I understand their dilemma. I mean, they are based in Australia's arsehole, with very little business other than public service, and thus limited opportunities to get good TPA agreements. It's cold and dour most of the year, while we live in the sunshine most of the year, and only get a bit uncomfortable in the summer with the humidity. Guess what... c'est la vie!
It is also true we have a much better position than them, being a single club in Rugby League's capital of the world, getting near 40K people to every home game in the best Rugby League stadium there is, led by the premier coach in the business, making us obviously much more attractive than most.
That is where the extent of their reason ends, and where the envy and delusion starts with some of them, led by that GE moron.
I've lost count of the players we developed and were forced to lose due to the salary cap. Of course we don't lose our best and brightest, unless some shit head like Cullen lets a player like Civo go, but we still manage to field a team with an average 80%+ of players developed here. And why do we keep the best and brightest? Well, all of the above and... we're not stuck under the Furners oligarchy.
Boohoo, we play on Friday nights and get more exposure. Yeah, that's because we sell you friggin morons, and be grateful we do, because that is how you are getting a bigger grant, while Broncos supporters get one fucking Sunday afternoon game a season!
How much do you figure the Raiders would sell on prime time? Yeah, no need to answer that... it was rhetorical, because we all know the answer: zilch!
But hey, they want to keep the youngsters who grew up in Qld admiring the Broncos and jump at the chance of representing them at any cost. So in some of those "brilliant minds", the NRL should just make special rules for them and force players to stay there forever, unless of course... they don't really want them, in which case, they can leave.
Oh, and of course, never mind those rules when they're the ones pursuing other players. Right Tapine, right Paulo?
Raiders fans, you want better? Move somewhere minimally attractive or here's an idea... change club! :thefinger: