WA BEARS

[Wb1234]

Of course they will, they don’t give a sht where they start off, only where they end up.

One of your best keep it up

 

[Perth Red]

One of your best keep it up

oh I will

 

[The Great Dane]

Arlc wants the bears

location is still up in the air

bears in the nrl will get 10k easy members

You know that's f**k all right?

Only having around 10k members would make them one of the smallest sides in the league. I mean every club that supplied their membership numbers last year had more than 10k, with Cronulla and Manly being the smallest at about 13k.

 

[Perth Red]

You know that's f**k all right?

Only having around 10k members would make them one of the smallest sides in the league. I mean every club that supplied their membership numbers last year had more than 10k, with Cronulla and Manly being the smallest at about 13k.

The deluded old fool thinks there’s 10k people in Sydney that would become members of a wa, Adelaide, Wellington, png, insert location here, bears lol.

 

[The Great Dane]

Why cynical

more flexible

It shows a total lack of commitment to their 'location partners', and strong partnerships aren't built off a lack of commitment.

It also reaffirms that their target audience isn't the new market, but their old fanbase.

It's basically a bad look all round.

 

[Wb1234]

You know that's f**k all right?

Only having around 10k members would make them one of the smallest sides in the league. I mean every club that supplied their membership numbers last year had more than 10k, with Cronulla and Manly being the smallest at about 13k.

10k in Sydney plus whatever they can get in Perth or png etc

 

[Wb1234]

It shows a total lack of commitment to their 'location partners', and strong partnerships aren't built off a lack of commitment.

It also reaffirms that their target audience isn't the new market, but their old fanbase.

It's basically a bad look all round.

Why would they have any commitment to any area when that area can miss out on an nrl space

their commitment is to an nrl license

 

[Perth Red]

Why would they have any commitment to any area when that area can miss out on an nrl space

their commitment is to an nrl license

And what message do you think that’s sending the fans and corporates in that area?

 

[Wb1234]

And what message do you think that’s sending the fans and corporates in that area?

Make sure you don’t lose the bid or we aren’t interested

 

[The Great Dane]

The deluded old fool thinks there’s 10k people in Sydney that would become members of a wa, Adelaide, Wellington, png, insert location here, bears lol.

IDK, to be honest I can believe that they could sell 10k memberships to people in Sydney, NSW, and other "heartland" markets, if they went about it the "right" way. But almost all of those memberships would be cheap ticketless memberships that exist only to cynically pump numbers up, and I'm not sure that's the sort of thing that the NRL should be encouraging.

It's definitely not the sort of thing they should be looking for in new clubs. They should be looking to build clubs capable of selling at least 15k+ season tickets or higher value memberships, and the old Bears fanbase wasn't capable of pulling those sorts of numbers in their prime, let alone these days.

 

[Wb1234]

IDK, to be honest I can believe that they could sell 10k memberships to people in Sydney, NSW, and other "heartland" markets, if they went about it the "right" way. But almost all of those memberships would be cheap ticketless memberships that exist only to cynically pump numbers up, and I'm not sure that's the sort of thing that the NRL should be encouraging.

It's definitely not the sort of thing they should be looking for in new clubs. They should be looking to build clubs capable of selling at least 15k+ season tickets or higher value memberships, and the old Bears fanbase wasn't capable of pulling those sorts of numbers in their prime, let alone these days.

@Perth Red

 

[The Great Dane]

Make sure you don’t lose the bid or we aren’t interested

The area wouldn't be the ones losing the bid though, it'd be the Bears...

What the Bears are trying to do is to get the NRL to tell them where to go and then bid from there. You'd think that if they were to lose to another bid in that situation, that that other bid would be bidding from the same preferred location.

In other words, it's more likely than not that the "Perth Bears" would lose to another bid from Perth.

 

[The Great Dane]

@Perth Red

Being capable of selling roughly 10k $10-30 ticketless memberships isn't something to be proud of...

It's a pretty poor reflection on your fanbase actually.

 

[Wb1234]

Being capable of selling roughly 10k $10-30 ticketless memberships isn't something to be proud of...

It's a pretty poor reflection on your fanbase actually.

Well your mate thinks it’s stupid to suggest it

now I wanna see his response that YOU agreed with me

 

[The Great Dane]

10k in Sydney plus whatever they can get in Perth or png etc

Being connected to the Bears would hurt their draw power in Perth, and other similar expansion markets, for at least a generation or two. Which wouldn't exactly be great when the goal of a side in an expansion market should be to grow support and market share in said market, not to sacrifice some of that growth to appease some dying men on the other side of the country/Tasman.

PNG just isn't sustainable, and the value of their products would have to be way below the NRL average for the average Papuan to be able to afford it. I guess having them paired with the Bears would mean that the club has somewhere natural to fallback on when the inevitable happens and the side falls over because the government funding was cut. But is it really sensible to be planning for an expansion club to fail and be forced to relocate to Sydney and/or the CC...

 

[The Great Dane]

Well your mate thinks it’s stupid to suggest it

now I wanna see his response that YOU agreed with me

I'm not sure that I really agreed with you, and I'm presenting it as a negative even if I did.

 

[Wb1234]

I'm not sure that really agreed with you, and I'm presenting it as a negative even if I did.

Anytime you agree with me is a negative for me

 

[The Great Dane]

Anytime you agree with me is a negative for me

We already know that you're intellectually dishonest, you don't have to tell us.

 

[Wb1234]

We already know that you're intellectually dishonest, you don't have to tell us.

Blah blah blah

come and visit planet earth one day

 

[The Great Dane]

Blah blah blah

come and visit planet earth one day

Tell us again how PNG, a county where 40% of the population lives under the poverty line, is going to be a giant success, but Perth and Adelaide will fail unless they commit to carrying the dead corpse of the Bears around.

Next you'll be telling us that there're 10k Dirty Reds fans in Sydney just waiting for the opportunity to support their club in the big leagues again by buying a membership.