West Coast Eagles?

[Get Rid of The Donkeys]

What are the odds of the West Coast Eagles buying Manly and shipping them over to Perth?

I know it sounds crazy, but wouldn't it be a smart business decision for the West Coast Eagles to field teams under their brand in Australia's two largest sporting leagues?

It would give their sponsors a strong foothold in all of Australia's main cities, which is something no other club in the country can offer. Their NRL team can play on weekends when the AFL team is interstate, creating another source of income and making their brand accessible to their fans 23 or 24 weeks of the year. The supporters who are stuck on the waiting list to get a season ticket might very well jump at the opportunity to see their club take on the "east coast" every fortnight at Perth Oval.

I know this will be laughed at by the usual knockers, but it's a genuine question. Smart businessmen don't care about petty sporting rivalries. They just care about making money.

 

[Perth Red]

nice in theory but batsht stupidity in reality. 1. Nrl clubs don’t make money 2. Why would you want to make a competitor succesful? 3. Why would penn sell his beloved club?

 

[Get Rid of The Donkeys]

nice in theory but batsht stupidity in reality. 1. Nrl clubs don’t make money 2. Why would you want to make a competitor succesful? 3. Why would penn sell his beloved club?

The Broncos make a good profit each year.

The Eagles' biggest competitor is the Dockers. Putting RL games on the same weekend as the Dockers could eat into their fanbase. Plus, having a team in the AFL and NRL would lead to Ch9 treating them more favourably and, is possibly the only way to get the local media to heavily promote an RL club in an AFL-mad city.

It would be a huge blow to the Force, too.

Having the Eagles on board would help draw in fans that wouldn't give the Pirates or any other brand the time of day.

 

[ReddFelon]

The Broncos make a good profit each year.

The Eagles' biggest competitor is the Dockers. Putting RL games on the same weekend as the Dockers could eat into their fanbase. Plus, having a team in the AFL and NRL would lead to Ch9 treating them more favourably and, is possibly the only way to get the local media to heavily promote an RL club in an AFL-mad city.

It would be a huge blow to the Force, too.

Having the Eagles on board would help draw in fans that wouldn't give the Pirates or any other brand the time of day.

Dockers fans aren't going to stop supporting the Dockers because West Coast buys a Rugby League team.

It wouldn't impact the Force at all, the Force are on very good terms with the Eagles. Nick Natinui is literally a Force lifetime member.

But I'll kill this dead in a simple way; both the West Coast Eagles and Fremantle Dockers are owned by the West Australian Football Commission. They're independently run organisations, but their owner is the administration of all Australian Rules Football in WA. You're basically asking for Cricket Australia to invest in Baseball.

 

[Perth Red]

It’s a

The Broncos make a good profit each year.

The Eagles' biggest competitor is the Dockers. Putting RL games on the same weekend as the Dockers could eat into their fanbase. Plus, having a team in the AFL and NRL would lead to Ch9 treating them more favourably and, is possibly the only way to get the local media to heavily promote an RL club in an AFL-mad city.

It would be a huge blow to the Force, too.

Having the Eagles on board would help draw in fans that wouldn't give the Pirates or any other brand the time of day.

It’s a pittance in the grand scheme, around $5mill in a good year. For a $100mill a year org like the Eagles it’s not a good investment to invest in a competitor for that sort of return. Bit like suggesting McDonald’s should buy hungry jacks.

 

[MugaB]

What are the odds of the West Coast Eagles buying Manly and shipping them over to Perth?

I know it sounds crazy, but wouldn't it be a smart business decision for the West Coast Eagles to field teams under their brand in Australia's two largest sporting leagues?

It would give their sponsors a strong foothold in all of Australia's main cities, which is something no other club in the country can offer. Their NRL team can play on weekends when the AFL team is interstate, creating another source of income and making their brand accessible to their fans 23 or 24 weeks of the year. The supporters who are stuck on the waiting list to get a season ticket might very well jump at the opportunity to see their club take on the "east coast" every fortnight at Perth Oval.

I know this will be laughed at by the usual knockers, but it's a genuine question. Smart businessmen don't care about petty sporting rivalries. They just care about making money.

Dumb idea, ......not suprising

 

[Get Rid of The Donkeys]

Dumb idea, ......not suprising

Like proposing a PNG team based in Cairns?

 

[Perth Red]

Like proposing a PNG team based in Cairns?

touché lol

 

[MugaB]

Like proposing a PNG team based in Cairns?

Or like proposing AFL buy a club in the NRL that has competing sponsors, to what end? Make NRL national? ....only a in logan

Besides I never "PROPOSED" that PNG bid, it was a bid that already existed... obviously one that makes your cowboy boot tremble enough to poke fun at... I'm more happy to see a legit pathway for PNG players that isn't 2 hours away in NT or 5 hours away in perth, like PR and most other folk here comment about

 

[Get Rid of The Donkeys]

Or like promising AFL buy a club in the NRL that has competing sponsors, to what end? Make NRL national? ....only a in logan

Don't the Collingwood Magpies and Melbourne Storm have a professional team in the netball competition?

