WA BEARS

[Perth Red]

Vlad has so fcked this whole thing up. You’d think he would have learnt from his nsw govt stadium spat disaster, but guess not.

the real loser is rugby league in WA, could have gone to a whole new level that eclipsed the boom of the 90’s.

oh well life goes on.

 

[Gobsmacked]

Vlad has so fcked this whole thing up. You’d think he would have learnt from his nsw govt stadium spat disaster, but guess not.

the real loser is rugby league in WA, could have gone to a whole new level that eclipsed the boom of the 90’s.

oh well life goes on.

The WA Government f**ked this up mate.
Bending the knee to your AFL loving mates.

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[BuffaloRules]

People put in considerable effort to bid and assuming they're in business, they'd understand how risk/ rewards work and put in the equivalent to what they were willing to risk.
There was around a dozen bids, regardless of the process, obviously there were always going to be losers.

It's not a simple as just deciding on an area.
PNG is a third world country that on the surface had no chance at NRL but through this process we found 600 million dollars that assured the NRL that it won't be a money pit.
The WA bid weren't as convincing. What the NRL has weight up is over the coming years and decades into the future is that this bid will produce less than a desired bottom line for the game.. or that there's one's that will outpace it.
It would have been wonderful if the WA government had announced a brand new state of the art purpose built stadium and a financial incentive to the NRL to put a WA franchise beyond doubt but of course it's all PVL fault.

I'm absolutely over the moon to have a leader that puts himself in the firing line because he care more about what's best for the game .

There is some risk as well for the business when they undertake expansion …. Our main competitor doesn’t seem to have any qualms about expanding into unfavourable areas and spending hundreds of millions to do so … they are taking a long term approach …seemingly tbecause of the price the Aust Govt paid for PNG that PVL and the clubs expect all that risk for other new teams to be assumed by third parties ( governments) …,that’s probably not going to happen as the circumstances around PNG are not going to be replicated by other potential NRL expansion areas

 

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There is some risk as well for the business when they undertake expansion …. Our main competitor doesn’t seem to have any qualms about expanding into unfavourable areas and spending hundreds of millions to do so … they are taking a long term approach …seemingly tbecause of the price the Aust Govt paid for PNG that PVL and the clubs expect all that risk for other new teams to be assumed by third parties ( governments) …,that’s probably not going to happen as the circumstances around PNG are not going to be replicated by other potential NRL expansion areas

I don’t think it was png, I think it was Tasmania & the hundreds of millions the afl have been handed from all levels of government.

 

[Gobsmacked]

There is some risk as well for the business when they undertake expansion …. Our main competitor doesn’t seem to have any qualms about expanding into unfavourable areas and spending hundreds of millions to do so … they are taking a long term approach …seemingly tbecause of the price the Aust Govt paid for PNG that PVL and the clubs expect all that risk for other new teams to be assumed by third parties ( governments) …,that’s probably not going to happen as the circumstances around PNG are not going to be replicated by other potential NRL expansion areas

I think that the role of the games current administration is to reduce the risk as much as possible. A risk reward which all businesses, successful one's are in tune with. The NRL has faced near death in the last few decades, I'm more than happy with the current approach.

 

[T to the T]

Vlad has so fcked this whole thing up. You’d think he would have learnt from his nsw govt stadium spat disaster, but guess not.

the real loser is rugby league in WA, could have gone to a whole new level that eclipsed the boom of the 90’s.

oh well life goes on.

I thought you said this was a done deal with your ITK contact. Was that actually bullshit then considering what you've just posted?

 

[Perth Red]

The WA Government f**ked this up mate.
Bending the knee to your AFL loving mates.

Last triple-A standing: WA Government touts $4.3bn surplus in annual report of state finances | PS News

Significant operating surpluses and lower net debt have reduced the interest rate risk for Western Australia - making it the…

psnews.com.au

Nrl has been offered $50mill investment from the bid and around $300mill investment from wa govt. Once in a life opportunity for the game and for wa and nrl has fcked it big time by looks of it. Given what’s been offered and turned down you have to question if they were ever that serious.

 

[taste2taste]

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Is this the paper that has been anti NRL ?

 

[Perth Red]

I thought you said this was a done deal with your ITK contact. Was that actually bullshit then considering what you've just posted?

Nope the bloke told me it was done, either this continues to be games played or he was wrong. I guess we’ll know soon enough. Next weeks nrl event is set to be a major deflating experience.

 

[BuffaloRules]

I thought you said this was a done deal with your ITK contact. Was that actually bullshit then considering what you've just posted?

He has a dodgy source .. to be fair though … he doesn’t appear to be on his own there

 

[BuffaloRules]

Nope the bloke told me it was done, either this continues to be games played or he was wrong. I guess we’ll know soon enough. Next weeks nrl event is set to be a major deflating experience.

20k is the pass mark now for the crowd I hear

 

[taste2taste]

Isnt this what the NRL always does ?

Same thing happened with the RLPA
Same thing happened with PNG

It all worked out in the end.

 

[BuffaloRules]

I don’t think it was png, I think it was Tasmania & the hundreds of millions the afl have been handed from all levels of government.

For a stadium … they don’t own ?

The NRL was getting a stadium upgrade in Perth as well right? Did that not suffice?

 

[Perth Red]

I don’t think it was png, I think it was Tasmania & the hundreds of millions the afl have been handed from all levels of government.

Thing the nrl and people on here continues to ignore about tassie is the AFL are also committing massive funds to tasmania. As far as we know nrl has offered nothing to this deal beyond the normal club grant.

 

[flippikat]

Isnt this what the NRL always does ?

Same thing happened with the RLPA
Same thing happened with PNG

It all worked out in the end.

I hope that's what eventuates here, that it'll all work out in the end, and a month from now we'll all be breathing easy... BUT the level of brinksmanship in this case is pretty exasperating.

 

[BuffaloRules]

Vlad has so fcked this whole thing up. You’d think he would have learnt from his nsw govt stadium spat disaster, but guess not.

the real loser is rugby league in WA, could have gone to a whole new level that eclipsed the boom of the 90’s.

oh well life goes on.

Looks like your AFL Liberal paper loves Cook now …lol

 

[Bukowski]

Is this the paper that has been anti NRL ?

Yeah.

 

[Perth Red]

Looks like your AFL Liberal paper loves Cook now …lol

Well they’re getting a win in one of their two agendas by look of it. Can’t lose really, cook does a deal they’ll slam him for wasting wa money, cook doesn’t do a deal they’ll use it to slam nrl as an east coast centric comp making afl look good.

 

[Canard]

What happened to Mr inside information?

Must have missed this memo.

Haha f**k me.

All these Bears wankers and @Wb1234 just kept howling at people to shut up, as they had the inside running.

And anyone who dared suggest 2027 was to soon would be abused.

Let's be honest, the Bears need to f**k right off of any further expansion discussions for WA.

 

[Canard]

Isnt this what the NRL always does ?

Same thing happened with the RLPA
Same thing happened with PNG

It all worked out in the end.

Only if the NRL concede on demands.

WA just isn't going to tip in any more cash, it's political suicide in this economic environment.

And 2027 is definitely off the cards