Tosh

No club in their right mind would take nearly a quarter of their home games to another venue let alone Port Moresby. Linking up with the PNG hunters is a good idea though.

What with the population explosion in the western corridor and maybe even a future A-league expansion bid from the area a new stadium could potentially be built in either Logan Or Ipswich. Brisbane are also hosting the 2032 summer Olympics as well so again potentially some new stadiums could be getting built or upgraded in the area. Theres also the QE II stadium which was the old broncos ground.

And in the end a Brisbane bid didn’t win!!!

It’s very interesting to see the decline of super rugby in Australia and the breaking up of the competition as a whole with South African teams going their own way and the solo Japanese and Argentinian clubs being dropped. I don’t follow club RU at all but from what I believe the NZ based sides would pump the Australian based sides 9 times out of 10 which led to both poor crowds and viewing figures in Australia and maybe even NZ. No doubt that the clubs were haemorrhaging serious amounts of $$$$

In 1994 north’s had the 2nd best average attendance of the Sydney clubs behind Canterbury bulldogs who were minor premiers. I know it’s cherry-picking but it shows that the support was there but that’s all history know and it should stay that way.

Bears officials claim that they have 220k fans

I’m sure that was the original idea of the bears before the super league war broke out.

My god that’s 4 bids from the same city. Talk about increasing your chances. surely 1 of them must win!!!

Isn’t the pledged $15 million coming from the bears side? Also are any of those blokes you mentioned the guy that bankrolls the western force?

A question to our Aussie posters but weren’t the bears originally supposed to move to the central coast fulltime time before the super league war broke out? And also why did north’s and manly merge and who pushed it?

Who are the people putting $15 million on the table mate?

Exactly. It’s a perfect example of a win-win scenario.

They’ve admitted they’ll talk to anyone and everyone. I guess the bears officials will say that they bring the name, tradition, 10’s thousands of fans and $15 million in pledged investment.

Exactly. Thats why where fuc#ed.

The last thing the NRL needs is another dual franchise like that of the st George Illawarra dragons. either have it in one location or not at all as all this trying to be all things and pleasing everyone ends up being a complete mess and pleasing nobody.