Five years and a billion dollars later rugby league is broke

[Morkel]

It'll be much easier for us to steal back our players if they're only a few suburbs away. Second Brisbane team approved by me.

 

[Porthoz]

It'll be much easier for us to steal back our players if they're only a few suburbs away. Second Brisbane team approved by me.

Not true. How will we play the homesick card now?

 

[papabear]

I personally think it would be great for the broncos as the positives would be:-
- Intra City rivalry, especially if they get the brading / boundaries right for a new side.
- More games in brisbane by a brisbane side would see the friday night slot shared between the two sides, so the broncos would have a chance at other times for other demographics, i.e. saturday/sunday
- Keep RL as more front of mind and more main game in brisbane.

 

[1910]

There is NSW old boys and QLD old boys medding in this game.

The reason there are so many Sydney teams in the NRL is because the NRL comes from the NSWRL competition back in the day.

If your issue is that NSWRL / NRL has not expanded enough then look at the QRL and the NSWL and who expanded with more gusto.

Most Sydney rugby league fans want more teams in the NRL from outside Sydney, they just dont want their own team booted. Do broncos fans want more teams in the NRL from outside sydney (i.e. another from brisbane). I dare say the old boys opinions besides protecting their jobs probably mirror the opinions of their communities more or less.

Also in terms of protecting sydney sides, from memory the NRL has provided financial assistance above and beyond to the following clubs.
GC titans
Newcastle Knights
Stgeorge
Wests

That is 1 QLD team 1.5 regional NSW teams and 1.5 Sydney sides. It doesnt really reflect this grand conspiracy to defend sydney teams at the expense of all others.

From a canberra raiders fans perspective the following sides get an easy run from the NRL.

- Brisbane Broncos
- Sydney Roosters
- Canterbury Bulldogs
- Souths (post being kicked out of the comp by the NRL)

Everyone else rates a long way behind them some more then others.

But yes, keep blaming NSWRL for all of rugby leagues issues and while your at it keep championing the great job done by QRL and John Grant.

QRL you mean that runs the second best competition outside the NRL and expanded in to PNG? As well as won 11 of the last 12 Origins?

Can't be doing too bad a job.

 

[Nashy]

Sorry Managing Director for 18 years- changes my point dramatically.

So he can run a data center in a time when the .com age was absolutely booming, left when it died, and that means he knows how to football?

Sometimes I wonder if you think.

 

[Nashy]

There is NSW old boys and QLD old boys medding in this game.

The reason there are so many Sydney teams in the NRL is because the NRL comes from the NSWRL competition back in the day.

If your issue is that NSWRL / NRL has not expanded enough then look at the QRL and the NSWL and who expanded with more gusto.

Most Sydney rugby league fans want more teams in the NRL from outside Sydney, they just dont want their own team booted. Do broncos fans want more teams in the NRL from outside sydney (i.e. another from brisbane). I dare say the old boys opinions besides protecting their jobs probably mirror the opinions of their communities more or less.

Also in terms of protecting sydney sides, from memory the NRL has provided financial assistance above and beyond to the following clubs.
GC titans
Newcastle Knights
Stgeorge
Wests

That is 1 QLD team 1.5 regional NSW teams and 1.5 Sydney sides. It doesnt really reflect this grand conspiracy to defend sydney teams at the expense of all others.

From a canberra raiders fans perspective the following sides get an easy run from the NRL.

- Brisbane Broncos
- Sydney Roosters
- Canterbury Bulldogs
- Souths (post being kicked out of the comp by the NRL)

Everyone else rates a long way behind them some more then others.

But yes, keep blaming NSWRL for all of rugby leagues issues and while your at it keep championing the great job done by QRL and John Grant.

Can we get a dribble clean up in thread 5 thanks.

I know it's hard for you to comprehend, but the QRL don't actually call the shots in the NRL. But it seems like you have your rubbish arguments sorted for this.

If you think there are a good amount of teams in Sydney to keep this game viable, it is absolutely and utterly pointless engaging you in a conversation, because you are flat out wrong.

 

[Smartseal]

So who would you like to run the game instead?

What's John Ribot doing? Had success at storm didn't he?

Is John Grant the same that played for South's (magpies) in the 70's? Long flowing hair, play wing or centre IIRC.

 

[Thelmus]

What's John Ribot doing? Had success at storm didn't he?

Is John Grant the same that played for South's (magpies) in the 70's? Long flowing hair, play wing or centre IIRC.

Ribot was football manager at the broncos first, and the face of superleague. I got a feeling those two things rule him out of any NRL job in Sydney.

 

[lynx000]

What's John Ribot doing? Had success at storm didn't he?

Is John Grant the same that played for South's (magpies) in the 70's? Long flowing hair, play wing or centre IIRC.

Yes, one and the same.

 

[Smartseal]

Yes, one and the same.

Interesting, i was a mad magpies supporter back in the day & i reckon my earliest recollection would be of johnny grant skirting down the sideline, hair flowing in the breeze like he was in a mg convertible.
Good player from memory, though now I'm realizing how fkn old i must be [emoji32]

 

[Steve-o]

QRL you mean that runs the second best competition outside the NRL and expanded in to PNG? As well as won 11 of the last 12 Origins?

Can't be doing too bad a job.

The QLD cup is not the second best comp in the world. It's no better than the Nsw cup

 

[ivanhungryjak]

The QLD cup is not the second best comp in the world. It's no better than the Nsw cup

Well, that’s your opinion.

 

[I bleed Maroon]

Oh come on guys. QLD cup the 2nd best comp in the world? I like to shit on the Poms as much as anyone but shafting the Super League and everything they've done like that is disingenuous at best.

 

[Broncs_Fan]

Utterly incorrect to say Qld Cup is second best comp in the world. English Super League is easily a higher standard.