AdelaideSharky
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Hopefully Bears fans can stop deathriding the other clubs now they're back.
Welcome back, it's good to see the Bears out of hibernation.
Welcome back, it's good to see the Bears out of hibernation.
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Would love more detail on that.
It was a dig at Bears fans on Facebook in years past deathriding us when we were going through our well documented dark times clamouring for us to be kicked out Souths style and for them to take our place.
Facebook groups are the bottom of the barrel. I wouldn’t take anything on social media as a representation of any club’s full fan base.
I love your optimism, but "Govt spending money" is always going to be spun negatively by Australia's commercial media outlets.
Unfortunately a packed stadium in PNG isn't generating much income though.
Fair point, BUT I was talking about the week-in, week-out scheduling aspect.
This is the actual order that expansion should be happening. There's no way Christchurch won't be 1000× more prepared for entry than PNG in 2029.
“While the WA government will not pay a licence fee, a further $20 million will be committed to a Centre of Excellence with a promise that there will likely be an upgrade of their home ground - HBF Stadium.”
*Under the terms of the final agreement over Perth, it is understood the WA government has committed to spend:
- $35 million on grassroots football over the next seven years;
- $25 million on content over the next five years; and
- nearly $6 million on helping with costs of the new side.
While the WA government will not pay a licence fee, a further $20 million will be committed to a Centre of Excellence with a promise that there will likely be an upgrade of their home ground - HBF Stadium.
This masthead understands that the ARL Commission will run the new Perth franchise for a minimum of five years before it becomes a member-based club.*
Some good detail here that I haven't seen in other articles. The most intriguing one to me is the 25 million dollars for content over 5 years.
Interesting what it could be for, assuming it would cover 2 origin games in that period plus a double header and game at hbf each year.
From memory they paid 5 million for an origin and double header for 1 year a while back which would leave a lot of value to be recouped in other content to reach 25 million. Could they get magic round one year or something similar. Maybe just some more double headers and games at hbf until 2027?
Yeh absoloutely, it's also a good way of disguising a license fee imo.
Origin cycle seems set to be perth/adelaide/melbourne for the foreseeable future with auckland the only other real possibility, so a maximum of 2 in perth over 5 years.
lol, not unless they give us double the salary cap! Look at how hard Redcliffe found it to land star players in year 1. reality is if you want to prise a quality player away from his current team you have to pay significant overs. A solid experienced squad with one big name player and some SL talent will do for year 1 and 2.
