WA BEARS

[Get Rid of The Donkeys]

Most people who push for the rationalisation of Sydney clubs don’t live in Sydney or understand it.

I don't need to live in Sydney to know that the city cannot support nine teams. The annual reports prove there's more supply than demand for teams.

The Cowboys generate more from football operations than any Sydney club. The Tigers and Bulldogs generate half as much from football operations.

 

[MugaB]

I don't need to live in Sydney to know that the city cannot support nine teams. The annual reports prove there's more supply than demand for teams.

The Cowboys generate more from football operations than any Sydney club. The Tigers and Bulldogs generate half as much from football operations.

Yet the league still has no ambition for a Logan team

 

[Perth Red]

Listening to the Billy Moore interview its crystal clear that they see themselves fully owning the club, running it from NS and just playing games wherever NRL asks them. Im even more convinced WA needs to make sure we have a strong stand alone bid now.

 

[Bukowski]

Listening to the Billy Moore interview its crystal clear that they see themselves fully owning the club, running it from NS and just playing games wherever NRL asks them. Im even more convinced WA needs to make sure we have a strong stand alone bid now.

Hopefully they stick solid with their 'demands'. There no way out will get the green light

 

[macca_saint]

Listening to the Billy Moore interview its crystal clear that they see themselves fully owning the club, running it from NS and just playing games wherever NRL asks them. Im even more convinced WA needs to make sure we have a strong stand alone bid now.

Anything interesting from what he said?

 

[Canard]

They sitting in 8th

Today they are, we're did they sit last season? And two seasons before that?

 

[Pippen94]

Today they are, we're did they sit last season? And two seasons before that?

So improvement

 

[docbrown]

Tim was sht at my club, I’m amazed anyone gave him another go!

When did he coach fumbleball?

 

[The Great Dane]

Hopefully they stick solid with their 'demands'. There no way out will get the green light

I don't know about that.

It wouldn't surprise me in the slightest to see the current administration still giving the Bears a license.

 

[The Great Dane]

Anything interesting from what he said?

https://www.abc.net.au/radio/progra...perate-to-get-back-into-the-game-an/102086372

 

[Perth Red]

Anything interesting from what he said?

Not really other than their clear intention to own the license and play as many games as they can at nso.

 

[Get Rid of The Donkeys]

Has anyone confronted the Bears about the insanity of taking home games to North Sydney Oval?

Sydney has well over 100 games each year. It doesn't need any more.

NSO is unfit for NRL games.

I think it's time that the dumb NSWRL fans from Sydney who wish to pretend it's 1983 were publicly shunned for being stupid and crazy.

 

[docbrown]

Has anyone confronted the Bears about the insanity of taking home games to North Sydney Oval?

Sydney has well over 100 games each year. It doesn't need any more.

NSO is unfit for NRL games.

I think it's time that the dumb NSWRL fans from Sydney who wish to pretend it's 1983 were publicly shunned for being stupid and crazy.

Is this what keeps you awake after midnight?

 

[Centy Coast]

Has anyone confronted the Bears about the insanity of taking home games to North Sydney Oval?

Sydney has well over 100 games each year. It doesn't need any more.

NSO is unfit for NRL games.

I think it's time that the dumb NSWRL fans from Sydney who wish to pretend it's 1983 were publicly shunned for being stupid and crazy.

This is all media beat up, Pacifika team, please, let’s put the Bears name to it to get some attention lol.
Nothing has changed let’s move on.

 

[Colk]

If winning games is the only answer to a club's problems, it underlines the necessity of a formula where all 17 teams can be simultaneously successful on the field.

Principal objective is that Tigers need to climb up the ladder without pushing any other club down the ladder.

Proved elusive hitherto, but I'm sure there's a NRL variant of quantum theory out there waiting to be discovered. The race is on for you and Pneuma.

Although I do like talking about psychics and once we find evidence of say multiple universes then this idea of all teams being successful at once might be achievable, I don’t recall actually saying that or even implying that.

I said that I would like them to have success on the field because they haven’t had any for a long time but I never said that they or any other team had to be successful on the field in order to be viable.

 

[Colk]

Doesn't surprise me that the superleague brigade are anti Leichhardt oval & tradition. Want to eliminate all existing clubs & bring in new entities with focus grouped names, everywhere but where ppl actually watch the sport.
Same idea cost Murdoch countless millions. Never learn.

I’ll miss reading absolutely ridiculous, illogical and incoherent posts like this. You know posts where a simple point about Leichhardt being a poor ground (which it is) is somehow conflated to said poster also being against all history and tradition and also advocating for the removal of all existing teams.

Quite a leap.

 

[Get Rid of The Donkeys]

This is all media beat up, Pacifika team, please, let’s put the Bears name to it to get some attention lol.
Nothing has changed let’s move on.

I think I understood why News Ltd is beating this horse to death. Baby boomers are the only people who waste their money on buying the paper. Bears fans are baby boomers.

 

[Wb1234]

I’ll miss reading absolutely ridiculous, illogical and incoherent posts like this. You know posts where a simple point about Leichhardt being a poor ground (which it is) is somehow conflated to said poster also being against all history and tradition and also advocating for the removal of all existing teams.

Quite a leap.

I miss them already

 

[Ride the Lion to Zion]

Although I do like talking about psychics and once we find evidence of say multiple universes then this idea of all teams being successful at once might be achievable, I don’t recall actually saying that or even implying that.

I said that I would like them to have success on the field because they haven’t had any for a long time but I never said that they or any other team had to be successful on the field in order to be viable.

Several times you've reacted negatively to suggestions that RL would be more prosperous if we promoted enjoyment of the game over the simple appeal of winning.

I drew a comparison between a proposed 20-team NRL and the 20-team EPL, pointing out that the latter generates and maintains interest at both ends of the table. Fighting like hell to escape relegation from the EPL is on a different planet from avoiding the NRL wooden spoon.

In a comp without promotion/relegation the inordinate emphasis on winning is a threat to NRL ambition. Can you doubt that if the Dolphins had lost their first two games the media would have gone into Phil Gould dismal overdrive bemoaning a botched expansion?

Wouldn't be true, but it could dampen the enthusiasm for further growth.

 

[The Great Dane]

Several times you've reacted negatively to suggestions that RL would be more prosperous if we promoted enjoyment of the game over the simple appeal of winning.

Only poorly run clubs rely exclusively on winning to sell their clubs.

Take the Raiders for example, and keep in mind that they're not the only example, just the one I'm most family with. The Raiders made the finals less in the 2010s than the 00s, but they've had consistent growth in memberships and their attendance has been trending up since the early 2010s (keeping in mind that you can't trust attendance numbers pre-2010s), because they've focused on improving their game day experience, marketing, and accessibility.

Though the Viking clap has become a tired, watered down, corporate joke, it and other such initiatives has undeniably push more sales.

Australia isn't England, the standards of what's expected out of a sports event are different, and what works in England isn't necessarily going to work in Australia. England's/Europe's reliance on away support is totally unfeasible in a country as large and with a population so geographically spread out for example, and P&R would be commercial suicide in this country for a multitude of reasons.