Welcome to the comp, Redcliffe.

[MugaB]

??? So he was forced to live in Penrith?!

SCOTTY SATTLER

 

[Pippen94]

Plenty of big homes and fancy cars in Logan, too. Suburbs like Daisy Hill, Springwood and Shailer Park have more than their fair share of mansions. On the eastern side of the motorway it's quite affluent. On the western side it's full of housing commissions. The rural suburbs are bloody nice.

So there are nice areas near almost every place & if you work in one of the major cities then commuting is just part of life.

 

[Get Rid of The Donkeys]

So there are nice areas near almost every place & if you work in one of the major cities then commuting is just part of life.

True. I imagine there's plenty of rich people in Penrith. The reason I've been heaping shit on Penrith is because so many of its fans are obnoxious wankers. A few Penrith fans just got evicted for racially abusing Latrell Mitchell.

 

[Pippen94]

True. I imagine there's plenty of rich people in Penrith. The reason I've been heaping shit on Penrith is because so many of its fans are obnoxious wankers. A few Penrith fans just got evicted for racially abusing Latrell Mitchell.

Go into game day thread; ppl are abusing latrell there too

 

[Get Rid of The Donkeys]

Go into game day thread; ppl are abusing latrell there too

Penrith fans no doubt.

 

[Pneuma]

Penrith fans no doubt.

How is the post meth hangover?

 

[MugaB]

True. I imagine there's plenty of rich people in Penrith. The reason I've been heaping shit on Penrith is because so many of its fans are obnoxious wankers. A few Penrith fans just got evicted for racially abusing Latrell Mitchell.

No suprise, a fan in a roosters jersey

And also no suprise grotd the potato only reads half the press, and bends the narritive to hatin on sydney

 

[titoelcolombiano]

The Dolphins are just another shitbox suburban club to go along with all the other wastes of space squatting on licenses in this league, and choosing them for the 17th was a total waste of potential and demonstrates the total lack of ambition both the NRL, and RL in general, has.

Odds are that the Bears will get the 18th license as well given the track record of the current NRL administration, because you know, nothing exists outside of Sydney and SEQ lmfao.

The Dolphins being added to the NRL has really burned you hasn't it! I love how much it gets under your skin. You are even trying to claim that the 32k on the weekend was a failure when in reality neither the Broncos or Crushers came close to that figure for their first game.

To make it worse you compare it to GWS' opening crowd of 38 which you fail to mention was against the Swans. Let's make a fair comparison and put that crowd up against the Dolphins crowd for their crosstown derby match against the Broncos in a couple of weeks and we'll soon see which draws a bigger crowd.

Don't worry mate, the Dolphins are a massive club and they will only get bigger and better now that they are in the NRL.... much to your disgust.

 

[titoelcolombiano]

Trust me no one but small minded heartland fans care where storm gets it’s kids from, just that they have an incredible ability to develop them To nrl standard, and beyond. And that they have been the most succesful club for a decade. The rest of the nrl should be thankful, Storm keep feeding them nrl ready Quality players lol.

bless

The Victorian player pool in the NRL (plus those that have moved on to SL) started with a drip as expected but there are quite a few out there now and the good thing is that ratio has bumped up a little in the last few years. The production line is just starting to pick up momentum.

Rugby league in Victoria - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Canard]

Only 18km between Melbourne's CBD and Bundoora. There's 33km between Brisbane's CBD and Redcliffe. Not exactly a like for like comparison, is it?

If location wasn't a factor then the Warriors and Knights wouldn't get all te discards, would they?

How many stars choose Penrith and Wests?

Not many unless they're paid overs. The big guns will accept less to play for Broncos, Storm and Roosters due to location.

Not even the Titans can lure a big name as the Gold Coast is a regional city.

Its 45mins on a good day in traffic from Bundoora to AAMI park, it wouldn't be much different from Redcliffe to the Brisbane CBD.

But thats not what we are talking about, you are saying that a training base should be in West End because players don't want to live in Redcliffe and want to live where the "inner city rich" are.

The Knights,Titans and Warriors in your opinion have have got "discards" because they are a poor performing clubs. not purely on location. But even thats bullshit, I mean the Warriors have got guys like RTS in recent memory.

Its nothing to do with the location of "inner city rich", particularly when you look at the price of land and Auckland and the areas you can live in.

 

[Pippen94]

How Singleton and Beetson got it right on the Dolphins

Rugby league benefactor and businessman John Singleton reflects on why his late great mate Artie Beetson was so prescient and why Wayne Bennett was the perfect fit as Dolphins coach.

www.google.com

 

[Get Rid of The Donkeys]

Its 45mins on a good day in traffic from Bundoora to AAMI park, it wouldn't be much different from Redcliffe to the Brisbane CBD.

But thats not what we are talking about, you are saying that a training base should be in West End because players don't want to live in Redcliffe and want to live where the "inner city rich" are.

The Knights,Titans and Warriors in your opinion have have got "discards" because they are a poor performing clubs. not purely on location. But even thats bullshit, I mean the Warriors have got guys like RTS in recent memory.

Its nothing to do with the location of "inner city rich", particularly when you look at the price of land and Auckland and the areas you can live in.

Google Maps says it takes 29 minutes to get from Bundoora to Melbourne Rectangular Arena.

