There's 4 different articles every bloody day. It's as boring as the idiots who are giving the game a bad name.
That's because almost every day there's a new case of an NRL player abusing a women or breaking the law.
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There's 4 different articles every bloody day. It's as boring as the idiots who are giving the game a bad name.
Youre coming close to acting like a Wanderers fan.There's 4 different articles every bloody day. It's as boring as the idiots who are giving the game a bad name.
Youre coming close to acting like a Wanderers fan.
Complaining about being busted for doing something wrong.
Its simple, dont do something wrong and you wont get hammered for it.
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It's not over though.I’m not complaining about them doing something wrong and getting busted, they deserve everything they get, but the continued rehashing of the same articles day after day.
It’s no surprise these articles are being posted here though.
The reality is that c. 95% of NRL players are law-abiding citizens- nor does this 95% commit anti-social behaviour. NRL player bad behaviour is rare.That's because almost every day there's a new case of an NRL player abusing a women or breaking the law.[Incorrect]
It's not over though.
Unfortunately this has been the offseason from hell for the NRL and it is a big news story that so much has happened.
Of course it is. If it had been the AFL screwing up every 5 mins it would of been all over the League boards and social media.
Besides which it is relevent to the conversation.
The SL war gave a massive boost to the Swans and AFL back in that 95 to 97 period.
I don't care. I find the endless stream of articles boring and pointless, although I get why others support them.
I highly doubt the DT would have as many articles on AFL players as they do RL, it just wouldn't sell. As for League boards, we don't allow that type of stuff.
No it isn't. Regardless of the behaviour of 1% of NRL players, a 3rd team in Sydney is years away.
No doubt, but we aren't talking about the take over of RL here from a greedy prick.
Well if those players stop doing what they are doing the articles will stop. Simples.
Nothing to do with support. More to do with it being relevent.
As for the league boards, garbage. Have seen absolute twaddle on them.
Yet history has shown any number of players who've had charges laid against them to be proven innocent. Who's to say this won't happen again?
Not on our board and the only other one I know of I gave up on a long time ago.
They are not "proven innocent"....surely you know this?
If by "our board" you are referring to the rugby league board on big footy than I'm not sure that is a credible comparison
I have seen barely any talk about League's cluster of cases of alleged sexual and physical violence against women around big footy.
BBTs has just been using this thread to identify factors that could help Australian football's growth in Sydney
I actively dislike Rugby League and make no claim to be unbiased. The "proven innocent" thing is disturbing though. It almost never happens and is nothing like "not proven guilty".Are you saying El Masri and Brett Stewart were found guilty?
Why not? It's a Rugby league board, it just doesn't delve into the code war stuff that goes on here.
Been there, done that, left. A good idea for a few people around here.
Never said there was. My initial comment was around the DT and Offsiders. Nek minnit.
Well, that's your view anyway. I don't think we'll see another team in Sydney for years and that comment has yet to be rebuked, not that it's a great surprise.
Are you saying El Masri and Brett Stewart were found guilty?
Why not? It's a Rugby league board, it just doesn't delve into the code war stuff that goes on here.
Been there, done that, left. A good idea for a few people around here.
Well, that's your view anyway. I don't think we'll see another team in Sydney for years and that comment has yet to be rebuked, not that it's a great surprise.
Yet history has shown any number of players who've had charges laid against them to be proven innocent. Who's to say this won't happen again?
There's no relevance because Sydney won't see another side for years. Sure there will be growth, why wouldn't there be when the AFL pump millions of dollars into the area, but no team. Torps is just an imitation of phil and cos.
Not on our board and the only other one I know of I gave up on a long time ago.
No commentators on this thread have suggested a 3rd team in Sydney is probable in the near term.I don't think we'll see another team in Sydney for years and that comment has yet to be rebuked[?], not that it's a great surprise[?].
