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Unfortunately a lot of teams in any ONE STATE just cannot survive (Sydney included)
That's the way of the world now.
The same thing will happen in Melbourne if it has not already started.
The new t.v. rights money will only slow the process at the moment, but a little further down the track, relocations/mergers will be on the drawing board.
There were a number of Sydney clubs in trouble financially anyway, and Souths are still not dead, they have their courtcase in May.
To me 14-16 clubs in any footy comp. is about right.
In NSW there are still a lot of teams - Easts (Roosters), Parra (EEls) Penrith (Panthers) Cronulla (Sharks) (Newcastle (Knights) and of course you have the 3 merged teams still running around and of course Souths are still in their pitching. So its not too bad, but still to us growing up with those teams....the next generations will barely notice.
Money, it seems is now running our sports, its a world-wide happening.
Cheers.
Unfortunately a lot of teams in any ONE STATE just cannot survive (Sydney included)
That's the way of the world now.
The same thing will happen in Melbourne if it has not already started.
The new t.v. rights money will only slow the process at the moment, but a little further down the track, relocations/mergers will be on the drawing board.
There were a number of Sydney clubs in trouble financially anyway, and Souths are still not dead, they have their courtcase in May.
To me 14-16 clubs in any footy comp. is about right.
In NSW there are still a lot of teams - Easts (Roosters), Parra (EEls) Penrith (Panthers) Cronulla (Sharks) (Newcastle (Knights) and of course you have the 3 merged teams still running around and of course Souths are still in their pitching. So its not too bad, but still to us growing up with those teams....the next generations will barely notice.
Money, it seems is now running our sports, its a world-wide happening.
Cheers.

