20th AFL Team

[RedV3x]

a p.m that loves the NRL and wants it to be the dominant code in Australia.

None of this is advertised outside of NRL country.
If this gets publicized as it should it should surely bring down this ego-maniac.

 

[Bjo187]

None of this is advertised outside of NRL country.
If this gets publicized as it should it should surely bring down this ego-maniac.

The journos down here are useless, can you imagine if this was an afl fan p.m funding a PNG afl franchise, what the NRL media would be doing?

it's why you have to email or message the journos here to make them aware of it. Most footy fans just sit on their hands though and don't do anything, which is disappointing.

 

[The Educator]

Foxtel article:

"PNG won’t be the only team to receive funding, with a $60 million license fee to be shared across the 17 clubs in the competition ahead of their entry.

Every franchise will reportedly pocked around $3.5 million, and Peter V’landys is reportedly currently visiting each club to explain his plans for expansion in the coming years."

Absolutely disgraceful. They have fabricated a way to line the pockets of every NRL club with our tax dollars. Albo's conflict of interest is truly astounding.

To put this in perspective, the majority of AFL clubs make profits of only a few hundred k per year or even losses.

$3.5 million is huge for a sporting club in Australia, especially for doing absolutely nothing other than have a p.m that loves the NRL and wants it to be the dominant code in Australia.

As absurd as it is it just reinforces the culturally embedded myopia of the NRL.

In the greater scheme of things, that $60M is just a sugar hit. The real perspective is it represents perhaps about 6 % of the NRL's annual revenues (eg revenues of around $1 billion. A PNG team is going to be a massive resource and energy sink on that game, and potentially over the same few years they are adding 4 teams in either saturated areas or areas where the sport isn't traditionally dominant.

The AFL has the long sightedness to absorb two decades plus before the Giants and the Suns are value adding. The chance of the NRL adding 4 teams in 6 or 7 years not ending in implosion is very very low.

 

[Rob]

I'm not an advocate for relocation, but North would also fit for WA3.

Perth already has 8k North members

Lol bullshit. They would barely get 1500 fans to their games here.

 

[RedV3x]

As absurd as it is it just reinforces the culturally embedded myopia of the NRL.

I don't care about the NRL.
What i care about is the miss-use of Australians taxpayers money, an Australian leader, feeding his own personal ego and the continuance of gifting the NRL in way of stadiums etc.

I'm not interested in the AFL receiving equivalence though it would have been nice if the federal government contributed something towards Perth Stadium. $600 million would help build a Hobart stadium, Canberra stadium, Brisbane stadium or Homebush stadium.

Wouldn't have been better to bail out the Victorian Commonwealth Games?
There's a myriad of ways that $600 million would help Australians - housing crisis, cost-of-living etc etc

 

[brutus76]

WA3
If they play 9 games at Optus and like the Suns 2 games in Darwin a year that'd be awesome both states
Would see Optus get a couple of 2 game rounds - I'm sure Perth folk would love a few Friday night games
Means AFL could do 1 x Thursday, 2 x Friday, 4 x Saturday and 3 Sunday games

 

[Canberra Pear]

WA3
If they play 9 games at Optus and like the Suns 2 games in Darwin a year that'd be awesome both states
Would see Optus get a couple of 2 game rounds - I'm sure Perth folk would love a few Friday night games
Means AFL could do 1 x Thursday, 2 x Friday, 4 x Saturday and 3 Sunday games

Would be the most travelled team in the comp by air miles.

Freo and West Coast currently travel interstate 11 times a year (which we constantly hear is too much).

This team would have to do it 12 times.

 

[brutus76]

They'd only travel to the East coast 10 times in a 23 game comp (Eagles and Freo would also with 20 teams
9 Optus home games
2 Darwin home games
2 away home games at Optus

 

[Canberra Pear]

They'd only travel to the East coast 10 times in a 23 game comp (Eagles and Freo would also with 20 teams
9 Optus home games
2 Darwin home games
2 away home games at Optus

Darwin and Melbourne are both pretty much the same distance from Perth (about 2600km).

 

[Bjo187]

As absurd as it is it just reinforces the culturally embedded myopia of the NRL.

In the greater scheme of things, that $60M is just a sugar hit. The real perspective is it represents perhaps about 6 % of the NRL's annual revenues (eg revenues of around $1 billion. A PNG team is going to be a massive resource and energy sink on that game, and potentially over the same few years they are adding 4 teams in either saturated areas or areas where the sport isn't traditionally dominant.

The AFL has the long sightedness to absorb two decades plus before the Giants and the Suns are value adding. The chance of the NRL adding 4 teams in 6 or 7 years not ending in implosion is very very low.

Imagine $3.5 million to every AFL club, for doing nothing. It would bring a number of clubs outta debt and make a number of clubs powerful to invest in their grassroots and academies (which helps increase the popularity of the sport).

It's nothing short of a contrived filtering of tax payer dollars into your favourite sport, to make it more powerful.

 

[Rob]

WA3
If they play 9 games at Optus and like the Suns 2 games in Darwin a year that'd be awesome both states
Would see Optus get a couple of 2 game rounds - I'm sure Perth folk would love a few Friday night games
Means AFL could do 1 x Thursday, 2 x Friday, 4 x Saturday and 3 Sunday games

We don't like Friday night games here cos it's absolute shitshow getting to Optus for a 6pm start. If it was 7:40 then sure, but I doubt the AFL are going to schedule games then just because a 3rd team gets plonked here.

 

[MelbourneGWS]

None of this is advertised outside of NRL country.
If this gets publicized as it should it should surely bring down this ego-maniac.

Is Dutton, who is from Queensland, a RL fan too?

 

[errant bounce]

Lol bullshit. They would barely get 1500 fans to their games here.

God you talk arrogant, dismissive, narrow minded pish.

 

[Rob]

God you talk arrogant, dismissive, narrow minded pish.

Yeah I've only been going to games for 30 years. What the **** would I know.

 

[kranger]

Latest population stats released today for states based on March 2024.

National, state and territory population, March 2024

Statistics about the population and components of change (births, deaths, migration) for Australia and its states and territories

www.abs.gov.au

So for example, despite the above numbers, WA is expected to reach 3million in October.

Population clock and pyramid

www.abs.gov.au

And Victoria has already reached 7million.