WA BEARS

[Wb1234]

 

[Vee]

I've got a retro Bears jersey, red and black, no white, with North Sydney Leagues Club as sponsor that I wear one day each year at Magic Round.

 

[MugaB]

I've got a retro Bears jersey, red and black, no white, with North Sydney Leagues Club as sponsor that I wear one day each year at Magic Round.

Good stuff, youll save money when the bears end up based in cairns

 

[SpaceMonkey]

Annadale played a team in 1st grade Aswell

Don’t forget the mighty Cumberland Fruitpickers!

 

[Perth Red]

Arthurson interview interesting on fox. Why would the bears sign an agreement that gave the license back to manly if it fell apart? Seems pretty dumb move!
Arthurson reckons bears were advocating to nrl to take over the license prior and arthurson met nrl and told them he’d take them to court If they renegade on the agreement.

 

[blue bags]

[QUOTE="Perth Red, post: 15650894, member: 11913
Vlandys He thinks playing games at LO is a good idea Ffs!
[/QUOTE]
L O is the heart and soul of rugby league
In Sydney Australia
FFS
Wake Up
Would only dream of playing on that sacred turf
If it was a massive stadium
It would be a sell out every game

 

[Wb1234]

Arthurson interview interesting on fox. Why would the bears sign an agreement that gave the license back to manly if it fell apart? Seems pretty dumb move!
Arthurson reckons bears were advocating to nrl to take over the license prior and arthurson met nrl and told them he’d take them to court If they renegade on the agreement.

Wow your just catching up on this stuff huh ?

 

[Centy Coast]

Arthurson interview interesting on fox. Why would the bears sign an agreement that gave the license back to manly if it fell apart? Seems pretty dumb move!
Arthurson reckons bears were advocating to nrl to take over the license prior and arthurson met nrl and told them he’d take them to court If they renegade on the agreement.

I’m pretty sure I’ve covered this about 10 pages ago, without mentioning any names but let’s just say that the Bears CEO at the time ended at with a job at Manly Leagues Club and was seen driving around the Northern Beaches in his brand new maserati.
Let’s just say he did very well out of the merger.
Underbelly ARL/Super League War lol

 

[Perth Red]

I’m pretty sure I’ve covered this about 10 pages ago, without mentioning any names but let’s just say that the Bears CEO at the time ended at with a job at Manly Leagues Club and was seen driving around the Northern Beaches in his brand new maserati.
Let’s just say he did very well out of the merger.
Underbelly ARL/Super League War lol

Where was the bears board in all this?

 

[Centy Coast]

Where was the bears board in all this?

Probably like many boards, a lot of yes men.
I know when our local league gets together, when the Chairman puts his arm up it’s like all of the other clubs have string on their arms as you can almost always guarantee their arms will go up as well.
Things may have been different back then especially during those particular circumstances with both clubs close to going into receivership, who knows ?.

 

[Wb1234]

If you know you know

 

[Foreign Legion]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/nrl/nrl-expansion-north-sydney-bears-to-use-macathur-fc-dolphins-strategy-in-push-to-be-18th-club/news-story/bd8235d40ffc721781b75a11f46aabd7%3famp

 

[Pneuma]

Gee this is hotting up.

 

[greenBV4]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/nrl/nrl-expansion-north-sydney-bears-to-use-macathur-fc-dolphins-strategy-in-push-to-be-18th-club/news-story/bd8235d40ffc721781b75a11f46aabd7%3famp

paywalled

who have they linked with this time?

 

[Wb1234]

paywalled

who have they linked with this time?

Just says they hired the same company who helped the dolphins and McArthur fc get their bids approved

 

[The Great Dane]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/nrl/nrl-expansion-north-sydney-bears-to-use-macathur-fc-dolphins-strategy-in-push-to-be-18th-club/news-story/bd8235d40ffc721781b75a11f46aabd7%3famp

The media was unbelievably slow to break that story.

I told you guys about this more than a month ago back on the 24th of March-

The Bears held their AGM recently, and at the meeting they informed members that they've engaged a consultancy firm called the CT Group to prepare their bid for the 18th license. The CT Group were the organisation that the Dolphins and Macarthur Bulls hired to prepare their bids for the NRL and A-league respectively.

They also reiterated that the Bear's are 'not locked into any locational partner at this stage and are working closely with the NRL to be guided on the appropriate direction' (to quote them). In other words they've made no commitment to bid for an NRL license out of any particular market and are waiting for the NRL to inform them of their preferred location for the 18th club before looking to base the bid out of that market.

They also announced that they had 1733 members for the 2023 season at the time of the meeting, and that's a 33% increase on the same time last year.

 

[Perth Red]

The media was unbelievably slow to break that story.

I told you guys about this more than a month ago back on the 24th of March-

You should know whenever another place gets a mention in the media for expansion the Bears feel obliged to get a story in the paper! This week it was Melbourne2 that promoted the Bears story.

 

[Pneuma]

Maybe the Perth Bears could play in the NSW Cup and be a feeder team for the new Victorian franchise?

 

[Wb1234]

Bears missed the boat imo

they won’t be joining with png as it’s based in cairns and they are the favourites

 

[Ideas Man Stephen]

Bears missed the boat imo

they won’t be joining with png as it’s based in cairns and they are the favourites

There are absolutely no favourites at this stage. The NRL has not even opened up for bidding for heavens sake. Any media discussion around favouritism is just speculation that follows an off the cuff comment from the NRL.