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Weren't they just all league playing juniors that went to schools that only played union which led to them spending time as union players, and union sycophants then claiming them as union players poached by the evil nrl??
They're not going to budget for something that doesn't yet exist yet and could be 5 years away lol. They budgeted to spend $35mill on HBF park in last years budget to get it upgraded for Women's world cup.No mention of NRL/Stadiums or sport in general in the WA budget announced 5 days ago.
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I'd love to see some sort of confirmation that the WA Govt is proposing to underwrite an NRL team.
I'd also love to see what value the Bears bring to this besides "brand recognition" for boomers.
I put him on Ignore months ago.
For the Bears it is the only way they will get the brand back in the NRL. There will never be another regional NSW team added and they know it. Now if they think they can start this way then one day move it back is another matter and why they can only ever have a small part of the ownership so they can never have those controlling decisions.
The colours and the brand are the point.
Yeh but many were lost to union forever
Disagree if they wait long enough central coast will get a team. This gets them in maybe 10 to 15 years earlier
That poster is literally ignoring the comments made the the guys from the wa state govt
Looking at the history of NRL expansion I highly doubt it. IF Perth is 18 then it will in all likelihood be NZ2 and Bris3 for 19 and 20 which wont likely happen for decades. Sure they may get a CC club in around 2060!
This bid isn’t talking about playing at Gosford, it’s talking about playing at NSO. If anyone thinks playing games at NSO is a good idea, they really are blinded by nostalgia. It’s an awful RL ground, plain and simple.
Like I said Brookie being a dump didn’t stop manly
Exactly, imagine if the WA Bears are playing the Roosters in pouring rain in WA in front of 11k, while the sun is shining in Sydney. There’d be nonstop sooking about how the game could be being played in front of a packed Bear Park, instead of over in WA, and calls for more games to be moved back to Sydney etc.
Well to be fair he’s having to suck up to the bears and vlandys to get one
Brookie is at least a rectangular ground! No games should be played at NSO, go to a NSW Cup game there to remind yourself of how bad it is for watching RL.
Homebush isn’t rectangular nor is kogarah
It gets the brand back in the NRL and they’ll be back playing in Sydney the equivalent of nearly every second week (as the away team)- it’s a lot better than what they have now!
I think prioritising RL growth in WA is more important than allowing old Bears fans to indulge in their nostalgia. Reviving RL on the North Shore could have been done by not allowing the current situation to occur. The Bears should have had their territory reallocated to other teams, as was done to Newtown, and Manly, the Roosters, Tigers or whoever else received parts or all of the Bears’ territory would have had 20+ years to grow a following there. That can still be done, reviving RL on North Shore doesn’t require the Bears, it’s what Bears fans would prefer, but Sydney has ample RL resources to cover the North Shore without any involvement from the Bears.
