Perth Bears

[RedV3x]

What blinkers mate,

You know, the one's that filter out anything anything that doesn't put the NRL in a good light.

 

[PhatBoy]

On top of all that, league has one precious thing going for it that AFL doesn’t when it comes to a requirement for a player pool: one big chunk of it does not require anything but toughness and body type. At bare minimum AFL players require skill. You can’t play without it, even the much maligned ruckmen need some of it so it is going to narrow a player pool to some degree.
There will always be places in the NRL for 3-4 guys in every team who can simply ‘be big and run straight.’

You know, the one's that filter out anything anything that doesn't put the NRL in a good light.

Bahahahahaha here we go

Ah yes the old ‘you have to have a side.’

You do know I maintain pretty much the same arguments for the AFL, right?

There’s lots of things about the NRL that don’t put it in a good light: it’s utter refusal to do anything about the piss poor refereeing situation. It’s diabolical stance on some of its rules both in terms of game play, and foul play. The judiciary is a joke.

It’s picking and choosing of who gets embraced by the game and shunned by it. Contracts mean less than the paper they are printed on.


Is this supposed to mean that I have to agree with you, is it?

 

[RedV3x]

All of this disregards completely the sheer volume of players currently playing overseas in both rugby codes who could otherwise easily play here.

In your blinkered opinion.
but they're not playing here are they and it defies logic to suggest they'd knock back all that loot if they were good enough.
You've just bolstered my earlier point about the Australian content in the NRL is getting severely diluted.
and yes it does matter at a participation level, the long term future of the game.

 

[PhatBoy]

In your blinkered opinion.
but they're not playing here are they and it defies logic to suggest they'd knock back all that loot if they were good enough.
You've just bolstered my earlier point about the Australian content in the NRL is getting severely diluted.
and yes it does matter at a participation level, the long term future of the game.

More teams here means more money here.

Australian content is getting severely diluted

What are we the Nazi Rugby League???

Who cares

 

[RedV3x]

On top of all that, league has one precious thing going for it that AFL doesn’t when it comes to a requirement for a player pool: one big chunk of it does not require anything but toughness and body type.

You said it. That's why i laugh when somebody mentions skill and rugbyleague in the same sentence.

At bare minimum AFL players require skill. You can’t play without it, even the much maligned ruckmen need some of it so it is going to narrow a player pool to some degree.

But the player pool is some much larger to start with.
FYI, the the likely introduction of the last-disposal o.o.b. kick, ruckmen are even less needed.

There will always be places in the NRL for 3-4 guys in every team who can simply ‘be big and run straight.’

And THAT is where the product suffers. Not much attraction in that eh what.

Bahahahahaha here we go
Ah yes the old ‘you have to have a side.’
You do know I maintain pretty much the same arguments for the AFL, right?

I have absolutely no idea what you're attempting to say.

There’s lots of things about the NRL that don’t put it in a good light: it’s utter refusal to do anything about the piss poor refereeing situation. It’s diabolical stance on some of its rules both in terms of game play, and foul play. The judiciary is a joke.

I could easily add a long list to that.

Is this supposed to mean that I have to agree with you, is it?

I have absolutely no idea what you're attempting to agree to.

 

[PhatBoy]

You said it. That's why i laugh when somebody mentions skill and rugbyleague in the same sentence.



But the player pool is some much larger to start with.
FYI, the the likely introduction of the last-disposal o.o.b. kick, ruckmen are even less needed.



And THAT is where the product suffers. Not much attraction in that eh what.



I have absolutely no idea what you're attempting to say.



I could easily add a long list to that.



I have absolutely no idea what you're attempting to agree to.

ok mate.

 

[RedV3x]

Australian content is getting severely diluted

You see this is why I suggest that you are blinkered - because you are blind to the consequences.

Who cares

At participation level a lot of people care.
Are you not aware of this ?

 

[PhatBoy]

You see this is why I suggest that you are blinkered - because you are blind to the consequences.



At participation level a lot of people care.
Are you not aware of this ?

My son is an Australian born part-Anglo/part-Indigenous child playing junior rugby league and I work part time for the NSW Country Rugby League.

No please fill me in.

 

[Aucklander]

I bloody warned you.

 

[PhatBoy]

I bloody warned you.

Bahahaha yep

 

[RedV3x]

No please fill me in.

