And read the part of the article visible in that image. They hate that Perth's inclusion will boost the NRL's finances when we negotiate for the next TV deal.
The 'journalist' who wrote that clearly needs to do some actual journalistic investigating or research. He's written a very sour-puss opinion piece. Not a news article. According to him, Roger Cook is "forcing" WA taxpayers to "give" all $65million to the North Sydney Bears ... supposedly. Dude's going to have a fit when he finds out it's actually going to be $285million once you take into consideration the Malaga CoE and the HBF Park refurb in a few years.
I absolutely guarantee that if the WA government were giving aussie rules $65million for kids / juniors development, dickhead here would be totally fine with that. Might even be questioning why they weren't getting more.
But this is the shit we're getting used to by the only major newspaper here in the west. No doubt more to come, but this will be the peak tantrum time, because they didn't want the team / NRL and we got it anyway. Spoilt brat has to share his lollies. F**k him, f**k them, and they can all kiss our arses. The Perth Bears are here.