Why little mention of the CQ NRL bid?

[Perth Red]

In the same way the NRL should commit to at least 5 games a year at Gosford, if rocky gets a new stadium, they should do the same for CQ.

Every Sydney team should have to take two games, non Sydney clubs one game, on the road each season.
5 Gosford
5 rocky (if stadium gets built)
2 cairns
2 Darwin
2 Hobart
2 Adelaide
2 Wellington
1 Dunedin
1 PNG

 

[oikee]

I was not looking at Rocky to have it's own team right now. I was thinking more about Rocky sharing home games with a Sydney club for maybe 10 years.
This would allow the club to grow fans in both states and grow their brand as well.
It's a idea i think has merit.

I agree with you we need teams in other cities. I also think the NRL have to get a second team into Melbourne, probably Geelong. They should be planning this now, not in 20 years time.

If nothing is done, nothing will be gained. The only other idea that has merit without having to just introduce a couple of new expansion teams, "while all the others miss out", is to look at the new superleague idea.

This will allow 24 clubs to be part of the bigger NRL picture. If you look at the new super league structure for next year, understand how it works, you will see a new world-class idea that would also work here in Australia. It would probably be a better idea than expansion in itself.

 

[Hello, I'm The Doctor]

In the same way the NRL should commit to at least 5 games a year at Gosford, if rocky gets a new stadium, they should do the same for CQ.

Every Sydney team should have to take two games, non Sydney clubs one game, on the road each season.
5 Gosford
5 rocky (if stadium gets built)
2 cairns
2 Darwin
2 Hobart
2 Adelaide
2 Wellington
1 Dunedin
1 PNG

The ARLC putting together a list like this would be a great idea!!!

If they were to create a centralised comity to negotiate the games day, host compensation, ect. for EVERY one of these, then had the 16 clubs place applications for certain games.

It would need to be written into the licences that they have a commitment to pley X number of games in expansion areas, but if they used a "carrot" (incentives/first come, first served) AND a "stick" (fines, ect.), no club would have an excuse and all minor cities would have games...

 

[Lockyer4President!]

In the same way the NRL should commit to at least 5 games a year at Gosford, if rocky gets a new stadium, they should do the same for CQ.

Every Sydney team should have to take two games, non Sydney clubs one game, on the road each season.
5 Gosford
5 rocky (if stadium gets built)
2 cairns
2 Darwin
2 Hobart
2 Adelaide
2 Wellington
1 Dunedin
1 PNG

Don't forget the Sunny Coast and Mackay already have nice, new stadiums.

 

[The Voice of Reason!]

Rocky has a fantastic rail system. Cities are building what Rocky has already got in place, a rail line right through the guts of the city.

Rocky doesn't have a "rail system". Line into town, stops in Rocky. Leaves. It is a country town. Every bloody country town has the rail line right in the middle of town.

The Chinese will be flooding to Rocky , beat all of us to the huge potential this city has, the only guys missing out will be the NRL,,,,,again.

The flooding in Rocky will be the Fitzroy.

I would be happy for the bid to get up, but live in the real world.

 

[taipan]

Rocky doesn't have a "rail system". Line into town, stops in Rocky. Leaves. It is a country town. Every bloody country town has the rail line right in the middle of town.



The flooding in Rocky will be the Fitzroy.

I would be happy for the bid to get up, but live in the real world.

Oikee and the real world have never been acquainted.

 

[Mr Spock!]

Rocky has a fantastic rail system. Cities are building what Rocky has already got in place, a rail line right through the guts of the city.
The NRL cant ignore Rocky, if they do we will again miss a opportunity to grow our game.
Rocky has huge potential and building a stadium right on the river should have Dave Smith and the board out of their Jason recliners and shouting from the rooftops.

No, they are more interested in Manly's 10 thousand.

This code needs visionaries. Even a shared team for Rocky would do for now. If they allow all these sponsors to simply be let down, they will never get them back.

The Chinese will be flooding to Rocky , beat all of us to the huge potential this city has, the only guys missing out will be the NRL,,,,,again.

Bundy has a better chance of getting an NRL team than Rocky.

 

[Perth Red]

Second, he stated in black and white terms that if the CQ NRL bid was successful that his government would build a stadium in Rockhampton.
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With competition for limited funds from across the state, it sounds like a bird in the hand.

A stadium may not be everyone's idea of the most important project but it is assured, assuming the bid is successful.

It seems that as a community we need to get behind the bid, and behind the team.

