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Just announced a 7 match series for the Force

Killer Question you have commented on how the west feels about the east. My reading of the tea leafs is the west is annoyed with the board and Mr C in particular. If the make up of the board changes my tea leaf reading is reunification can occur.

Killer My recollection of things is TF offered 50 million over 5 years, lets assume is is prepared to lift this to 200 million over 5 years or 40 million per year. International professional sides costs a lot of money and with 8 teams thats 5 million per team. Thats not enough and teams...

Agree, but its aim is to get players and fields in NSW & OLD. I have a mate who's daughter is switching from rugby to AFL i.e. I guess because of the coverage of the women's game.

Given you ask, and I assume want an answer, rugby has rectangle fields in NSW & OLD at local district, grassroots level. AFL is chasing rectangle fields in NSW & QLD. The article from a rugby point of view has nothing to do with soccer, the AFL have identified in a number of forums they want...

Delusional is a word that springs to mind. An article in the Herald Sun is hhhhmmmm maybe something only available in Victoria. Having said that the AFL will be using all their connections to get hold of rectangle fields in NSW & OLD. Someone at RA needs to understand that four national teams...

Feels like the late 90’s all over again. I don’t claim to be a sooth sawyer, however I can claim to be a business pragmatist certainly not an idealist and I don’t think anyway I let my heart rule my brain on business matters. Ballymore was gifted to rugby under a trust. In the giving rugby has...

Was I smoking something, was it the Hunter reds, am I really awake, it can't be true, maybe I am in a nightmare. Did I just see the Reds win and be the better side on the night. Must be a dream or the drink has got to me. No tries a little help from the "Blind & Death" [the ref], but I...

Agree its a pipe dream if it was for rugby only. If a combined rugby / soccer bid went it, then I humbly suggest its got a reasonable chance. But to get soccer interested you would need to offer them shared equity meaning each code own 50% each. As I see it, what is costing us money would...

TOCC & RugbyReg If you had two codes playing their matches their i.e 24 matches per season, add if the womens WC comes, plus both codes womens leagues the upgrades needed both ground and corporate have a reasonable chance of success. By ourselves, we what can offer what ????. I will...

Not so sure on that. Hand on heart not the other thing, the Reds should play at Ballymore the stadium hire costs and recent and future crowds to me scream play at a smaller stadium. Could or would the QLD gov fund say 7 or 8 games a year. I think not. However add another 17 A-League games...

Lets hope for quite a few more, assume say $30.00 a ticket meaning for every extra 1K the Tahs get another 30K, another 10K in the crowd adds $ 300, 000 by 5 games is 1.5 million. I can recall reading a post about two years ago where Suncorp needed about 12K crowd to break even on stadium hire...

wow thats a very telling set of stats.

The 12 team thing is what Lowy's wants to do. Many in the other camp want expansion to 14 to 16 teams with a second division. Its a very interesting case study in that its become so toxic with both sides totally miss trusting the other it could bring the A-League down.

Good to see

The 3 wins, should increase our ratings next week. I think our rating will recover this year by how much I am not sure but my guess is between 15 & 20% on last year. However this will mask that four sides are not enough. The interesting stat will be the ages of those watching we need...

Tis very interesting for us those A-League numbers. Soccer is in a state of a toxic civil war with FIFA coming over to try to fix. It can only go two ways the civil war continues until the A-League folds or they get their act together. Can they recover and what they do to recover will be...

Yep 100% correct. He is only saying what most of the thread agrees with. Twiggy IMO has made the same error, trying to make his competition to international. If Twiggy funded some key clubs teams say out of Sydney, Canberra, Newcastle, Brisbane he would destroy Super Rugby.

Yep, a four team competition lacking IMO connection to those other than hard core rusted on's. We need and have for so long now a national domestic competition. NRL looks like expanding by two teams to 18 teams.... NRl expanding into the PI nations. AFL in fear of soccer's player numbers...

Did anyone catch the new Reds run on song. It started like this I think. Hello spoon my old friend I have come to hold you again