So you expect to fund more referees, coaches, ground hire to grow that 4k junior base to say 10-20k that it would take to have a decent FG squad of locals.
Run Matts, Ball and Flegg for the amount Penrith spend on their pathways?
That is what you and your tight ass pawnbroker mate don't understand.
The NRL clubs have seperate arms funding junior Leagues in their area.
If you add up what the NSW Clubs spend combined
Do the same for QLD
It is way more than $12m a year.
That is before you get to the Pathway spends
These districts have pools of refs and so on from their history.
Starting up new districts in WA doesn't have that
Which NRL club has 20k jnrs? Canterbury-Bankstown junior rugby league district is home to 3300 registered players, Cronulla 5,500, Parramatta has 5700 participants and Penrith boasts around 9000.
I think our current 4,400 can be realistically increased to 7-8k in 10 years. That would make it around the second biggest club Jnr catchment region in NRL. Add the reinvigorated NS catchment into that and your potentially up challenging Penrith region numbers.
We arent trying to develop players for 10 clubs (NSW) or 4 clubs + Melbourne (Qlnd) lol. We need enough talent coming through for one club!
$6mill a year funding is more than adequate to have WA players coming through for the Western Bears in reasonable numbers.
$4mill for NRLWA from 50/50 WA govt and NRL
$2mill a year for elite pathways funded by the club (same as all clubs)