As Denis Keeffe - CEO of CQ NRL bid - said last week, the people making these decisions want to see unity; they'll look to where there's a groundswell.

Rockhampton is the centre of Central Queensland and the gateway to northern Australia.

We were left out of the plan for northern Australia by the Federal Government.

We deserve our share in the Queensland Plan and I doubt Mr Newman will find a city anywhere in Queensland working harder to cement its future than Rockhampton is right now.

It will take a united front to secure an NRL team, but if they can successfully put an AFL team in Greater Western Sydney then they can put an NRL team in football-mad CQ.

http://m.themorningbulletin.com.au/news/cq-nrl-bid-will-take-some-real-teamwork/2365591/

 

[CQ Italia]

CQ NRL Bid CEO, Denis Keeffe, says the next five days will be the most significant in the bid's short history.

Bid officials will host meetings with NRL CEO, Dave Smith (pictured), as well as Queensland Premier Campbell Newman in Rockhampton.

Find out the CQ NRL Bid's game plan tonight at 7pm.

https://www.facebook.com/WINNewsRockhampton?ref=br_rs

 

[CQ Italia]

Coming to Rockhampton at the CQ Leagues Club on the 17th Of September!
We will have Dave Smith CEO Of the NRL at the CQ NRL BID Luncheon as our guest speaker!
$45.00 per head with a two course meal included!
Come along to show Dave your support to get a team right here in Central Queensland!
Please specify any dietary requirements with RSVP.
Please RSVP by Monday 15th September on:
Phone | (07) 4922 7003 or email | info@cqnrlbid.com.au

https://www.facebook.com/cqnrlbid

 

[alien]

brisbane should have a second team in the nrl before a central qld side. i would even prefer perth to come into the nrl before cq

 

[El Diablo]

http://www.themorningbulletin.com.a...lands-budding-juniors-will-be-bloode/2387719/

Budding CQ rugby league players to get a taste for NRL life
16th Sep 2014 6:00 AM

CENTRAL Queensland's budding juniors will be blooded in a new competition designed to give them a taste of life as professional rugby league players.

The CQ NRL Bid will select an under 14 and under 15 team to compete in the Broncos Development Cup against teams from Norths, Redcliffe and Wynnum Manly.

Bid development manager Ian Webster said it would allow the elite young players to test themselves against some of the state's best.

"The whole camp will be treated as a professional tour involving more than rugby league, and this is a great way to expose the boys to what it takes to get to the next level."

The announcement came yesterday as the Rock Building Society committed to ongoing sponsorship of the junior development component of the CQ NRL Bid.

Bid CEO Denis Keeffe said it was a wonderful partnership that provided wonderful opportunities for very talented youth athletes in Central Queensland.

The holistic programs were not limited to nurturing the players' on-field ability. They were taught vital life skills, schooled in everything from financial management to handling social media.

"We will produce very, very good NRL players who are also very, very good people," Keeffe said.

WHAT THE CQ NRL BID WILL BRING TO CQ

$150 million of economic benefit annually to the Central Queensland economy

1004 jobs during the two-year construction phase of the stadium project

425 jobs during the operational phase - continuous

Opportunity for our youth to stay and pursue a career in professional sport (at present, more than 25 CQ youth leave the region annually to pursue a career in professional rugby league)

A multi-use facility not only for rugby league

A powerful vehicle to promote and endorse the region of CQ

WHAT THE CQ NRL BID OFFERS THE NRL

A no-risk solution to the expansion of the game

43,000 members; 13,000 social media members; 150 corporate partners

Two leagues clubs with 20,000 financial members

A counter to the AFL and A-League intentions to expand into rugby league heartlands.

Locks up the east coast of Australia for rugby league.

Include another 800,000 people in CQ into the NRL programs (450,000 reside within a 3.5-hour drive of Rockhampton).

 

[League guru]

CQ NRL Bid CEO, Denis Keeffe, says the next five days will be the most significant in the bid's short history.

Bid officials will host meetings with NRL CEO, Dave Smith (pictured), as well as Queensland Premier Campbell Newman in Rockhampton.

Find out the CQ NRL Bid's game plan tonight at 7pm.

https://www.facebook.com/WINNewsRockhampton?ref=br_rs

ANbody who pays any attention to anything Denis Keefee says is kidding themselves. He is a good name dropper but if the Local Capras are anything to go by the NRL bid are big on talk and light on action. The Capras have gone backwards since being taken over by the NRL bid team and the appointment of coach Hetherington? It's hard to talk development and pathways when your Intrust Cup team is last.

