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be strong wildman, do u think anyone on here has connections 2 the NRL ARL?? and could let them know wat were all thinkin
Wild Man From Borneo said:Its all about sponsors, money. It gets on my nerves. Sometimes I feel like I'm going to give up and follow the Swans. But I can't because the club means so much to me.
Zef said:On the contrary, there's always been a solid core of Kiwi's that love us. And we should be doing more for them.
So that's a good idea - piss the Storm off to Wellington, now you're talking.
"The Wellington Storm" Got a nice ring to it don't it.
The best thing to do would be to ring/email the sports shows on the radio (2UE,2KY). If Gallop had a bit of brains he would listen to the shows and listen to the feedback on RL.joondalup_giant said:be strong wildman, do u think anyone on here has connections 2 the NRL ARL?? and could let them know wat were all thinkin
It was a major disaster in my view, that we let the Perth and Adelaide teams die..... the AFL would never have allowed that... and look at them now. And yet, the Sydneyites want the Melbourne Storm to fail as well! Talk about short sighted......
Zef said:I always reckon it's funny how the advocates of culling/merging/re-locating Sydney teams are strong on the idea until someone suggests it may be THEIR team.
Then all of a sudden they start spluttering about "tradition" and "history" and all the rest of it.
Take Dimitri for example, if he had his way he's send my Dogs off to Wellington without a blink. But ask him if he'll send his Dragons down to The 'Gong (full-time) and all of a sudden decentralisation hasn't got the same appeal.
And good riddance to The Rams and The Reds, a complete waste of good time and effort. And as soon as Lochie gets bored we can get rid of that other pile on league's arse (Storm) and get on with looking after the ones that love us.
Because in case anyone hasn't noticed - those southern belles only have eyes for AFL.
XXXX said:"..but on the Rams Reds debate......i'd rather the Reds or the Rams instead of Melbourne because theres more of a chance in S.A and W.A compared to Victoria "
I'd be interested to know why you think so .Melbourne has 4 times the population of the other 2 cities and there is travel and venues involved .All three cities are about equal on the juniors front .If you think exposure is poor in Melbourne to the NRL ,then it's no existant here .Even the GF was delayed and pushed into the night .
thomo said:In the short term I'd like to see every team give up at least 1 (or even better 2) of their home games and play in a developing area. I know some teams are already doing so (Canterbury, Souths, Canberra? Wests?) but if every team gave up a home game then we would have 15 games to distribute amongst cities like Perth, Adelaide, Gold Coast, Gosford, Wellington and Christchurch.
The NRL should compensate the clubs so that they aren't financially disadvantaged by moving a home game or two.
Tidus_Raider said:thomo said:In the short term I'd like to see every team give up at least 1 (or even better 2) of their home games and play in a developing area. I know some teams are already doing so (Canterbury, Souths, Canberra? Wests?) but if every team gave up a home game then we would have 15 games to distribute amongst cities like Perth, Adelaide, Gold Coast, Gosford, Wellington and Christchurch.
The NRL should compensate the clubs so that they aren't financially disadvantaged by moving a home game or two.
Not the way to go. Moving games makes supporters even more disenchanted and lets face it supporters are fickle and selfish. They won't want a home game moved regardless of the reason.
I think the way to go is having pre-season games, City/country games but most importantly INTERNATIONALS played in those areas to show that the NRL and ARL is committed to developing the area and as a reward we're sending the Australian team to play there.