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All the talk about the expansion of our game seems to have a theme to it - a theme that is a mistake. It…
The NRL has held its grand final in Sydney for the entirety of its existence - all 18 years of it. That's right, you…
This is the first time in years that there are no post-season Australian international rugby league fixtures, so I am forced to deal with…
For me, Origin is older than club footy. Born the year Origin started, I was a Maroons fan before the Broncos even existed. Born…
I have recently read a couple of articles about possible structure changes and futures for the NRL, most recently an excellent article by Shane…
Pmsl @ your perceived inequity.
Sydney gets 98 games, Brisbane 18
NRL free-to-air fixtures for 2020: Where does your team sit?
Absolute bollocks. It’s cheating plain and simple. Brisbane had $2M string on the bench due to injury for the last 2 years, by this logic they should be able to get someone else to fill the gap, or add it to future years cap as compensation. Ridiculous.
Say it is allowed, you will see nearly every elite player having “career ending injuries” one year into their, newly signed, final 3 year contract
Sam Burgess is causing a big headache for the Rabbitohs and the NRL
So long as our game holds the “protect fragile Sydney at all costs” attitude intelligent ideas like this will continue to be ignored
To make more of grand final week, the NRL must start internationally
Tallis is a flog. The broncos won’t lose fans, that’s ridiculous. People who arent broncos fans will find something else to whinge about for a while that’s about it.
Tallis: Broncos may lose fans over Lodge
In a national competition, a Sydney club playing in Sydney is a home game. Making those “away games” a criteria is total bollocks.
By 1998's standards, which NRL teams should face the axe today?
Hmmm, “they had no money” I guess they were a roaring success then hey? When the NRL was created the crushers maybe should have been promoted then, but they were turfed in favour of another Sydney club, just like Perth was. It was a massive mistake to promote so many Sydney teams into the national comp at that time and everyone is still paying for it. But that’s history.
The death of a Sydney NRL club is inevitable
I don’t think a second brisbane team is a no brainer. People in Brisbane don’t want a second team it’s the people in Sydney who do. This is to hide the fact that that having too many clubs in one location is a mistake in a national competition. If it wasn’t a mistake we wouldn’t keep talking about this. Ask yourself what success looks like and try to replicate that. Most of the angst around this comes from Sydney’s failure to seperate their old state competition from the new national competition. As soon as that is realised our product will be free to innovate and grow. Lastly, no club will die, these teams started in a state competition, in 1998 they started fielding a team in the National comp too, if they are no longer competing in the national competition due to the codes inability to support 9 teams in the same location then they end up exactly where they started from. It’s chicken littles and temper tantrums based on propaganda and dogma. Embrace the NRL for what it actually is and we all get twice as much footy and twice as much history.
The death of a Sydney NRL club is inevitable
The dogma still exists and it’s tragic
It's evolution, baby! Why the NRL needs to go back to the future
Super League was the absolute best thing that happened to our code. Now we just need the backward thinking dinosaurs who cling to nostalgia and choke our game to death, to hurry up and die so we can move forwards
It's evolution, baby! Why the NRL needs to go back to the future
The Central Coast absolutely should have a team, but it must come either at the expense or relocation of a Sydney team.
Central Coast fans shouldn’t have to grin and Bear it
The city v country fixture was and is completely irrelevant to the NRL.
It is a rep fixture that only belongs in the state competition. It started in a state competition it has no business in the national competition. Let nswrl promote it and use it to promote their competition.
How the return of City vs Country can revitalise league in Australia
The lack of punishment awarded to Parramatta and Manly over recent years and even the wrist slap that Cronulla players received would have been a bit of a slap in the face to the Melbourne club and fans.
If I was them I would be shouting this from the mountain tops.
There are quite a few middle fingers being held up in the NRL from various clubs and headquarters, this is just one of them.
Happy anniversary: The Storm's 2009 anniversary celebrations are in poor taste
Sydney clubs are struggling and Brisbane is successful, surely the concept of making Brisbane more like Sydney instead of Sydney more like Brisbane is obvious in its absurdity. This is the exact process by which suburban mentality holds back the national game.
The NRL must forget its suburban Sydney past
Ok Paul. Not sure I see how you at the Star watching footy with your mates is going to influence Joe Bloggs in Perth who is tentatively watching a few games to see if he likes the game.
The NRL must forget its suburban Sydney past
I see you have twisted yourself into a lather. This is the usual arguments I see in sledging groups and not the point I was here to discuss. If removing the broncos was indeed good for the game, it would surely be looked at as an option. I’m fairly certain it wasn’t though, do you know why? It is opinions like yours that make me question why you even follow the national competition instead of the state competition that you seem to prefer.
The NRL must forget its suburban Sydney past
This article is not about my club loyalty, that’s what I’m saying.
Clubs who’s loyal fans support them enough to keep them from going bankrupt have nothing to worry about.
If a club doesn’t have the support to stay viable then we aren’t losing a great deal of club loyalty are we
The NRL must forget its suburban Sydney past
I could call your view of history warped too and it would be an equally accurate statement.
The NRL must forget its suburban Sydney past
What major code now plays out of North Sydney?
I lived in Sydney for years, don’t just make assumptions because you disagree with me. I stated it wasn’t about my club loyalty, that’s what I was responding to. The game might have gone backwards a bit in Sydney after SL but it went forward everywhere else. It expanded, that’s the goal.
The NRL must forget its suburban Sydney past
There’s no vacuum left if the support doesn’t exist in the first place
The NRL must forget its suburban Sydney past
There’s 17000 people on the bears Facebook page, that’s more than most sydney clubs have members
The NRL must forget its suburban Sydney past
In your haste to paint me out of context, you have misinterpreted what I’m saying. I didn’t write that headline I shouldn’t have to defend it.
No one at any point has said anything about destroying the game wholesale or throwing everything away.
I’m not saying we should plop teams in all those places.
I’m saying that we want those places to watch the game and the nsw comp is irrelevant as a marketing tool to make them want to do that.
I’m saying that in order to strengthen our product one maybe two Sydney clubs might need to drop back to where they started or move, and I’m saying that the least supported clubs that struggle to survive as a direct result of the over saturation of a market that doesn’t support them, isn’t a disaster.
The NRL must forget its suburban Sydney past
Oh, and every club was manufactured. Just at different times.
The NRL must forget its suburban Sydney past
BTW enjoy watching the Telstra premiership with every game live on FOX. It sure seems like a failed coup doesn’t it? Also, it wasn’t NRL before that. The NRL is as much a child of Superleague. So much of what you just stated is inaccurate, the dogma I’m trying to highlight. The QRL was technically the first to spread beyond its borders. Nswrl threw franchises out there without support and then were integral in closing them down to save Sydney clubs when the NRL was formed.
The NRL must forget its suburban Sydney past
FTA means nothing when the competition coverage is so terrible that the commentary team alone pushes people to their competition
NRL free-to-air fixtures for 2020: Where does your team sit?