Lol....the BRL was decimated by the Broncos to a nothing competition. And Superleague f**ked up the Crushers.
If you can't see the difference between superleague and poker machines than you're pretty daft.
But we already know that.
Btw Rabbitohs don't have poker machines.
Unlike Qld clubs.
You need to brush up on your history.
The Broncos were invited into the NSWRL by Arthurson and Quayle, who wanted a Brisbane team in 1987, but the QRL said "no". Quayle then called Queenslanders "backwards".
The Broncos were the final nail in the coffin of a corpse that was slowly bled dry by cashed up Sydney Leagues Clubs who were filthy rich from poker machine revenue. Sydney clubs bought up the best players for years, and did it at a greater rate during the 80s. The BRL clubs spent everything they had to hold onto their players, and it sent the likes of Pastoral Brothers Leprechauns and Fortitude Valley Diehards into terminal decline and almost claimed Wynnum Manly Seagulls.
If you didn't know that pokies were illegal in Queensland until the Wayne Goss Labor Gov legalised electronic gaming machines in the 1990s then you don't have a clue. Tweed Heads Seagulls went broke because the oldies from the Gold Coast who used to catch the bus over the border to play the pokies could now do it in their own neighbourhood, so Gold Coast Seagulls became Gold Coast Chargers.
If you think poker machines are not a social ill then there's no hope for you. People have lost their lifetime earnings thanks to pokie machines feeding their addiction issues. Super League didn't lead to people with addiction problems going bankrupt, yet you whine about it like a bitch because it broke up a Sydney suburban competition that was masquerading as a legitimate national league. Many of the Sydney teams couldn't make the transition from semi-professionalism to full-time professionalism. Arthurson and Quayle originly came up with the idea of rationalising Sydney in the 80s. Super League merely sped up the decline of clubs who were created in a suburban competition and had enough fans and resources to compete at that level, but couldn't afford the costs of flying around the country with players and staff on a full-time salary.
Why don't you blame Arthurson and Quayle for dooming Sydney's smaller clubs when they decided to expand in 1982?