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Not so much the sharks number 1 ticket holder who just resigned from it lol
without sl war crushers would’ve been fine
You can blame Arthurson and Quayle for choosing Barry Maranta's bid ahead of Ron McAuliffe's out of fear and pettiness. Arthurson and Quayle were paranoid that a Brisbane NSWRL club operated by McAullife would have the same sort of success as the Queensland Origin team.
Crushers were broke before the 1995 season began. The club was based in the wrong location. Its headquarters were at Brothers' old stomping grounds in Grange, making it way too close to the Broncos at Red Hill. The BRL clubs based in that -- Wests, Valleys and Brothers -- went bust because they couldn't compete with the Broncos. Souths also struggled. Norths would have gone bust without assistance from the Storm in the 1990s.
They deemed Illawarra to be part of Sydney for criteria purposes
Mackay have a Queensland Cup team called the Cutters.
84 huh? So it was a slow burnYou can blame Arthurson and Quayle for choosing Barry Maranta's bid ahead of Ron McAuliffe's out of fear and pettiness. Arthurson and Quayle were paranoid that a Brisbane NSWRL club operated by McAullife would have the same sort of success as the Queensland Origin team.
Ironically, the Broncos ended up dominating on and off the field. Arthurson and Quayle f**ked with the Broncos every which way and favoured the Sydney clubs.
Ron McAuliffe introduced the idea of a 12 team Super League in 1984:
Titled "Super League a must " the October 4th 1984 edition of Rugby League Week featured an interview with then Queensland Rugby League chairman Ron McAuliffe. In the interview with Tony Durkin , Ron McAuliffe brought to light a proposal to expand the then NSWRL competition with several new teams. McAuliffe's plans were for what he described as a "Super League" with 12 clubs from across NSW and Queensland across two divisions, with a system of relegation and promotion."From my point of view, the thoughts are preliminary at this stage," he said."It has yet to be discussed with the NSW League and the ARL. But it will happen, I've no doubt about that." McAuliffe was also noncommittal about the number of teams which would take part in such a competition, but he thought 12 would be an ideal number. "But if there are 12, it won't necessarily mean eight from Sydney and four from Brisbane," he said."And it won't necessarily be one single club. The way I see it, there is going to be much ground sharing and club sharing in the future." He continued "In fact, I can foresee club amalgamations in both Brisbane and Sydney."Durkin, Tony (4 October 1984). "Super League 'a must' -McAuliffe". Rugby League Week. Bauer Media Group.Super League war - Wikipedia
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We certainly weren't, we were still falling into the post '92 abyss.
Brace yourselves....
Still a long bow to draw. I remember being really worried we were gone. The only thing in our favour was a strong junior base that we still hadn't worked out how to utilise. I think we were also financialy in decent shape off the back of the leagues club (The near financial ruin came later). On field, crowds etc we pretty poor.
Shows how stupid the criteria was that Penrith almost missed out
Oh yeah, I agree it would have been stupid. My point was is it nearly happened and if the criteria was stuck to it probably would have. If we had stayed with the ARL I believe we would have been gone or merged with Parra.
