They could play 3 heritages games
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So Adelaide Broncos it is.
Which 2?
made sense when it was a suburban one city comp. Makes no sense as a would be national comp. But no one has the balls or vision to do anything about it so we will be stuck with what we've got for a very long time. Short of LC's going out of fashion there wont be any financial imperative for anyone to be dropped or relocated.
Just spitballing and mostly messing around here but what about a 3 team merger between the dragons, sharks and steelers?
If you could wave a magic wand you'd have a Southern Sharks playing out of a new stadium somewhere accessible to the St George/Cronulla regions with maybe 3 games in Wollongong. But will never happen. If sharks hadn't had land to flog off good chance they'd be bust by now and Dragons could have taken over their junior catchment. But again wont happen now so we are stuck with what we have, arguably to the detriment to the long term future of the game.
Why not base the southern sharks/st George illawarra sharks out of Wollongong permanently?
Good question - and I wonder if the Steelers actually *had* to merge with St George. Being a regional club, I assume they wouldn't have been subject to the dreaded criteria that Sydney clubs faced.
Had the rationalization of Sydney clubs been better handled then there’s absolutely no reason and no justification for not having NRL clubs in both illawarra and the central coast.
I think the ARLC has to address the viability of the game as it currently stands, as all signs point to it being unsustainable. The player base is getting thinner and it's going to get worse. Globalisation has made American and European sporting competitions from soccer, basketball and gridiron a competitor. We might only have enough talent and supporters to sustain a 12 team competition by 2050. I hope it doesn't go down that path, but we have to accept it's possible if current trends continue and aren't addressed.
Yes. Too small and too much near by big city competition. There’s only one nsw club managing to survive without a big LC, that’s how crowded the nsw market is.
I am of the belief that leaving Sydney oversaturated while Bris/NZ are under-represented and Adelaide and Perth unrepresented is causing more damage than can occur by rationalising Sydney.
