Will Gold Coast people see the Kangaroos as a Victorian reject or club of their own ?

[fishmonger]

Or will they see them as a new franchise.

My guess is that they will be like the Swans in the early days. Seen as a Victorian reject. Which is really bad for the image of the game.

[Ripper]

Good question. There has been a lot of talk about whether the Gold coast would be good for the Roo's , but very little attention to whether the Roo's would be good for the Gold Coast.

Being dragged there kicking and screaming is not a good look .

If I lived there I reckon i would find it hard to commit to them , especially with their nomadic history in Sydney & Canberra.

I can't help but feel that they have signed their own death warrant , just the way Fitzroy did when they refused to go to QLD in 1986.

I hope I am wrong.

[BlackDouglas]

Don’t like the term but they will be viewed as a ‘rejected’ Victorian side. A Gold Coast side will not be successful (on or off the park) until they are Gold Coast ‘through and through’

The AFL should stop giving any hand outs to the struggling Victorian sides and make them all pay 100% of the salary cap. Until one or more buckle under the financial pressure and either merges, goes under or tries the relocation option the AFL have to stop giving any hand outs, if they want to decrease the number of sides currently in the Victorian market. If not I cannot see why they would go down this path.

Continue to tighten the noose until one of them drowns from the financial pressure and you have a 16th licence.

Relocating a Victorian side to either the Gold Coast or the Western suburbs of Sydney will not work because the local community need that loyalty factor from their own and relocating a past Victorian side will have no loyalty to them. So a large factor of the community will not support it.

[emuboy]

The Kangaroos cannot mess the Gold Coast around.

If they move whole-heartedly with a competetive side, they will be embraced; if they become uncompetetive and financially insolvent and are forcibly moved by the AFL, the idea may not catch on.