Ummmm

I think he is a Pom.

Living in New Zealand.

Who Eels fan - don't think so!!

Ahhhhh

thought you meant Gutterfax

Apologies

You'd know clive.

All these years of hating rl yet you can't stay away.

I attend more games of RL in year than you do in five. Perhaps you should actually supported the game you supposedly love. Commenting with your head in the sand from in front of a TV screen is hardly support? Those that do attend games simply discount your views in the way they do Dally Messenger as the ramblings of a hypocrite.

Unlike you with your head in the sand, I don't think the garden of RL is full of roses and as a sport we have much to learn from other more successful sports like soccer, rules and rugby union.

Gutterfax dismantled your arguement - it is no surprise you have been unable to offer a credible response - resorting to personal insult is hardly a valid contribution - although having lived in Sydney I do realise that is the normal level of debate.

yet again the trolls pollute up the joint

You don't know what I go and watch as I've never told you and I never will simply because I actually don't want to talk to you if you haven't noticed.



You can watch what you like, I'll do the same thanks, I have never said there isn't anything wrong with RL and I have ceratinly never said it's all full of roses.

But you knew that, you're just a pathetic liar who needs to make things up instead of searching and proving a person has said these things.

I have said RL can learn from Soccer and other Big sports, I actually posted it in this forum a few months ago.

But you continue with the lies.





I have nothing to say to Guttergas and I made my point and it was final, there is no response to the turd (at least not here). I think he along with you and Bazza are a bunch of pathetic trolls ruining any debate of RL on this forum by changing the subject onto other sports, comparing to other sports, or simply attacking other posters for daring to post an article or a link to RL news.

If Guttergas what's to debate Rugby League, let him, he doesn't need his (you) little b!tch to hold his hand does he?

If I reply to guttergas the way I'd like to reply to his trolling, I'll get banned as he seems protected at this site, I'm just looking after myself.

Other than that, you and guttergas know where I post at another site that has a forum in place just for this type of debate so it doesn't ruin threads relating to RL, the two of you could always join in and give your best as a tag team partnership, I'm all for it, are you?

Pathetic isn't it.

isnt this thread about expansion? Where's the mods when you need them?????

There is no thread in here without some ruining it.

Even game day threads for gods sake.

There has been plenty to talk about in regards to expansion and yet you wouldn't know it.

Just this year we've had 5 figure crowds in WA, SA and NZ, but no one wants to talk about it except a few and their posts get over run by trolls.

make a thread about TV rating, crowds, expansion and the trolls all come out and start talking about their fav sports all the while kicking RL and telling everyone more or less that love the game to get back in their box.

Well stuff that.

If you want to make a new thread about expansion, go for it, we'll see how far it gets and if it does get derailed by the same fools, something might get done.

Still waiting for a reasoned debate?
Expansion is all well and good, but before you embark on it, you must look into the pro's and con's (no pun intended) of each area you you are going into.
For example, when SL started in the UK some 15 years ago, it was considered safe to assume that a london based SL outfit would pull in 10k minimum every home game........the amount of ex-pat Anzacs (750k) in the city at any one time would surely flock to see some League. What the organisers of Super League failed to consider was the general apathy that sports fans have in Australia unless they are talking about their favourite club side or the international team. Therefore, what should have been a roaring success, has in fact turned out to be an abject failure from a business point of view.
What Superleague failed to consider was the existing sporting landscape in London....the predominance of soccer at every point and the recent alarming decline of the London Monarch American Football team......
...what also didn't help was the perception that League was a northern game, played by miners with flat caps and pigeons in their lofts....the supposed north/south divide of wealth and all of the other things available outside of sport that was trying to attract the same disposable income.
So, Expansion for Expansions sake, doesn't work......what you need is a demographic breakdown of what you are up against, how well other sports (including Union and AFL) are doing and what REAL response you can expect from the local public. Christchurch recently had 20k for a warriors/Roosters game...that points to an audience being there.....but the same audience rolled up for the soccer team last year, so is that crowd just a one-off from an local population starved of decent first grade sport outside of Union, or indicative of what would happen every second week if a team were established there? Is there the financialbacking in place to support a full time pro team, or will Murdoch need to prop the fledgling franchise up (a la Storm)?
I don't know much about perth, but I would say that any 2nd NZ franchise would get gates of between 15 and 20k in its first year and dependant on performance, would settle at around 13k....is that enough to warrant a second NZ franchise? Is it enough to be self suficient? Would perth or Adelaide fair any better?