WA BEARS

[Perth Red]

Looks like the nrl is offering each club one million each from its own cash reserves plus their share when the club gets sold

Who knows maybe your mate will buy it off the nrl

Interesting to see he offered a license fee of 30 milllion which Was rejected

I can’t remember which posters were telling us he would never offer a license fee under any circumstance or that the revised offer was 20 million

Can you remember who that poster was ?

Nrl would want to be selling it for 30 to 50 million to get its money back plus give the clubs a nice kick back

They’ve got the $30mill wrong and have it mixed up with the $30mill initial investment they were offering. journos are useless.

I thought it was supposed to be going to members in 5 years?

 

[Wb1234]

They’ve got the $30mill wrong and have it mixed up with the $30mill initial investment they were offering. journos are useless.

I thought it was supposed to be going to members in 5 years?

Yeh that seems to have gone by the wayside if the recent articles are accurate

Clubs have been promised each a share of the sale proceeds plus a bribe of 500k but now 1 million each to approve it

Clubs are greedy

Down the track I guess Perth will get their cut of a nz2 or Ipswich fee

Clubs are already receiving some of the png bribe money lol

 

[Red&BlackBear]

Didn’t dragons try to get him there as ceo and he’s widely tipped to take over as knights ceo at end of this year?

What’s your point? You want to follow the Dragons and Knights lead?

He isn’t a ceo mate, not what a start up franchise needs anyways but would make for an outstanding football operations manager.

 

[taste2taste]

Why are the clubs receiving any money ? And why are they voting for Perths inclusion??

I thought the whole point of an independent commission was to make decisions in the best interests of the game and to take control away from the clubs.

 

[Red&BlackBear]

Why are the clubs receiving any money ? And why are they voting for Perths inclusion??

I thought the whole point of an independent commission was to make decisions in the best interests of the game and to take control away from the clubs.

It isn’t a voting system. It’s a consultancy system. Clubs are required to be consulted by ARLC via NRL of decisions that the commission make which will impact the fabric of the game.

IE expansion impacts resourcing. Clubs for the most part provide the resourcing. Therefore, expansion impacts the clubs. It also impacts the amount of money clubs receive short term from other stakeholders as things thin out before bulging again.

The ARLC are free to make any suggestion or decision they see fit for the greater good of the game but clubs and other bodies ie RLPA, QRL and NSWRL have a right to have a say and state their opinions on matters and those opinions need to be taken into consideration by ARLC.

The money clubs receive via one off payment is to negate the short term thinning out of overall distribution of funds clubs would receive otherwise had a new club not come in.

In the end it’ll all work out for the better ie better broadcast and media deals, better commercial opportunities etc but that’s later down the line. The cash is for the present. Hope that clears it up for you.

 

[Canard]

All the talk of how many games will be played in Sydney is the wrong focus.

And suggesting that some (not all) are already agitating for the team to be Sydney based.

The entire focus needs to be on WA, and that sort of shit needs to be shut-down immediately by the NRL.

WA fans will quickly get mightily pissed off about it being all Sydney all the time in the press coverage

 

[Wb1234]

Why are the clubs receiving any money ? And why are they voting for Perths inclusion??

I thought the whole point of an independent commission was to make decisions in the best interests of the game and to take control away from the clubs.

Cause clubs and the state bodies control whose on the commission and can kick out anybody including Pvl

The independent commission was indep of news corp but not of the clubs or state Bodies

 

[T-Boon]

All the talk of how many games will be played in Sydney is the wrong focus.

And suggesting that some (not all) are already agitating for the team to be Sydney based.

The entire focus needs to be on WA, and that sort of shit needs to be shut-down immediately by the NRL.

WA fans will quickly get mightily pissed off about it being all Sydney all the time in the press coverage

The Sydney Swans would be the example of expansion success to follow for Perth Bears.
They can be Perth's team while having a lot of the traditional North Sydney fans and throwing them a bone (which can be done just with away games being played at SFS such as when they play Roosters, Souths, Penrith, Cronulla).

 

[Wb1234]

 

[Centy Coast]

All the talk of how many games will be played in Sydney is the wrong focus.

And suggesting that some (not all) are already agitating for the team to be Sydney based.

The entire focus needs to be on WA, and that sort of shit needs to be shut-down immediately by the NRL.

WA fans will quickly get mightily pissed off about it being all Sydney all the time in the press coverage

The Sydney media will mostly be Bears obsessed, unfortunately WA’s newspaper the West Australian would rather publish negative rugby league articles.

 

[Vee]

For CEO Id go for Peter Parr. He's well respected, been in club land for decades and started his career at the Western Reds.

Failure as CEO at the Cowboys. Excellent as a Head of Football.

 

[Gobsmacked]

The Sydney media will mostly be Bears obsessed, unfortunately WA’s newspaper the West Australian would rather publish negative rugby league articles.

They're just catering to their biggest audience in AFL diehards. AFL is popular in less than half of 1 small country, that has competition! They're very insecure.

The massive bonus of the Bears out in Perth is that they will generate a massive TV audience and media attention in Sydney, which translates to revenue for the game as a whole.

