High-profile, big-name players and coaches need to be poached from existing club to start a new club.The Roosters – the premiers - have lost just two centres (Latrell Mitchell to Rabbitohs, Billy Smith to injury) and they are trying to entice Josh Morris from the Sharks before a ball is kicked in 2020.Read my lips: The NRL does not have the depth to expand and present a viable club.Townsend eager to steer Sharks in crunch time of the yearForced layoff has Kikau refreshed for minor premiership chargeFor & Against: Should neutral Origin matches continue? A model for the future of the NRL For the last ten or 15 years I’ve had a little hobby. In April 2013, the Brothers Leprechauns NRL made a bid to join the Cairns and Papua New Gunea are both considering bidding for a joint bid in the NRL. NRL expansion Mick Holland new author. Of Players 663 Top Tryscorer Steve Menzies (22) Top Pointscorer Matthew Ridge (257) Ladder Home Away … The AFL has already taken the land at Springfield that we had secured as the NRL club base”, the bid chairman says.“This will see the Brisbane Lions, who have already made big inroads into Toowoomba, having a greater presence in the Western Corridor and the A-League has already looked very closely at expansion into the Western corridor”.In the A-League, the Western Pride expansion bid is looking to base itself in Ipswich. In 1995 the Australian Rugby League (ARL) created four new expansion teams including one in Perth, ... National Rugby League (NRL): 1995–1997: Perth Reds.
En 1997, Rupert Murdoch fonde un championnat dissident à celui de l'ARL, la Super League. Do you see more Lions jerseys than Broncos on the streets of Brisbane? En 1995, avec l'expansion du championnat, l'ARL prend le contrôle de la Winfield Cup, gérée jusqu'à par la NSWRL. In 2010 the NRL set a record total season average attendance of 17,367 per game and a record total season aggregate attendance of 3,490,778. This week, Josh Wells talks to Dene Halatau about the 2005 Wests Tigers premiership; Paul Jobber looks at the run home for the NRL top eight … Although Cairns has The wealthy Queensland team already has a Queensland Cup side. History. This is also known as Online Behavioural Advertising. A topic many have been discussing for years is if the NRL will expand and how this could take place. "The bones of Western Reds, Adelaide Rams and South Queensland Crushers lying dormant, along with the dust collecting on the Brisbane Bombers logo means everyone needs to think twice about expansion.Let's use a better word – rationalisation. They've been doing it for years.Expanding means draining the current 16 clubs. They were told by Football Federation Australia that NSW and Victoria were unlikely to receive any more teams in the next phase of expansion and they were encouraged to continue with their bid.If the NRL decide to approve another bid, the AFL and A-league’s footprint in these regions will continue to grow, rugby league’s biggest junior base will continue to be hijacked and thousands of juniors with no direct path to the NRL could be lost to the game.The plethora of juniors in the Western Corridor region would guarantee the bid, should they secure an NRL license, will be sustainable in regards to player talent for years to come.V’landys has also said that it’s important we do not cannibalise the Broncos in the south Queensland market and the Western Corridor bid will be the least likely to diminish the Broncos brand, whereas the Dolphins, Firehawks and Bombers will be directly competing for fans and corporate support.“The NRL will need to be very careful not to damage its marquee club, the Brisbane Broncos and give the next licence to the team (Western Corridor) that will not just provide for the games junior player growth, but also have a strong fan base, because to be sustainable, the new team will need bums on seats at Suncorp Stadium”, Johnson says.“The Western Corridor is home to some serious corporates who for the first time will have a team to support and again, the Brisbane Broncos’ corporate base will be unaffected, but (will be) at risk if another bid were to succeed”.History shows that the Western Corridor has continuously produced a long list of top grade and international players and will continue to produce some of the game’s best players for generations to come.The likes of Arthur Beetson, Allan Langer, the Walters Brothers, Johnathan Thurston, Cameron Smith, Darren Lockyer, Cooper Cronk; were either born or played their junior football in the Western Corridor region.Even Wayne Bennett was born in the Darling Downs region and started coaching in Ipswich in 1976.In 2010, ex-NRL CEO David Gallop was adamant about the code expanding into the Western Corridor because “that’s where the fish are biting”.