Off topic abit but it is going to be bloody interesting to see how the entire Melbourne/Sydney battle plays out over the next few decades. It won’t be long until Melbourne passes Sydney in population and geographically has so many advantages over Sydney this should well and truly accelerate in the future. It’s actually a crime house prices are even close to Sydney’s. In another 10 or so years it also wouldn’t surprise me if Geelong is counted in Melbourne’s population figures much like the Central Coast is in Sydney’s. If this happens it’ll soon change perceptions and the financial wheel will start to turn in Melbourne’s favour. If by 2050 Melbourne isn’t Australia’s number one city we will have been run by clowns.The Australian Alan Jones 1.6.18
I have just recently seen this article- & the extraordinary & very rare threat by the ACT Brumbies' Board to close their Club.
Alan Jones, former Wallabies' coach, writes:-
. "... rugby administrators in Canberra were warning the rugby public if they don't turn up, the club might go under".
(This threat of closure related to the Brumbies' dwindling crowds, & experiencing their lowest Super Rugby averages since 1996. The Brumbies wrote to their members in late May 2018 of the need to attend games-"or the Brumbies may no longer exist"- from SMH article.
The threat of closure is interesting- because if a 3rd team in Sydney was established, I believe it would represent SW or Sthn. Sydney-plus the ACT. The misfortunes or closure of the Brumbies would, obviously, assist the growth of AF in the ACT; & weaken Super Rugby generally).
. about the famous Shute Shield Club, Gordon (Sydney North Shore). It is one of Australia's most famous premier RU Clubs- it has won 8 Shute Shields, produced 34 Wallabies, including 4 Wallaby Captains. But in recent years, has won very few games, & regularly receives "floggings". Jones implies their future could be imperilled
.other major problems in RU
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/sp...g/news-story/cbd103b28bc7683bde3c0423bee54068
No commentators on this thread have suggested a 3rd team in Sydney is probable in the near term.
I, & I suspect most, believe it might only occur if GWS was, for several years, attracting lockout crowds to nearly all its Homebush games- these lockout games might take at least 10-20 years to eventuate (even though GWS had 25,000+ members in 2018, including 4,000+ in the ACT).
The ABS is predicting Sydney will have a pop. of 8,000,000 by 2050.
Sydney is now (& likely to remain in the future):-
. Australia's wealthiest city, by far
. the HQ of most international companies who have a local HQ in Aust.
. the HQ for c. 50% of the Top ASX 200 companies
. the HQ for all Australia's media companies
. the HQ of advertising companies that produce c. 60% of all Australian advertising revenues
. attracting, by far, the highest, hourly prime time advertising rates
Therefore, a very strong case can be made that it would be TOO RISKY for the AFL NOT to have a 3rd team in Australia's wealthiest & most influential city, in coming decades. I would assume another team (probably Tasmania) would enter the AFL simultaneously as Sydney- to create an additional game/extra broadcast $.
As for the "relevance" of the "summer from hell" offseason various NRL player scandals to this thread, it is obvious that other codes will be a beneficiary ie improve their popularity amongst parents/schools/sports' fans/general public/sponsors & advertisers (see above references).
NRL Chairman P. Beattie on 17.12.18 (c. scandal no.5?) said the assaults were "killing the game" & an "embarrassment to the NRL". T.Greenberg, NRL Club officials, NRL players & many other RL/sporting journalists have expressed similar severe concerns.
https://wwos.nine.com.au/nrl/nrl-pe...-assault/a5f78db8-abad-490c-9da3-b493265eac81
"Since the 2018 NRL season concluded, there's been up to 15 off-field scandals which have rocked the code..."
"An incredible amount of damage", Beattie said.
https://www.sportsradio.com.au/pete...s-new-arlc-policy-for-player-behaviour-issue/
I don't know who "Phil and Cos" are.
