Welcome to the comp, Redcliffe.

[The_Frog]

drop a Sydney team and have both imo.

Which one?

 

[The_Frog]

A quick basis of a team for 2023:

1. Manu
2. ???
3. Bird
4. ???
5. Oates
6. Walker
7. ???
8. Paulo
9. Koroisau
10. ???
11. Kikau
12. ???
13. Martin

14. ???
15. ???
16. ???
17. ???

They can probably get Kikau if they pay the $900k he's asking, but having lost him the Panthers won't let go of either Martin or Koroisau.

 

[titoelcolombiano]

Its so RL to base expansion decisions on removing the most popular club off fta to appease a tv corp who want to drive people to subscribe to its channel in that city lol

I suppose we should be thankful for small mercies but Vlandys mates got just what they wanted and now FTA carries all the risk. If the new club is more Titans than Storm then FTA loses out big time in this deal.

Not a bad thing though that more teams get exposure to FTA and who cares about 9, do they care about us? Fox pays more so why not do that, especially if they are going to up their payments to cover expansion.

9 is embarrassing, Gould (as usual) did nothing but bag the game during our showpiece event on Sunday night

 

[RL The greatest game]

They gonna be awesome and remain Redcliffe still or do something stupid and call themselves Brisbane?

Right decision. Now to figure out where Team 18 comes from.

With Vlandys my bet would be Ipswich.
Fish where the fish are is his phylosophy

 

[RL The greatest game]

Rams?! It'll be perth

You need to put the link on the bigfooty forum. I can't as I'm banned from it and watch the site go into meltdown

 

[I Bleed Maroon]

I don't see any reason why they need to drop the Redcliffe moniker. North Brisbane will still get behind them but North Brisbane Dolphins is probably the safer bet.

 

[Diesel]

So what was the go with the stadium for Redcliffe? Are they going to play out of Moreton Daily Stadium, and some games at Suncorp?

Is Moreton Daily even up to full-time NRL standard? Its capacity is only 11,500?

I’ve heard it mentioned twice that it’s 8 games at Suncorp, 3 in Redcliffe, 1 Sunny Coast and 1 elsewhere/Magic round.
It appears the Dolphins are playing 13 home games

 

[King-Gutho94]

Yeah i am not a fan of calling them Brisbane Dolphins. You want a bit of a difference to the Broncos.

And i am not of fan of having 2 teams under the same name like Brisbane. It may work in other sports.

Even the AFL at least called the 2nd sydney team GWS and wasnt just called the Sydney Giants.

At least the redcliffe name is representing an area. I suppose will it generate enough support in SEQ.

My father told me he hated redcliffe back in the BRL days in the mid 80s when he was up in brisbane playing football. He said he loved beating them

 

[Quidgybo]

Moreton Bay Dolphins.

 

[Smug Panther]

No need to change the name. Would be moronic to do so

 

[mongoose]

Yeah i am not a fan of calling them Brisbane Dolphins. You want a bit of a difference to the Broncos.

And i am not of fan of having 2 teams under the same name like Brisbane. It may work in other sports.

Even the AFL at least called the 2nd sydney team GWS and wasnt just called the Sydney Giants.

At least the redcliffe name is representing an area. I suppose will it generate enough support in SEQ.

My father told me he hated redcliffe back in the BRL days in the mid 80s when he was up in brisbane playing football. He said he loved beating them

this has been discussed ad nauseum in the expansion forum. It needs to be a second Brisbane team or a team that represents a large area at least, not just a suburb. Are people across Brisbane going to want to support a Redcliffe team? maybe, maybe not.
Moreton Bay Dolphins, South QLD Dolphins, East Coast Dolphins could all work....

 

[Smug Panther]

this has been discussed ad nauseum in the expansion forum. It needs to be a second Brisbane team or a team that represents a large area at least, not just a suburb. Are people across Brisbane going to want to support a Redcliffe team? maybe, maybe not.
Moreton Bay Dolphins, South QLD Dolphins, East Coast Dolphins could all work....

A silly name change won't fool anyone. They are who they are

 

[Hartwood]

A silly name change won't fool anyone. They are who they are

Agreed, everyone already knows who the Redcliffe dolphins are

 

[Hartwood]

9 reporting that the Dolphins will be announced this week

 

[Spanner in the works]

Will probably be Brisbane or Redcliffe Dolphins, but would also consider Northside Dolphins, alongside some of the other names mentioned. You either live on the north side or south side of Brisbane...

 

[Exsilium]

If they change the name, they change the historical value of the club itself. If that happens, it really didn’t matter who put their hand up, so long as they had the cash.

 

[Jamberoo]

I’ve heard it mentioned twice that it’s 8 games at Suncorp, 3 in Redcliffe, 1 Sunny Coast and 1 elsewhere/Magic round.
It appears the Dolphins are playing 13 home games

One of those Suncorp games is away v Broncos.

 

[flippikat]

9 reporting that the Dolphins will be announced this week

Yeah, I think the final meetings are Thurs/Friday with stakeholders (basically existing clubs, broadcasters & the bids), so it's quite plausible we'll have a press conference on Friday.

 

[Pippen94]

You need to put the link on the bigfooty forum. I can't as I'm banned from it and watch the site go into meltdown

I'm banned from everywhere but cricket & non afl sections too

 

[Pippen94]

If they change the name, they change the historical value of the club itself. If that happens, it really didn’t matter who put their hand up, so long as they had the cash.

Lots of sporting teams change names particularly when they want to represent larger areas