A new NRL draw, for the year 2019

You mention in the expansion a "second south-east Queensland side". News alert. SEQ already has two teams (Broncos and Titans). I'm not sure if a third team (e.g. South Brisbane or Logan) would be successful. But I'm sure the same thing was probably said about the Titans when they came.

I've looked up Perth and CCs former NRL teams, and this is what I've found on Wikipedia, more important points >found herean average crowd of around 13,000abandoned playing games at Gosford, due to a sharp decline in attendance<. The people of Gosford preferred to wait until a home grown team was based there." Note that both teams were only around for 3 years and never won more than 2 games in a row, yet Perth was a lot more popular, and had a smaller home ground designed 4 cricket- so fans sat faraway from the field. Perth would be a lot more popular than Central Coast in the NRL. I'm not saying CC shouldn't get a team, (though if it does it should be Roosters or another Sydney team) but WA deserves one much more in terms of popularity

Weird how u all keep talking about the CC, population and attendance and most of u didn't mention Perth 1. Perth has over 2m people and with support of all of WA, and probably most of Sa and nt, will become most popular team in the NRL, which is currently Dragons 2 at Perths Optus Stadium double header in march, over 56 000 came- almost capacity. I wouldn't be surprised if at least half their 1st season games draw in 40 000+, making them have highest crowds in the nrl- which is currently at broncos

Your point is really irrelevant. You talk about crowd sizes then in the same breath you mention empty stadiums! Which is better? 25,000 at ANZ OR 13,000 at Brookvale or Leichhardt? One looks empty while the others look full. either way, 25,000 at ANZ is way more financial!

Those figures are for 2011, the population has increased.

As magic Magic man said Central coast is the obvious hot spot.strong comp ,good finance and also has a team in Intrust premiership and also stadium which has good transport links. Either new team or relocation but who is going to bite the bullet. It is true roosters own but woy woy leagues but also has links with wyong for football matters. Note wyong made $11 million through their licensed clubs but that is not an option as they are quite happy in second tier.

The Broncos ONLY rate well in Queensland. In NSW it is the Rabbitohs who rate the best as the 13 Thursday/Friday Night games plus the 2 Sunday Ch.9 games attest to it.

Back in the day when it was a 28 team, 2 conferences they did play 14 games These days: The NFL is 17 Rounds but they play 16 games in a 32 team competition! The NFL are looking at expanding the games to 18 each per-season.

That is a good point, Barry. Many Non-Souths fans on many social media sites have already written off the Rabbitohs for 2017. They look at Souths poor 4 weeks of 2015 and those 9 weeks of 2016 and think that we are cellar dwellers. We are NOT! Massive Injuries and a few bad apples were mostly to blame for those 13 weeks of hell during these past 2 years but now that Shane Richardson is back running the show he has weeded out all of the slackers and trouble makers. Souths have recruited some very exciting youngsters and a couple of hardened professionals and retained ALL of our best and most experienced Rep players! 2017 will be successful barring another injury crisis.

The Eastern Suburbs is Sydney's sporting battleground, with Sydney FC, The Swans and the Waratahs all fighting for a piece of the pie. It'd be foolish for us to abandon the area. That's what we did with North Sydney and it cost us dearly. The same would happen in the Eastern Suburbs, where it's already hard enough to establish a strong presence.

Have a look at how many South Melbourne fans get along to a Swans away game in Melbourne. Any new team should be the "Bears" or the "Jets", and have an active association with the Sydney "Bears"/"Jets", as well as take on the old colours. Not only would this provide instant recognition amongst older league fans, but there would be a ready-made crowd for away games in Sydney. And +1 for moving a team out of Sydney, like St George out to the Gong. Although it wasn't that long ago moving Cronulla out was a popular topic, not anymore.

That's true. I don't think that's frequent enough but hey they have 32 and teams and they prioritise having the divisional derbies. I think what we could take from them is this rotational draw idea whereby you are guaranteed to play each team as least x number of times of x period of years.

Expansion? Check Stand alone Origin? Check Every second article pushing for something that is not needed

This is the best comment so far in this article. People don't go to games because there is so much down time. Stop the clock

How would they know if my team will or wont rate well when they never get a friday night game?

Might want to check your maths there. Play every team once is 19 Rounds plus each team in your 5 team conference is another 4 games totals out to 23.

Looks almost exactly like a letter and draw model I sent to the NRL and a couple of journos a few years ago!

The 3 Qld sides would play each other twice with the draw as above. Once each during the regular rounds and again during the marquee rounds.

The Central Coast is a fabulous market for the NRL. Stacked with juniors and opportunity, however, the big cash comes from TV dollars and they're only interested in capital city markets. Hence the only only way for the greater Central Coast area to get an NRL club is for a current club to relocate. I always thought the Sharks would be the fit but now with their investment into development projected to reap dividends that ship looks to have sailed. The NRL will expand by two clubs within the next 5 years and of those two clubs, one quite clearly from the TV push will be a second Brisbane team. The other club will likely come from another Australian capital city and the NRL and TV stakeholders are keen on Perth. Personally I'd like to see a 20 team competition akin to what was envisaged by then visionary Rugby League leaders back in 1995. 20 years later and the code is generating more money than ever, yet we've become conservative instead of bold. I'd aim for a 20 club four conference system, where each club plays a 19 match round robin format before playing in 3 further intra rivalry rounds within each 4 club conference. This would create a 22 round competition, which was commonly regarded as the perfect number of rounds between the Winfield Cup years of 1988 and 1994. Yes it's not fair that all teams don't play each other equally, but nothing is fair in life. With this model you keep and generate your rivalries, and you free up time and space for stand alone representation periods.

Bigger crowds where tho Turbowed. You say bigger crowds are better than fairness of the draw but what will happen to the crowds at the clubs which have an extremely unfair draw? It sounds like you want sydney clubs to have bigger crowds at the expense of the non sydney clubs which tells me you are way to sydney centric to bother with clubs outside of sydney. The unfairness of the current draw is already costing the game many fans. How many more do you want to get rid of?