alien
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and you can use $1mil of that in extra salary cap space.
I think the other clubs might have a problem with that
and you can use $1mil of that in extra salary cap space.
an outer suburb aye? if it's ok for Penrith to have their own full-time team, then so should the Liverpool-Macarthur area.
If the brand means nothing to them then it will make no difference whether they take that of a new one.
The value in maintaining the brand is in Sydney, not just to please on Balmain fans but all NRL fans. The team your side is playing against matters probably more than just getting to see your own side. We care about the the clash; its why SOuths fans go on mass to their game against the Bulldogs but will not turn up for the match against the Titans.
I dont expect an older brand to help in the new region (but i doubt it would hurt either) and it would add more value to the comp more generally.
(Plus, if they are given a heritage brand, i reckon they are less likely to f*ck around and change jumpers every few months...)
Actually there seems to be a bit more to it then just a random piece in Rugby League Week.
Frankly if the people of Campbelltown want to watch live NRL they don't have to far to travel to see it, they're basically right in the middle of the most over saturated market for RL in the world, and apart from access to the Sydney market (which we've already got with out them) they don't really add anything to the NRL.
The juniors from their area can still be maintained without an NRL club based in Cambelltown, by themselves they don't add a great deal to the TV rights value, and there isn't a great wealth of sponsorship money coming out of Cambelltown that is only interested if a team is based in Cambelltown, and even if all of those things were in Cambelltown they could still be directly accessed by other clubs in Sydney, of which their are plenty.
How ever there certainly should be a Cambelltown club in the Sydney competition and maybe even the state league, but not the national league.
It's not online, but bizarrely NRLWA posted it on their Facebook page if your on Facebook.Can someone post the article???
I cant find it...
That's just the problem though!
If a team is going to be based in Perth it should be for the people of Perth and have the teams success in Perth be it's foremost priority, not pandering to what's left of it's old fanbase (that's what their NSWcup team would be for, BTW no offence to the old fanbase lol), and a brand that both loosely represents Perth/WA and is marketable should be found to represent them, correct me if I'm wrong but tigers simply aren't that brand.
Also it will negatively affect the club (and by extension it's fans) because if the Tigers brand does move to Perth the first thing coming out of the media and opposition fans (both in RL and in other sports) will be how there're not really Perths' club, and the second thing will be a constant barrage of articles and suggestions that the Tigers will be moving home to Sydney every time they start to not go so well. Don't believe me just look at the Swans before they got successful, or the Lions before they won their hat trick of "flags" (even now they still get the odd jab), or go have a look at the Oakland Raiders and LA Rams existence, even we the Raiders still get the odd "Queanbeyan Raiders" jab from detractors (though admittedly that's not quite the same).
Those sorts of rumors and articles and the uncertainty they create can have a massive effect on support, especially for such a raw supporters group in a developmental market like Perth I'd imagine.
Don't get me wrong I wouldn't be opposed to the Tigers keeping their brand if they moved over to Perth, or anywhere else for that matter, as there're positives to keeping their old brand just as there are negatives to creating a new one, it's just for mine the positives to changing brands outweigh the negatives.
Frankly if the people of Campbelltown want to watch live NRL they don't have to far to travel to see it, they're basically right in the middle of the most over saturated market for RL in the world, and apart from access to the Sydney market (which we've already got with out them) they don't really add anything to the NRL.
The juniors from their area can still be maintained without an NRL club based in Cambelltown, by themselves they don't add a great deal to the TV rights value, and there isn't a great wealth of sponsorship money coming out of Cambelltown that is only interested if a team is based in Cambelltown, and even if all of those things were in Cambelltown they could still be directly accessed by other clubs in Sydney, of which their are plenty.
How ever there certainly should be a Cambelltown club in the Sydney competition and maybe even the state league, but not the national league.
the liverpool macarthur area should definitely have it's own fulltime nrl club, and fact you think otherwise shows your ignorance of the area
Given the NRL doesnt seem likely to expand, i think it is far more pressing to have 1 team in Perth and a 9th team in Syndey based in an outer suburb...
I agree that SW Sydney is important; i think the ARLC should take charge of junior development then leave the Eels, Panthers and Bulldogs to fight for the hearts of fans.
But in an outer Sydney suburb, when there are 8 other options in the same city and another option in Wollongong, a team on doorstep of a Macarthur resident is not the No.1 issue.
it's not just some small suburb
I never said it was small. I said it was a suburb on the far edge of the city, a city with 8 (read it, EIGHT!!) other teams...
We have a city of RL fanatics with only 1 team in Brisbane. We have a market of 2 million in Perth with nothing. The entire country of NZ only has 1 team!!!
Yet you think a suburb on the fringe of a city with 8 other teams needs its own one more then anywhere else??
The NRL won't take Easys away for two reasonsWhy would the tigers move before clubs with less support like easts and manly.
The NRL won't take Easys away for two reasons
1. They have over a hundred years of history
2. Easts are the only club to be permanently at SFS they will always want a team their.
Manly should be in the NSW cup IMO. I'd rather see NSB or a Perth team or2nd NZ side