There's two things the arlc want regarding expansion, the game to get better and a new team that brings in more players thru, strong ones, not some inkling that they'll come good in 5-10 years,
Instant success needs to be on the agenda...
dolphins ticked plenty of boxes, but if Ipswich got picked instead of them they would have probably been the better bid in regards to junior catchments and better athletes from its local area..but as we've seen the dolphins and broncos seem to be content on bringing in whoever from wherever to buy into their setup, so realistically you CAN have a perth team do the same thing, that same way, but it the issue of who bulks first mentality, regarding WA..
you need to get a coach and a few marquees even before a bid is even looked at as favourable, we all saw how all the off market signings went when the dolphins were pursuing anyone of note, they ended up being a tool to raise the current asking price of the existing club the players were already at.
Perth will struggle as much as Newcastle, Canberra and Gold Coast do, its a shame but i feel its an expansion that should have been kept around to bear fruit now, rather than restarting up now, newsltd were poor on this hindsight, we need to stop exacerbating the lack of perth and focus on what we do well now, and Perth or Adelaide will end up on our doorstep with a better or hungrier bid