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Chief_Chujo

Chief_Chujo

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Mother Nature's Son said:
So good enough for the WA Gov`t but not good enough for the NRL. Looks like everybody`s on different pages here.
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It's almost like the parties have different stakes in the game. A poorly thought out Perth ends with a dead club, another black eye on the game and could shut the state off from expansion forever. For the politicians, whatever the outcome, its just fodder in the election cycle.
 
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Chief_Chujo said:
It's almost like the parties have different stakes in the game. A poorly thought out Perth ends with a dead club, another black eye on the game and could shut the state off from expansion forever. For the politicians, whatever the outcome, its just fodder in the election cycle.
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It will still have wa investors

Just probably not Cummins

The wa govt doesn’t care they just want the inbound tourism
 
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Chief_Chujo said:
It's almost like the parties have different stakes in the game. A poorly thought out Perth ends with a dead club, another black eye on the game and could shut the state off from expansion forever. For the politicians, whatever the outcome, its just fodder in the election cycle.
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It was poorly thought out to start with from PLV.
 
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Chief_Chujo said:
He asked for expansion tenders and rejected one of them. How is that poorly thought out?
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He placed a non negotiatable onto 1 bid and failed to tell them them they would need a license fee.

His fingerprints are all over the failed bid so he needs to take responsibility for his part.
 
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Bukowski said:
He placed a non negotiatable onto 1 bid and failed to tell them them they would need a license fee.

His fingerprints are all over the failed bid so he needs to take responsibility for his part.
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They were told a license fee would need to be paid during the tender process. Cummins was a genius and put zero thinking he had pulled a swifty. f**k he could have put $1mil or even $500k and they could be negotiating right now. Imagine the disrespect and arrogance, after you've been told that a license fee is necessary, to put a donut to the question. It's no wonder the ARLC walked way.

The non-negotiable of the Bears is based on the success of the Swans/Lions relocation to expansion areas. Again, the ARLC have a lot at stake in expanding west.
 
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Chief_Chujo said:
They were told a license fee would need to be paid during the tender process. Cummins was a genius and put zero thinking he had pulled a swifty. f**k he could have put $1mil or even $500k and they could be negotiating right now. Imagine the disrespect and arrogance, after you've been told that a license fee is necessary, to put a donut to the question. It's no wonder the ARLC walked way.

The non-negotiable of the Bears is based on the success of the Swans/Lions relocation to expansion areas. Again, the ARLC have a lot at stake in expanding west.
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He also didn’t tell the arl during negotiations they would need Sydney investors and one of those would be someone who had been sacked by the nrl
 
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Bukowski said:
If you think a relocation of the bears to Perth is a good idea. It's not, and this is the result. He's scrambling for new investors . LOL.
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I'm sure people said the same with the Swans and Lions. Reality is, every expansion into dominant heartlands from both codes has failed, except for relocations.
 
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Bukowski said:
Storm are not successful? LOL
Anyway hopefully Petes well thought out idea can find someone with $50mill.
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I said it's questionable. Had they not been dominant for so long I wonder where they would be. Reminder they were a money sink propped up by the game for a long time, even with their success. Swans or Lions would be massively more successful with the same period of dominance.
 
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