It's not much better in SA either and we are about to lose NT to AFL lock, stock and barrell. NRL isn't shown on FTA pre midnight to 47% of the country, AFL is shown live to 100% of the country. NRL has regular games in 50% of Australian capital cities, AFL next year will have regular games in EVERY capital city. You figure out which can consider itself more national!

For all Dally's posturing about about being pro expansion he thinks the next two teams in the NRL need to be a NSW team and a Q'land team. Not hard to make up your own minds about how pro expansion he is.

Bit like saying yes we need Toulouse and Paris but lets get Widnes and Leigh in first to strengthen the heartlands.

This is the part he cannot get his head around. He genuinely cannot see why he is a hypocrit. And he probably won't reply to that because it spells it out too much to be able to defend.

More or less yes. Probably a few posh suburbs prefer RU and maybe a few border places with Victoria prefer AFL, but seems a fair generalisation.


Not so sure Brumbies seem to get much bigger crowds than Canberra Raiders, but not sure which is cumulatively higher as Raiders play more games

So you havent a clue what you are talking about , you have no information other than this message board and the press , you have no idea about Toulouse or Paris , you are a wind up merchant and nothing more

Bye

i find it strange you dont read properly.

whoosh!

yes people that rely upon the hearsay of a couple of people on the street dont know what they are talking about

so widnes and leigh are like queensland and central coast

TV viewers included and RL destroys em

So you dont answer the question yet again. I will ask once more. Do you support a team from PNG or Perth to be the next teams to join the NRL?

Simple yes or no will do.

i answered it twice before

You havent answered the question i have asked? Simple yes or no will suffice.

He has answered it and the answer is no! He thinks that 100 years and 14 out of 16 clubs isn't enough to "strengthen the heartlands"!

at least you can read.

you really have to wonder about the intelligence of some of the poeple on here

the funny thing is weve gone from flat cappers not caring about French expansion teams in SL to discussing the relative merits of expansion teams in australia

for those that are interested :

the NRL is in drastic need of money to raise the salary cap to stop players leaving for SL, union and AFL. our current TV deal is poor relative to AFL.

so at the moment we need clubs who can expand the value of the TV deal the most

the 2 newest clubs who would do that are a queensland club first and then central coast.

in the case of SL would adding widnes or leigh result in a large increase in TV rights? nope.

with the addition of the Gold Coast titans in the NRL TV ratings in the brisbane market are up something like 15% whilst other sports have had falling TV ratings

more queensland teams means more games in queensland involving one of their teams than an out of town team.