 

[beave]

The CQ bid is the biggest load of hot air I have ever seen. I have the upmost respect for Keefy but he's lost the plot getting onboard with this mob.

 

[Perth Red]

This is where the NRL needs to have stepped in months ago And been honest with everyone. Tell us if and where and stop people wasting their time and money and building false hope. The when can be sorted during the review but you can't tell me they do t know if they will expand and which two cities they want in.

 

[CQ Italia]

This is where the NRL needs to have stepped in months ago And been honest with everyone. Tell us if and where and stop people wasting their time and money and building false hope. The when can be sorted during the review but you can't tell me they do t know if they will expand and which two cities they want in.

agreed, the previous NRL admin didn't help doing no reviews and analysis though.

 

[CQ Italia]

ANbody who pays any attention to anything Denis Keefee says is kidding themselves. He is a good name dropper but if the Local Capras are anything to go by the NRL bid are big on talk and light on action. The Capras have gone backwards since being taken over by the NRL bid team and the appointment of coach Hetherington? It's hard to talk development and pathways when your Intrust Cup team is last.

Haven't added my opinon on the above for a long while. But yes performance wise, it has went backward and Harbin should still be there, that is obvious for those willing to admit it. Financially things have hopefully largely changed when they came in there was 250,000 debt apparently.

What are Aleague and AFL going to do in CQ? Perhaps spend more on development and have an academy or two. Kids will always have a preference.
More certainly needs to be done by the various regional bodies for League though - starting big time with seniors.

 

[League guru]

The Capras in the last few rounds found it hard to field a side because several players went back to their local clubs to play in the finals. I feel sorry for the like of Guy Williams, Hiscox and Baker who bust their guts every week for nothing. Then Hetherington comes out each weeks and says he can see the positives. This same mob wants a NRL side. Please.

 

[Perth Red]

CQ pull the old afl fear threat

RUGBY league would leave regional Queensland exposed for a takeover by Australian football if an NRL premiership team is not put into Rockhampton.
That’s the warning to the ARL Commission from Central Queensland bid team chief executive Denis Keeffe as they consider the NRL expansion question.
The decision on whether to have the current 16 teams or 18 in the future intersects with upcoming talks about the next NRL broadcast rights deal from 2018.

Keeffe said league bosses must heed comments from former AFL chief executive Andrew Demetriou last week that he could see “the potential … a long way away’’ for an AFL team servicing northern Queensland because the game had become stronger in Townsville and Cairns.
The comments by Demetriou came at a Local Government Association of Queensland conference in Mackay.
NRL CEO Dave Smith visited Rockhampton last month, meeting league stakeholders and having talks with CQ bid team bosses Geoff Murphy and Keeffe about any likely process set down by the ARLC in deciding the future of the NRL competition.

“Dave was a bit guarded on the process but he said he would be able to announce something about the process involved early next year,’’ Keeffe said.

“He has some serious issues in Sydney to solve and he needed time.
“I said to the NRL recently if they think they can walk away from this part of the world and come back in five or 10 years and say `now what about an NRL program’, it will be gone.
“The AFL spends more on its academy in Mackay than all of the QRL development programs put together, it’s absolutely massive.’’
The Brisbane Bombers and Western Corridor bid team both want to bring another team into southeast Queensland, with the CQ planning to play all home games in a 20,000 stadium on Rockhampton and a Brothers bid intent on taking some premiership matches to regional centres.
Keeffe said that while he understood Smith favoured retention of a 16-team competition, he personally believed television requirements for extra games as part of increased value in a broadcast rights deal from 2018 meant expansion to 18 was likely.
Denis Keeffe says Central Queensland is under threat by the AFL.
Denis Keeffe says Central Queensland is under threat by the AFL.
“What he’s saying in a bit of a riddle, is it 16 teams with some relocation or amalgamation or a combination there of. He said it’s not a simple matter of getting two (new) regions.
“If I was sitting in a seat in Sydney looking at the future of the League in 20 years, I’d be terrified of the (future of the) Titans.
“In the end, I really do think it will be a ninth game (every round).’’
Smith said in August that the NRL would continue to back the future of the Titans.

 

[Matt_CBY]

Getting sick of this threat. Will succeed in getting more promotion and pathways for the area, won't fool the current admin in putting a professional side there.