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Southern Sydney has 500k people and two teams that have struggled on and off the field for the bulk of the last 30 years. One was forced into merging with Illawarra to create a Frankenstein team, sandwiching the other Southern Sydney team into a small isolated pocket. One needs to go. I'd get rid of the Sharks so Dragons can cover all of Southern Sydney and Illawarra. Cronulla fans will throw a tantrum but their fanbase in tiny and full of vile uncivilised hicks who give the sport a bad reputation, so good riddance.
To be fair it is a thread about a Sydney team trying to re-enter the NRL like a Manly in 2003. It is never going to work as North Sydney are delusional enough to think they hold the cards and won't give up their stake in Sydney to make it workable. They don't want to relocate permanently like the Swans and Lions. They are making it all about "North Sydney" and treating Western Australians like second-class citizens. The only people who are giving this stupid media beat-up any oxygen are dyed in the wool NSWRL fans who want a continuation of the NSWRL.
which if you'd stuck to that topic would be fine instead of going off onto the the usual cull Sydney clubs, which you and I both know is never going to happen and juts leads to pages of Sydney people defending Sydney and you arguing with them. All over something that is never happening.
Dickson has beat his chest about how the Bears will not change their song, colours, brand or anything else and demanding games be played at NSO under ownership from North Sydney. By making those stupid comments he's alienated every prospective investor from Perth.
Listen deadshit, there isn't just one spot available, there's unlimited spots, your narrow mind cant fathom that, its about time and choice of placement, no point putting a team in Adelaide when they aren't playing it at junior levels, like perth, nz, and png are, otherwise we are better of just relocating teams rather than expansion
But you are able to watch 16 teams play each week on tv tho? Yes live games are great, but you cant expect the NRL to be the quality it is if it was 3-4 clubs in every city in and around Aus and Nz... half the reason the NRL is so good is due to the bulk of derbies in and around sydney and them playing against the expansion teams
3-4 clubs in every city?!?
The huge crowd at Mt Smart Stadium showed us how much potential there is in New Zealand. It's in everyone's best interest to increase the Warriors' salary cap by $1m so they can have a chance in the player market. A Warriors team succeeding like the Storm over 10 or 15 years would draw sell out crowds in NZ and make them a must watch team in Australia. It would play on the Aussie vs Kiwi rivalry and add something to our game that AwFuL will never have. A second or even third NZ team would do so much more to narrow the gap between RU and RL in New Zealand. Sadly we won't get to see it until Sydney is rationalised. It's why I make no apologies about pushing for rationalisation in Sydney.
If we're lucky then Easts Tigers will buy into the Dolphins to become the East Coast Dolphins and cover Moreton Bay, Logan, Brisbane's eastern suburbs and Redland. Broncos would be wise to let Ipswich buy a stake in their club to create a genuine rivalry between east and west.
In 20 years time people will whinge that there should be a 2nd team in Melbourne, but the game isn't waiting on other areas to grow their own clubs that can compete with whats already existing as the NRL today, thats the problem right there, we all say wheres perth?, but where is the club in perth putting fwd their bid to join the ranks of 1st grade .. they are are all seperate entities, and we as fans look to the media to hear what their plans are, but in reality fans expect the NRL to implement a team there.. and thats just not going to happen, you already need to be a club, running a rugby league team, then these folks at the arlc will hand you a license, they are not looking to set you up in a foregn market, coz if it fails its on them, but if you as a bidder have an already established club in Fremantle called perth pumas, and are boasting however many juniors etc they'll look at that moreso, all this garbage about cutting three teams in sydney, what are you going to replace them with? Another 2 woeful warriors like teams and a perth pirates that get belted 70 blot every week, thats not growing nor will it be expansion if you're just replacing club numbers, this is where grotd has this all wrong, if you take away teams, established teams, the quality of the overall league comp suffers, but if your just adding one or two clubs to whats already there, its fine, coz eventually the newer team will grow better within a quality comp...
Time for Nth Qld, Broncos, Titans, Redcliffe, Storm and Warriors to form a breakaway league and invite Ipswich, Easts-Brisbane, Wynnum, Perth, Adelaide, Hunters and NZ2 to join
This is revisionist bullshit and wrong on every level. ARL forced the four expansion clubs to cover travel and accommodation of all clubs they hosted because the Sydney clubs were broke and the ARL was only getting $10m per annum from Packer for the Ch9/Optus Vision broadcast rights. The costs forced Cowboys, Reds and Warriors to sign with Super League to avoid bankruptcy. Crushers weren't wanted by Super League. In summary, Arthurson and Quayle gave broke arse Sydney clubs an unfair advantage over the four expansion clubs, then ran around pretending they were backstabbed. They got exactly what they deserved for setting all four clubs up to fail and playing favourites with Sydney clubs that were on death's door.
Everyone one wants to play in Qld and Qlders dont want NSW teams
