And some people just defend the NRL no matter what they do and make pretty stupid posts defending the indefensible.
If what you're saying is the reason for the licence fee, why didn't the Dolphins need to pay one? Why do Perth need $30m plus the $20m? Why do they need to pay a fee to prove they can survive on their own (which is what you said in the previous post), if you are now saying they couldn't survive on that fee?
More questions that have already been addressed multiple times.
The NRL in the end is a business. Businesses change structure and evolve constantly, that's how they grow.
The timing and placing of the Dolphins is different to now and has absolutely nothing to do with this bid.
The owners can ask whatever they deem right for someone to buy into the company.
One year it might be $10k, the next year they may value it at $70k, after that $120k etc. It could even drop in price.
The NRL obviously didn't like the $0 value that the Cumins bid gave, and treated it as such.
Again, a stupid decision by the bid.
Now please stop trying to hop onto the party train that was 40 pages ago. It's all been said, you were late to it.
If you can't see that the bid has done damage to itself then that's for you to work out to as the why. Some can see it very easily.