Sorry OVP nad EA but we do know something about tribalsim....it was called the BRL and had attendances to match the NSWRL. But we gave that up for the sake of expanding Rugby League nationally!
Fine go back to bein g a Sydney only comp and watch the sponsorship dollars start walking out the door. The watch AFL and Football take over. Seriously I expected at least an intelligent response from you two. If the three Qld teams walked out tomorrow Rugby League is dead.
No, you gave up on that because you put a team in the stronger competition. No one had to stop following the local comp in Brisbane just because the Broncos came into being, but they did.
It was also a situation where people in Brisbane followed a team in the NSWRL comp as well as their local team, they already had a big interest in the NSWRL comp, they already knew the players and all the teams.
No such thing happened in Sydney. The BRL comp was not followed by people from Sydney, at all. The amount of people in Sydney who could have rattled off all the teams in the Brisbane comp could be counted on one hand.
And why would the 3 Qld teams walk out tomorrow, what would they play, Super 14?
Take 3 Sydney teams out and Rugby League will be swamped by the other codes in Sydney, so your three teams would come to Sydney to play in front of crowds that would embarrass club Rugby Union. Getting rid of two or three teams wouldn't just dump the supporters of those clubs..
Imagine for a moment that the NRL comp was based around the Brisbane comp and there were 6 Brisbane teams, now imagine everyone in Sydney, who only have one team averaging 40,000 crowds telling you that you had to cull 2 or 3 of those teams, because they're struggling, for the good of the game....
You'd be telling us to get f**ked too and not just because it won't help the game at all..
