If you'd actually read my posts I have said numerous times that I am not in support of the Bears/Perth merger, and prefer a stand alone team in WA, I've always felt this.
I've lived there and was a supporter of their first time round.
To be truthful, I think most people from Sydney in this thread have said pretty much the same thing.
My personal thought are: No teams to be kicked out, and hopefully in my lifetime a 24 team competition, with no more Sydney teams.
Lets leave it at that.
On the first page of this thread there was support for the proposition. After that people such as yourself spoke about the benefits of a standalone bid getting the licence.
Is Australia capable of supporting twenty-four clubs with nine in Sydney?
I believe we would need serious investment from the lucrative East Asian market to have the funds to support so many teams. Australia is a relatively small market with a dying manufacturing base and a fragmented media that's being swallowed up by American broadcasting networks.
To get East Asian entrepreneurs to invest in our league we would need to become relevant to people who live in East Asia. That would require us to regularly take games to Indonesia, Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, Macau, Taiwan and China. Our game's elite players would need to travel there to talk with the media so that they can become known to locals. From this our players can be used by local companies to promote their brands.
With Sydney being the largest market we could see businessmen buying a stake in its nine clubs, with the goal to use them as a means of promoting their products.
Our administration should look at involving more Australians of East Asian descent in our game, especially on the administrative and broadcasting side. Instead of having so many white women presenting the games on Foxtel and Ch9, let's have people of East Asian descent present the pre-game and post-game shows so that we can broaden our fanbase.
