Official: Redcliffe Dolphins to join NRL in 2023

[axe&smash&crush]

They better have a geographical name, just “dolphins” is bogus.

Happy with redcliffe, happy with SQ, happy with sunshine state, just give em a bloody name

 

[The Axe of Druss]

Wonder who their Qld Cup feeder teams will be?

Ideally they should pick up SC and Norths

However all the press is saying they will continue to run with a Redcliffe QCup team

 

[yadamisha]

Also I think you’ll find the majority of the dolphins support will come from the Moreton bay/sunshine coast area.
It’s a long way from Suncorp stadium so I expect poor crowds at Suncorp and a gradual shift back to playing home games away from there.

I agree with this.

 

[Sunny coast shark]

A

Yeah if that happens it will be good for you but it will be a failure of an exercise and the club will be more like the Titans level than the Broncos level.

agreed but if done right it could be bigger than that and be more like a Canberra or Newcastle.
There will be over 1.1 million people in the Moreton bay/Sunshine Coast area within a decade.
Certainly large enough to have a successful NRL side, news corp were never going allow anyone to lessen the broncos influence.

 

[Sunny coast shark]

B

Exactly what the NRL doesn't need lol

But what News Corp did

 

[Sunny coast shark]

S

Ideally they should pick up SC and Norths

However all the press is saying they will continue to run with a Redcliffe QCup team

Sunshine coast just signed a new deal with Melbourne.

 

[ReddFelon]

Ideally they should pick up SC and Norths

However all the press is saying they will continue to run with a Redcliffe QCup team

I believe they're keeping the Redcliffe stand alone team, as well as a link up with CQ.

 

[dogslife]

They better have a geographical name, just “dolphins” is bogus.

Happy with redcliffe, happy with SQ, happy with sunshine state, just give em a bloody name

Given its geographical location, the Deliverance Dolphins has a nice ring to it

 

[DIEHARDTITAN]

I'll definitely be buying a membership to support them. Especially against the Broncos. I'm a northside boy and worked in Redcliffe at one stage,

As for names, I think The Dolphins is indeed a placeholder.

Moreton Bay Dolphins would have to be the fav. Brisbane for the factor that it'll piss off the Broncos and plug into the Olympics. Sunshine State could grow on me.

 

[jershschnerf]

Sunshine State could grow on me.

It has that effect. Wasn't a fan at all the first time I heard "Sunshine State Dolphins" but now I kinda love it.

 

[marshall stalin]

I suppose by not having a locality name they can be sold and moved to anywhere in Australia

 

[blaza88z]

Sunshine State is basically saying "Queensland Dolphins", the Sunshine State is the phrase used to reference the entire state of QLD

Not sure how I feel about that

 

[some11]

I suppose by not having a locality name they can be sold and moved to anywhere in Australia

Another dumb post.

 

[Loose Cannon]

Sunshine State is basically saying "Queensland Dolphins", the Sunshine State is the phrase used to reference the entire state of QLD

Not sure how I feel about that

It’s Bullsh*t

 

[AlwaysGreen]

Bowraville Dolphins, pretty sure that's in Queensland

 

[MugaB]

Ideally they should pick up SC and Norths

However all the press is saying they will continue to run with a Redcliffe QCup team

Or all three

 

[DIEHARDTITAN]

It's true that Sunshine State = Queensland. You can't say that North Queensland is devoid of sunshine.

I think it's smart to leave off a name for now because it gets people thinking and talking about it. The name will come.

 

[Jamberoo]

and misses out on money from what a ninth game content could have brought in. It was a super conservative and safe move by the NRL, what you'd expect really.

Not really. One team adds 12 games. Two teams adds 24 games so same, same.

 

[MugaB]

DrinKSSSSSSS?

It's uncanny how much he sounds like Frank Woodley when he says it.

Here you go, i made one for you incase you ever need a, HEY ARTHUR, GET SOME DRINKS FROM THE LOCAL moment

 

[MugaB]

It's true that Sunshine State = Queensland. You can't say that North Queensland is devoid of sunshine.

I think it's smart to leave off a name for now because it gets people thinking and talking about it. The name will come.

Yeah but when does North QLD stop being north, where's this vague borderline where its starts, at least Sunshine State Dolphins has Queensland as a whole to represent, almost like the New Zealand Warriors or Wests Tigers, like where is Wests?