PffftOff topic abit but it is going to be bloody interesting to see how the entire Melbourne/Sydney battle plays out over the next few decades. It won’t be long until Melbourne passes Sydney in population and geographically has so many advantages over Sydney this should well and truly accelerate in the future. It’s actually a crime house prices are even close to Sydney’s. In another 10 or so years it also wouldn’t surprise me if Geelong is counted in Melbourne’s population figures much like the Central Coast is in Sydney’s. If this happens it’ll soon change perceptions and the financial wheel will start to turn in Melbourne’s favour. If by 2050 Melbourne isn’t Australia’s number one city we will have been run by clowns.
Be afraid SydneyPffft
I cant take you seriously.
NuhBe afraid Sydney
In reality, Melbourne already has Australia's largest single contiguous urban population. Sydney only has a larger "official" population because the ABS, for some strange reason, insists on including the Central Coast/Lake Macquarie region as part of Sydney even though it's a separate contiguous urban region that's further from Sydney than what Geelong is from Melbourne. The NSW Govt and local councils don't consider the Central Coast as part of Sydney so it's a mystery to me why the ABS does -Off topic abit but it is going to be bloody interesting to see how the entire Melbourne/Sydney battle plays out over the next few decades. It won’t be long until Melbourne passes Sydney in population and geographically has so many advantages over Sydney this should well and truly accelerate in the future. It’s actually a crime house prices are even close to Sydney’s. In another 10 or so years it also wouldn’t surprise me if Geelong is counted in Melbourne’s population figures much like the Central Coast is in Sydney’s. If this happens it’ll soon change perceptions and the financial wheel will start to turn in Melbourne’s favour. If by 2050 Melbourne isn’t Australia’s number one city we will have been run by clowns.
Yep it’s because something like 7% commute from CC to Sydney, that’s why I think over the next ten years Geelong will be included.In reality, Melbourne already has Australia's largest single contiguous urban population. Sydney only has a larger "official" population because the ABS, for some strange reason, insists on including the Central Coast/Lake Macquarie region as part of Sydney even though it's a separate contiguous urban region that's further from Sydney than what Geelong is from Melbourne. The NSW Govt and local councils don't consider the Central Coast as part of Sydney so it's a mystery to me why the ABS does -
https://www.smh.com.au/opinion/is-melbourne-already-bigger-than-sydney-201709
Not including Central Coast/Lake Macquarie, Melbourne is now (2018) over 100,000 more than Sydney and maintaining a much higher growth rate (for better or for worse).
No, I'm saying they weren't "proven innocent". Every chance they weren't guilty....but particularly when talking about sexual violence against women, where proof around consent is so difficult, a massive cluster of "alleged" acts of sexual violence committed by NRL players having been "proved innocent" suggests there isn't a problem
Because it's the rugby league sub forum on an AFL forum. The main rugby league forum, from what I've seen of it, is intolerant of anyone who even likes football
Sydney has outgrown the traditional Sydney basin.In reality, Melbourne already has Australia's largest single contiguous urban population. Sydney only has a larger "official" population because the ABS, for some strange reason, insists on including the Central Coast/Lake Macquarie region as part of Sydney even though it's a separate contiguous urban region that's further from Sydney than what Geelong is from Melbourne. The NSW Govt and local councils don't consider the Central Coast as part of Sydney so it's a mystery to me why the ABS does -
https://www.smh.com.au/opinion/is-melbourne-already-bigger-than-sydney-201709
Not including Central Coast/Lake Macquarie, Melbourne is now (2018) over 100,000 more than Sydney and maintaining a much higher growth rate (for better or for worse).
Yet history has shown any number of players who've had charges laid against them to be proven innocent. Who's to say this won't happen again?
Sydney has outgrown the traditional Sydney basin.
Ummm
That's because it's a big city. It is not separate contiguous urban zone. There are no rural areas between Sydney and Newcastle.
People living in the central coast and Lake Macquarie areas largely work in the Sydney basin
No problem.On that basis, Geelong should be counted as part of Melbourne.