I suppose you'll accuse Google Maps of smoking "cones"?

Titans signed Mat Rogers after he was on the nose in rugby union. They also signed Scott Prince after a) he burnt his bridges with the Cowboys to join the Broncos and b) ended up on the scrapheap at the Tigers because he broke his leg twice. It doesn't take much to lure a player away from the Tigers.

RTS was one of the few Kiwis who wanted to return to New Zealand. The majority of New Zealand's best players don't return to New Zealand to play for the Warriors. Few Australians want to live in New Zealand. RTS was an exception to the general rule.

Argue all you like, it doesn't the fact that a centrally based team allows players to live across a wider area. If you sign up to play for the Dolphins then you have to live in Moreton Bay. Few people would choose Moreton Bay over Brisbane. It's why the Broncos got Adam Reynolds to give up the chance of winning a premiership with South Sydney while the Dolphins failed to lure Cameron Munster away from the Storm.

Dolphins didn't land a marquee signing.

 

[The Great Dane]

The Dolphins being added to the NRL has really burned you hasn't it! I love how much it gets under your skin.

Nope, not at all really.

What gets under my skin is how this sport consistently shoots it's self in the foot and fails to live up to it's potential, consistently shows an incapability to learn from it's mistakes, and allows a relative handful of greedy and/or entitled people to hold the sport back because it'd be inconvenient for them.

In other words the Dolphins getting a license is a symptom, not the disease.

BTW, if you want to pretend that 35k for the opening game of a new NRL club in Brisbane in 21st century is good then go ahead, but we both know that most of the fabled anti-Broncos and other QRL fans stayed home last Sunday.

 

[The Great Dane]

How Singleton and Beetson got it right on the Dolphins

Rugby league benefactor and businessman John Singleton reflects on why his late great mate Artie Beetson was so prescient and why Wayne Bennett was the perfect fit as Dolphins coach.

www.google.com

It's funny how all the men with one foot in the grave are celebrating.

They're all like "Yay nostalgia" while pretty much everybody under the age of 40 is like "who gives a shit" then goes back to illegally streaming the UFC.

 

[titoelcolombiano]

Nope, not at all really.

What gets under my skin is how this sport consistently shoots it's self in the foot and fails to live up to it's potential, consistently shows an incapability to learn from it's mistakes, and allows a relative handful of greedy and/or entitled people to hold the sport back because it'd be inconvenient for them.

In other words the Dolphins getting a license is a symptom, not the disease.

BTW, if you want to pretend that 35k for the opening game of a new NRL club in Brisbane in 21st century is good then go ahead, but we both know that most of the fabled anti-Broncos and other QRL fans stayed home last Sunday.

Yes, because selecting the largest RL club (other than the Broncos) in QLD was a terribly wrong decision by the ARLC. They should have definitely gone with one of the bids that weren't the best, that makes complete sense.

32k was a great opening crowd and they drew it against an opponent with few local supporters in Brisbane so even better. Dolphin Oval is a sell-out this week (not hard, I grant you that) as is the Broncos-Dolphins game in Rd 4, so you are catastrophising just a little. Any new team to a professional football league in Australia would love to average 30k+ to their first three matches. All this on the back of 24 months of negative media spin about how much they are struggling to sign marquee talent.

 

[Get Rid of The Donkeys]

I cannot wait for the Broncos vs Dolphins game. The Brisbane Derby.

Redcliffe or Moreton Bay wouldn't be the worst name for the club. The original settlement in Moreton Bay was in Redcliffe before being moved to Wickham Terrace.

 

[The Great Dane]

Yes, because selecting the largest RL club (other than the Broncos) in QLD was a terribly wrong decision by the ARLC.

'Terribly wrong' is strange framing, but the Dolphins weren't even close to the best possible outcome, and time will prove that even if people like you will probably never admit it.

The potential was there in Brisbane to create an instant success perennial powerhouse, whom forced the standards of the whole league up. Unfortunately the only way that the Dolphins don't end up as a lower to middling side within the next decade, give or take, is if success on the pitch papers over the cracks.

People were celebrating the Titans, Steelers, Giants, etc, etc, as massive successes on their opening weekends as well BTW...

 

[Pippen94]

It's funny how all the men with one foot in the grave are celebrating.

They're all like "Yay nostalgia" while pretty much everybody under the age of 40 is like "who gives a shit" then goes back to illegally streaming the UFC.

Do u really think illegal streams for ufc fans in Australia anywhere approach the below?!

I know u just post rubbish but there's an inherent lack of understanding of the relative audience of both

 

[Pippen94]

'Terribly wrong' is strange framing, but the Dolphins weren't even close to the best possible outcome, and time will prove that even if people like you will probably never admit it.

The potential was there in Brisbane to create an instant success perennial powerhouse, whom forced the standards of the whole league up. Unfortunately the only way that the Dolphins don't end up as a lower to middling side within the next decade, give or take, is if success on the pitch papers over the cracks.

People were celebrating the Titans, Steelers, Giants, etc, etc, as massive successes on their opening weekends as well BTW...

Trolling shouldn't sound fake. You protest too much

 

[MugaB]

People were celebrating the Titans, Steelers, Giants, etc, etc, as massive successes on their opening weekends as well BTW...

You forgot the South Qld Crushers? The ultimate answer to the "brisbane city derby"

Mate no one is missing them