I'm prepared to debate with anyone about the following.
At this early stage one of the following are excess to requirements in sydney: Cronulla, Sydney City.
And before anyone thinks anyone will truly care except a few right-winged enthusiasts, you just have to look at their home crowds. The home fans "REALLY" know how to support their teams, dont they. By leaving them high and dry.
A lot of people like to whinge and march and then never back it up.
Try and destroy the broncos - I will organise a peacful possie of many 10's of thousands of people, and we will march to any point in the country, on any building, in any condition for OUR team. And then we will help pay for their inclusion and gaurantee high average crowds....no wait!
We would never let that happen to our team in the first place.
Do you see the difference? Its not that you are worse fans, it that there aint enough of you to support something that big....further, there is no focus on teams, no true stars in the quantities, the broncos hit home town like a whirlwind, sydney teams hit home town like a wimper. You dilute one another and cause weakness across the board.
If I said cut cronulla in 6 years time, how many people are really going to kick up a stink?
This is not Super League where the "enemy" (once friend) struck like a Blitzkreig and shocked everyone...this is a rational process and hopefully a willing one.
At the end, if its not willing, clubs will only be commiting suicide anyway.
Much of the early debate on here has turned attention to the profits clubs make, and thats great, but location is key too. Location, like a shop front, is perhaps the most important quality a club can possess. Image, another one. They are now out to make new revenue streams that league has neer traditionally had, well these things need to be thought of.
Cronulla/Roosters to go for mine. Anyone else, thats still probably too many. 4 million people get 60,000 fans to a weekend USUALLY.
60,000 FANS TO A WEEKEND?
NOT GOOD ENOUGH
Do the math! 60,000 * 15 = 900000 then give a share to each club equally 100000....
thats bugger all of bugger all....
if this was a community fish tank and the money meant food you'd all be floating at the top before long!!!!
thats people by average ticket price
i bring big attention to tickets because thats the easiest thing to raise....forget diversifying, most clubs wont be able to do it sufficiently for many years, if at all, there aint the nouse in sydney league.
look at politis, big bizzo he is, club runs like a ruckety boat. there isnt the nouse....
focus on tickets and the flow-on effect will be huge...
but none of you get it....its a grim outlook, not because sydney league sux, but because there are too many of you...do the sums people! there isnt enough know-how or oppertunities in sydney for the amount of clubs!!!!!
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its time to start bopping people on the head, and to be nice and fair about it, its time to tell them to prepare for the short bit of pain that brings A LOT OF HAPPIENESS TO THE REST OF US!!!
OK, sanity prevailing, i hope that makes sense in some way to you's all.