 

[MugaB]

Don't the Collingwood Magpies and Melbourne Storm have a professional team in the netball competition?

Netball isnt AFL, or NRL name one AFL team that is owned by NRL or vice versa...

Better yet fk this pointless shit.... ....unsubscribe

 

[Get Rid of The Donkeys]

Netball isnt AFL, or NRL name one AFL team that is owned by NRL or vice versa...

Better yet fk this pointless shit.... ....unsubscribe

Just because it hasn't been done yet doesn't mean someone won't do it in the future. No one knows what the sporting landscape will be like in 10 years time. If our game retains its myopic stance then fumbleball will be so far ahead of us that they could afford to buy an NRL club, just like the Storm and Magpies bought into netball.

WWF bought WCW back in 2001, just four years after WCW was the dominant company and trashing the WWF in the Monday Night Wars.

 

[Perth Red]

I'm more happy to see a legit pathway for PNG players that isn't 2 hours away in NT or 5 hours away in perth, like PR and most other folk here comment about

Unlike one 3 hours away in cairns?

 

[MugaB]

Unlike one 3 hours away in cairns?

1 maybe 1 and half, have you seen a map?

 

[Perth Red]

Google flight times. It’s actually 1hr 50mins.
darwin 2hrs 40mins
perth 4hrs 50mins

not that it matters it’s still a whacky idea to base a club in a different country lol

 

[MugaB]

Google flight times. It’s actually 1hr 50mins.
darwin 2hrs 40mins
perth 4hrs 50mins

not that it matters it’s still a whacky idea to base a club in a different country lol

Still closer yes? Closer in distances aswell, i mean if the cowboys have the whole of north qld to draw from rockhampton to cairns and all areas inland, Port Moresby to Cairns isn't a reach, but a port moresby to Perth, might as well have the Pirates source from South Africa

 

[Perth Red]

Still closer yes?

still whacky yes! Admittedly not as whacky as thinking the biggest sports club in the country would want to buy manly and move them to perth and run a club in a rival sport, but still..

 

[MugaB]

still whacky yes! Admittedly not as whacky as thinking the biggest sports club in the country would want to buy manly and move them to perth and run a club in a rival sport, but still..

Back to the subject, in regards to manly, i would rather see them move to a stadium built around Gordon, and own the northern Suburbs, not just the northern beaches, if the govt was truly on board with future planning, that would be the best idea, purely coz roosters aren't moving from the SFS, and can reach the north shore with its ties to the bears, and the Bears are never returning, so why not have manly SPREAD its Wings above the north shore area, and encapsulate both the beaches and Chatswood to Hornsby all the way to CC

 

[Get Rid of The Donkeys]

still whacky yes! Admittedly not as whacky as thinking the biggest sports club in the country would want to buy manly and move them to perth and run a club in a rival sport, but still..

If some one told us back in 1998 that the Storm would draw attendances of 16k and have one of the best membership tallies in the league, in addition to being one of the most watched teams on TV and running a professional netball club out of Sunshine Coast by 2020, how many of us would have believed them?

Who would have thought that a franchise based Twenty20 league in India would hold precedence over Tests and ODIs?

Twenty20 was introduced in England back in 2003 to help build interest in a dwindling sport. Look at how it has changed the landscape!

Did anyone think rugby 7s would become a huge hit?

Go back 12 years and few people would have predicted the them to survive and become profitable once News Ltd sold them off.

How many people on here laughed at the prospect of a BRL club getting chosen over a fresh brand?

People laughed when I said Brisbane should have more than 2 teams, but the people who run the game said there might be another one from Brisbane and told the Firehawks and Jets to stay around for when the 18th licence is put to tender.

If the West Coast Eagles thought they could make money and become even more powerful by buying into the NRL then I don't see why they wouldn't consider it. Money makes the world go around.

 

[Get Rid of The Donkeys]

Back to the subject, in regards to manly, i would rather see them move to a stadium built around Gordon, and own the northern Suburbs, not just the northern beaches, if the govt was truly on board with future planning, that would be the best idea, purely coz roosters aren't moving from the SFS, and can reach the north shore with its ties to the bears, and the Bears are never returning, so why not have manly SPREAD its Wings above the north shore area, and encapsulate both the beaches and Chatswood to Hornsby all the way to CC

It would make sense for the Sea Eagles to represent the Northern Beaches and Central Coast and for the Roosters to represent the North Shore and CBD. If they did this then both clubs could be juggernauts on and off the field.