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Tidus_Raider said:
OF course people are moving in, but what do they do when they get here? They have children. That's why we have the youngest population profile of the city. They go with dad to the local ground and become lifelong supporters, it's pretty simple if you can think beyond 1+1. This is an argument of why the team should be here for the next 50-100 years. Short term don't mean sh*t - it's the long term that matters. You're so obsessed by next week you can't see beyond your own nose.
that's fair enough, but it sounds like a lot of teams fall a long way short of your standards for crowds. Maybe we should just stop mucking about and cut them? It's been 10 years since the Raiders ever managed a home average over 15k so they should go.
ok as you clearly failed kindergarten maths I'll take it s l o w. If Wests and Balmain come back that isn't two new teams, it's 1. Wests + Balmain = Wests Tigers + 1, are following this? Net gain ONE team. Unless of course you're thinking that we'd have Wests, Balmain, AND the Wests Tigers all running around at the same time.
Can I just check you've got that? Most of the rest of your posts seem to indicate you are literate at least, but not so numerate eh?
So Wests, Balmain and Norths = 18 teams (inc gold coast) an NET gain of 2. I've already said I don't believe St Gilla want to split, they haven't made any noises about it, but even if they did that would still only be a further net gain of ONE. If all the JV's split (which I don't believe is likely), and all the teams were reinstated along with GC you are still only at 19, where the hell did you get 21 from man?
It's a wrong headed argument. Regional clubs will always be at a disadvantage to Sydney clubs, because far more business is based in Sydney. It wouldn't matter if there were only one Sydney club it wouldn't make Sydney businesses go out and sponsor regional clubs. It just don't work like that. More Sydney clubs actually makes it easier for the regional clubs to compete with them rather than less. The regional clubs just don't attract the big companies. They will always need to generate the vast majority of their sponsorship money close to home. Sydney clubs just don't compete in the same sponsorship pool as the regionals except at the margins.
No contradiction at all. Again it's short term versus long term. There used to be 12 clubs. They added your mob and Illawarra. For a few years you struggled but you were smart and developed your juniors, then kids like Daley, Lazzo, and Clyde came along. It didn't take that long. It happens with all clubs, some faster than others. Of course there would be a drop in the short term - I have never once denied it, but so what? Short term pain for long term gain - it's the way of any investment in any walk of life. Of course the next year the number of top quality halves is a fair chance of not going up, just because the new teams have come in, but then again it might. Bringing the Mariners in gave Kimmorley the chance to be a first grader that he was never going to get at the Knights. That's what I'm talking about. Guys playing reggies somewhere get a shot somewhere else and turn out to better than anyone expected - it happens each and every year. More teams would just accelerate it.
Never said it was part of the Macarthur region, it's an adjoining region that is as much part of Wests territory as Macarthur, hence Liverpool - Macarthur. Just because the dogs were looking to take it over doesn't make it Bulldog territory. Liverpool has always been part of Wests Junior territory since the move to Campbelltown. We should always have done more in that end of our territory, but it's Wests territory.
