ps I am in favour of a Wellington team, sadly fans like you get peoples backs up and tar the thought of expansion that you support with a bad brush. Reds and Orcas in 2013 would have been my dream expansion, sadly there is no Orcas bid.

I think you'll find I describe it as I see it.

Bad brush? How in any sane world is the NRL not putting a second team in NZ now...even if they( the Kiwis) want one? To put this into context...the NRL worry too much about everyone else and not enough about their own potential growth areas. Yes, the Shaky Isles are small and yes, we are Union dominated, but we still got more fans through the gates in the 4 nations than the crims did....but NO......they will TRY AGAIN to crack an AFL stronghold instead of building on this.
If the AB's DON'T choke next year and they win the RUWC...then yet ANOTHER opportunity will have gone begging to really grow League here.........let's hope they pick Money Bill in the centres and lose eh



I have no issue with you JB....or the western bid, but the NRL does seem to be run by people that my club wouldn't employ..and that really is saying something

They will go where the $'s are from TV. 12 months ago we didn't have a chance, clubs said no expansion, Gallop kept calling us a dot on the map. In the last 12 months that has attitude has turned around 180 degrees to us being favourites for expansion. The only reason I can see is that TV talks have started behind closed doors and the live timeslot WA offers is seen as a lucrative bargaining chip for the next TV rights. Its why I can see another Q'land team getting in ahead of the Bears, even though the Bears bid is by far the strongest. I have said all along that some of the $'s the NRL gets from NZTV should be being used to develop Wellington and Christchurch RL and help sort out the NZRL structure. Maybe then there would be a fanbase clamouring for a side and NZTV companies willing to pay more for it. ps you've changed your tune! viewtopic.php?f=62&t=470973&start=75

They will go where the $'s are from TV. 12 months ago we didn't have a chance, clubs said no expansion, Gallop kept calling us a dot on the map. In the last 12 months that has attitude has turned around 180 degrees to us being favourites for expansion. The only reason I can see is that TV talks have started behind closed doors and the live timeslot WA offers is seen as a lucrative bargaining chip for the next TV rights. Its why I can see another Q'land team getting in ahead of the Bears, even though the Bears bid is by far the strongest. I have said all along that some of the $'s the NRL gets from NZTV should be being used to develop Wellington and Christchurch RL and help sort out the NZRL structure. Maybe then there would be a fanbase clamouring for a side and NZTV companies willing to pay more for it. ps you've changed your tune! viewtopic.php?f=62&t=470973&start=75

Second best player on the globe behind Paul Gallen

Haymarket also lol.