Sorry but I get tired of giving time and effort on honest information and it getting deleted by mods yet again.

 

[PhatBoy]

Sorry but I get tired of giving time and effort on honest information and it getting deleted by mods yet again.

That’s a shame

 

[Aucklander]

Sorry but I get tired of giving time and effort on honest information and it getting deleted by mods yet again.

Your post where you changed a highly respected poster on this forums name to fatboy was deleted and rightly so.

I'd warned him about getting into a debate with you for obvious reasons.

Feel free to carry on your anti-Rugby league agenda on Wookie's sub-forum, but here I suggest you pull your head in or like all you other user names it will end out the same way.

BTW, don't bother replying, just heed the message, please.

 

[Jatz]

Back on the Western Bears for a moment.

North Sydney have been told by the NRL they'll still be part of the bid even if it comes from the WA government.

No change in that regard.

 

[Falconista]

Back on the Western Bears for a moment.

North Sydney have been told by the NRL they'll still be part of the bid even if it comes from the WA government.

No change in that regard.

Peter Cummins won't though, he's been blacklisted

 

[Jatz]

Peter Cummins won't though, he's been blacklisted

That's the stupidity of VLandys at work...

 

[RedV3x]

Peter Cummins won't though, he's been blacklisted

If that is indeed true then the implication is that the W.A. government will be wanted for the substitute.
That does seem to the reported case.
Now, I can understand the case for attracting new enterprises to a city
but what i cannot understand is the philosophy of ongoing cost.
You cannot expect a company and especially a government to underwrite a significant ongoing cost.
If there is no expectation of ongoing cost, that is the new enterprise is self-sufficient
then why doesn't the NRL simply stump up the initial setup costs - it's got the money.

 

[Aucklander]

The NRL is on the verge of agreeing terms with the Western Australia government on a deal that has saved their expansion bid, paving the way for the Perth-based Bears to become the code’s 18th team.

https://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/...m/news-story/66feac997170388ff1e91eb164c0aa52

 

[Jatz]

Thank **** for that! I'm so ready to go back to my first love.

 

[Hap Hapablap]

Thank you Roger cook

The thing is the private investor behind the bears ended up offering twenty million but the NRL.said no

Wa govt spending 500m pretty much guarantees the teams survival.



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[RedV3x]

Thank you Roger cook

The thing is the private investor behind the bears ended up offering twenty million but the NRL.said no

Wa govt spending 500m pretty much guarantees the teams survival.

i wonder what the upcoming election will have to say about that
especially with the W.A. health crisis, education crisis, rental crisis and housing crisis.

 

[Hap Hapablap]

i wonder what the upcoming election will have to say about that
especially with the W.A. health crisis, education crisis, rental crisis and housing crisis.

The wa govt have such a major majority they won't lose this election at all. Regardless of their decisions as the libs and nationals are in disarray

2029 though diff story.

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[RedV3x]

The wa govt have such a major majority they won't lose this election at all. Regardless of their decisions as the libs and nationals are in disarray

2023
"Popularity of the West Australian Labor government has crashed according to the surprise results of a poll.
An Utting Research survey of 1000 voters shows a resurgence of support for the Liberal party, which has a 54 per cent to 46 per cent two-party preferred lead over Labor."

And it's worserned since then!!!

 

[BobbyMorri]

2023
"Popularity of the West Australian Labor government has crashed according to the surprise results of a poll.
An Utting Research survey of 1000 voters shows a resurgence of support for the Liberal party, which has a 54 per cent to 46 per cent two-party preferred lead over Labor."

And it's worserned since then!!!

Utting Research is not a member of the Australian Polling Council and normally has small sample sizes .They can be hit and miss. Regardless,

An NRL team will not decide the WA election. Not in the way you think anyway.

 

[RedV3x]

Utting Research is not a member of the Australian Polling Council and normally has small sample sizes .They can be hit and miss. Regardless,

I think the sample was 10,000.
Yes sample polls are not definitive.but the honeymoon ended with exit of the messiah.
The poll backs up anecdotal evidence that Cook is on the nose.
with housing crisis, rental crisis, health crisis and education crisis.

An NRL team will not decide the WA election. Not in the way you think anyway.

But extravagant spending is always an election issue and this is truly extravagant in the extreme.