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So many falsehoods in your post.
Why not cut Canberra
AFL has been a success because it hasn't let its traditional VFL clubs hold it back, a far cry from the NRL and how NSWRL clubs dominate decision making. I mean everyone knows Brisbane2 was a no brainer yet clubs still tried to block it and Vlandys had to make sht up to appease them! Rather than spending money on expansion NRL has had to use its revenue to up NRL club grants from $7million to $15mill to just keep some of them going. I'm all for adding clubs and not culling but lets stop the procrastination and investment in growth because some of these clubs struggle to keep the doors open. If they cant keep up then that's on them.
That’s why the super league grand final winner is followed by an asterix
Like Gold Coast they are a necessary evil in the fight with AFL. If Tassie comes in as seems to be expected then Canberra will be club 20.
The vision for SL was spot on, the execution sadly lacking.
Rugby league played in China yeh great
Like a global vision for the sport, bringing the northern and southern hemisphere games closer together, rationalising Sydney but keeping historic clubs involved, developing the PI's and PNG and bringing in big city teams. The vision was where the ARL was taking the game anyways, or at least had been trying to for over a decade.
Hahhaha
But thats what I mean, during the Pandemic they were saying they were NRL ready to step in if the Warriors were going to pull out of the NRL. If they were so NRL ready then why have they barely signed any juniors into their top 30? I'm pretty sure the only locals they have signed are 3 guys on development contracts.... Why do they need to pinch 18-19 year olds out of Sydney when they should have some young guys across their grades to fill those spots?
Let's rank all teams from 1997 by attendance.
Like I said vision was good, execution was poor. The SL vision was not much different to what ARL had been trying to move to since the mid 80's.
That's because the best young players are snapped up by NRL clubs before they're 18. There would be plenty of players in the NRL who played for Redcliffe when they were younger, but are now contracted to other NRL teams. Redcliffe did try to bring Queenslanders back to Brisbane but few of them signed. If the North Sydney Bears got back in they would be signing whoever is available to be competitive.
Exactly
The vision was bs that’s the point
yeh something had to give, Roosters are an interesting one, by themselves not that impacting but obviously as the cbd club probably influential and as a foundation club and being wealthy it would be the big controversial one I suppose. At the time you'd drop Souths and keep roosters but 25 years later Souths are arguably more important. Dropping Cronulla you'd hope the Dragons would become the south coast rep club for that whole strip. Western Sydney is still a bit crowded and maybe the Dogs would be the one to go with Wests taking over that whole region if needed. Bears only get in if willing to give up NS to Manly who would take over that whole region. Wishful thinking for sure lol.
