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They'd work out better if they weren't in an all expansion conference, any travel time that Sydney gets none is already automatically skewed, add in nz2 and Png aswell as Perth, you're dreaming if you think the travel times will remain the same
If there’s no cross pool games Sydney clubs don’t get an advantage as they aren’t playing against clubs who travel a lot. The short travel times will cancel each other out
That's still an advantage to Sydney clubs if a player not having to sign up to a rival club depending if they are in nz2 vs bulldogs for example, everyone should travel, no matter what, besides nswrl teams are a draw card for most expansion cities, look at dragons, souths in qld
It might be a factor it won’t be a huge factor
Over time it will be a huge factor, and all Sydney conference will become elite, in comparison because of the lack of talent staying in the expansion conference... you seem to be ignorant in this fact
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Backwards thinking, how long before the create a composite team representing Sydney, and this nswrl conference you want becomes 2nd tier (ala BRL)
So we make it harder, by adding in png and chch, which are both further away from Perth than any other team...
I said I don’t think this will happen because of opposition from the qrl and non Sydney clubs
That all has nothing to do with expansion OR conferences, you want something that only existed in a bubble 50+ years ago, you can't do that now, if you did, you'd create another superleague type situation all over again, where there's the "haves" and "have nots" it's taken 30 years to get over that garbage into one unified league, and now prospering, expanding, don't reverse it by wanting a nswrl
It wasn’t my idea it was what uncle Nick proposed
A souths fan agrees with politis.... now I've seen it all, politis is all about self interest, of course he wants no expansion sides in his conference, he wants every marquee he can get, only have to look at the women's side ABSOLUTELY stacked..
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OK. Let's say that you're a back row on 400k.. what does that get you in Balmain?
How would that format play out ? Play home and away in your conference then rest once
Play everyone in the conference home and away (8 rounds) and then play everyone else in a mix of home and away (15 rounds) would make it 23 rounds which is not bad.
Lmao just a tad out of touch for NZ house prices there bud, prices are astronomical for much older fleet than you get in Aus. If it was that easy to get players to locate to NZ why do the warriors alway have to pay overs? He’ll even Canberra has what you say CHCH offers and they also have to pay overs to recruit
Really still without easts vs souths? Hahaha c'mon mate, they'll never be a perfect segregation, but at least mine is built on direction of N,S,E,W, and not on preserving rivalries, they've only issue i see in this is that western Sydney does fk all travel, swap Perth with Canberra and that at least gives all pools a faraway destination, and also splits up Melbourne and Perth being so far away for the clubs within that pool to travel to both areas
Canberra raiders Vs Png Prime Ministers,
