Welcome to the comp, Redcliffe.

[MugaB]

Souths made $14mill profit? wtf? Credibility of article = zero.

Have you seen their sold out crowds FKN LoL

 

[Perth Red]

Have you seen their sold out crowds FKN LoL

Critical thinking is a lost skill

 

[MugaB]

Critical thinking is a lost skill

It's a skill that no one cares for, especially on a footy forum... where's the storm in all this?

 

[Perth Red]

It's a skill that no one cares for, especially on a footy forum...

That much is evident

 

[Wb1234]

Yeh they got the profit figures wrong imo

south’s might be 5 million plus though

 

[Perth Red]

 

[titoelcolombiano]

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Congrats on the sell-out Dolphins. Second biggest club in the NRL

 

[Wb1234]

Congrats on the sell-out Dolphins. Second biggest club in the NRL

10,024 fans more than Perth

 

[Pippen94]

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10k in smaller venue may be cost effective

 

[Get Rid of The Donkeys]

Typical Perth Rat.

 

[Perth Red]

10,024 fans more than Perth

Remind me again what was last crowd in perth? Oh yeh 46k lol

just back from craven park where even Rovers got a bigger crowd than dolphins lol
what a waste of a brisbane license.

 

[mongoose]

Raiders getting in the way of Dolphins again, both in the forum and on the field.

 

[AlwaysGreen]

What a bitter old toss AFL Red is.

 

[docbrown]

What a bitter old toss AFL Red is.

Finally something we can all agree upon.

 

[Vlad59]

Critical thinking is a lost skill

Critical wanking is your speciality!

 

[Wb1234]

Finally something we can all agree upon.

Always angry isn’t much better

 

[The Great Dane]

@The Great Dane

No meaningful growth in Brisbane? lol

You can keep being performatively stupid and continue to pretend you don't understand the point if you like, but yes, the Dolphins admission into the NRL hasn't resulted in any genuine market growth for the sport or league at all.

Selling more of the product to the same pre-existing customer base isn't, and never will be, the same as attracting new customers.

 

[The Great Dane]

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Not saying they didn't sell the tickets, but that stadium was a third empty last night...

 

[The Great Dane]

I'd like to hear @Perth Red, @Colk, @mongoose and @The Great Dane explain why they believe Brisbane Tigers shouldn't get an NRL licence, despite the two richest clubs in the NRL being from Brisbane!

Every new club you add in Brisbane/SEQ is simply more competition in the marketplace.

In other words they're not adding anything substantive, they're just another competitor for the pre-existing customer base. At which point you're just splitting the pie between more and more entities until sooner or later you hit a saturation point where it isn't sustainable anymore.

What'd inevitably happen if you went down that path in Brisbane/SEQ is you'd end up with two, maybe three on occasion, big successful clubs and a bunch of spares that effectively squat on licenses and suck up resources.

You also have to take into consideration the needs of the league as a whole and other markets. In the NRL's case there's limited space in the competition unless they're willing to radically restructure of the league (which is probably inevitable in the long term if we assume continuous growth, but that discussion is adjacent to the current one), so adding another team in SEQ necessitates another team/market, which would brings it's own individual benefits to the league, missing out on a spot for at least the foreseeable future.

 

[Get Rid of The Donkeys]

Every new club you add in Brisbane/SEQ is simply more competition in the marketplace.

In other words they're not adding anything substantive, they're just another competitor for the pre-existing customer base. At which point you're just splitting the pie between more and more entities until sooner or later you hit a saturation point where it isn't sustainable anymore.

What'd inevitably happen if you went down that path in Brisbane/SEQ is you'd end up with two, maybe three on occasion, big successful clubs and a bunch of spares that effectively squat on licenses and suck up resources.

You also have to take into consideration the needs of the league as a whole and other markets. In the NRL's case there's limited space in the competition unless they're willing to radically restructure of the league (which is probably inevitable in the long term if we assume continuous growth, but that discussion is adjacent to the current one), so adding another team in SEQ necessitates another team/market, which would brings it's own individual benefits to the league, missing out on a spot for at least the foreseeable future.

Is there another market in Australia capable of supporting an NRL club without assiatance?

Perth needs a new stadium and a high performance training centre. The bloke running their bid is a pawnbroker. Technology is sending pawnbrokers out of business.

Adelaide has no interest in joining the NRL.

Melbourne 2 has zero chance before 2050.