West Coast Pirates Bid News

[Perth Red]

Sponsors on board with the Reds:

• Bartercard
• Cash Converters
• Harvey Norman
• SEW Eurodrive
• Centre Ford
• Geoff Baldwin Realty Group
• Unirig
• All Finance Osborne Park
• Belhus Racing Stables
• CMS Events
• DHL Global Forwarding
• Lion Nathan
• Fuller Fitness
• Havilah Legal
• Muldoon Tiles
• Perth Now
• Premium IT
• Quick Colour Print
• Shark Sports
• Starworld Memorabilia
• Sully's Painting
• TDH Insurance Services
• Victor Sports
• WA Cleanskin Cellars
• WebPIXEL
• WA Govt Dept of sport and Rec
• Nova
• Innovative hair loss
• Remax

 

[Perth Red]

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[CowboyFuriousFury]

Count me in Perth Red I may be a QLDer but I gladly support non-heartland teams in particular WA had promise in the past and now in the future. Looking forward to Reds vs Cowboys hopefully by then WA has local talent in it's squad playing keep developing those juniors & seniors. Who knows one day a WA player may be a Kangaroo.

 

[jasonstevenswedgie]

nice poster

 

[BDGS]

I think Brisbane 2 has more disastrous effects for WA potentially then any other bid.

Brisbane 2 may be able to sway the NRL into going with two new heartland bids and looking at WA in later years.

 

[Perth Red]

I think Brisbane 2 has more disastrous effects for WA potentially then any other bid.

Brisbane 2 may be able to sway the NRL into going with two new heartland bids and looking at WA in later years.

Maybe, maybe not. Depends on how forward thinking the IC is, what $'s are available, what financial plan the Reds have and what the TV companies will pay most for. I'm no less confident now than before this bid emerged. The IC would be very conservative to include two heartland teams and not expand the game at this opportunity.

 

[jasonstevenswedgie]

not really, it will be one frontier market (perth) and one heartland (bris2, CC). If expansion goes ahead i would say the reds is the safest bid. Now its time to sit back and see how bris2 develops

 

[Perth Red]

Gallop has said on numerous occasions that one heartland, one expansion is how he sees it.

 

[BDGS]

Maybe, maybe not. Depends on how forward thinking the IC is, what $'s are available, what financial plan the Reds have and what the TV companies will pay most for. I'm no less confident now than before this bid emerged. The IC would be very conservative to include two heartland teams and not expand the game at this opportunity.

I agree but stranger things have happened in our game.

 

[jasonstevenswedgie]

that is true

 

[Perth Red]

I am probably the most pessimistic about our chances, I have followed RL long enough to know how bad our decison makers are and how invariably they manage to f$#k up a good thing!

 

[Perth Red]

Another NRL star backs Perth for expansion:
Billy Slater: "But if you want to make it a national game you have to go national.
"You have to look at expanding to new areas and then putting time and money into making sure they are successful.
"I think you have to persist with Perth.
"I played over there the last couple of years against Souths and we've had a bigger crowd over there then we do going to Sydney most of the time."

http://www.foxsports.com.au/league/...fl-and-the-storm/story-fn2mcuj6-1225995930984

 

[mightybears]

I am probably the most pessimistic about our chances, I have followed RL long enough to know how bad our decison makers are and how invariably they manage to f$#k up a good thing!

Agree 100% with that.

 

[Perth Red]

Architects drawings of the new East and West stands proposed for NIB stadium. There seems to be some disagreement which to build first. Govt wants to build the vote winning public East stand, clubs want the corporate focused West stand first. Building starts in 6-9 months so they'd best get their skates on deciding!

http://www.dsr.wa.gov.au/nibstadium

This is the current East "scaffolding" stand (facing) at last years Sth's v Storm game that is proposed to be replaced first

 

[Bro Bear]

CC Bears would be the safest bid. NRL could change "their minds" and go for two teams in the stronghold and inform others they will enter at a later stage. Bears closing in on 6000 members.

 

[Perth Red]

They could, but they'd be mad to!

 

[Perth Red]

From Gallops interview:

they need to have a sustainable model not just for their own district but they need to be bringing something to the table that everyone can benefit from. Be it increasing the game's national profile which will help with broadcasting and sponsorship, or it's shoring up a strategic area the game has to be conscious of, they are the types of things that need to be considered.

which bid offers that?

 

[BDGS]

That's if the QLD bids have any merit, the only bid with any merit in QLD is CQLD and they won't get in due to their saturated population.

 

[BDGS]

From Gallops interview:

they need to have a sustainable model not just for their own district but they need to be bringing something to the table that everyone can benefit from. Be it increasing the game's national profile which will help with broadcasting and sponsorship, or it's shoring up a strategic area the game has to be conscious of, they are the types of things that need to be considered.

which bid offers that?

WA

Which bid offers that?

To me its sounds like the same old line from mid to late last year just without the examples this time.

 

[muzby]

just because a particular area has a massive population, doesn't necessarily mean that it should be given preference..

yes, perth has a bigger population than the central coast & parts of queensland, however does this mean that their team would get more members, higher revenue or guarantee increased tv viewers? for the team to be a success, there needs to be a higher %age of league fans per head of population... and this is where the other bids trounce perth.. hell, the titans are a great example of this.. they have a good solid supporter base, and they are within a 1hr drive of the broncos..

success comes with the game increasing in popularity, not just by placing a team in a "strategically important" area..


living in enemy territory, i can provide you with proper, factual evidence of this.. the melbourne storm have available to them the 2nd biggest population in australia, yet still struggle to get membership numbers higher than most sydney teams - and this is in a town where the culture is that if you are not a member of your footy club, you may as well not be a supporter..

the storm barely make the back page of the paper, unless it's the day before grand final, or the day after the grand final.. hell, they only really made the front page after the salary cap scandal, whereas an afl player can fart in a supermarket & it's front page.. quite simply, the team has not been given any support to make an indent in AFL, and you can't honestly say that things will be different for perth?

yes, there are rugby league fans there, as there are here.. but when it comes down to it, the majority of the public still see our game as 2nd rate.. and until this changes, expanses into AFL heartland is a waste of time and money.. just as GWS will find from the reverse angle..