The Donkeys]

Central Coast formally divorced itself of Newcastle & Hunter regions the other week

Newcastle has plenty of room up to the Coffs and out to Armidale

How many businesses and people are there up to Coffs Harbour and Armidale?

 

[Wb1234]

Central coast isn’t part of Sydney

it’s not even that close to Sydney

it’s a similar distance to the gong

they also had John singleton once as a backer

it’s not as much of a long shot as people say

manly is geographically isolated on their peninsula

 

[Colk]

Central coast isn’t part of Sydney

it’s not even that close to Sydney

it’s a similar distance to the gong

they also had John singleton once as a backer

it’s not as much of a long shot as people say

manly is geographically isolated on their peninsula

It’s close enough. If the circumstances were different and you had teams everywhere you should have and there were only 4 or 5 Sydney sides then yeah it wouldn’t be the worst option. But we are not in that reality. If the League chose that option, you would give up on the game.

Anyway, if the population grew exponentially then you would just make one of the Sydney teams move there instead.

 

[Canard]

Cowboys took a decade to come good. Their 1995 squad was woeful and they finished the season with just two wins. Their main recruits were Martin Bella and a Welsh RL/RU player called Gareth Jenkins. Their halfback Laurie Spina came out of retirement.

Crushers were a basket case. One of their main signings was an RU player called Garrick Morgan. He turned out to be a dud. They also tried to snare Jason Little from RU. They picked up a few reserve grade players from the Broncos, plus Mark Hohn, Trevor Gillmeister and Mario Fenech.

Reds went alright on the field but never were a contender.

Warriors struggled until 2001.

The Cowboys star recruit was Jonathan Davies, who played a total of 9 games. Not sure where you brain farted that other random name from.

4 teams in one go was a bad idea, it should have been 2 then a season or so later another 2.

 

[MugaB]

The Cowboys star recruit was Jonathan Davies, who played a total of 9 games. Not sure where you brain farted that other random name from.

4 teams in one go was a bad idea, it should have been 2 then a season or so later another 2.

Generally thats how it was done back when parra and manly started, then 20 yers later penrith and cronulla, then again with canberra and illawarra

 

[Colk]

Generally thats how it was done back when parra and manly started, then 20 yers later penrith and cronulla, then again with canberra and illawarra

Either that or if spread it over two years. So you announce that you are going to 18 teams 3-4 years from their introduction. You add one team the first year and the next team the year after. Either way, it was a shame they did it that way because if they did it properly those 4 teams would still likely be here

 

[siv]

Manly has the need to expand. So too the Roosters. It makes more sense to do that then to I don’t know put another team in that area

Roosters have nowhere to expand

They are the prime team for relocation to Adelaide

 

[Colk]

Roosters have nowhere to expand

They are the prime team for relocation to Adelaide

That would be great although I don’t think that it will ever happen

 

[titoelcolombiano]

Nah, Roosters are one of the most solid financial clubs in the game and are important strategically too. We need the 'silvertail' clubs of the eastern and northern suburbs to appeal to different demographics

 

[mongoose]

Nah, Roosters are one of the most solid financial clubs in the game and are important strategically too. We need the 'silvertail' clubs of the eastern and northern suburbs to appeal to different demographics

i don't like the Roosters but having an NRL club in the wealthiest part of the whole country is a nice bit of irony and reminds the other codes who was there first.

 

[MugaB]

i don't like the Roosters but having an NRL club in the wealthiest part of the whole country is a nice bit of irony and reminds the other codes who was there first.

I hope canberra, souffs and brisbane win all their remaining games, and rooster get beat by storm on friday, .... heres hoping

 

[Get Rid of The Donkeys]

Central coast isn’t part of Sydney

it’s not even that close to Sydney

it’s a similar distance to the gong

they also had John singleton once as a backer

it’s not as much of a long shot as people say

manly is geographically isolated on their peninsula

The biggest obstacle to the Central Coast getting a team is the nine clubs in Sydney and one in Newcastle. On the flip side, the rest of the country and New Zealand are under served.

There's no way the Central Coast can be given a team when Brisbane has been severely under served since 1988 with just one team for all bar three years, Adelaide and Perth had one each for just three years and New Zealand has only had one since 1995. It's one thing for NSWRL fans to be selfish enough to expect everyone else to miss out so they can retain nine teams in Sydney that are financially impotent, but putting one next to Sydney while arguing that no one else can have one because of lack of talent and money will cause fans to walk from the game.

 

[The Penguin #6.]

ideally all clubs form should ebb and flow like tides, over the course of about a decade (give or take).

I always figure that there`s 16 soon 17 clubs in the NRL therefore you should win a GF at least every 16 ( soon 17 ) years. This seems like a bloody long time between drinks but that`s what it would take for everyone to get their turn.
As a St. George supporter in the 70`s I was spoilt rotten for seeing my team on T.V on the big day, not so good in the eighties but I still consider the 90`s a success despite going 0 out of 4 in that decade.

 

[titoelcolombiano]

i don't like the Roosters but having an NRL club in the wealthiest part of the whole country is a nice bit of irony and reminds the other codes who was there first.

Completely agree and let's face it, the Roosters with their money and salary sombrero etc. are playing up to the local demographic. That and the fact that they have a shiny new palace to play out of, can only increase that image of being the club for the wealthy

 

[The Penguin #6.]

i don't like the Roosters but having an NRL club in the wealthiest part of the whole country is a nice bit of irony and reminds the other codes who was there first.

Completely agree and let's face it, the Roosters with their money and salary sombrero etc. are playing up to the local demographic. That and the fact that they have a shiny new palace to play out of, can only increase that image of being the club for the wealthy

Yes who can forget after the success of the Tina Turner promotion and League was on a high how the Roosters with blokes like Luke Ricketson appeared with a different model girl friend every other week on his arm often featured in the social pages of the Sunday papers.
I think at that stage we were the closest to what fumbleball have where if you were forced to follow League because people talked about it at work, you could always follow the Roosters as the safe and respectable option.