If it were just a Perth pop up franchise, we'd have a small negative dedication hidden away in the West Australian.

It's a funny story that the Bears has because their absence has made our RL hearts grow fonder...and now that fondness isn't constrained to the saturated Sydney market but has inherited a City all to itself in a land mass bigger than Europe.
The Bears return will be bigger and better than ever!
Good things come to those who wait indeed.

 

[Senor M]

They're just catering to their biggest audience in AFL diehards. AFL is popular in less than half of 1 small country, that has competition! They're very insecure.

The massive bonus of the Bears out in Perth is that they will generate a massive TV audience and media attention in Sydney, which translates to revenue for the game as a whole.

If it were just a Perth pop up franchise, we'd have a small negative dedication hidden away in the West Australian.

It's a funny story that the Bears has because their absence has made our RL hearts grow fonder...and now that fondness isn't constrained to the saturated Sydney market but has inherited a City all to itself in a land mass bigger than Europe.
The Bears return will be bigger and better than ever!
Good things come to those who wait indeed.

The Sydney market is already saturated; adding the Bears won’t increase TV audiences in Sydney; nor would it attract new sponsors focused on a NSW market.

The biggest benefits of a Perth based side are:
- Growing the league to 18 teams means an extra game a round; which
—Access to an additional time slot; with the potential to hold a 9:30pm Saturday game; and more regular 6pm Sunday games. Timeslots that are more viewer friendly for South African, Middle Eastern & European audiences— especially if the focus is growing the gambling markets. This is particularly beneficial for DAZN (the new Pay TV rights holders)
— The ability to gain more fans in a new market. As someone said recently; there is a large population of Polynesians & South Africans in Perth that will support League.
- Fixturing the Perth side so it doesn’t clash with the Eagles will be effective at growing crowds; as fans on the Eagles “waitlist” for memberships will attend NRL games if they don’t clash with watching the Eagles on TV

 

[Mother Nature's Son]

They're just catering to their biggest audience in AFL diehards. AFL is popular in less than half of 1 small country, that has competition! They're very insecure.

The massive bonus of the Bears out in Perth is that they will generate a massive TV audience and media attention in Sydney, which translates to revenue for the game as a whole.

If it were just a Perth pop up franchise, we'd have a small negative dedication hidden away in the West Australian.

It's a funny story that the Bears has because their absence has made our RL hearts grow fonder...and now that fondness isn't constrained to the saturated Sydney market but has inherited a City all to itself in a land mass bigger than Europe.
The Bears return will be bigger and better than ever!
Good things come to those who wait indeed.

Look mate I like your premise but you can`t have it both ways.

"afl is popular in less than half of 1 small country"

" but has (The Bears) inherited a city all to itself in a land mass bigger than Europe"

The Sydney media will mostly be Bears obsessed, unfortunately WA’s newspaper the West Australian would rather publish negative rugby league articles.

Yeah they will, certainly at least initially.

If I had to make a prediction the North Sydney part of it will die down pretty quickly, except for moments of high excitement, like making finals etc where it will be referenced for nostalgic purposes, other than that I think the Perth part of the equation will pretty quickly become accepted.

 

[Canard]

The massive bonus of the Bears out in Perth is that they will generate a massive TV audience and media attention in Sydney, which translates to revenue for the game as a whole.

That's a one off sugar hit at best, and will fade quickly.

If the WA media aren't going to do it, the NRL needs to focus on Perth and WA.

The only thing I think they should lean into is the "lovable losers" image, as they are likely to have some struggles early on.

 

[Perth Red]

What’s your point? You want to follow the Dragons and Knights lead?

He isn’t a ceo mate, not what a start up franchise needs anyways but would make for an outstanding football operations manager.

Haha my point is you dont think he’s ceo material but two nrl clubs do. Think I’ll go with their opinion over yours.

 

[Perth Red]

Got a tip last night the offical announcement will come next week and vlad is flying over for it. We shall see.

 

[Mother Nature's Son]

Last ditch effort to get some ` insider knowledge` cred back. LOL.

 

[Canard]

Got a tip last night the offical announcement will come next week and vlad is flying over for it. We shall see.

Surely it's after the Fed Election?

This would get buried in the news cycle if next week, and likely only hurt WA Federal Labor.

 

[Gobsmacked]

Look mate I like your premise but you can`t have it both ways.

"afl is popular in less than half of 1 small country"

" but has (The Bears) inherited a city all to itself in a land mass bigger than Europe"


Yeah they will, certainly at least initially.

If I had to make a prediction the North Sydney part of it will die down pretty quickly, except for moments of high excitement, like making finals etc where it will be referenced for nostalgic purposes, other than that I think the Perth part of the equation will pretty quickly become accepted.

AFL is popular in one small country- the entire existence of an entire sport , yes, that's small.

The Bears have inherited a land mass bigger than Europe- just 1 club, yes big. in a GLOBAL sport

I might point out that neither of these statements were in reference to each other.

The Bears was an example of the contrast between a small pocket in Sydney compared with WA
The AFL statements was to highlight why the AFL is protective of its territory.

Maybe just read the post properly...