NRL Hooligans thread

[Bex]

I can't see a move to the central coast being the answer for any Sydney team. If they can't survive in Sydney ; a place with a large population and where they've had a chance to develop their own supporter base; why would they survive up here after they've moved away from their supporters?

I'm probably biased, but I think most Coasties who are going to go to watch sport live have chosen the Mariners and I can't see that changing for a team that belongs to Sydney.

 

[mariners4ever]

i think it is quite funny that they would want to put teams in adelaide, perth and the central coast, considering past teams in these areas have been total failures

 

[northernspirit]

thats because there is nowhere else for them to go, the sooner people wake up to the fact the NRL is an insignificant comp the better

 

[Ted]

I think a Coast based NRL team would work if done correctly as the last CC based team was comical to say the least. Either relocate a complete team and add CC to its name or create a new one. Another amalgamated team will fail miserably...

 

[northernspirit]

yeah but if it were central coast tigers or central coast rabbitohs do you really think supporters of other clubs would switch allegences, i cant see it happening

only if it were a complete rebranding, new animal or whatever crappy name they want to use

 

[clarence]

I think a Coast based NRL team would work if done correctly as the last CC based team was comical to say the least. Either relocate a complete team and add CC to its name or create a new one. Another amalgamated team will fail miserably...

Hit the nail on the head, Ted (Hey that rhymes,lol  )

Emphasis being on the NRL to do it correctly.

But every time this sort of talk pops up, it's not some Central Coast based business folks or a community association wanting an NRL team up here, it's some Sydney club or journo talking up a relocation, as some sort of penance to a club that can't get it's act together in Sydney - so it should p*ss off to Gosford.

Getting a decent crowd to Gosford for a RL match does still happen, but if they turn around and plonk some ex-Sydney team up here and say, "Here you are - your team, follow it" most folks here would probably start calling them the Beagles Mk2 and run a mile.

 

[FFC Mariner]

There are a fair few knuckledraggers who will follow a team up here as these people cannot accept the new reality.

Great, come into Mariners territory with a relocated team. pay it lip service like last time and f**k it up once and for all.

Football,Football uber alles

 

[~Floss~]

In its centenary year rugby league has been revealed as fairly small beer in global terms, and faces the prospect of a diminished place in the hierarchy of Australian sport. The first step in ensuring its future is to dispense with its well-developed propensity for self-delusion.

Professor David Rowe is director of the centre for cultural research, University of Western Sydney, and author of Sport, Culture And The Media: The Unruly Trinity."

Thank you Professor Obvious


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[Paolo]

There are a fair few knuckledraggers who will follow a team up here as these people cannot accept the new reality.

Great, come into Mariners territory with a relocated team. pay it lip service like last time and f**k it up once and for all.

Football,Football uber alles

i hope there is a team up here...it will let me do so studies, in which i rip as many flares as possible at nrl matches to see if it gets similar coverage to the 'trouble' cause at the effnik sokkah

 

[Sean]

Did anyone watch the footy show last night?

Theyre in more trouble than what I thought they were. They dont know who or what to blame, and Gallop could not give a straight forward answer.

 

[Bear]

Thats my plan also keensy. Ruck with away fans = give NRL a bad name. Join forces?

 

[Paolo]

Thats my plan also keensy. Ruck with away fans = give NRL a bad name. Join forces?

yes, we have similar motives and i believe we could be a real force

 

[FFC Mariner]

A few of us have been bombarding the knuckledraggers at work with links to the SMH article from yesterday that pretty well told them they were rooted.

 

[Sean]

their reaction?

 

[serious14]

Theyre in more trouble than what I thought they were. They dont know who or what to blame, and Gallop could not give a straight forward answer.

Gallop is one of the most spineless and clueless CEO's this country has ever seen.  He lives in his own spaced out little world where he seems to think that RL means something to people outside of NSW and QLD, that one dominant revenue stream for clubs is a great idea, and a salary cap as hilariously low as the one they have is an even better idea.  He's so ridiculously obsessed and blinkered with celebrating "the centenary of the greatest game of all" that he failed to see said game is tearing itself apart.

Look what it took for them to be in the position they are now.

* The A-League
* Poker machine tax increase
* A couple of boofheaded off field incidents

Surely a game as "great" as theirs can survive through thick and thin.  I mean, zomg, they survived Super League lolz.

P.S.  The hypocrisy of Gallop to stand there and deride Toulon for 'stealing Sonny Bill away' whilst he was a lawyer for News Limited doing the exact same thing thirteen years ago is f*cking laughable, and this dopey prick deserves everything he gets.  RL, please just f*ck off.

 

[FFC Mariner]

their reaction?

Not good - quiet and fuming really. You also get the odd "wogball lover" jibe

 

[mariners4ever]

Did anyone watch the footy show last night?

Theyre in more trouble than what I thought they were. They dont know who or what to blame, and Gallop could not give a straight forward answer.

yep i did

i found it quite funny

 

[FFC Mariner]

Couldnt be arsed to watch them TBH, clashes with Frasier.

Wouldnt have minded seeing the Melb footy show after that tool Newmans remarks

 

[goingtoadisco]

i found it very interesting last night. i think they will wake up, but maybe by the time they do it will be to late.

 

[serious14]

From today's SMH....... can't say I've ever agreed with Fitzsimons this much before.

Not so super

The irony of the Sonny Bill saga? It is that the wrecking ball that is now coming hard at rugby league was first launched by league itself. For you will recall that the key impact wrought by the advent of Super League - where players were paid their telephone numbers, plus a bit - was that elite rugby union was forced to turn professional to survive, for fear that all its players would disappear if it didn't. And as soon as those artificial walls of amateurism that had stood for a hundred years came a'tumbling down, we saw exactly as Ross Turnbull predicted at the time: money, entrepreneurs, serious marketing nous and all the rest flowed in, and changed the game completely. Once rugby went professional and drew on its global grandeur, it was always going to be a major threat to rugby league and that, my friends, is exactly what we're witnessing now. At the very core of the National Rugby League - the economic engine if you will - lies a Sydney suburban competition. And the bottom line is that when it comes to pulling Sonny Bill et al one way or another, that engine simply cannot muster the power necessary against the now roaring engine of elite rugby union, harnessing power from all over the world. League is now caught in a very difficult spot. It has neither the global pull of union, nor the critical mass of Aussie rules, which manages to prosper despite its lack of international pull, because it is at least a genuinely national game. The solution? There is none - but if you look at the quotes section, I think Andrew Johns is close to the mark.

Andrew Johns on how to fix rugby league: "Cut the NRL to 12 teams, reduce the number of clubs in Sydney and expand the game back to Perth and Adelaide to make it a truly national competition. That is the only way we are going to be able to increase revenue through television and gates to the point where clubs will be able to compete with the massive money on offer in the English Super League and rugby union."